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Minorities in Sport:
Andreas Lightstone
April 24, 2008

For many years leading up to and including the year 2008, minorities have been excluded in certain professional sports. The common misconception that most people hold is that they think of a minority as someone of a different race or color. In truth, women as well as physically and mentally disabled people are all included in this category. Everyone should be included in sports, and that seems to be where society is going today.

The Special Olympics was founded by Dr. Frank Hayden in the early sixties. Hayden’s research led him to believe that intellectually disabled people were only half as physically fit as their non-disabled peers. He believed it was wrong to exclude them from physical activity. In the early 1960s, he teamed up with Eunice Kennedy Shriver who founded Camp Shriver, a mentally disabled program which “Promoted the concept of involvement in physical activity and competition opportunities for people......


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