White Boys, Armageddon, and College Football: It all comes down to Sports

"White boys" like former Arkansas running back Peyton Hillis aren't supposed to play in the SEC

We all have things that interest us in life. For me, my most poignant memories will always center around football. Whether it involves going to college football games to tailgate with family and friends, playing the game, or watching my alma mater, nothing beats fall Saturday's.

Nothing.

Being relatively young, I was born years after the Southeastern Conference (SEC) teams finally integrated. At first, the quality and character of the Black student-athlete recruited was quite high, but this mindset evaporated quickly to the point where SEC schools now recruit Black athlete-students who barely qualify for admission to the schools (South Carolina head coach Steve Spurrier complained about admission requirements keeping out talented Black athletes) that are in the conference.

Sports Illustrated published an article in 1991 that bragged how Black people now dominated the SEC. Here are some excerpts from that story:

Even now he has vivid memories of games at Auburn, where the kindest chant was "Char-coal, char-coal," and of games at Mississippi, where Confederate flags were wielded with malice. Those were the most nightmarish trips for Vanderbilt's Perry Wallace, who in the winter of 1967-68 became the Southeastern Conference's first black varsity basketball player. He tried to block out the jeers, the taunts and the slurs, but sometimes it was impossible. Sometimes his palms would get so sweaty that a pass would slip through his hands, or he would get so jittery that he would have to go to the bench amid hoots of derision.

"Those were scary, scary situations," says Wallace, now an attorney in Washington, D.C., and a law professor at Baltimore University. "Every time we had a road trip, I approached it with the deepest sense of dread."

Today that all seems so long ago and so strange. Indeed, no league in the nation has benefited more from integration—check out all those postseason bowl and NCAA basketball invitations—than the SEC, which fought it the hardest. This season the conference's football teams are 57% black, its basketball teams 64%.

The SEC has been enriched by so many outstanding black athletes—names like Herschel Walker, Bo Jackson and Charles Barkley leap to mind—that it is difficult to remember that when Wallace made his debut for Vandy, the threat of violence was as real and near as the redneck hecklers sitting just behind the benches. David Sansing, a professor of history at Mississippi, remembers those times when he listens to the current debate on campus over the Alumni Association's request to Ole Miss fans not to wave Confederate flags at athletic events because doing so is an insult to blacks. "When you get down to it," says Sansing, "white Southerners and black Southerners still live in a world apart from each other, but it's better, and athletics has been a part of it. Take this flag thing. Twenty-five or 30 years ago, a white man could literally kill a black person in Mississippi without much fear of reprisal. Now we're talking about being insensitive to the feelings of blacks and scolding people for it. That's a hell of a difference."

The South was a racial battleground all through the 1960s, and its collegiate athletic teams, the most visible symbols of both the region's pride and its prejudice, were caught up in the emotions. Somehow, breaking the color barrier wasn't as difficult in the SEC's neighboring leagues, the Atlantic Coast and Southwest conferences, perhaps because Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the other civil rights leaders chose to fight in the heart of Dixie. The ACC was quietly integrated by Maryland, where the pioneers were football player Darryl Hill in 1963 and basketball player Billy Jones in '66. Nor was there much of a stir in the SWC when Texas Christian's James Cash became its first black basketball player in 1965 and Baylor's John Westbrook became the league's first black football player a year later.

Daniel Sorensen (#9) stated the "white boys" from BYU will show the SEC

What's funny is that now white people get jitters when they drive into Atlanta, Birmingham, Montgomery, Jackson (Mississippi), Memphis, Knoxville, Columbia, Tallahassee, the wrong parts of Tuscaloosa, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and other Southern cities because Black people make them unsafe.

Sadly, it is the sons of these Black people that SEC (and ACC, Big East and other college football conferences) schools recruit with reckless abandon - many times going on probation for cheating during the recruiting process - though they have no desire to interact with these Black people outside of football Saturday's.

We have pointed that college baseball is more in line with the racial breakdown of SEC student enrollment, with white players comprising the bulk of the rosters. However, college football is the exact opposite. The University of Mississippi Rebels Brown Bears have thrown away all of their traditions (read this article by me at Alternative Right on the situation) in the vain pursuit of landing Black athlete-students to lead them back to the glory days of Rebel football -- when the team was all-white and actually won games.

The University of Mississippi has a student body population that is 82 percent white and 13 percent Black, but will see only four white players start on the football this season (out of 22 positions - 11 on offense and 11 on defense). The rest of the teams in the SEC are just as white - in terms of student body - but some are even worse when it comes to the football players. Here is Caste Football with a breakdown of the 2011 starters for the 12 SEC teams compared to the Mountain West Conference:

One way to see how Southern teams discriminate against White athletes more than any other conference in the country is to compare the darkest conference in the country, the SEC, with the Whitest conference in the country, the MWC. Even the high black populations in the states of the Old South don’t account for or excuse this extreme level of anti-white discrimination. Shown below are the number of White starters for each team.

