PERLS304 Lecture Notes - Michael Vick, Halle Berry, Color Blindness
26 Apr 2013
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March 15 black athletes: when a black player slips up, how do they get back to good grace, the article says that this rarely happens. It starts by comparing michael vick and kobe bryant: vick had to apologize and didn"t get redeemed, while bryant got redeemed. To get out of this type of thinking, its difficult. Its about hard work (meritocracy) and speaks about the american dream (rags to riches: hard work can raise you up from your early poor struggles (ex. Rocky movies: there is an idea of equal justice. The only thing that matters is if you are doing something legal or not: article taks about colour blindness saying that race doesn"t matter, through this narrative we view sport figures. Espn issued a do not report statement on the roethlisberger case. Espn didn"t report on the case until he was proved innocent. White vs. black athletes: pacman jones was suspended by the nfl for a year immediately.
