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Cam Newton and the Carolina Panthers will be taking on the Denver Broncos this Sunday, in the final game of the NFL season, the Super Bowl. Recently Cam Newton made a statement, “I’m an African-American quarterback that scares people because they haven’t seen nothing that they can compare me to,” Newton said. (Rhoden) This quote has been criticized all of the nation because he thinks people have been racist toward him because the public thinks he celebrates too much with his dances. Cam is celebrated figure in the sports world for his dual-threat quarterback abilities, which means he can run the ball just as well as he can throw the ball. Racism in sports is a very crucial topic dating all the way back to Jackie Robinson and the Brooklyn Dodgers. Racism is also relevant in the news as well through the Ferguson Missouri crisis. Some athletes and former athletes have been …show more content…

Yes, he celebrates often and sometime can be very arrogant. Cam could be the fourth ever African American quarterback to win the Super Bowl and it would be big for the game itself. Many people will not admit but there may be some people that don’t like Cam Newton just because he is black. According to Cynthia Frisby, an associate professor of Communications at the University of Missouri, she says, "So if you already think blacks are showy or entertainers and then we see Cam dancing, we think that" he’s showing off, Frisby said. "Whereas I can excuse the white player because that doesn’t stand out. (Armour) “This definitely could be the case with Newton and the Green Bay Packers. Robert Livingston, a lecturer at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School found that 91% of the penalties called for unsportsmanlike penalties after touchdowns were given to African Americans in 2010-2011.(Armour) This goes to show that black players were punished more for being more arrogant than the white race. There seems to be a

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