re: NAACP calls for boycott of anti-DEI states' colleges [View all]

[SCantiGOP]

A post from earlier today: (https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143207349) stated that "The head of the NAACP is calling on Black student-athletes to reconsider their decisions to attend public colleges and universities in Florida, challenging a new state policy that bars those institutions from using government funds on diversity, equity and inclusion programs."
Here is a letter to the editor I wrote several months ago about the subject:
>>>Race in sports had a major impact on civil rights in the Deep South in the 1970s. All white Kentucky lost the basketball national championship in 1966 to Texas Southwest (now UTEP) with 5 black starters. In 1970, a time when Alabama and other Southern schools could not enroll black students, Bear Bryant's all white Alabama team lost badly to a Southern Cal team led by a black running back. Knowing that SEC sports would no longer be competitive without black players led to a grudging acceptance of desegregation.
The current culture war being waged against discussion of race and past atrocities against African Americans, along with an increasing pushback against the LGBTQ community, may begin to hit home with the average voter when red state schools start losing premier athletes due to their regressive politics.
Let's see how Texas or Florida MAGAs react when the next great QB or 7 foot tall Center announces that he is retracting his long held intention to play at one of their schools, and is going instead to Michigan or UCLA because of the policies being enacted by Abbott and DeSantis and their proto-fascist legislatures.