How sport can be seen as a representation of the evolution of black and white people’s relations ?

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How sport can be seen as a representation of the evolution of black and white people’s relations ?

1. The context of segregation

1. before : no blacks

legislators segregated everything from schools to residential areas to public parks to theaters to pools to cemeteries, asylums, jails and residential homes. There were separate waiting rooms for whites and blacks in professional offices and, in 1915, Oklahoma became the first state to even segregate public phone booths.

Colleges were segregated and separate black institutions like Howard University in Washington, D.C. and Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee were created to compensate. Virginia’s Hampton Institute was established in 1869 as a school for black youth, but with white instructors teaching skills to relegate blacks in service positions to whites.

black athletes were segregated from participating with white athletes due to the Jim Crow Laws established after the Plessy V. Ferguson (1896) Supreme Court case.  
Black athletes were seen as racially inferior and not worthy of socially mixing with whites.

B) Jessie Owens -> even if he won in Germany he wasn’t accepted in the US

Doc : is exposed to racism

While battling international racism, Owens had to deal with racism at home. In Jeremy Schaap's Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics (2007), Owens said he felt Franklin D. Roosevelt really snubbed him for "not even sending a telegram."
FDR and Harry S. Truman never invited him to the White House, but Dwight Eisenhower finally named him "Ambassador of Sports" in 1955. He is also named one of the 100 Greatest African Americans by scholar Molefi Kete Asante.

II. How he overcame racism : blind side

1. Racism he is facing -> match

Players and supporters are making racist jokes

1. How he overcome : performance

Through out the scene, Michael doesn’t respond to any insult but silence them as soon as he notices the coach protecting him.

As he feel loved and protected, he wants to make the people he loves proud of him so he overcomes the brutality of what could say the supporters or players and focused on his role.

III. How they finally manage to get along

1. Evolution

This movie tells the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) joined forces with the Captain of South Africa's rugby team, Francois Pienaar (Matt Damon) to help unite their country. Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of Apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's rugby team as they make their yeetboi run to the 1995 Rugby World Cup Championship match.

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