As I was browsing the internet reading various stories, I came across this interesting story about the state of athletes & social action. There seems to be a huge gap between today's athletes & being Socially Active. Back in the early days their was players like Jim Brown & Muhammad Ali that you would speak out & be heard when things in society weren't right.
But in 2011 those kinds of athlete are few & far between. You have people like Alonzo Mourning & Warrick Dunn who do contribute to various programs that focus on single parents, diseases, & things of that nature. But in an age of retracted statements & political correctness, no one seems to want to speak out to loudly against a social ill because they don't want to be portrayed negatively. In a society where image is everything, when & who will stand up for whats right instead of "what looks right"?
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