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theories and explanations as there are pundits. It has been said that African
Americans concentrate on sports that can be played in densely populated urban
areas, that don?t require large initial investments, and that are largely
supported by existing public school budgets.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
came up with something new in an August 2009 article on African American
interest in the Phillies and in baseball in general in the wake of the Phillies?
2008 World Series title and the team?s participation in inner city activities
designed to increase interest in baseball. Baseball is usually something you do
with your dad, the paper asserted. The inner city
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focus point in the African American community for decades, and the situation is
often highlighted in public by community leaders like President Obama who claim
that many African American adult males are shirking family responsibilities by
being absent from the home. This is the first time we have seen the situation
couched in terms of having a catch with dad ala the movie Field of
Dreams.
One can certainly make the case that golf and baseball in
particular are sports introduced to a son or daughter by his or her father. Dad
would usually have the club membership necessary to get started in golf, and
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According to a 2000 report from the US Census Bureau, 65 percent
(or nearly two thirds) of African American children grow up without a father in
the home. It?s easy to imagine such children drifting into more solitary
activities like shooting baskets or running around a track at best, or falling
into the wrong crowd at worst.
The pattern also holds when it comes to
equipment. Baseball gloves and bats, lacrosse sticks, golf clubs and hockey gear
are
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Basketball hoops, on the other hand, are at nearly every school and public park,
so if you have a ball and some sneakers you?re in business. Running around a
track requires an even smaller investment. Among traditionally strong African
American sports only football requires a large upfront equipment outlay, and
most of that is handled by public schools.
Another factor is attending
games and becoming immersed in a sport. According to the
Inquirer
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(to the ballpark.)? Single mothers, especially in the African American
community, don?t typically own country club memberships, don?t have the time to
drive to the ice rink, and often lack exposure to relatively new American
mainstream sports like soccer and lacrosse.
While there are consequences
for African Americans in
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speech that absentee African American fatherhood problems run much deeper. ?Too
many (African American) fathers are M.I.A, too many fathers are AWOL, missing
from too many lives and too many homes,? Obama said. ?They have abandoned their
responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men. And the foundations of our
families are weaker because of it.
?We need (African American) fathers to
realize that responsibility doesn?t just end at conception. That doesn?t just
make you a father. What makes you a man is not the ability to have a child. Any
fool can have a child. That doesn?t make you a father. It?s the courage to raise
a child that makes you a father.?
That courage includes passing down
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story of Jackie Robinson breaking baseball?s color line with the Brooklyn
Dodgers and should understand how difficult a game baseball is to play well to
appreciate Robinson?s journey. With fathers in the home, African American
children will also have greater opportunity to follow the paths blazed by Tiger
Woods, Jozy Altidore, James Stewart, the Williams sisters and Mike Grier.
African Americans in sports will be richer for it.
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