Analysis Of In Forty Million Dollar Slaves

Many books have talked about the history of the African American athletes, but in In Forty Million Dollar Slaves, William C. Rhoden takes a different approach, filled with poetic brio and passionate argument. Rhoden’s book has received endorsements from such well-known academics as Cornel West and Arnold Rampersad, and the book alludes to music, literature, and religion as well as history and politics. Its intent is as much prophetic as analytical. Rhoden argues that African American athletes are among the most famous and highest remunerated salaried individuals working today, but that doesn’t mean they have control over their own destinies. However, Rhoden is aware that his title, which suggests that even an athlete earning forty million dollars

Rhoden used real life athletes that suffer from higher authority, due to the fact that black people were more physically fit than what whites were offering at the time. That made lots of white very mad. Although it ties to nutrition in a way because I feel like all six component of health was use to explain how black athletes were so superior to whites during that time, and how they’re still being looked at today. Each component was given a scenario about how their life was extraordinary circumstances in the 1930s in the Southern United States. For instance, Michael Jordan had all the physical talents basketball has ever witness, which also label his abilities and social life to own brand later on in life. But before all that, Michael Jordan, by contrast, declined to be identified with black causes, but even his fame got taken down when he finally retired from his last on-court hurrah with the Washington Wizards, which made about $30 million for the team was expecting to return to the front office; and found himself fired by the owner Abe Pollin. This discussion was busted with significance, illustrating, in turn: white people’s denial of black business ability while they continue to profit from black athletic skill; black athletes’ training in high school, college, and the pros. Rhoden would call it “(slaves) earn millions, as long as they don’t notice

I can remember one of my old varsity football games playing mostly an all-white team, and my team was dominantly black with 2-3 whites was the worse feeling ever. Although, we beat the team like 52-0 that and took an easy win. That made their fans very mad at us. After the game was over we usually pick where we want to go eat at, but in this case, we had to take our food home on the bus. I had always asked myself why were we treated like that, but I was only a freshmen in high school so I didn’t understand the feeling of hatred by another color. It was later said we weren 't allow to play them anymore because we didn’t respect the house rules of beating a team very bad. It’s just sad that we couldn’t even eat in their town because how bad we beat their football team, but now that I’m older I realized that most team we played never really didn’t like us; because of the black athletes we had on our