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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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