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DAVID HUGHES: Men's[br]football, men's basketball

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was basically funding the[br]elite sports that are generally

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geared towards white people.

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It's very hypocritical.

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DAVID RIDPATH: And I know[br]slavery is a very ugly word,

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but it is a plantation economic[br]system of where we are making

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money off primarily one race.

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And that race is[br]restricted from earning

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their generational wealth that[br]they should have access to.

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BRIAN PORTO: The Black[br]athletes, in particular,

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are saying, wait a minute,[br]we help the college

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to earn this revenue.

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None of it goes to us.

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CHRIS HINTON: The[br]football and basketball,

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the revenue-producing[br]sports, the student

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athletes are African Americans.

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A majority of those who[br]are benefiting financially,

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whether there's coaches,[br]aides, or in the institutions,

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I mean, it's white Americans.

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DAVID RIDPATH: When you look[br]at the makeup of the two

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highly commercialized[br]revenue-generating

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sports, football and[br]men's basketball,

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it is in upwards of[br]60% to 80% depending

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on what conference, what team[br]of African American males.

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Those African American[br]males are generating

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a lot of wealth for[br]institutions, for individuals,

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and yet they're getting punished[br]sometimes for taking a sandwich

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or for taking a T-shirt or[br]getting a free tattoo, which

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to me is absolutely ludicrous.

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We would never punish a[br]regular student for that.

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EMMETT GILL: Sometimes[br]it gets to me

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the fact that some of[br]these schools, they

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sit around the table and[br]have an executive staff

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of 12 individuals, and[br]it doesn't dawn upon them

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that there's something wrong[br]that the fact that all of them

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are one color.

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BRIAN PORTO: Many of[br]the people in charge

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are white men making[br]a lot of money.

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The workforce is[br]predominantly Black men

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who come from poor backgrounds.

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Not all of them,[br]but a good chunk do.

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GERALD GURNEY: It sets[br]up a perfect storm

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that is racially[br]biased, because who's

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getting that quality education?

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It's not the African Americans.

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EMMETT GILL: And for us to[br]correct these racial inequities

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that occur in[br]college sports, we've

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got to be committed[br]to providing our Black

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male and female college athletes[br]with a real education, one

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that's going to allow[br]them to go out and compete

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for spaces in graduate school,[br]in law school, in med school.

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But at the very[br]least, an education

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that's going to[br]allow them to have

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a great understanding of what[br]they're good at, what they're

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not so good at,[br]and what they can

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pursue when they leave school.

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DAVID HUGHES: The[br]inequality is something

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that we need to combat.

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