Perspective: The ruling that race must not be considered on admission further devalues Black males on campus — unless they're part of the college sports industrial complex.
There long has been a dangerous fairy tale created and propagated by the colonial settler class that disfigured this continent they landed on through, among other things, enslaving others. That narrative, sadly, was embraced by the Black bodies those enslavers employed violence to control. It said that the best way, if not the only way, for Black males to escape bondage was through athletic performance.
We saw it celebrated in last week’s NBA draft after the 20-year-old Thompson twins, Amen and Ausar, were picked fourth by the Houston Rockets and fifth by the Detroit Pistons, respectively, in the first round. They to be basketball players. Their story is that, at 9 years old, with their parents, they created a vision board with handwritten goals to “become the greatest NBA player of all time … become a multibillionaire … become 6 feet 9 inch.”The Thompson twins have only grown to 6-7.
: “Black men were 2.4% of undergraduate students enrolled at the 65 universities, but comprised 55% of football teams and 56% of men’s basketball teams on those campuses.”As I’ve noted before about the relatively few Black men enrolled on college campuses: They are there predominantly as part of the revenue-generating athletic class and not part of the learning class that college is ostensibly all about.
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