CBC blocks SCORE Act vote on college athlete pay in response to GOP's southern redistricting wave

[RandySF]

Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) members are blocking a U.S. House bill regarding college athletes’ pay in hopes that collegiate sports associations will speak out against Republicans’ current efforts to eliminate majority-Black districts in wake of the gutting of the Voting Rights Act.

“The [CBC] cannot support legislation benefiting major athletic institutions that continue to remain silent while Black voting rights and Black political power are being systematically dismantled across the South,” reads a CBC statement from earlier this week. “The [CBC] believes institutions that profit from Black talent and Black communities have a responsibility to stand with those communities when their fundamental rights are under attack. Silence in the face of injustice is not neutrality — it is complicity.”

African-American congressmembers are aligning with the NAACP’s call for Black college athletes to boycott colleges in the South, where state efforts are afoot to gerrymander away majority-Black and Democrat districts.

Such efforts hearken historical civil rights causes such as those driven by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s to involve Black students in the crusade for equal democracy and voting rights in the U.S.




https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/cbc-blocks-score-act-vote-on-college-athlete-pay-in-response-to-gops-southern-redistricting-wave/

[MichMan]

1. A powerful message would to be to refuse to take the field when the game starts

[RandySF]

2. Why are we asking this of collegiate athletes and not the pros?

These kids would take on major personal risks.

[MichMan]

3. I dunno. Ask the NAACP; it was their idea.

[RandySF]

4. Well, we need to clear up one myth.

Not every student athlete is making bank. As a matter of fact, NIL varies from one player to the next even within a team.