08-15-2020, 09:21 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-15-2020, 09:32 AM by JohnR34231.)
(08-15-2020, 08:25 AM)jonnyss Wrote: some thoughts:
allowing professionals did not ruin the olympics; far from it.
slavery is not intrinsically a black/white issue. whites were slaves in the british isles for centuries. currently, tens of thousands of people of various ethnicities around the world are enslaved.
today, college athletes play without pay while administrators profiteer. it is not intrinsically a racial issue, but a majority of the top athletes - especially in the high-profit sports of football and baseball - are black.
in america, slaves were overwhelmingly black. so it is not a stretch to make an analogy between college sports and slavery.
perhaps college football is closer to indentured servitude (which was common for whites in the early days of america), as players have to work without pay for a time to become eligible to earn wages.
Just wondering if you would feel better about it if the football players quit football and then had to take on part time jobs and/or get loans to pay their tuition and room and board?
Would you consider them less "exploited" that way?