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Johnny2X2X

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2. Allow?
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 10:14 AM
Sep 2017

That's the word I keep hearing throughout this that is a bell whistle for racism. "Allow", it suggests white people have the power over black people to allow them to speak or not to speak. It's an incredible telling and loaded word IMO.

You know what "allows" people to speak their minds and make the statements that they want to make? Being a human being.

And college football has huge race problems, you have 89% of the coaches in D1 being white while almost 60% of the players are black. You have White administrators, white coaches, white boosters, and white owned businesses all making money off from unpaid black college football players. And don't give me any bull about the value of a free education, in most cases the players are not allowed by the coaches to take "real" college classes because they don't want the players to be focused on anything other than football.

Allow? What the racists are getting at with that word is that, "blacks should just be happy that they're allowed to be free, and you better watch out, because we still really own you."

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