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Every
\n year Boston Globe columnist Derrick Z. Jackson does a number of columns
\n on the sham and shame which major
\n college sports in this country have become. Specifically, the
\n low graduation rates of black male athletes at major school programs
\n in Football and Basketball. <\/p>\n
On the occasion of the college bowl games in football and
\n the NCAA tournament in basketball, Jackson shows that most of these minority
\n individuals, the cream of the stream of young Americans of color, or
\n at least those who have managed thus far to escape the gangs, the drugs,
\n the police and the depression of dead-end jobs and psychotic families,
\n are used and abused, built up to an unnatural, demonic hyper explosion
\n of physical prowess, and then abandoned, discarded, rejected or forgotten,
\n often with permanent physical disabilities, no discernable job skills
\n and a seriously out-of-wack impression of the world and their place in
\n it. <\/p>\n
Is it any wonder that most of these kids end up falling
\n into the same traps their athletic skills allowed them to escape, or
\n at least avoid, for a few years, even harder and with less chance to
\n find a way out? In the face of these statistics, can we still ask where
\n are all the Black lawyers, the Hispanic doctors, the minority CEO’s?<\/p>\n
The Dowbrigade has written on the topic<\/a> before. Jackson’s PLAYER DISQUALIFICATION<\/p>\n Overall graduation rate of under 50 percent:<\/p>\n Florida St. (49) W 71 B 43 from the Every year Boston Globe columnist Derrick Z. Jackson does a number of columns on the sham and shame which major college sports in this country have become. Specifically, the low graduation rates of black male athletes at major school programs … Continue reading
\n column today shows that the situation is not improving, or even on the
\n radar screen of most Americans hunkered down in front of their new 42-inch
\n HD Plasma TV’s for the buffet of bowl games. The worst of the offenders,
\n with overall graduation rate followed by a Black and White breakdown:<\/p>\n
\n Alabama (49) W 63 B 45
\n Wyoming (49) W 59 B 38
\n Georgia Tech (49) W 63 B 43
\n Auburn (48) W 74 B 40
\n California (48) W 59 B 42
\n Troy (48) W 48 B 49
\n West. Va. (46) W 56 B 33
\n Okla. St. (45) W 57 B 41
\n North Texas (44) W 58 B 38
\n Oregon St. (44) W 50 B 40
\n Ariz. St. (44) W 59 B 34
\n Colorado (43) W 60 B 29
\n Louisiana St. (42) W 61 B 35
\n New Mexico (42) W 50 B 38
\n Florida (42) W 56 B 36
\n Minnesota (41) W 60 B 27
\n Utah (41) W 38 B 31
\n Tennessee (38) W 67 B 30
\n Northern Ill. (38) W 47 B 24
\n Louisville (35) W 53 B 27
\n Oklahoma (40) W 48 B 35
\n Memphis (40) W 59 B 29
\n Fresno St. (40) W 39 B 43
\n Texas (34) W 36 B 33
\n Texas-El Paso (34) W 34 B 38
\n Pittsburgh (31) W 48 B 21<\/p>\n
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