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Message: [QUOTE="CocoHusky, post: 2652606, member: 5823"] That is simply not true for Women's College basketball @ Stanford and continues a prominent stereotype, misconception, and injustice to athletes in general and African American athletes more acutely. The reality is that many highly regarded academic institutions can and do field competitive athletics teams and uphold the academic standards without compromise. The other reality is that athletes (especially women) are graduating from these institutions at a far higher rate than the general student body. The perception/stereotype at many of these institutions (if not most) is so pervasive that for some African-American students a common “introductory” question asked only of AA is: [I]What sport do you play?[/I] The inference, that question and the stereotype from which it is derived are all wrong, no matter how pervasive. [/QUOTE]