Assignment Task: Watch the Video "Double Standard Between Lamar Jackson and White Quarterbacks" on YouTube. How does the discussion relate to Jones & Browns Analysis? (150-200 word response)
Quotes from Jones & Brown Analysis:
"The sports media, which is dominated by White males, has perpetuated many of the same stereotypes about the Black athletes they cover, with some of the most notable disparaging rhetoric centered around quarter-backs of color. Black quarterbacks have been subjected to evaluations about their play and mental capacity that have typecast them as less suitable for their preferred position, compared to their White counterparts."
"Richard Delgado, Derrick Bell, and Alan Freeman's version of critical race theory is useful in understanding the ideologies held about Black Quarterbacks through the tenet of social construction, which holds that race and races are products of social thought and relations (Delgado and Stefancic, 2006)."
"It has long been implied that White athletes know how to "think the game" and that Black athletes rely more on advanced physical attributes in order to find success in sports. [...] White male athletes are often characterized as more cerebral, and conversely, Black athletes do not think but instead only react (Brown, Anderson, & Thompson, 2012)."