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		By: Morgan Weiss		</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[This post really made me think about my experiences with sports. As I am on the Women&#039;s Lacrosse team here and have been around sporting events my whole life, I am now deeply thinking about racial slurs or memories that I have encountered. It is crazy to think that sports is used for inclusive and camaraderie purposes, yet still finds a way to leave others out. The most common slurs to me appear in a &quot;positive stereotype&quot; way in addressing how blacks are good at sports, or how this team will win the game because they have more black people on it, or that black people spend more time practicing sports rather than doing other things like school work. In these situations, I noticed a lot of white people trying to express how they are left out of such domains and pull a reverse racism card.  

Addressing this may be harder than ever. If parents are allowing their children to dehumanize those of other races, I do not know what that will mean for our future, but it cannot be good. Therefore, if parents are allowing their children to engage with these slurs then I imagine they are strongly opposed to having their child play with kids of other races. In addressing this, starting with the parents and authority figures is vital because kids follow by example. Sports are a big part of many childhoods, and sports can be a great tool to use when addressing racism and equality. Also, another aspect to sports and race is that some sports, especially lacrosse, have limited numbers of black individuals. I am not sure what that means, but it definitely plays into the stereotypes that blacks may only be good at some sports or why parents may encourage their white child to play lacrosse if they hold racial beliefs.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This post really made me think about my experiences with sports. As I am on the Women&#8217;s Lacrosse team here and have been around sporting events my whole life, I am now deeply thinking about racial slurs or memories that I have encountered. It is crazy to think that sports is used for inclusive and camaraderie purposes, yet still finds a way to leave others out. The most common slurs to me appear in a &#8220;positive stereotype&#8221; way in addressing how blacks are good at sports, or how this team will win the game because they have more black people on it, or that black people spend more time practicing sports rather than doing other things like school work. In these situations, I noticed a lot of white people trying to express how they are left out of such domains and pull a reverse racism card.  </p>
<p>Addressing this may be harder than ever. If parents are allowing their children to dehumanize those of other races, I do not know what that will mean for our future, but it cannot be good. Therefore, if parents are allowing their children to engage with these slurs then I imagine they are strongly opposed to having their child play with kids of other races. In addressing this, starting with the parents and authority figures is vital because kids follow by example. Sports are a big part of many childhoods, and sports can be a great tool to use when addressing racism and equality. Also, another aspect to sports and race is that some sports, especially lacrosse, have limited numbers of black individuals. I am not sure what that means, but it definitely plays into the stereotypes that blacks may only be good at some sports or why parents may encourage their white child to play lacrosse if they hold racial beliefs.</p>
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