“What do you call a bunch of white people sitting on the
bench? The NBA!” That is just one of the jokes about how good the African
American plays basketball. Although it is true that seventy eight percent of
all NBA player in 2012 are all people of color, that does not mean that all of
African American are good at basketball. It just happens that most of them are
born with stronger body and many use it to take advantage in playing sports.
In my opinion, this kind of stereotype is a good
stereotype. Not only it will boost the
social status of African American, but also it will make other people from
different races, who are considered to be not as good as African American at basketball, to be a dark horse. People will be
surprised how good they can be and that situation will only make the dark horse
become more famous. For example, the Jeremy Lin “Linsanity” fever.
Source: http://www.slamonline.com/online/nba/2012/06/study-2012-nba-racial-and-gender-report-card/
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