Tuesday, March 10, 2015

The Consequences Of Racism In Sports Media

By Leslie Ball


In the early days before the existence of all the big cities and the likes, all areas were rural and everyone was happy living in their respective home town. This was very simple and promoted development as these people were united by a common culture. This however changed with time and people started moving around and mixing cultures. The results of racism in sports media many and quite detrimental.

However, with the development of urban areas, everything else had to change. People would now leave their home towns and travel to the urban centers in the search for better living standards, employment opportunities and more advanced technologies. This was no problem since surely they deserved a chance at a better life. The hindrance came in the mixture of cultures, traditions and norms. This did not exactly work so well.

This created urban centers that were occupied with people of different tribes, races, cultures and many other aspects. There was exactly no unifying factor and yet they were expected to work together for the better goal of national growth and development. These centers are common known as the metropolitan cities. This led to the development of various vices among the people in these communities.

Nepotism is one of the commonest vices in such places. It is a tendency for people to favor people with whom they have relations over the other especially in terms of offering employment opportunities. The bosses in the major offices favor their family members by offering those jobs simply by the fact that they are related and not basing on competence on the job.

Tribalism and tribal favoritism were also popular in these cities. Majority of people preferred to associate with only their tribe and these made sure only those related to them got the major deals and opportunities in the community. This created a situation of conflict and disagreement between the people forcing them to treat each other indifferently on tribal basis.

Tribalism was as well very common in these cities. Most favors and big promotions were don not basing on performance but rather the tribe that one affiliates with. This was very bad for business as most people did not hire for competence but rather on the basis of family race and tribe as well. Corruption also became very popular in the places forcing the police to take counter measures in order to halt this character.

Racism became another major problem in these large cities. People favored those of their race more as compared to the people of other races. These same people also liked to work with the people of their own race as well. Sports were also affected by theses habits. The teams in the various sports activities offered players opportunity to showcase their skills basing on the color of the skin.

Some media houses take it upon themselves to discredited special members of certain teams simply due to the fact that they do not like their tribe or race of origin. This is a very bad tendency that gradually affects the performance of the players as part of the team. It is therefore crucial that measures are put in place to seize this habit from he media




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