Powers: Just White and Read All Over

With sport being so dominant in our society, I find it interesting that the majority of professional athletes are African American and the majority of the reporters covering the African Americans are white. I was shocked to find the statistic that only 13.26 percent of reporters and editors at newspapers around the country were racial minorities of any kind. That means almost 87 percent of the reports we read have a white male perspective. I find that disturbing because reader's miss out on some of the most interesting stories that African Americans have to say and report on. The article brought up the question on why African Americans do not want to enter the journalism industry. Their answer was that they would have to conform to fit in with the rest of the whites. This makes sense because in such a competitive capitalistic country, we must survive in anyway possible and conformity is one way of survival. The tragedy of that though is viewers never get to see a different side of sports and how it affects a completely different culture. Justin Dawson KIN 577