Play the Race Card

After actually reading Play the Race Card and listening to the in class discussion  I agree completely with the writer. I still believe that we "African-Americans" give others reason to downgrade us and speak of us in a negative way. People pass judgement all the time. Once one African-American messes up it ruins the image for the rest of us. The media targets African-Americans all the time. It's as if we have a bull-eye on our foreheads. Being an African-American and coming through a predominantly black school I often found times that things that occurred at my school that were wrong always made the news, but the good things never saw light. As oppose to being a student at a predominantly white school everything that glittered was gold and published in the newspaper and on TV  Anything they did that was to be seen as negative never seen light. It was opposite and no matter the race it shouldn't be that way. The reason we stick to sports is because that is all we get recognized in. Seeing LeBron, Kobe, Ray Lewis, Tiger Woods, Brendan Hayward, and lots more professional athletes do good that is what we feel we have to resort to in order to get recognized it is we want.