--- title: How Racial Stereotypes Rob Us of Great Athletes description: Here’s how racial stereotypes rob us of great athletes, Congress might be out of the business of authorizing America’s wars and more. canonical: https://time.com/4465929/how-racial-stereotypes-rob-us-of-great-athletes/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-25T16:00:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:34.502Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How Racial Stereotypes Rob Us of Great Athletes og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4465929/how-racial-stereotypes-rob-us-of-great-athletes/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How Racial Stereotypes Rob Us of Great Athletes twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How Racial Stereotypes Rob Us of Great Athletes by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 25, 2016 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 25, 2016 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Here’s how racial stereotypes rob us of great athletes.**](http://nautil.us/blog/how-stereotypes-slow-athletes-down) By Alexandra Ossola in Nautilus **2\.** [**Congress might be out of the business of authorizing America’s wars. Here’s why.**](http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2016/08/how-obama-enabling-next-president-launch-illegal-wars/131005/) By Bruce Ackerman in Defense One **3\.** [**The tide is turning on private prisons. Can America stop privatizing everything now?**](https://newrepublic.com/article/136256/will-america-finally-stop-privatizing-everything) By David Dayen in the New Republic **4\.** [**Climate change could mean the end of raw bars.**](http://qz.com/765402/climate-change-is-making-oysters-a-dangerous-dish/) By Gwynn Guilford in Quartz **5\.** [**Here’s how to trick your brain into thinking healthy food is actually delicious junk.**](http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/08/scientists-want-to-make-healthy-food-smell-like-junk-food.html) By Cari Romm in the Science of Us  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4465929/how-racial-stereotypes-rob-us-of-great-athletes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4465929/how-racial-stereotypes-rob-us-of-great-athletes/"},"headline":"How Racial Stereotypes Rob Us of Great Athletes","datePublished":"2016-08-25T16:00:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:34.502Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4465929/how-racial-stereotypes-rob-us-of-great-athletes/","keywords":["Innovation","Food","climate change","Race","war","Prison"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4465929/how-racial-stereotypes-rob-us-of-great-athletes/","name":"How Racial Stereotypes Rob Us of Great Athletes"}}]}] ```