the stereotypes. For example, the notion that black athletes are the most
             talented at basketball, because they can all jump very high, or that males are
             better then females (in sports), and the assumption that females in sports are
             not feminine. It is wrong to make such generalizations. However there is a
             little that can be done to change this frame of mind symbolic of society as a
             whole. The argument that black people are the best basketball players is very
             strong for many reasons. The first argument being that, almost 80% of the
             athletes in the National Basketball Association are of African-American
             descent. Arguably the greatest player in the history of the game, Michael
             Jordan, is a black person. If an athlete from a minority group can excel in a
             sport he/she is recognized for his/her skill as much as his/her skin colour. The
             media plays a big role in the issue as the influencing body of how society must
             think. Since the release of the 1992 film, White Men Can't Jump, there has
             always been the hype and jokes made about a white person's inferiority in
             terms if skill and talent compared o that of a black person. In the movie,
             Wesley Snipes, a black athlete, says to Woody Harrelson, a white athlete
             having trouble completing a slam dunk, "White men can't jump!" The catch
             phrase has never died out. People will always segregate athletes by th...