Excellent read. May have to write a response to this.
The article also references Tom Bradyâs agent Don Yee; you can find his work here, here, and here.
For those who believe that itâs not about race: a white man wrote this article, for one. Two, check out some quotes below:
âToday, the economic exploitation within college sports remains race-neutral on its faceâŚ.And yet, while the NCAAâs intent is color-blind, the impact of amateurism is anything but.â
âAccording to the U.S. Census, blacks made up 12.3 percent of the nationâs total population in 2012. Meanwhile, a 2016 study by the University of Pennsylvaniaâs Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education found that black men made up only 2.5 percent of the overall student population at the schools in the five biggest Division I conferences. In other words, African-Americans arenât just overrepresented in big-time college sports; they're wildly overrepresented.â
ââSeveral black athletes have told me how even when they get a [cost-of-living] stipend, they have to send it back home to help family out,â says Billy Hawkins, a University of Georgia professor who studies the sociology of sports and is the author of The New Plantation: Black Athletes and College Athletics. 'Whereas the majority of white athletes coming from middle class families donât have those same responsibilities. So even if and when white athletes are experiencing economic exploitation, it can still be a disproportionate impact.ââ
â'Graduation doesnât equal education,â says Hawkins, the University of Georgia professor. âThatâs one of the things Iâve always been critical of. Iâve been on this campus 20 years. We can graduate athletes. But whatâs the quality of that education, and does it lead to gainful employment in fields that are comparable to what theyâve studied?ââ
