http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=tGzQ-i_hcf8
Luckily Sepp Blatter the president of FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association the governing body of professional soccer world wide) was already aware of this and stepped up enforcement of such atrocities with an Anti-Racism Campaign. According to Blatter teams who condones such behavior would be heavily sanctioned.
http://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/socialresponsibility/news/newsid=1384919/index.html
In the United States we can consider ourselves lucky. Lucky that we had pioneers like Rosa Parks, Malcom X, and Martin Luther King Jr. pave the way for Human Civil Rights in the 1960’s. We also had people like Jackie Robinson, Ernie Davis, and Cassius Clay pave the way in mainstream sports. Since then there has been a war fought for equality and the freedom to pursue happiness without persecution based on race. As a result we do not face the extreme cases of racism in sports as the ones portrayed in the video. However, this does not mean that we are not prone to racism and other forms of discrimination. Incidents such as the “Mark Sanchez mouth piece, “Lin-Sanity”, or the ongoing discrimination at Augusta National. Now more than ever we must move to eradicate racism and all forms of discrimination from our society (including sports). What’s it going to take to get full inclusion in sports such as tennis, golf, swimming, and NCAA Sports (except Football and basketball) and in society as a whole. It is clear that our society is not inclusive or equal and yet we as a nation have seem powerless to fix this problem. Education and awareness can help alleviate the manipulative thinking of the masses but as long as the large media moguls do not make a change there will continue to be a trickle down effect targeting the feeble minds.
-Jazz Rodriguez
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