All right, let’s wrap this up quickly. We’ve all got a weekend to get to.
1. The NAACP Goes Full Blazing Saddles
In perhaps the greatest movie ever made, Mel Brooks’ seminal classic satirical Western Blazing Saddles, Cleavon Little plays a newly appointed sheriff of a frontier town whose skin color shocks and dismays the simple-minded locals whose racial views are less than enlightened. It turns out, however, that Little’s character is quick on the uptake and devises a foolproof strategy to keep from being lynched by the townsfolk upon his arrival (warning to the unwashed — a certain word appears here that is only acceptable to say in a rap track)…
I’m assuming that the people heading up the NAACP these days are big Cleavon Little/Blazing Saddles fans, because that’s the only explanation I can come up with for this:
(The Center Square) – Black athletes in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas and South Carolina at public universities are being encouraged to join the NAACP’s Out of Bounds campaign and boycott athletic programs.
Power 4 conference schools in the Southeastern Conference, Atlantic Coast Conference and Big 12 could be impacted. The request is in response to the Supreme Court ruling announced April 29, striking down a congressional map in Louisiana it says relied too heavily on race.
“Black athletes should not be asked to generate wealth, prestige and power for state institutions while those same states strip political power from Black communities,” said Derrick Johnson, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
A day earlier, the Congressional Black Caucus wrote to NCAA President Charlie Baker and leaders of the SEC and ACC advising its members would be in opposition to the SCORE Act. The legislation unifies athletes’ contracting rights nationwide.
So black kids should turn down the millions of dollars in NIL swag schools like LSU, Bama, Georgia, and Texas A&M are offering because of congressional politics?
Don’t draw Steve Cohen out of his district of Rick Barnes’ basketball Volunteers end up white like Casper?
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