blackness of athletes

Today African American athletes dominate almost all professional team sports. In basketball some of the record holders were Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Wilt Chamberlain, Magic Johnson, and Michael Jordan. In football Walter Payton, Jim Brown, Jerry Rice, Erik Dickerson, and Jim Marshall set records. Baseball's Ricky Henderson held the stolen-base record at 939 in 1991. From Joe Louis in the 1930s until Evander Holyfield in the 1990's, black Americans have almost monopolized heavyweight boxing. Arthur Ashe and Althea Gibson …showed first 75 words of 2922 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2922 total…that Allen Iverson sets upon the black community in postmodern America. Blackness in Robinson's time, or at least in retrospect, represented something more positive, which would later be mimicked by greats to the like of Dr. Martin Luther King and other civil rights activists. To be proud of one's race or ethnicity means to appreciate the positive aspects that come with being a member, and holding true to those ideals in the face of conflict.