Black athletes should boycott the SEC?


unknown1 said:
But what I don't get is, if it's such a major issue with most of us, why did so few of us bother to show up to vote? Something that could actually directly make a difference in their state representation? It just doesn't make sense to me. Not showing up at the polls and then expecting all of these kids to take the lead by turning down money is kinda crazy. When you look at the sentiment that we have online and the efforts being made in real life with a 20% voter turnout, it just doesn't add up. That 20% were the people that are in touch with what's going on and care about it. Then, there's that 80% that couldn't an hour out of their lives during a month's time to go vote. Just to put this all in real perspective, there's 7.5 million registered voters in Georgia. 2 million people voted total. There are more than 2 million registered black voters in GA. Less than 30% of us bothered to vote. I mean....how much do we REALLY care?
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Once black men and then later on black women got the right the vote, there has been a continuous effort to ensure low voting turned out among the black population. I think part of the issue is that voting takes place on a day that people have to work and the other issue is there has been alot of misinformation on early voting in varies states.

In North Carolina, the GOP have shorten the time for early voting and moved early voting places around (specifically targeting areas where their was high black turn out compared to the state average). Once upon a time a mailer was sent out by the state to voters telling them of their early voting sites and information on all the people who are running. It sure seems that the funding was cut for that and that mailer is no longer being sent out by the state.

What I don't understand is that President Obama showed how to put together a network to get people registered and to the the polls and it seems like the Democrat party, general speaking, has drop the ball on keeping that up. I know when I moved to a new city, one of the first things I did was making sure I updated my voting information to the new city. The staff member was happy that I did so and I got the impression that she did not see many younger people doing the same ahead of time.
 
J C said:
I believe the NAACP and CBC were attempting to voice the displeasure of most blacks at the white nationalists gerrymandering.
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Calling for a boycott without a solid plan, only makes them look weak and not having much influence among the black population (general speaking). The GOP and others will point to the statement of support for the Scores Act by 4 out of 5 HBCUs conferences, who notified the CBC of their support for the Scores Act before the NAACP and CBC made their announcement. Time will tell whether this amount to anything, but it sure does not seem it will have any impact on any student athlete's decisions (based on the comments announced after the boycott annoucment.
 



Y'all already know my opinion on this subject but all I will say is look how black people joked and talked about Travis Hunter for giving up Florida State to play at JSU! This mentality of Gold from massa will never leave our community. I have an associate that sacrificed and put his daughter in nothing but expensive private schools and all these programs with nothing but white people and Asians. Well he was grinning ear to ear about her going to Georgia Tech. Well when she graduated and got her a good corporate job he told her "well now we got two engineering grads in the family". She told him in front of their family and friends that "well actually we only have one. Sorry but that DEI paper you were given from Tuskegee isn't a real degree. So we got a real one from Georgia Tech and a highschool trade". He was hurt. Personally I would have dropped kicked that lil itch and took that ride to Fulton County smiling, but my point is this is how black people from the upper to lower class raise their kids today. No respect for nothing black and to chase white gold!
 
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unknown1 said:
But what I don't get is, if it's such a major issue with most of us, why did so few of us bother to show up to vote? Something that could actually directly make a difference in their state representation? It just doesn't make sense to me. Not showing up at the polls and then expecting all of these kids to take the lead by turning down money is kinda crazy. When you look at the sentiment that we have online and the efforts being made in real life with a 20% voter turnout, it just doesn't add up. That 20% were the people that are in touch with what's going on and care about it. Then, there's that 80% that couldn't an hour out of their lives during a month's time to go vote. Just to put this all in real perspective, there's 7.5 million registered voters in Georgia. 2 million people voted total. There are more than 2 million registered black voters in GA. Less than 30% of us bothered to vote. I mean....how much do we REALLY care?
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Black voting was up in the recent Alabama primary and so was the number of whites voting in the Democratic primary. There were more democrats voting in the Madison County primary than in the republican primary.
 
unknown1 said:
But what I don't get is, if it's such a major issue with most of us, why did so few of us bother to show up to vote?
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Because we got too many folks who let the Dr Umar, Killer Mike, CTG, Jason Whitlock and other so called woke black folks discourage voting and will use every single excuse to do it. Because they are grifting on folks who do not know how laws are made and how many votes you need for this and that.

You got too many who WANTS something for their vote. Which is FINE but to get that you have to get the right folks into office.
Along with those who feel nothing matters and don't care.

What the GOP is doing is trying to make it hard to vote but the thing is we are still going to show up. The problem is getting that group who don't care to do that CARE.
 
ECSU_NCCU_Christopher said:
Calling for a boycott without a solid plan, only makes them look weak and not having much influence among the black population (general speaking). The GOP and others will point to the statement of support for the Scores Act by 4 out of 5 HBCUs conferences, who notified the CBC of their support for the Scores Act before the NAACP and CBC made their announcement. Time will tell whether this amount to anything, but it sure does not seem it will have any impact on any student athlete's decisions (based on the comments announced after the boycott annoucment.
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Well if the kids won't do it. You move to plan B.

