Affluent White student-athletes are profiting from the labor of their poor Black peers

Only took three pages on here for the article to accomplish it’s unproductive goal of getting prejudiced people out of the woodwork to assert that black people are lazy.

Dumb article triggers dumb posters, rinse and repeat.

under a bridge wrote:

Only took three pages on here for the article to accomplish it’s unproductive goal of getting prejudiced people out of the woodwork to assert that black people are lazy.

Dumb article triggers dumb posters, rinse and repeat.

Actually it was the claim that "America continues to be built on the backs of black people" that triggered a discussion of work contributions of people in America. Even Dave Chappelle once joked about a mixed-race couple in his audience (Asian and Mexican) that they would have "the hardest-working baby ever." Was that a dumb and prejudiced joke?

Ronald Raegan wrote:

under a bridge wrote:

Only took three pages on here for the article to accomplish it’s unproductive goal of getting prejudiced people out of the woodwork to assert that black people are lazy.

Dumb article triggers dumb posters, rinse and repeat.

Actually it was the claim that "America continues to be built on the backs of black people" that triggered a discussion of work contributions of people in America. Even Dave Chappelle once joked about a mixed-race couple in his audience (Asian and Mexican) that they would have "the hardest-working baby ever." Was that a dumb and prejudiced joke?

So your argument is that the article didn’t cause prejudiced people to say that blacks are lazy, but just a catalyst for people to make comments that then trigger said prejudices? Wow, what a difference.

Definition of prejudice: preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.

To avoid being accused of prejudice in a reasoned discussion, you have to close your eyes and ignore what you have actually seen and experienced. Or at least not articulate it.

IMO, real prejudice is assuming that one individual you just met for the first time must fit into an archetype you have pre-formulated. Obviously this is unfair to any individual you meet, since everyone is different.

As if your post wasn't applying your "experience" to groups as a whole? That was the entire point of your rebuttal. The article did what it wanted - for people like you to try to claim that black people are lazy.

under a bridge wrote:

Only took three pages on here for the article to accomplish it’s unproductive goal of getting prejudiced people out of the woodwork to assert that black people are lazy.

Dumb article triggers dumb posters, rinse and repeat.

Yes, the cycle continues!! Good job to everyone, and of course to CNN, an inspiration to trolls everywhere.

The capacity for making and employing abstractions is considered to be essential to higher cognitive functions, such as forming judgments, learning from experience, and making inferences.

You are basically expecting people to not do this?

So now you are claiming that it takes higher cognitive functions to infer that black people are lazy?

You still don't see that you've taken the bait?

under a bridge wrote:

So now you are claiming that it takes higher cognitive functions to infer that black people are lazy?

You still don't see that you've taken the bait?

I'm borderline autistic, so actually, no.

sbeefyk2 wrote:

Pokey Thomas wrote:

No one has a gun to their head to live the life of a king, be treated better than anyone on campus and receive a free education. Sounds really tough.

Technically they do have a gun to their head. For a lot of black athletes, the only way out of a life of crime and a young death is to excel at sports. So, yea they have a gun to their head to play sports and be good at it.

You act as if they can't work hard in school and use education as a path out to a better life away from crime. Education is a much more reliable way to escape poverty, but then again, crying about racism and getting free government handouts is easier. The odds of someone becoming a professional athlete are extremely low. The odds of becoming a doctor or engineer, on the other hand, are much higher, and they don't rely on talent like sports do. They don't have a gun to their head to play sports and be good at them; that is 100% a choice.

The report has no insane premise. It shows that African American athletes, by starring in revenue-generating sports, are making it possible, by drawing paying fans and tv contracts, to attract enormous amounts of money, well beyond their own scholarships and benefits, to pay for enormous coaching contracts, facilities upgrades, and non-revenue sports, most of which benefit affluent white students and coaches. The athletes are getting a benefit but they are generating far more money than they are benefited, which means that they are being exploited, and it is the NCAA rules barring them from compensation that prevent them from earning as much as they can from the highest bidder, which is unlike every other area in American society.

+100 Of course, this is lost on almost all of the garbage LRC readership, who are mostly white affluent recipients of massive class privilege and (tangentially at least) corporate welfare. Everybody not where they are was simply lazy.

zxczxcv wrote:

The report has no insane premise. It shows that African American athletes, by starring in revenue-generating sports, are making it possible, by drawing paying fans and tv contracts, to attract enormous amounts of money, well beyond their own scholarships and benefits, to pay for enormous coaching contracts, facilities upgrades, and non-revenue sports, most of which benefit affluent white students and coaches. The athletes are getting a benefit but they are generating far more money than they are benefited, which means that they are being exploited, and it is the NCAA rules barring them from compensation that prevent them from earning as much as they can from the highest bidder, which is unlike every other area in American society.

talented big wrote:

That is funny. The gun is held by them. They are part of that culture who are robbing and shooting their neighbors. The ones who are good at sports are somehow viewed as the victims.

Sucks. Take away college sports that exploit them so badly. See who cries like a punk first.

Runner10287 wrote:

talented big wrote:

That is funny. The gun is held by them. They are part of that culture who are robbing and shooting their neighbors. The ones who are good at sports are somehow viewed as the victims.

Sucks. Take away college sports that exploit them so badly. See who cries like a punk first.

The people making billions off of the unpaid labor.

under a bridge wrote:

Only took three pages on here for the article to accomplish it’s unproductive goal of getting prejudiced people out of the woodwork to assert that black people are lazy.

Dumb article triggers dumb posters, rinse and repeat.

I don't need three pages of LetsRun tools telling me something I already know.

The Unkle wrote:

Runner10287 wrote:

Sucks. Take away college sports that exploit them so badly. See who cries like a punk first.

The people making billions off of the unpaid labor.

They'll find something else to exploit. They always have.

Runner10287 wrote:

under a bridge wrote:

Only took three pages on here for the article to accomplish it’s unproductive goal of getting prejudiced people out of the woodwork to assert that black people are lazy.

Dumb article triggers dumb posters, rinse and repeat.

I don't need three pages of LetsRun tools telling me something I already know.

We failed you.

Runner10287 wrote:

under a bridge wrote:

Only took three pages on here for the article to accomplish it’s unproductive goal of getting prejudiced people out of the woodwork to assert that black people are lazy.

Dumb article triggers dumb posters, rinse and repeat.

I don't need three pages of LetsRun tools telling me something I already know.

Well apparently you do need the dog whistle to bring you out because you don't just go around yelling that blacks are lazy without being baited into it.

LaCrosser wrote:

<B>What this article DOESN'T say is that men's revenue sports also pay for basically all women's athletics.</B>

Liberals are so funny, aren't they? They only believe in capitalism when it benefits one of their designated groups of oppressed victims.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/08/us/ncaa-student-athletes-equal-pay-trnd/index.html

"The report found that the money generated by football and basketball programs -- whose majority of players are Black -- pays for the salaries of coaches and administrators, is used to upgrade facilities the teams use, and finances non-revenue sports played mostly by affluent White student athletes."

Of course, we all know this is true and did not need a study to make us believe it. What is the controversy here? Some, but not all of the Black athletes are compensated with scholarships worth thousands while generating millions for the school. Fairness can be argued, but revenue sports pay for non revenue sports and revenue sports are overwhelmingly played by Black athletes. Nothing new here.