Black athletes dominate US professional basketball and football

Evidence

The extraordinary and highly visible success of African-American athletes I just mentioned (despite constituting only 12 percent of the American populace, African Americans comprise 80 percent of the players in professional basketball, 67 percent in football and 18 percent in baseball, Eitzen, 1999:136-7) is just one of the reasons why it is necessary to begin from this assumption. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2752