Minority Professionals In Sports

Minority professionals in sports have to deal with more than being accepted in the sports industry, they have to deal with their own social identity. It’s the background that they come from which shapes them into the professionals that they are. Also it’s not necessarily if the white man will accept them into their world, their also worried about being shunned by their own race. They are attempts to create and at the same time understand people's own identities, which are critical to self-assessment and making career and personal choices that closely align with their goals and values (Murphy, 2005). Noted these are all things that shape a person and how they are perceived by someone else. The vast majority of participants did not mention their
awareness of being Black or desires to enhance the condition of their racial group. (Murphy, 2005). Some minorities feel as if mentioning their race could hold them back from certain positons or advancing them in life. Also mentioned was the way black men discussed sports in comparison to black women. Black men utilized sports for personal achievement, self-reflection, and learning significantly more often than Black women (Murphy, 2005). In this instance the men were more likely than the women to bring up both ideas for their reasoning of liking sports.