What are you when you can no longer do what you are known for? “He responded without the slightest hesitation, ‘A big ol’ dumb nigger’” (Bissinger 49). In the true story of Friday Night Lights, by H. G. Bissinger, the small town of Odessa, Texas was segregated by a railroad track until Ector high school, a black school in the south, was closed down and transferred to Odessa High. Now, all of the black and white students either attended Permian High or Odessa High, above the railroad tracks. If you were a student of a different race you were considered nothing until you proved yourself to be “accepted” by the football team because football meant everything to the town. Racism wasn’t supposed to be there at that time, but there still was a large chunk of it hanging around, and as time goes on it slowly does disintegrate. …show more content…
Honestly, I have not been in sports my whole life, I only joined track and field in junior high, however whenever I did play when I was younger never have I once been looked down on because of my race. Today, they mainly look for how well applied you are to the specific sport you wish to join or play. I’ve noticed younger kids today, especially have no thought in “different abilities by race” and only appear as you grow older by listening to your elders. I believe it may not be completely gone due to the fact it still exists in some of the parents/grandparents since they grew up in the generation of racism, so there will always be that hint of it in future generations. In my personal experience, I did not know any racist terms until I got into junior high school, thus, displaying the development in every