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Race And Inequality In Sports

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Race and inequality negatively affects our games in many different ways. Race and inequality affects many different people in all kinds of ways. It is sadly very often that players, sports owner's and coaches are brought into the line light because of racism. In the way of gift exchange, when the African Americans would participate in their JUJU dances, people would make racially discriminating comments about the players and their supporters. Racial discrimination has recently played a very big role in both life and sports. The past couple years in the United States have been surrounded around racial discrimination against African Americans. Racial comments have become public by individuals like coaches and owners, degrading African Americans.
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