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Basketball Great Compares College Hoops to Slavery; ‘Journalist’ Agrees
newsbusters.org ^ | 3/19/2018 | Jay Maxson

Posted on 03/20/2018 8:08:43 AM PDT by rktman

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LOL! When I first read the part I posted I thought it was the democratic play book. Fifty + years of un-kept promises with promises of more. Un-kept of course. But, trust us while we look out for your best interests.
1 posted on 03/20/2018 8:08:43 AM PDT by rktman
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In American EVERYONE has the right to say “NO” and walk away.


2 posted on 03/20/2018 8:11:34 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
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Why is it, that college football and basketball have evolved into being farm teams for the pros? Why is it that college baseball doesn’t function that way for the most part? Why is it that baseball runs their own minor league system, rather than depending on colleges to develop players?


3 posted on 03/20/2018 8:11:52 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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Colleges give blacks free tuition if they can spell basketball, and know how throw a ball into a basket. So STFU.


4 posted on 03/20/2018 8:11:57 AM PDT by I want the USA back (There are two sexes: male (pronoun HE), and female (pronoun SHE). Denial of this is insanity.)
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OK. End college basketball now.


5 posted on 03/20/2018 8:12:13 AM PDT by PGR88
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The slavery comparison is idiotic, but it is a stupid system that creates household names out of some college athletes and doesn’t provide them with enough money to go to a restaurant or buy a bike.


6 posted on 03/20/2018 8:12:53 AM PDT by dead
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Not as if a lot of those players are going to graduate anyway, so what’s the point of offering them a scholarship?


7 posted on 03/20/2018 8:13:24 AM PDT by dfwgator
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I agree that college athletes, especially football and basketball, are being used to generate billions for well connected, and I hate to say it "white guys", and are not being compensated.

It's a damn travesty and something should be done.

8 posted on 03/20/2018 8:13:57 AM PDT by Pietro
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“b-a-s-s-e-t-b-a-l-l. Where’s mah scholahship?”


9 posted on 03/20/2018 8:13:57 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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and are not being compensated.

Horsefeathers. They are getting a free-ride academically. I sure would have loved for my kids to get a free ride, would have saved me about a hundred thousand dollars in tuition.

Now, the fact they don't take advantage of it, is a whole other discussion.

10 posted on 03/20/2018 8:15:20 AM PDT by dfwgator
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Professional hockey also functions like baseball. Some players are drafted from college, but many more are brought up through the “farm” teams of the NHL.


11 posted on 03/20/2018 8:15:35 AM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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No, no. It isn’t. Let us use their metaphor.

Let us end college basketball entirely.

You don’t pay slaves. You free them. End slavery, end college basketball and shut it all down.


12 posted on 03/20/2018 8:15:58 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Because professional baseball predates intercollegiate sports and the others do not?


13 posted on 03/20/2018 8:16:31 AM PDT by yuleeyahoo (Those are my principles, and if you do not like them...well I have others. - Groucho Marx)
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Yeah they are forcing them to attend,it’s all attitude,go get the free education while you travel and play ball,enjoy it,meet friends make your connections,life long friends.
If you make that your goal you won’t have a problem..


14 posted on 03/20/2018 8:17:05 AM PDT by ballplayer
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It’s time to start to listen to this constant litany of “X is just like slavery”.

On the one hand, no, starting for Duke as an apprenticeship to pro ball (I agree the “education” is worthless) is NOT like slavery.

But I believe for many American blacks, performing a service, ANY service, however well compensated for “the man” IS exactly “like slavery”, and once understood this way, it’s one more piece of evidence that people who feel this way can’t coexist with people who don’t.


15 posted on 03/20/2018 8:18:00 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like?)
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OK, let me get this straight. If you are blessed with a degree of physical ability, skilled at basketball, have a good work ethic and are offered the opportunity to obtain an education in exchange for playing a game which you most likely love, it is akin to slavery? (Nice run-on sentence, eh?) What universe does THAT come from?

Oh, right...the Democrat playbook.


16 posted on 03/20/2018 8:18:23 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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Colleges give blacks free tuition if they can spell basketball, and know how throw a ball into a basket.

I strongly disagree!

I don't think some of them can spell basketball.

17 posted on 03/20/2018 8:18:29 AM PDT by Charles Henrickson
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Yeah right. They are all victims.


18 posted on 03/20/2018 8:22:11 AM PDT by kabar
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That does it. Cancel Basketball.


19 posted on 03/20/2018 8:23:15 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is what I read in the papers.)
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This article is exactly right, these people are getting screwed.

We must immediately defund all college basketball programs, fire everyone that has ever touched a basketball, investigate everyone and return the savings to the tax payer.

20 posted on 03/20/2018 8:24:36 AM PDT by Souled_Out (Our hope is in the power of God working through the hearts of people.)
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