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Slavery & Prison
Posted on: May 7, 2018 at 15:04:21 CT
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In an emotional address on Monday at a meeting of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, Kylia Carter, mother of former Duke basketball star Wendell Carter, compared the current system of NCAA basketball to slavery and a prison system.
"When you remove all the bling and the bells and the sneakers and all that," she said, "you've paid for a child to come to your school to do what you wanted them to do for you, for free, and you made a lot of money when he did that, and you've got all these rules in place that say he cannot share in any of that. The only other time when labor does not get paid but yet someone else gets profits and the labor is black and the profit is white, is in slavery.
Maybe she didn’t go to college. Maybe she doesn’t understand white players also have scholarships. Maybe she doesn’t understand what free room and board mean. Maybe she doesn’t understand her son was free to go play for pay overseas. Nobody twisted his arm to go to college.
Edited by Le Tigre at 15:06:28 on 05/07/18
"When you remove all the bling and the bells and the sneakers and all that," she said, "you've paid for a child to come to your school to do what you wanted them to do for you, for free, and you made a lot of money when he did that, and you've got all these rules in place that say he cannot share in any of that. The only other time when labor does not get paid but yet someone else gets profits and the labor is black and the profit is white, is in slavery.
Maybe she didn’t go to college. Maybe she doesn’t understand white players also have scholarships. Maybe she doesn’t understand what free room and board mean. Maybe she doesn’t understand her son was free to go play for pay overseas. Nobody twisted his arm to go to college.
Edited by Le Tigre at 15:06:28 on 05/07/18
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