National Signing Day glorifies Boyz n the Hood

Today is National Signing Day, when high school seniors and junior college transfers decide which college they will attend and play football for over the next two – four years. For many people this day is a holiday where grown men who have never, ever socialized outside of work with Black people will have their very happiness and well-being dictated by the decisions of primarily Black 18-year-olds. 

Sports fans high on the opium of college football with this decision

In a sick and twisted way, the amount of time and money grown men spend salivating over the 40 time, vertical jump and physical attributes of primarily Black 17 and 18-year-old recruits would make them eligible for membership in the North American Man Boy Love Association (NAMBLA). 

White alumni fantasize about what these recruits might look like wearing their school uniforms, as long as they can post sufficient grades for entry into the school. Entire colleges will ignore their history if only Black players will sign with their school.

If a Black four or five star recruit spurns their alma mater for a rival institution, all hope for future football success is lost. The amount of money spent recruiting these Black athletes, who come from school systems that these same white alumni have fled so their kids can attend “better” districts, will only result in a big return on investment for a number of the schools in NCAA that derive massive profits off of this unpaid labor. 

Virtually all-white colleges sign 20-28 football players, the majority of whom are Black, to full academic scholarships. The media exposure and adulation these athlete-students will receive while in college is an incalculable asset that no normal student receives. It is difficult to qualify the name recognition they will garner for rushing the football, scoring touchdowns and sacking the quarterback, but wealthy, well connected alumni will undoubtedly take notice. 

College for athletes should be considered a short-term investment for potential long-term monetary gains. Consider how much publicity in local newspapers, Internet stories, television and eventually ESPN, ABC, CBS and other national channels these athletes will receive. This correlates to a massive head start over their fellow students who merely attend college to get a diploma and then battle for a job in an increasingly tight job market. 

Not all athletes will go join the professional ranks and the majority of those who make it will eventually go bankrupt. But for those Black athletes that sign scholarship papers on National Signing Day, an opportunity to attend Tier 1 institutions that their porous grades and low ACT/SAT scores on obviously culturally biased tests is guaranteed in spite of their academic deficiencies. 

Black athletes, despite hours of free tutoring and academic support not available to normal students, have horrible graduation rates at these institutions. A football scholarship to a major Bowl Championship Series (BCS) school is like winning the golden ticket to Willy Wonka’s factory. That athletes fail to understand the gift they receive by representing the school on the football field (all games are televised now and a hungry fan base devours any and all news on the Internet message boards) and what that translates to in potential job opportunities in high level sales after college is their fault. 

Take a look at ESPN’s Top 150 prospects (you could also look at Rival.com or Scout.com lists) and feast your eyes upon the first names of many of these exceptionally gifted talents. Consider that in every other vocation (save basketball), a ghetto name is considered a huge liability to employment:

To test whether employers might discriminate against job applicants with black-sounding names, associate professors of economics Marianne Bertrand with Chicago's Graduate School of Business and Sendhil Mullainathan with MIT conducted an elaborate experiment. They fabricated resumes for multiple "phantom" job seekers with common black and white names. The professors then sent out nearly 5,000 resumes for 1,300 job openings advertised in newspapers and on online job sites throughout Chicago and Boston…

The results are a bit disturbing, the researchers admit. Applicants with white-sounding names were 50 percent more likely to be contacted for job interviews than those with typical black names. There were no significant differences between the rates at which men and women were contacted.

Only in college football (and basketball) would a ghetto first name be considered an asset instead of a liability. The same white alumni who move their families far away from Atlanta, Memphis, Chicago, Baltimore and other majority Black cities, counties or school districts will nevertheless spend countless hours following the exploits of athletes who grew up in the very cities, counties and school districts they abandoned. 

Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), already crumbling due to inept management, loss of accreditation, poor academic success rates and a crushing inability by students who attend to pay back student loans are also deprived of an obvious source of revenue when Black athletes decide to attend white schools. 

A lot of Black people think that Black athletes are being taken advantage of by not receiving monetary compensation for their participation in athletics. William Rhoden has likened these athletes to modern day slaves; Boyce Watkins has called the NCAA a sweat shop that destroys Black males and Black families alike; and Billy Watkins has described it as a “new plantation” model, where white schools pocket revenue at the expense of veritable Black slaves. 

Let’s be honest: without sports, a near majority of Black people would never attend a major university. Their scores on culturally biased aptitude tests would preclude them from being accepted by virtually every major school. 

College football is the opiate of America and on National Signing Day the opium dens around the country are open to such extremes that the highs allotted are greater than many drugs available for purchase from dealers operating in the same areas where the athletes recently signed call home. 

