Why do people think all black people know how to play basketball?
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It's a stereotype and like any one it's often not true. But because it is a permeating stereotype, some black people think they have to play basketball because they think they will do well at it, which causes other races to skive away from playing it, which makes it look like all black people know how to play basketball
434027
i think most people are not aware when they say things like this, and maybe some stuff is partly true, like "blacks are better dancers / singers". i believe that those who really mean ALL blacks / whites usually say so: "all whites are ..."
769800
In general the Black people are faster so they play postions like Running Back and Wide Reciever, postions where speed is of great importance. So the Whites focus on the postions where they can get away with not being as fast. That is why they play things like the Offensive Line and Quarterback. They don't need to be as fast.
406096
Cause black women dont have time for men sneaking around behind their backs or games and most men are afraid to have a realationship like that, cause they know they wont win
53358
Yes they are the best in drama cause there is like only 1 black actor to 5 white ones. And what the heck do you mean without equal oppurtunities? Black people have the same or even more oppurtunities to be in sports cause all the white people are doing something useful like becoming doctors, engineers, teachers, lawyers, judges. etc...
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because people are stupid when not properly educated.  just like for some odd reason people assume that all black people are from africa.  i was born in iowa out of all places
632273
Maybe you should learn and tell your friends something important: The purpose of basketball is to make baskets and not dribble!\n\nI've never heard of that need to play basketball, it's just silly. If your guys dribble to much then they just suck at playing basketball and you should play elsewhere pal.
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For college:\n\nBasketball players lag in graduation rates\n\nBy Steve Wilstein\nThe Associated Press\n\nFor all the profits and fun of the men's NCAA basketball tournament, too many players wind up with nothing more than memories.\n\nA study released Monday showed that 10 of the schools in this week's round of 16 have failed to graduate even half of their players in recent years. Black players are less likely than whites to finish their careers with degrees, according to the study of NCAA graduation rates.\n\nButler posted the best numbers and Oklahoma had the worst. They play each other Friday in the East Regional semifinals.\n\nButler, a small private school in Indianapolis, graduated 86 percent of its basketball players and all of its black players over a six-year period starting with the 1995-96 season. Oklahoma had a zero graduation rate, although the school challenged the criteria as misleading.\n\nA school is credited with graduating students within six years of their freshman year, and is not credited for transfers or junior college players who may get their degrees.\n\n"Our graduation rate is 100 percent," Oklahoma coach Kelvin Sampson said. "That freshman class (1995-96) was Bobby Joe Evans and Michael Cotton, and they both graduated - Bobby Joe from here and Michael from Boston College.\n\n"They can stereotype us all they want, but the bottom line is our kids are graduating."\n\nCalling the results "disturbing," the study by Richard Lapchick of the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida found:\n\n• Five of the 16 teams had graduation rates a third to a half lower than the school's overall athletic graduation rates.\n\n• Six schools had graduation rates for black basketball players a third to three-quarters lower than overall athletic rates.\n\n• Only three schools - Butler, Duke and Kansas - graduated at least two-thirds of their black basketball players, while just those and two others - Marquette and Notre Dame - graduated at least two-thirds of all basketball players.\n\n• Only six schools graduated at least 50 percent of all basketball players, and seven graduated at least half of their black players.\n\nMen's basketball, where 57 percent of the players are black, has the worst graduation rates of all college sports, Lapchick said, with 58 of the 328 Division I teams failing to graduate a single black player in six years.\n\n"It is a nightmare waiting to be fixed," said Lapchick, one of the nation's leading sports sociologists.\n\nThe study lends support to NCAA president Myles Brand's drive to reward or punish schools by tying the number of scholarships to graduation rates.\n\n"It confirms what we've known for some time," Brand said. "It shows why we need to take steps in order to correct the situation through a clear and fair policy of incentives and disincentives."\n\nLapchick said schools would "do themselves an enormous favor" if they used the type of system Brand favors.\n\n"I think he's got a moment in time, where there have been enough scandals happening, to try to mobilize college presidents to say this is an embarrassment to us as a group. We have this window here, let's use it to do something real.\n\n"The challenge is that there are going to be a lot of powerful coaches who will argue that this would deny opportunities, particularly to African-American students who wouldn't be able to come to their schools under a system like that."\n\nLapchick said that under Brand's plan those players who did go to college would be more likely to graduate.\n\nLapchick also favored making freshmen ineligible to play, saying they often fall behind in the classroom and have trouble catching up.\n\n"If freshmen were ineligible you also wouldn't have kids who are going there to play for a year or two and then turn pro because the
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welll, for one theirs the crosover, allen iverson made that famous. Um, theres the pump fake, that gets alot of people fooled, like whne your going to shoot and you pull up pretending like ur going to shoot, and then they try to block it, but you faked them out, adn they're like salty.
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The number of African-American players is as low as it has been since the 50's, about one in every ten. However players from the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Venezuala, and other Cental American countries is at an all time high; nearly 45%... A recent Stanford study shows that in urban areas baseball popularity has been, and still is, on a decline, it has been briskly dropping for the past 15 years.\n\n  A question that been on my mind for some time now is, ''Why is the number of Caucasian players in basketball so low?''. Yes I know that someone who reads this will probably say it's because white dudes can't jump, I'm not denying this but I simply wonder.\n\n  In any issue that involves race it is impossible for someone not to come out offended at something. It is a very sensitive topic. I, however, offer my solution, which is this: Who cares?. It's one thing to worry about health care and education in poverty stricken areas, but when it comes to something like sports I think that we in this country are concerned a little to much.\n\n  If African-American teens don't want to play baseball, who cares? Is it not their choice? If basketball and football are the sports of choice to black males, let them do what they want and let's all focus our energy on solutions for an issue that actually has an once of importance to it. \n\n  Does anyone really think that a starving child in the Sudan or India gives a damn about why the number of African-American baseball players is decreasing?
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Never was a negro league.\n\n      \n"Somebody might have put together a team like one of those for a night to play the Rens or a team in the NBL (National Basketball League). They'd get guys together and play for money and divide the profits. But an organized league? No."\n\nhttp://denmother.blogspot.com/2005/11/remembering-black-league-basketball.html
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I can understand Sports, but I'm confused as to why this is in Basketball.
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They don't have too. The NBA is mostly black players.Ane the majority of them are highly talented.  Skin complex?\n I don't think so.
726509
I see your view! But it is mighty funny how we see every other race trying to be like us. It seems as if almost everybody wants to be black so bad but yet they put us down. But I know why it's because we are unique we have our own style that some will never understand. Don't trip off of what others think about us just be proud that we have so many haters. We must keep on doing things to make them hate on us and continue to move on. But I also see the points of others some black people give off that vibe and make that reputation for us. But I don't because I know that I am not the stereotypical black person I am aobve others expectations of  what black people are.
291920
seriously...because some black people are ignorant, dont know when to shut-up or just like making an easy buck ( Dave Chappell is a prime example ).
126131
They are not taught at home that being a strong education black man is more cool. It all starts at home, no training.
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Your main goal when you play is to win the NBA Championship, so unfortunately players feel that they can keep changing teams until they are on one that can win. Thats why you must have more respect for players like Shaq who will go anywhere and still win