Sports. Who doesn’t love sports? Black people love sports, for it has been their ticket to integrating America and achieving equality in this nation.
Without sports, it is hard to imagine Black people fully participating in American life as the idea known as “mainstreaming”positive images of Black people would be much less effective without hours of endless sports on television. Instead, the local nightly newscasts would barrage the citizens of this nation with endless images of hate facts.
Think of former presidential candidate Jack Kemp, who gushed about his opportunities to shower with Black people and how that shielded him from being denounced as a “racist”:
“Mr. Kemp won his House seat in 1970 because of his celebrity as an all-star quarterback for the Buffalo Bills, twice champions of the American Football League. He connected his concern for minorities with his respect for his black teammates, especially the linemen who had protected him from pass rushers.
Vin Weber, a former congressman from Minnesota and a close friend, said Mr. Kemp would often say, “I can’t help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.”
A new movie debuts today called “Invictus” – which stars Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela – and this film shows the world the power of sports to bring people of various races together to achieve a common destiny: