Before Jackie Robinson athletes of color weren’t even considered to play on the professional level. Now, 62 years later, it seems that people of color almost dominate every major televised sport. For example players of the NBA are 78% black and in football it is about 69%. Not to mention that in the past five years only 3 non-black athletes were nominated First- Team all NBA. It may sound kind of funny but some believe that Darwinism’s theory of evolution may be a large factor as to why there are so many black athletes in the professional level. After reading the arguments behind this theory it doesn’t seem like such a stretch, in fact it seems quite plausible. I believe the idea of white privilege is now extinct as it should be. In fact the tables may have even turned. Nowadays being a minority isn’t such a bad thing. For instance if a white student and a colored student apply to the same college and have the same GPA then the colored student is more likely to be accepted into that college. It may have taken more than half a century but it just goes to show what the efforts of men like Martin Luther King Jr. can do to promote equality in our everyday lives.

R. Burbage
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