My reaction!!!

In the articles that I read, it seems as tho that Arizona is still a racist state. The Phoenix Sun's basketball organization decided to protest the racial problems because many of their players are minorities. They changed their jersey's to say ''Los Suns.'' In the video they interviewed basketball star Steve Nash and he spoke about the racial problems in the states. That they wanted to be apart of the political change.

''Los Suns''

Other racial events that occured was when Govenor Mecham canceled the holiday that celebrated

Martin Luther kings birthday. This lead to a boycott lead by singer Steve wonder. The ending result was the removal of the govenor back in 1988. Other racial events that occured in the state of Arizona from 1985 up until present day was when the singing group called '' public enemy'' wrote a song called

''By the time I get to Arizona.'' Racists citizens of Arizona boycotted this song because of the lyrics used that discribe arizona as a racists state.( this is a link to an article that I read and the song http://hiphopandpolitics.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/the-racist-state-of-arizona-reflects-a-deep-seeded-fear-of-black-brown-people-rising-up/)

While doing this assignment, it reminded me of the first african American who won the Heisman Trophy. I watched the movie called ''The Express.'' It revealed the journey in which a black person had to endure inorder to achieve his goal. He would get taunted by offials, fans and his own teamates. Sometimes his coach would let him drive the ball into the redzone and pull him out of the game and put a white person in to score because he did not want fans throwing objects at him. While watching this it made me realize how much of a messed up society America was during the early and mid 1900's.

Ernie Davis

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