Controversy of Afro-Latinos in baseball

"According to a USA today article, black Latinos now make up 38% of Major League Baseball players vs only 8% of African-American baseball players.African-American center fielder, Torii Hunter made a comment during a USA Today's round table on the state of baseball, that MLB uses dark-skinned players (he won't even refer to them as black) from countries like the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Venezuela to give an appearance that it has more African-Americans playing the game than it really does. He refers to these black Latino ball players as impostors.
To make black Latinos scapegoats as part of a big conspiracy is not the answer to the problem of getting more African-Americans back into the sport of baseball.Torii's Hunter's exact words were: As African-American players, we have a theory that baseball can go get an imitator and pass them off as us. It's like they had to get some kind of dark faces, so they can get them cheaper. It's like, 'Why should I get this kid from the South Side of Chicago and have Scott Boras represent him and pay him $5 million when I can get a Dominican guy for a bag of chips?' ... I'm telling you, it's sad.
Just because a black person speaks another language and comes from another country doesn't disqualify him as a member of the African diaspora.What's sad is not the theory of why MLB would want to pay less for an Afro-Latino player than a home-grown African-American player; I think he is making a good point here. What is sad is his obvious lack of knowledge of black history. The black race does not start and end in the United States. Just because a black person speaks another language and comes from another country doesn't disqualify him as a member of the African diaspora.
What is sad is his obvious lack of knowledge of black history. The black race does not start and end in the United States."

Visual Argument

Above is a visual argument in opposition to abortion. Visual arguments surround us in life and online. In our daily lives, we are frequently confronted by advertising with very little linguistic content that is still highly persuasive. The Internet is a medium that relies on words and images working together to make meaning. Internet users must be particularly savvy consumers to understand how they are being persuaded by Web pages' linguistic and visual components. Internet users who are unable to detect how they are being swayed by visual rhetoric are still susceptible to this influence.

Racism in mass media

" Mass media have played and will continue to play a crucial role in the way white Americans perceive African-Americans. As a result of the overwhelming media focus on crime, drug use, gang violence, and other forms of anti-social behavior among African-Americans, the media have fostered a distorted and pernicious public perception of African-Americans.The history of African-Americans is a centuries old struggle against oppression and discrimination. The media have played a key role in perpetuating the effects of this historical oppression and in contributing to African-Americans' continuing status as second-class citizens. As a result, white America has suffered from a deep uncertainty as to who African-Americans really are. Despite this racial divide, something indisputably American about African-Americans has raised doubts about the white man's value system. Indeed, it has also aroused the troubling suspicion that whatever else the true American is, he is also somehow black."

I am personally embarrassed by how African Americans are so ill-portrayed in the mass media. So many filmmakers conform to social stereotypes as to appeal to a wide audience of ignorantly blind individuals that think being close-minded is an entertaining concept. It is truly appalling to believe that people can be so simple as put an entire group of individual people into to a confined box. I think that a African American filmmaker that I happen to respect falls into this categorical trap sometimes without realizing that he is attracting people. Tyler Perry is sadly enabling the perpetuation of African American demise in mass media. I would love for more mainstream entertainment executives to take it upon themselves to change this view. This very askewed view of African American culture. Instead of taking few true experiences and making them seem to fit the entire African American community.

Works Cited
"Mass Media and Racism." Yale University. Web. 06 Feb. 2012. .