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(11,920 posts)haele
(12,702 posts)Not a smart thing to say. Surprised he got out of there whole.
Haele
(whose spouse greets the in-laws with "Roll Tide"...)
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)JHan
(10,173 posts)Stallion
(6,476 posts)when only about 9% of whites in the state voted for Obama. 15% in Alabama. Why not go to a school/state with a history of inclusion. My first hero as a child though was Jerry LeVias who was the first African American to win a scholarship in the old Southwest Conference-can't hate your heroes so it does do some good
I'm not sure Black athletes understand how much power they actually have if they were to speak out on race issues collectively or through an intermediary. See Missouri athletic program
rurallib
(62,491 posts)Stallion
(6,476 posts)...and advocate athletes to attend schools/states with better minority policies. State Legislatures would be calling special sessions to address these issues if it resulted in even 1 poor recruiting class at a major SEC school. Believe me I following recruiting very closely and there would be significant pressure applied by boosters if the prospect of poor recruiting resulted from a poor Inclusion grade. College athletics is all about recruiting-and in Football and Basketball that largely means recruiting of minority athletes. There is coercive power that has been overlooked
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)MrPurple
(985 posts)Won't be long before he's in the whatever happened to that guy category, along with Milo.
ProfessorGAC
(65,456 posts)Those people take that minor league football stuff seriously!!! Methinks he lost his crowd when they heard "blah, blah, white, blah blah black, blah blah BAN FOOTBALL!"
dawg
(10,626 posts)let Tiger peck his eyes out.