{"id":53920,"date":"2023-08-01T16:28:41","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T23:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/?p=53920"},"modified":"2024-08-08T13:00:52","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T20:00:52","slug":"race-sports-bomani-jones-on-the-future-of-equity-opportunity-in-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/?p=53920","title":{"rendered":"Race &#038; Sports: Bomani Jones on the Future of Equity &#038; Opportunity in Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Race &amp; Sports: HBO\u2019s Bomani Jones on the Future of Equity &amp; Opportunity in Sports\" width=\"1278\" height=\"719\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/22aN0SnfzB8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The University of Pennsylvania\u2019s Center for Africana Studies, the Wharton Coalition for Equity and Opportunity (Wharton CEO), and the Wharton Sports Analytics Business Initiative (WSABI) &#8211; 2023 Race and Sports Event on Thursday, April 27.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSports have historically been a celebration of traditional ideas of masculinity,\u201d he said. \u201cWe can argue about the health of that,&nbsp;what\u2019s good and what\u2019s bad about that. But anything that\u2019s going to put forth the idea of the goodness of man, that is what people look for in sports. I think what people expect from it is that sports would be reflective of something larger and something better, because it then gives us the impression that we ourselves are better.\u201d &#8211; Bomani Jones<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wsb.wharton.upenn.edu\/2023-race-and-sports-series\/\">Read more about Bo&#8217;s visit to the 2023 Race and Sport Event at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bomani Jones appears at Wharton  School @UPenn for a conversation on race and sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":53923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,48,311],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-appearances","category-more","category-game-theory"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}