Aisam awarded the Arthur Ashe Award

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In class we talked in good detail about Race and Ethnicity in sports and how it has grown over the years. We also talked about how little the general public know about Black History when it comes to sports. Arthur Ashe was the 1st black tennis player to win the grand slam. Ashe’s name is on an award that the world governing body of Men’s Tennis hands out every year titled the Arthur Ashe Humanitarian of the year award. This year’s winner which was just recently determined is Aisam-ul-Hag. He received this award because he and India’s Rohan Bopanna have been pairing together in tournaments all year spreading the message of peace through tennis throughout the world. Aisam is the only person in the history of the award to win it twice. While this is great for Aisam it further proves the little knowledge of black sports history at least from my point of view. One of the main objective of us talking about Race and Ethnicity in class was to show us how little we know about black sports history and how it too affected the way sports are laid out today. This is only further show with the Arthur Ashe Award and how important it is to the world of Tennis and proves to me how little I did know about black history before we talked about it.