Progress In Sports

Quick bit of background, I was born in Atlanta, GA. When I was 5 my family and I moved to Biloxi, MS. Then 3 days before hurricane Katrina, we moved back to Atlanta (we knew the exact date we were moving six months before the date.). So, I have pegged 2 places on the map. The first is Biloxi, MS and the second is Atlanta, GA, specifically Bobby Dodd Stadium.

One thing that has struck me in a good way about Atlanta is how people of every single race and ethnicity can not just co-exist, but can become best friends interact well with one another. Not to talk bad about Biloxi, but when I lived there, I really did not have a friend that was not white. Alot of that is due to the fact I was homeschooled and went to a primarily white church. I was never opposed to being friends with anyone from any race, but when I was primarily at either my house or church, I just was just only with white people.

When I moved to Atlanta, I started hanging out with people from every kind of background. Some came from the high class Sugarloaf neighborhood, others from College Park. Atlanta is a vastly diverse city and is, in my opinion, far beyond most cities in the United States when it comes to diversity.

I marked Bobby Dodd Stadium because one thing that I see racial progress in more then anything else is sports. When you get on the field, race goes out the window. The color of your skin does not affect how hard you are going to get hit when you are facing four linebackers and you have the football. I think that we could all learn alot from the athletes on the GA Tech football team, and really all the sports teams here. Race does not matter. Sure you may not exactly see eye-to-eye on one thing or another, but it all comes down to working together to accomplish a common goal.