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Looking at Hoop Dreams and Wilson’s Novel, When Work Disappears
would have a hard time believing that these athletes had any type of self-realization regarding other options in their life, or even other ways to develop unknown and un-tapped potential.
The larger issue that I find in this unit worth noting in conclusion, is the idea that there is predictably not an easy answer to the problem. More importantly, we must realize that employers will always maintain the tendency to look out for their livelihood first, as that is understandably their first priority. Anytime you make a major decision in your life you discriminate, and while I feel that not all discrimination is bad, sweeping generalizations made in the workplace are horribly detrimental, and the structure of how communities get caught in a vicious cycle of poverty is what we must work to change. Race is most definitely an issue, but in the words of Wilson, “We must recognize that these problems cannot be solved through race-based remedies alone”.