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Because its heavily promoted in black communities in the USA and has been for decades , largely due to it being one of the only avenues black men were allowed to succeeded in following reconstruction and segregation. Leading to years of sports being lauded.

Charles Barkley expressed concern about this when he talked about visiting schools all over the country for years and asking kids what they wanted to do

He said most of the white and Asian kids were like "Lawyer! Doctors! Superhero! Video game designer! musician!"

While about 85+% of black kids were like "NFL! NBA! Boxer!"

Athletics seems to be socially accepted in some communities as the "The thing black people can do to earn fame , respect and money." no matter their background or if they're poor

There's only about 400 NBA players at any given time and hundreds of thousands of people who want to be one at any given time.

And in a vacuum that's fine but its kinda harmful that other avenues aren't being promoted.

Things are getting better though. For example black characters in movies and TV shows now have more role variety than they used to. You won't blink at a black doctor in a big American movie, pre 1990s people would.

And obviously Barack Obama and his influence can't be ignored

But yeah if you ever want to feel miserable look up what happened in the South after the civil war ended during reconstruction and the following 50/60 years

Deeply dark harrowing stuff, arguably the worst part of all American history in terms of needless cruelty and evil

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^ Hey now that's completely unfair!
https://imgur.com/yPw05Ob