Florida DB Jalen Tabor compares College Sports to a modern form of slavery
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You Win Perfect
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stupid as fukk
One, I hate that Twitter has become a legit place to report. That was hardly a comparison. I clicked the thread expected more detail. But, whatever...
You can hardly disagree. The fact they don't get a pay check isn't the worst. They're prevented from capitalizing off of their on-field (or personality) in anyway. He's a knucklehead, but, Johnny Manziel shouldn't be in violation for signing autographs for dough and the SEC network making half a billion last year.
But, since most viewers don't wanna see change, it'll be a while.
Taadow
The StarchBishop™️
act like every other sport doesn't take time and hardwork. Why can't they be compensated? Frankly I think free schooling(20-35kayr) and whatever they get under the table(like they don't get paid already)is enough. If you ain't good enough for the nfl then you get another job like everyone else.
Student athletes
GhostoftheMan
Superstar
Bomani brought up how the one of the NCAA commissioners in the beginning compared college athletics to slavery when it started, so is he really that far off? i fell that a lot of you just hear buzzwords and can only see the outside
College Sports Aren't Like Slavery. They're Like Jim Crow.
Shout out to Truth Telling Bomani;
"Usually the inventor knows his creation best. Walter Byers, who became the first executive director of the NCAA in 1951, turned a toothless organization into one that controls college sports. He grew disenchanted with his creation, however, writing in his 1995 memoir that the NCAA is “firmly committed to the neoplantation belief that the enormous proceeds from games belong to the overseers (the administrators) and supervisors (coaches). The plantation workers performing in the arena may receive only those benefits authorized by the overseers.”
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Shout out to Truth Telling Bomani;
"Usually the inventor knows his creation best. Walter Byers, who became the first executive director of the NCAA in 1951, turned a toothless organization into one that controls college sports. He grew disenchanted with his creation, however, writing in his 1995 memoir that the NCAA is “firmly committed to the neoplantation belief that the enormous proceeds from games belong to the overseers (the administrators) and supervisors (coaches). The plantation workers performing in the arena may receive only those benefits authorized by the overseers.”
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YouCherThatGirl
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Slavery isn't a buzz-word. For one, slavery still exists. Furthermore, American slavery, as an institution is, perhaps, the most defining aspect of American history. America, as it exists today, would not be if not for the servitude of our ancestors. To compare shyt like this to slavery trivializes the plight of those that came before us, in bonds and chains, and discounts the blood equity they have in this country. Football is a game. It's a graduation of sandbox and recess play. A child's game. To compare it to the most heinous facet of American history, and of our heritage as black people, is disingenuous and unacceptable. So yes, it is "that far off."
GhostoftheMan
Superstar
how does it trivialize it if the comparison is there? just because one is more severe doesn't mean the comparison doesn't can't be made. maybe buzzword was wrong but slavery is a word a lot of people get too defensive about when people try to make comparisons. just a word that people can only see the outside of it due to their reasons.
Ed MOTHEREFFING G
Chances make champions
i don't think it is possible to be TOO SENSITIVE comparing the issues of [ insert matter here ] to AMERICAN SLAVERY.
it IS insulting.
Like i said, early industrial revolution exploitation is more accurate, but comparing college football to slavery displays a gross misunderstanding of the plight of the american slave.
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
One, no one said those other programs don't take hard work, no one said don't pay them, but all the athletes don't deserve to be compensated evenly - this doesn't happen anywhere else in life. It takes a lot of work to be a wnba player, but they don't generate the revenue the NBA does so they're not getting the same pay - why do we all of a suddenly need to rewrite basic economic principles at the collegiate level? secondly, most other sports have a way for you to go play at a minor/amateur/ or even professional level right out of high school, football doesn't have that system. Im betting a good 50-60% of players would gladly trade being being able to attend college, something they might not even care about but have to do to play ball, in order to go semi pro for 2-3 years with the hopes of being drafted. If it doesn't pan out, they can go to school on their own volition.act like every other sport doesn't take time and hardwork. Why can't they be compensated? Frankly I think free schooling(20-35kayr) and whatever they get under the table(like they don't get paid already)is enough. If you ain't good enough for the nfl then you get another job like everyone else.
Student athletes
And what does getting another job have to do with anything? Most of them are getting a different job after college in the first place, but they can be paid while they're playing in what is effectively the farm system of the NFL.
YouCherThatGirl
Pro
The comparison isn't there. At all. You can't equate or compare a child's game to rape. To murder. To castration. To dismemberment. To centuries of physical and psychological abuse of the worst order. Slavery, especially in the context of America, is not just a word. We are where we are as a direct result of slavery. That legacy has lingered and will linger for the rest of time. It's not to be compared to a game. At all. I don't know what about that is hard to understand.
Ed MOTHEREFFING G
Chances make champions
i want to say its a generational thing but black american history is being slowly eroded...the lack of understanding of what happened is a huge indicator.
