Minding the Body

I've concluded by my own personal life study that your culture determines your way of thinking, then, you thoughts determine you body activity.

In the article "Minding the Body" the concentration seemed to be body activity upon thought, vs, culture upon bodily image and activity (which agrees with more of my own personal theory).

Billy from the article suffered from being an African American athletic student. He's metaphor was life-as-a-game which in terms represented survival. This was due to the fact that his culture was considered "hired thugs" who always had to be bailed out of troubling situations. For that reason he was always on guard for any and everything. But when Billy was injured he started to think differently and found himself alone. His self worth was in his athletic ability so without that ability he felt like a "house nigger" on his college campus, thus, making him feel as though he had lost the game. He withdrew from school because of it.

Billy is a perfect example of culture determining thinking. His self worth was not in his athletic ability... it was in his thinking. The coaching staff and fellow teammate all know how to use both mind and body of the entire team for the best team performance. But outside of the team, it seems as if nobody can find a way to utilize the mind and thinking of an African American athlete.