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Feel Burger would like to chime in and let Mommotwo know that either way her check would be the same for her kid to go to ITT Tech.

LoL.

You don't think white people can come from slums?

"BACK TO THE SLUMS?"

NOW, IF THAT ISN'T A RACIST COMMENT, NOTHING IS.

Only 1 percent or less of college athletes have a shot at going pro. The rest are likely doomed back to the slums they came from once the university is done with them. They agreed to play ball for an education. But the schools failed to uphold their half of the contract and give them an education that could improve their lives. But why should you care? Because without the money the schools make off the back of the athletes, those checks you are writing would be a lot bigger.

It's called a metaphor.

Nope not selfish. I have no problem with athletic scholarships. It's just that I can't compare someone given a scholarship to slavery. That's just an odd concept.

That's great selfish logic.

I believe if you are able mentally to go to University that it should be paid for in the United States. So I am on your side as far as that goes as well.

I'm sorry. Maybe I'll have more sympathy in two more years, but now I'm having to pay for my child's college education and the ink is still fresh on the last check so....

Also people who work jobs to pay for their education are required to travel. Sports athletes are constantly traveling around the country.

Mommo......Nick Saban makes 7 million dollars a year.
Alabama profits a little over 80 million a year from football.

The players earn nothing. Sure they might get scholarships, but like Fins has mentioned they don't truly get an education because of the requirements for being an athlete. And the system that is in place.

Most of the time it's the fault of the school. With practice requirements, games, and travel schedule, most don't have time left to go to class or study. And the schools push them into classes that are jokes

Maybe so, but whose fault is that? If someone pays for your education, it's your OWN fault if you don't take advantage of the opportunities you have been given. There's many kids that will have to pay for their own education while working as many if not more hours than college athletes spend practicing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014....html?_r=0

Athletic scholarships are a joke because those athletes learn nothing during their time in college.

emp, I think it's a two fold problem. Blacks are fearful and mistrusting of whites, often are involved with crime, and do experience a higher level of suspicion and scrutiny. Whites are equally suspicious and fearful of blacks, are completely out of touch with the reality of black living, and focus too much on blacks as criminals while giving their own kind a free pass. JMO

I just don't think it's right, or, beneficial to cast all the blame on any one side.

Look at how much Universities make off of "student" athletes.

Look at how much scholarship money "student" athletes are given. I'm not following the comparison to slavery and college sports.

I can understand the young people being afraid because of what is happening and wanting to do something to help the situation. They have heard all this publicity about Michael Brown. It has been played up by the media so that others will latch on and 'spread the word'. I still say that Michael Brown, just like Trayvon Martin, is merely being used to incite more division and some of us are actually stupid enough to go along with it, like a pack of wild dogs.

I ain't a minority but I have been there while living in the mountains where people long ago intermarried when transportation was not easy to come by to get to other places. I can understand how and why it happened but living up there not too many years ago I was caused to feel like an outsider. Apparently some are still carrying that banner when it should have been laid down.

Just a thought...

Have any of you ever stopped to consider what it must be like to live and have to function in a school, job, town, etc. where you are a minority surrounded and overwhelmed by people of a different race/nationality? Many of whom really don't like you...for no good reason other than the fact that you are just not exactly like they are?

Seriously.

roger that.