I can still turn off my TV and not watch SEC teams.
TSU can CHOOSE to not play SEC.

There are ways one can hurt the SEC. Even if it is not to the level some want it to be.
 
I can give white folks credit - they stick up for themselves even when their wrong and know it - way more than we will

Why did we have to integrate central high, etc? Why couldn't they come to us? End of they day they still left after all of that

We have short memory spans and love to disown our history for whatever reason - we get to a certain comfort level and basically say damn with everything else

White PWC grads who couldn't attend their dads school, etc consider it a failure - we act like going to a PWC is successful and a step up from the degree we earned and gave them a good life
 
the band fan said:
I can give white folks credit - they stick up for themselves even when their wrong and know it - way more than we will

Why did we have to integrate central high, etc? Why couldn't they come to us? End of they day they still left after all of that

We have short memory spans and love to disown our history for whatever reason - we get to a certain comfort level and basically say damn with everything else

White PWC grads who couldn't attend their dads school, etc consider it a failure - we act like going to a PWC is successful and a step up from the degree we earned and gave them a good life
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WE LOVE WHITE FOLKS! PERIOD! NO MATTER HOW THEY TREAT US...WHAT THEY HAVE DONE TO US...WE WILL FIND REASONS TO SUPPORT THEM.

There is something in our DNA. Just look at those coming out of Africa today. They flock to Belgium, Germany, France and other colonizing countries and compete for those countries. I can't figure it out.
 
Herbert77060 said:
WE LOVE WHITE FOLKS! PERIOD! NO MATTER HOW THEY TREAT US...WHAT THEY HAVE DONE TO US...WE WILL FIND REASONS TO SUPPORT THEM.

There is something in our DNA. Just look at those coming out of Africa today. They flock to Belgium, Germany, France and other colonizing countries and compete for those countries. I can't figure it out.
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Ruthlessness is not in our DNA. We chose Jesus and they chose Barabbas for a reason. Ebola outbreaks, mass starvation and a planned invasion of Cuba is happening right now because of their callousness. We don't morph into that kind of ruthlessness until we reach extreme desperation.

Generally, people pursuit a good quality if life unless they give up for some reason. As long as we are not perceived as the source of that others will be looked at more favorably. Get a little money, power or both and even white folks behavior change. Especially, white women. The white man will pretend to be your friend while plotting to rob you of both. That is why he went after Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and we're even having this conversation.
 
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ECSU_NCCU_Christopher said:
Once black men and then later on black women got the right the vote, there has been a continuous effort to ensure low voting turned out among the black population. I think part of the issue is that voting takes place on a day that people have to work and the other issue is there has been alot of misinformation on early voting in varies states.

In North Carolina, the GOP have shorten the time for early voting and moved early voting places around (specifically targeting areas where their was high black turn out compared to the state average). Once upon a time a mailer was sent out by the state to voters telling them of their early voting sites and information on all the people who are running. It sure seems that the funding was cut for that and that mailer is no longer being sent out by the state.

What I don't understand is that President Obama showed how to put together a network to get people registered and to the the polls and it seems like the Democrat party, general speaking, has drop the ball on keeping that up. I know when I moved to a new city, one of the first things I did was making sure I updated my voting information to the new city. The staff member was happy that I did so and I got the impression that she did not see many younger people doing the same ahead of time.
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Nah. There are plenty of people that just don't care because they dont think it changes the way things go for black people regardless. I mean, just get on social media and you'll see a ton of them with a ton of followers. We're all seeing the same news for the most part so folks definitely know what's going on. I know of people that would text me to death about nonsense Trump does but didn't even bother to vote. They were registered, and 2 of them work nights and could've easily just gone when they got off of work. It took me all of 5 minutes. There's been conditioning, but we're not gonna act like many of us just don't care either way.
 
J C said:
Black voting was up in the recent Alabama primary and so was the number of whites voting in the Democratic primary. There were more democrats voting in the Madison County primary than in the republican primary.
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Up and under 30% is not a victory, if we're being honest. It's "Well, it's better than nothing." That means over 70% of us didn't vote. I don't consider that as a win considering the circumstances.
 
Also, most of you worship the very reason black folks are so subservient to white folks. But when anyone speaks against that and points out how and why that reason makes it easy for them to keep their feet on our throats...well, keep turning other cheeks. It's been the basis of the way we act towards them since slavery and throughout the Civil Rights Movement. Well, outside of the Malcolm X/Black Panther Party anyways. It's the very reason why so many of these black conservative churches down here have been so successful in using issues like gay people and abortion to push more black religious people towards conservatism. Pray about it and turn the other cheek.
 
I don't think it anything in our DNA that causes some black folks to self hate and love others more than themselves. I think it has more to do with social conditioning and not having a counter to said conditioning. I had an older black woman tell me that black people don't swim and I told her that was not true. I stayed with my cousins, outside of North Carolina, who belong to an all black swim club and my two of cousins both got scholarships to swim at the D1 level. Her opinion was based on a small experience size, given the places she lived, and never factor in not having access to a pool and swimming lessons. I started swimming lessons when I was small, but the program got cut and the indoor pool closed.

