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Boxing’s Black Eye   The race-related talk for the last few years has been all about baseball. So many concerns, so little activity, so waiting on results. • The decline of the black ballplayer seems to be the new epidemic: The sport that changed racial relations and acceptance in America has an African-American population of around 8 percent, less than half of what it was in 1997 (17 percent). • But with all the concern about the lack of blacks in baseball, another plague has slipped under the race radar in sports. • If you think baseball has a black problem, start looking at boxing… Scoop Jackson, espn.com

 

Posted August 4th, 2008 | Tags: , ,
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