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DAVID HUGHES: Men's
football, men's basketball
was basically funding the
elite sports that are generally
geared towards white people.
It's very hypocritical.
DAVID RIDPATH: And I know
slavery is a very ugly word,
but it is a plantation economic
system of where we are making
money off primarily one race.
And that race is
restricted from earning
their generational wealth that
they should have access to.
BRIAN PORTO: The Black
athletes, in particular,
are saying, wait a minute,
we help the college
to earn this revenue.
None of it goes to us.
CHRIS HINTON: The
football and basketball,
the revenue-producing
sports, the student
athletes are African Americans.
A majority of those who
are benefiting financially,
whether there's coaches,
aides, or in the institutions,
I mean, it's white Americans.
DAVID RIDPATH: When you look
at the makeup of the two
highly commercialized
revenue-generating
sports, football and
men's basketball,
it is in upwards of
60% to 80% depending
on what conference, what team
of African American males.
Those African American
males are generating
a lot of wealth for
institutions, for individuals,
and yet they're getting punished
sometimes for taking a sandwich
or for taking a T-shirt or
getting a free tattoo, which
to me is absolutely ludicrous.
We would never punish a
regular student for that.
EMMETT GILL: Sometimes
it gets to me
the fact that some of
these schools, they
sit around the table and
have an executive staff
of 12 individuals, and
it doesn't dawn upon them
that there's something wrong
that the fact that all of them
are one color.
BRIAN PORTO: Many of
the people in charge
are white men making
a lot of money.
The workforce is
predominantly Black men
who come from poor backgrounds.
Not all of them,
but a good chunk do.
GERALD GURNEY: It sets
up a perfect storm
that is racially
biased, because who's
getting that quality education?
It's not the African Americans.
EMMETT GILL: And for us to
correct these racial inequities
that occur in
college sports, we've
got to be committed
to providing our Black
male and female college athletes
with a real education, one
that's going to allow
them to go out and compete
for spaces in graduate school,
in law school, in med school.
But at the very
least, an education
that's going to
allow them to have
a great understanding of what
they're good at, what they're
not so good at,
and what they can
pursue when they leave school.
DAVID HUGHES: The
inequality is something
that we need to combat.
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