White Athletes

 Now we have been discussing the white athlete for about a week now.  And the series of  "Rocky" has been brought up a few times.  What I would like to know is if one of the main points to this series was that the white athlete in the boxing world was on the downfall, so in order to get the white American public to become more interested in the sport again was to create a movie about the white social family in a run down area, the Italian area of Philly, and put them against the dominant black athlete.  Was it really trying to show that the one thing the white athlete has that the more dominate black athlete is the heart, the will to win?  Or was it that someone from a inner city area has more drive than someone who already has everything?