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Talking About Racial Issues In Sports
Even though sports and race are intertwined and have been for a long time issues in regards to race and sports are often avoided talking about. However, this clip makes the attempt to point the importance of talking about race even though it is an uncomfortable conversation that nobody wants to have, especially not in the sports section. The difficulty of talking about race in relation to sports comes from the fact that people consider sports as their "escape", the one section where serious issues as race are not talked about even though racial differences are constantly portrayed in pictures or implied in comments.

Instead of avoiding talking about racial issues in sports we should use the platform that sports have been given to voice issues

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