Thursday, October 15, 2009
Politics and Athletes
This is an interesting contrast. I feel that athletes are entitled to take political stances but I believe that they should fully educate themselves on what they are actually taking a stance on. The reason I feel this is because athletes are some of the most powerful and influential people in our nation. There is a difference between a high profile athlete taking a political stance and someone such as myself taking a political stance and the main difference being the weight what an athlete says being so much greater than what I would have to say because of the media attention that would follow the athletes comments or stance.
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If an athlete is going to make a political stance than shouldn't he/she know what they are talking about and not have to look information up? This is when one should not make a stance, when he/she feels they have to look up info before talking about a certain issue. Although, I do agree that athletes are very influential on their "sport audience".
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