Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Athletes and Politics
Today's athletes I believe do not speak out on politics and such as much as they once had. When you look back in the past and see such figures such as Muhammad Ali speaking out on controversial issues it made big news for the media. So i think not only would it help each sports figure to get recognized it would become national news as in the case of the Giants players speaking against Rush Limbaugh. Sporting icons such as Tiger Woods get a bad rap for not ispeaking on issues that are close to them, but in all honestly why would they? The media loves to take their comments out of context and spin them around to look negative so why would they comment on controversial issues? So when we ask the question should athletes speak out more, I think the answer is yes, however, we need to be open-minded to their side and not to become prisoner of the moment and let the media turn their comments out of context
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I feel that Athletes should be able to voice their opinions on their political preferences. I don't think that they should have to limit what they said just because they are in the spotlight. It is a free country and everyone is entitled to their own opinion and therefore are allowed to voice how they feel. They are such big icons in our culture that they are able to help out their political preference by being advocates.
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