Well ain’t that brave.
Former ESPN host Jemele Hill — now a staff writer for The Atlantic — argues in her controversial first article for the magazine that black college athletes should leave predominantly white schools.
The article, titled, “It’s Time for Black Athletes to Leave White Colleges,” has drawn a range of responses — including assertions that Hill is “pro-segregation” or even “racist.”
In the article, which appears in The Atlantic’s October issue, Hill argues that black athletes help attract money and attention to “predominately white universities that showcase them,” while Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) continue to struggle.
She writes that mostly white schools’ multibillion-dollar revenues have been built on the “exertions of (uncompensated) black athletes,” claiming that an elite black athlete attending an HBCU raises awareness of the institution, whose endowments combined are less than a tenth of Harvard’s.
So let me see if I have this correct. Ms. Hill wants a specific group of people from a certain race to go to a college whose students and faculty are of the same ethnicity with the express desire to take advantage of that particular groups future wealth while disregarding the ones that won’t become successful. Well I don’t know, but that seems how you say……shallow, selfish, ……racist.
Guess what toot’s, you can’t have it both ways, it’s either diversity and equality by way of academic achievement, affirmative action, AND athletics or it’s none, you can’t have your cake and eat it too.
We get it, you dislike white people, just stop with all of the semantics and say what you mean. Of course maybe that’s the gig, keep saying and writing controversial crap so you can stay relevant and keep your day job, it didn’t work for you at ESPN but maybe your new employer will put up with it.