Where are the whites from tough economic circumstances in sports? We see how recruiters comb the ghettos for black football and basketball players, but where are their white equivalents? The vast majority of white professional athletes seem to be from middle class, upper middle class and upper class environments.
The majority of the poor in the U.S. are white, but we don't see them bettering themselves through sports like we once did. Are we going to use the old "equipment is too expensive" for them excuse that is often made to justify the black absence in so many sports?
Something that has been mentioned on the board periodically is that whites are too comfortable to have the mindset to take on and defeat the likes of Tiger Woods, the Williams sisters, thrive under very tough circumstances in the NFL and NBA, etc. I think someone can be middle or upper class and be up to the challenge, but where are the poor and working class white athletes? Have they been too deracinated, too beaten down? They're few and far between and that shouldn't be the case.
The majority of the poor in the U.S. are white, but we don't see them bettering themselves through sports like we once did. Are we going to use the old "equipment is too expensive" for them excuse that is often made to justify the black absence in so many sports?
Something that has been mentioned on the board periodically is that whites are too comfortable to have the mindset to take on and defeat the likes of Tiger Woods, the Williams sisters, thrive under very tough circumstances in the NFL and NBA, etc. I think someone can be middle or upper class and be up to the challenge, but where are the poor and working class white athletes? Have they been too deracinated, too beaten down? They're few and far between and that shouldn't be the case.