Teams in the NBA that have more black players, have better records and salaries of those teams that have more white players. This could never be said in the earlier 1900’s when whites dominated the NBA and at the collegiate level. Eighty two percent of the players in the NBA are of color taken from a survey of the 2010 season. I think that this shows how far the league has come and that color no longer means anything when it comes to sports or anything for that matter. People finally start to realize that the only difference between us is the color of our skin. It is amazing to me that there are still whites, blacks, Latinos and other ethnicities that show hatred toward one another. If sports can make it work, we all could make it work. There are still whites in the south that hate blacks to this very day. Sports has made a huge impact on racism and it can only get better. In sports, blacks will always be accepted and it has helped greatly in every day life. There are many people, however, who think that America is still a very racist country. "As of 2005, 4,000 families were relocated to voucher housing and 15,000 public-housing units were demolished..." (Academic Search Complete). This article written by Deirdre Oakley and Keri Burchfield talked about the amount of people that are forced to relocate their homes to a different property every year. Most of these people are African Americans and that goes to show that African Americans still have it very rough in the United States. A lot of these urban communities which contain a large amount of African Americans don't have a lot of good job oppurtunities. Therefore, these African Americans are somewhat forced to go to the streets and play basketball, and become pros at it.
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