Sports and it’s role in today’s current environment

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I have been watching all of the coverage of the past week, and something has come to my attention. The unique role sports has played in bringing awareness to black lives matter and it’s mission. Forget about political parties, forget about left vs right, none of that matters now, because the country, hell the entire world is hurting, and as a man that has seen rough times, as a man that has struggled to survive, I can see now that everything that I have gone through in my life pales in comparison to what black men and women have had to endure their entire lives.

What I have noticed over the last week has been the role of sports figures and networks. I love what players like Patrick Mahomes, Jarvis Landry, Miles Garrett, Odell Beckham Jr (sorry for the homerism here) Nate Burleson, as well as media like ESPN (yes I said it) who in the last 2 weeks has allowed their personalities to speak out against racial injustice and honestly interviewing everyone they can about how we can move forward. H/T to Golic and Wingo… Dan Le Batard, Mike Greenberg, and all of the print, TV, and Internet outlets that have approached this issue head-on.

Sports has a way of uniting all of us, no matter who our favorite teams are, who our loyalties are with, sports have a way of making us forget the realities of the world, it is an escape from our day-to day troubles and difficulties, no matter if you are Black, White, Asian, Hispanic, or whatever, sports has a way of making us all realize there is good in the world. I urge you to look at sports figures to provide leadership in this environment, they have the largest platform, they have the ability to reach the most people… The sports figures that we all look up to will provide you with the knowledge and the insight to the Black experience in America.

That’s my advice… It has helped me, and I have been enlightened and woke by the message they have tried to express…

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Hi , Sports has always been an equalizer in society, a lot of sports were created to bring the gentry and the lower classes together in a unified activity.
Sports 'heroes' (for want of a better word) are often great influence rs, especially in today's world.
It used to be that high achieving sports people represented the ultimate in athleticism and also in inclusiveness and that is what made them such characters to be looked up to.
These days I thing that high achieving sports people are there for the above reasons . because that demonstrates also a good character and ethos but also they earn big bucks, which in today's world is seen as a positive as well.

Either way, Sports people are seen, I believe, as more influential than politicians and even musicians, so when sports people get up and demonstrate that their ethos supports inclusiveness and common sense then people listen

unfortunately the reverse can happen and because of the influence that sports people have then even those with no morality and ethics can also get traction.

The take away is that when good people do good then the world follows , when Good people do nothing then bad things happen

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