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fair enough but by that logic the nationwide protests are
Posted on: June 15, 2020 at 11:23:36 CT
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also secondary to the issue of systemic racism. The goal of the nationwide protests, though, even if secondary, is to combat and force change of the primary issue - systemic racism.
I am jaded about the Mizzou football player protests as well because I do think some of the players raised the right question - if Mizzou had been having a winning season, would the boycott still have happened? Who knows. This move by the UT players would certainly be a way to answer that question by showing they don't care if it would be a winning or losing season or what sort of individual season they might each still have, they are willing to boycott for the important cause of quelling systemic racism. They have stopped short of saying that...for now at least. If they have said it privately to administrators or say it publicly in the future, then kudos.
It actually may be more than a bit of systemic racism playing out right now just for UT and the Big 12 to fashion their entire campus reopening plan amidst a GLOBAL FREAKING PANDEMIC around the college football schedule. Again, lets all be real about why UT chose to open back up but only until Thanksgiving. The NCAA said it would not support asking student athletes to have to come back to campus for sports if all other non-athlete students were allowed to stay enrolled virtually and off campus. I agree, that's crap.
Did UT respond by cancelling all sports? No. Did UT respond by opening back up to a complete normal semester schedule? No. Did UT respond by opening up to a semester schedule that accomodates all D1 sports schedules, i.e. basketball, cross country, tennis, swimming, volleyball, whatever? No.
UT responded by coming up with a half baked open campus plan that closes the MOMENT the college football on-campus season ends. Any volleyball or basketball or swimming or whatever seasons still ongoing at that moment can go F themselves. This is about using the UT football players to generate revenue, same reason they have always been used, at a time when UT really badly needs revenue. And most of those revenue generating football athletes are African-American, and many if not a majority of them are Africian-Americans who would not have otherwise ended up at UT, much less been actively pursued and enticed by the institution to go there. Systemic racism indeed.
Edited by McMuffin at 11:25:42 on 06/15/20
I am jaded about the Mizzou football player protests as well because I do think some of the players raised the right question - if Mizzou had been having a winning season, would the boycott still have happened? Who knows. This move by the UT players would certainly be a way to answer that question by showing they don't care if it would be a winning or losing season or what sort of individual season they might each still have, they are willing to boycott for the important cause of quelling systemic racism. They have stopped short of saying that...for now at least. If they have said it privately to administrators or say it publicly in the future, then kudos.
It actually may be more than a bit of systemic racism playing out right now just for UT and the Big 12 to fashion their entire campus reopening plan amidst a GLOBAL FREAKING PANDEMIC around the college football schedule. Again, lets all be real about why UT chose to open back up but only until Thanksgiving. The NCAA said it would not support asking student athletes to have to come back to campus for sports if all other non-athlete students were allowed to stay enrolled virtually and off campus. I agree, that's crap.
Did UT respond by cancelling all sports? No. Did UT respond by opening back up to a complete normal semester schedule? No. Did UT respond by opening up to a semester schedule that accomodates all D1 sports schedules, i.e. basketball, cross country, tennis, swimming, volleyball, whatever? No.
UT responded by coming up with a half baked open campus plan that closes the MOMENT the college football on-campus season ends. Any volleyball or basketball or swimming or whatever seasons still ongoing at that moment can go F themselves. This is about using the UT football players to generate revenue, same reason they have always been used, at a time when UT really badly needs revenue. And most of those revenue generating football athletes are African-American, and many if not a majority of them are Africian-Americans who would not have otherwise ended up at UT, much less been actively pursued and enticed by the institution to go there. Systemic racism indeed.
Edited by McMuffin at 11:25:42 on 06/15/20
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fair enough but by that logic the nationwide protests are - McMuffin MU - 6/15 11:23:36