The Results Of Racism In Sports Media

By Leslie Ball


In the early days before the existence of all the big cities and the likes, all areas were rural and everyone was happy living in their respective home town. This was very simple and promoted development as these people were united by a common culture. This however changed with time and people started moving around and mixing cultures. The results of racism in sports media many and quite detrimental.

The creation of large cities and urban centers in some parts of the country made people to migrate to those parts of the community in search better opportunities at life. Their assumptions were that these urban centers had so many money making opportunities that they could not fail to get one. On reaching these places however, the reality sunk in these people was really frustrated at that.

This created urban centers that were occupied with people of different tribes, races, cultures and many other aspects. There was exactly no unifying factor and yet they were expected to work together for the better goal of national growth and development. These centers are common known as the metropolitan cities. This led to the development of various vices among the people in these communities.

One of the commonest tendencies amongst these people was nepotism. It can be described as the tendency for one to favor the people of either his family or clan while appointing jobs to subordinates in the organization. This culture undermines development as most times the employed people do not have the required skills to perform the given job.

Tribalism and tribal favoritism were also popular in these cities. Majority of people preferred to associate with only their tribe and these made sure only those related to them got the major deals and opportunities in the community. This created a situation of conflict and disagreement between the people forcing them to treat each other indifferently on tribal basis.

Racism was also popular in these places. The fact that people of separate tribes ad even races at times had to be put together to create team work made the situation even suck more. People turned to segregating each other on the grounds of color and racial affiliations. This was very detrimental and caused so much harm in the communities that practiced it. Laws had to be enacted to ensure that people are protected from such racial attacks.

Racism became another major problem in these large cities. People favored those of their race more as compared to the people of other races. These same people also liked to work with the people of their own race as well. Sports were also affected by theses habits. The teams in the various sports activities offered players opportunity to showcase their skills basing on the color of the skin.

This situation created such problems as the media houses were at the fore front of the racism vice. A certain media house would make it a point to discredit the players that are from other racial affiliations. This challenged the sports industry and almost crippled if it were not for legal interventions.




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