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DAVID HUGHES: Men's
football, men's basketball

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was basically funding the
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
slavery is a very ugly word,

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

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money off primarily one race.

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And that race is
restricted from earning

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their generational wealth that
they should have access to.

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BRIAN PORTO: The Black
athletes, in particular,

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are saying, wait a minute,
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
football and basketball,

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the revenue-producing
sports, the student

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athletes are African Americans.

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A majority of those who
are benefiting financially,

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whether there's coaches,
aides, or in the institutions,

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I mean, it's white Americans.

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DAVID RIDPATH: When you look
at the makeup of the two

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highly commercialized
revenue-generating

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sports, football and
men's basketball,

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it is in upwards of
60% to 80% depending

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on what conference, what team
of African American males.

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Those African American
males are generating

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a lot of wealth for
institutions, for individuals,

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

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

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to me is absolutely ludicrous.

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We would never punish a
regular student for that.

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EMMETT GILL: Sometimes
it gets to me

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the fact that some of
these schools, they

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sit around the table and
have an executive staff

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

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that there's something wrong
that the fact that all of them

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are one color.

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BRIAN PORTO: Many of
the people in charge

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are white men making
a lot of money.

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The workforce is
predominantly Black men

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who come from poor backgrounds.

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Not all of them,
but a good chunk do.

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GERALD GURNEY: It sets
up a perfect storm

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that is racially
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
correct these racial inequities

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that occur in
college sports, we've

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got to be committed
to providing our Black

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male and female college athletes
with a real education, one

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that's going to allow
them to go out and compete

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for spaces in graduate school,
in law school, in med school.

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But at the very
least, an education

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that's going to
allow them to have

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a great understanding of what
they're good at, what they're

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not so good at,
and what they can

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pursue when they leave school.

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DAVID HUGHES: The
inequality is something

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that we need to combat.

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