Racial Discrimination in the Sports Community

1. What Is Racial Discrimination

1.1. Racial discrimination is any discrimination against individuals on the basis of their skin colour, racial or ethnic origin.

1.2. Policies of racial segregation may formalize it, but it is also often exerted without being legalised and also it means facing injustice

1.3. Racial discrimination is when a person is treated less favourably than another person in a similar situation because of their race, colour, descent, national or ethnic origin or immigrant status.

2. Terminology

2.1. Critical Race Theory: The Critical Race Theory movement considers many of the same issues that conventional civil rights and ethnic studies take up, but places them in a broader perspective that includes economics, history, and even feelings and the unconscious.

2.2. Collusion: When people act to perpetuate oppression or prevent others from working to eliminate oppression.

3. Racism in the Sports Community

3.1. Racism in sports has been a prevalent issue throughout the world, and in particular racism towards African-Americans has been especially bad over the course of the history of sports in the United States and around the world.

3.2. The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) released a report in 2007 claiming that racial abuse and vilification is commonplace in international sports, in places such as Australia, Europe, and America.

4. The 5 H's and W

4.1. What: This article is about how black football athletes are being mistreated for being black.

4.2. Who: Black football athletes

4.3. Why: N/A

4.4. Where: London (during the UEFA football matches)

4.5. When: October 16, 2019

4.6. How:N/A

5. Relevance of Topic

5.1. Many of us have probably experienced a type of racial discrimination and it is still a common spreading situation in the world, even in sports, people still experience racial discrimination whether their black, Asian or not born white in general because it is thought to be more superior race so they look down on every other race

6. Literature Review

6.1. 1.Discrimination in Professional Sports: A Survey of the Literature. (PDF)

6.2. 2.Race, Sport and Politics: The Sporting Black Diaspora. (by Ben Carrington and originaly published in 2010)

6.3. 3.Martin Luther King, Jr.: “racism, extreme materialism, and militarism”. (Human Rights Activist)

7. What is Racism

7.1. The term BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people) is used as a general, descriptive marker that refers primarily to non-white communities.

7.2. racism is based upon skin colour as an outward indication of ethnic origin. The problem has sharpened just at a time when players have become more mobile than ever, not only between countries but between continents,

8. Interview Questions

8.1. 1. How would you feel when your being discriminated?

8.2. 2. What would you do to the person who discriminated you?