Tuskegee and most other southern HBCUs are regionally accredited by the same organization that accredits George Tech. It sad to hear that any black person would put down an HBCU in the manner the poster mention and them using the DEI argument masks it even worse (as it shows they don't have any understanding what DEI was legally speaking and just listen to opinions not based on facts).
 
unknown1 said:
Up and under 30% is not a victory, if we're being honest. It's "Well, it's better than nothing." That means over 70% of us didn't vote. I don't consider that as a win considering the circumstances.
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It is better, but I don't we should be happy about that. The Democrat party and other organizations should using the access to data to figure out why this is happening. President Obama campaign organization, speaking from my experience in the little section of the USA I am from, was top notch in it got voter turn out to increase and specific took care of issues they often people complain about when talking about their reasons for not voting. Don't know an election was going on, they was at your door telling you about the dates, locations, and time to vote. You did not have a way to get there, they help found ways to get you there and back (connecting with different organizations and people to make it happen). I saw less of this in my area and instead saw an organization connected to the Democrat partying driving around in vans talking about making election day a party.
 



the band fan said:
I can give white folks credit - they stick up for themselves even when their wrong and know it - way more than we will

Why did we have to integrate central high, etc? Why couldn't they come to us? End of they day they still left after all of that

We have short memory spans and love to disown our history for whatever reason - we get to a certain comfort level and basically say damn with everything else

White PWC grads who couldn't attend their dads school, etc consider it a failure - we act like going to a PWC is successful and a step up from the degree we earned and gave them a good life
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I think the process of integration is what failed us (generally speaking). I think in some places they let those who discriminated against us dictate the interrogation process. Note too long ago, less than 40 years ago, there was fight to closes two schools in rural county in eastern North Carolina and merged them into the other two schools in the same county. The two schools that was closed was majority white schools and the schools those students had to merge into was two majority black schools. Some of those white folks kick up a fuse about it, but in the end it happened. People on the school board was threaten and a school board member was attacked in restaurant by an old man against the consolidation among other things happening during the whole process (there was even a pro wrestling local show that made fun of the whole situation).
 
ECSU_NCCU_Christopher said:
I think the process of integration is what failed us (generally speaking). I think in some places they let those who discriminated against us dictate the interrogation process. Note too long ago, less than 40 years ago, there was fight to closes two schools in rural county in eastern North Carolina and merged them into the other two schools in the same county. The two schools that was closed was majority white schools and the schools those students had to merge into was two majority black schools. Some of those white folks kick up a fuse about it, but in the end it happened. People on the school board was threaten and a school board member was attacked in restaurant by an old man against the consolidation among other things happening during the whole process (there was even a pro wrestling local show that made fun of the whole situation).
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There are always positives and negatives when change occurs.
 
I was hoping someone else would point this out by now and say it. No one has so I will, the plain truth is the Congressional Black Caucus, CBC, has failed us. All sixty-two, 62, members should be ashamed of themselves.

Every chance, in every way, however imaginative and regardless how much any quid quo pro optics might have looked they should been unified in strengthening any body of law that protects black folk.

They fumbled the ball, and being caught in reactionary mode they are trying to hide behind young folks in 2026 by asking them to do what those young folks grandparents and great grandparents already did decades ago. At a time, at best, when there were only 5 to 6 black people in congress, with little seniority, dealing with a hostilities from both parties.

I refuse to question or be upset with young men and women that grew up post civil rights era, post two decades and a half into another century, but I remain on fire in anger at the CBC for not watching our back. Evidently, too many damn black tie dinners, balls, banquets, galas and soirees had to be attended and took precedent over handling blacks business in America, which is the business of survival.

Let's be real honest here, white folks never hid, not even for one minute, there disdain for Civil Rights Legislation in theory, belief and practice. Armed with that knowledge, the CBC should have always been clear about their collective mission.
 
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LAW DAWG said:
I was hoping someone else would point this out by now and say it. No one has so I will, the plain truth is the Congressional Black Caucus, CBC, has failed us. All sixty-two, 62, members should be ashamed of themselves.

Every chance, in every way, however imaginative and regardless how much any quid qio pro optics might have looked they should been unified in strengthening any body of law that protects black folk.

The have fumbled the ball, and being caught in reactionary mode they are trying to hide behind young folks in 2026 by asking them to do what those young folks grandparents and great grandparents already did decades ago. At a time, at best, when there were only 5 to 6 black people in congress, with little seniority, dealing with a hostilities from both parties.

I refuse to question or be upset with young men and women that grew up post civil rights era, post two decades and a half into another century, but I remain on fire in anger at the CBC for not watching our back. Evidently, too many damn black tie dinners, balls, banquets, galas and soirees had to be attended and took precedent over handling blacks business in America, which is the business of survival.

Let's be real honest here, white folks never hid, not even for one minute, there disdain for Civil Rights Legislation in theory, belief and practice. Armed with that knowledge, the CBC should have always been clear about their collective mission.
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Preach. Preach. Preach.
 
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