THE BLACK COLLEGE ATHLETE

There are some college coaches who are berating black college athletes for leaving college early to pursue lucrative, professional, sports contracts-mind you, most of these athletes were born into abject poverty...and make no money while attending college. The grating irony is that some of these same coaches who are criticizing these black athletes for leaving college early are literally making millions off these kids backs. I am a man who has a GED for a high-school diploma, yet managed to go to an accredited law school and maintained a seventy five average...coupled with what amounted to authoring a dissertation, which enabled me to graduate. I say this not to boast, but to show that I know the import of getting an education; but I would have made the same choice for the money if I too were gifted with playing football or basketball. In America, we have "March Madness," the college basketball competition, which generates billions of dollars to be shared among the competing colleges-note that over seventy percent of the athletes generating this money bonanza are black...providing monies for these colleges, most of them which never wanted blacks to attend them before the 1960's Desegregation edicts. So next time you hear and see some college coach speaking out about how terrible it is for black athletes for not staying in college, ask them if they share the millions with said black athletes that these coaches and their families so lavishly enjoy-of course, these coaches will tell you that they earned all these millions due to their coaching skills. Perhaps, we should confiscate all the monies Britney Spears, Stevie Wonder, the late Michael Jackson...and countless scores of performers, who all made millions while still children--somebody tell me the difference between these "child" entertainers and these gifted black college athletes.... There is no better understanding of George Orwell's novel, 1984, when he wrote, "freedom is slavery"...when the reader simply juxtaposed the typical black athlete disposition in these United States. Incidentally, see you next year, North Carolina (basketball team).