The movie Boyz n the Hood showcases this situation beautifully. One of the main characters, Ricky, is trying to get his SAT score so he can play college football (the film was made when Proposition 48 mandated that athletes have at least a minimum of a 700 on their SAT):

A college football coach from USC visits Ricky one night for an interview; Brenda kicks Doughboy and his friends out onto the porch where they discuss first college, then girls. Meanwhile, the coach promises Ricky an athletic scholarship at USC if he earns a minimum SAT score of 700.^[4] Ricky struggles during the test, looking often at Tré for help, and seems unsure of passing. Later that day, Furious tells the boys that the English section of the test is culturally biased and only the math is fair.

As Tré walks home, he looks back just in time to see Ferris and his friends pull out in front of Ricky. Warned by a frantic Tré, Ricky attempts to run from them, but is gunned down with a double-barreled shotgun. Doughboy and his friends soon pull up to find Tré crying over Ricky's dead body. They bring Ricky's blood-soaked body home in Doughboy's car. Brenda immediately blames Doughboy, who tries to comfort her but is rebuffed; he then attempts to remove Ricky's son from the room where his father lies dead. Later that night, Brenda sobs over Ricky's test results, discovering he earned a 710, just enough to qualify for the scholarship.

Remember that this film came out during the Prop 48 debate, a moment of immense clarity in NCAA history. The overwhelming majority of Prop 48 athletes were Black, and yet people still complained of the difficult standards that these athlete-students had to reach to be deemed eligible:

According to the 1990 Knight Foundation Report, 86.5% of the football and basketball players who have been affected by Prop 48 during the last three years are black. For the most part, these athletes have been unfairly labeled as intellectually inferior. Yet behind every Prop 48 athlete, there is a story, one that too often goes undiscovered.

Prop 48 would eventually be struck down as racially bias:

Few rules in sports history have triggered more fiery debate than the NCAA legislation that was born in 1983 as Proposition 48 and was struck down last week as an example of racial bias. Designed to raise graduation rates among college athletes, Prop 48 and its '92 successor, Proposition 16, required incoming freshmen to meet academic standards—including minimum scores on the SAT or the ACT—to play sports their first year.


The rule's demands became part of college sports shorthand. Athletes who failed to meet the minimums were called Prop 48s. Recruits were divided into those who "had the score" of 700 on the SAT and those who fell short The stakes got higher when Prop 16 lifted the bar by imposing a sliding scale requiring recruits with a 2.5 grade point average in high school core courses to score at least 820 on the SAT and those with a 2.0 to score at least 1010.

 Critics said the requirements discriminated against minority students, and on March 8 judge Ronald Buckwalter of the U.S. district court in Philadelphia agreed. In a case brought by the Trial Lawyers for Public Justice on behalf of two athletes ruled ineligible under Prop 16, Buckwalter wrote that the NCAA's use of the SAT and ACT had an "unjustified" impact on black students. In the opinion Buckwalter cited evidence showing that 21.4% of black students who applied for Division I eligibility in 1997 failed to meet Prop 16 standards, compared to 4.2% of white students…

Props 48 and 16 weren't all bad. "They pushed marginal athletes to work harder in the classroom," says Lee Boyko, basketball coach at Rich Central, a predominantly black high school in suburban Chicago. The late Arthur Ashe also supported high standards for athletes. "Black educators were incensed," Ashe said of Prop 48's minimums. "I was incensed that they were incensed. They should have complained that the number wasn't higher.”

We already know how Richard Lapchick feels about the graduation rates for Black athletes, though few people dared point out what we did in regards the 2010 Auburn University football team and what Jim Harbaugh said about marginal athlete-students at Michigan.

Without sports, you have no positive examples of Black people. Well you do have Black Fictional Heroes, but again these are conjured up by script writers with a mission to bolster the minority at the expense of the majority. This is of course the modus operandi of Black Run America (BRA) worldwide, with minority outreach dominating the goals of US diplomats globally.  

So ingest that opium America and bask in the glory of National Signing Day. Prepare to cheer as Black people sign academic scholarships to come represent your alma mater on the football field and remember that you, dear white football fan, live far removed from the communities where these Black athletes grew up.

It is these communities that are on the verge of collapsing into complete ineptitude, but at least they produce one export that you find tolerable: college athletes. 

The Rivals and Scout.com top 100 recruits look like a cross-section of Thug Report and it is thanks to athletics, the dependency on Black recruits and the shunning of white athletes by Predominately White Institutions (PWI) that keep the opium pumping into the veins of people who could throw off the chains of BRA tomorrow. 

White America’s desire for its opium fix is the reason Michael Oher was adopted, as well as other Blind Sides across the country were protected from the ravages of an unforgiving Black underclass that gets worse and worse by the day.  

Through it all athletes who look like Toby Gerhart, Jacob Hester, Peyton Hillis and Jeff Maehl rarely receive the adulation from high school scouts as athletes with those strange first names do. Even Wes Welker, the Oklahoma Gatorade High School player of the year, only received one scholarship offer out of high school. 

Happy National Signing Day! It’s truly stunning what a meat market the entire process represents. And just think the NFL Draft is next to gratify and captivate white males nationwide.