SEC
Vanderbilt-9/22
Kentucky-8/22
Auburn-6/22
Alabama-5/22
Arkansas-5/22
LSU-4/22
Ole Miss-4/22
Tennessee-4/22
South Carolina-3/22
Georgia-2/22
Mississippi-2/22
Floirda-1/22
Total of 53/264 (20.08%) in the SEC

MWC
Boise State-16/22
Air Force-15/22
Wyoming-15/22
San Diego State-12/22
Colorado State-10/22
Texas Christian-10/22
New Mexico-7/22
UNLV-5/22
Total of 90/176 (51.14%) in the MWC

I pointed out in an article called The Opiate of America that the bulk of Black athlete-students enrolled at major colleges and universities would never have qualified and received special admission wavers were they not athletes. The reality of that statement is going to become increasingly clear this week during our college football preview.

I've thought a lot about this quote from 1955 that will be quoted below and I have finally realized I agree with it. Completely. This is from Time magazine:

Two thousand students from the Georgia Institute of Technology stormed through Atlanta one night last week, whooping up and down Peachtree Street, pushing aside troopers who tried to bar their way, and generally raising hell. At the State Capitol, the boys pulled fire hoses from their racks, adorned the sculpt head of Civil War Hero John Gordon with an ashcan. A dozen effigies of Governor Marvin Griffin were hanged and burned during the students' march, which culminated in a 2 a.m. riot in front of the governor's mansion.

Earlier in the day, the governor had incurred their wrath by a pinhead act: he asked the State Board of Regents to forbid the athletic teams of the university system of Georgia (e.g., Georgia Tech, the University of Georgia) from participating in games against any team with Negro players, or even playing in any stadium where unsegregated audiences breathed the same air. 

"The South stands at Armageddon," brayed Griffin to the regents. "The battle is joined. We cannot make the slightest concession to the enemy in this dark and lamentable hour of struggle. There is no more difference in compromising the integrity of race on the playing field than in doing so in the classrooms. One break in the dike and the relentless seas will rush in and destroy us."* 

The governor had a specific game in mind: Georgia Tech had contracted to play the University of Pittsburgh in New Orleans' Sugar Bowl on Jan. 2. Pitt has been selling its block of tickets on a desegregated basis, and Bobby Grier, a Pitt reserve fullback, is a Negro.

Judging by the current state of Atlanta, Memphis, Birmingham and hundreds of other southern cities and counties (not to mention American cities like Philadelphia, Baltimore, Detroit, St. Louis, Cincinnati,  Milwaukee, Cleveland, Buffalo, etc.), the dike burst everywhere in this once great nation.

All of these cities are awash in Black crime, with abandoned and devalued property (both residential and commercial), empty business districts, and lush in potential Black recruits to fill the rosters of SEC teams. White people do everything to avoid Black people, save when it comes to filling roster spots on their beloved alma maters football squad.

I've read more books and articles on the history of college football and the illustrious histories of the storied programs then I care to admit. This week, I will preview each of the SEC teams (basically, a racial history of the team, the school, etc.), plus I will discuss Notre Dame, Brigham Young University, Boise State, the University of Wyoming, the University of Washington, Georgia Tech, Ohio State University, and the University of Texas. 

It's going to be the most radical week ever at SBPDL. It might not be for every regular reader, but you learn more about why we live in Black-Run America (BRA) this week then all prior 130 weeks combined. 

Fitting, the University of Georgia and the University of Ole Miss both open up their 2011 schedules against teams sporting majority white starting lineups. Just like when an integrated Southern California came to play a lily-white Alabama (and out-manned Crimson Tide team) in 1970 and won convincingly - though BAMA would win the next year with only two Black players against that same USC team - in Birmingham, Boise State and Brigham Young University have the opportunity to show that white boys can win in the south in sports outside of baseball. 

BYU represents what all colleges and universities in America once looked like, sporting an Honor Code (that Black people hate) and sports programs that are majority white and reflect the majority of the students. Certainly, BYU represents what the SEC schools all looked as late as 1971. Just as BYU basketball star Jimmer Fredette was made fun of for being a white boy competing in the Black world of basketball, BYU football players have received scorn from Sports Illustrated and other outlets for playing white boys.

Daniel Sorensen, the starting strong safety for BYU, dared to point out that a bunch of white boys from Provo are getting ready to head to Oxford - he didn't state that the crowd will be 99 percent white - and play a team of largely unqualified Black athletes. Read The Blind Side by Michael Lewis or Meat Market to learn about the academic titans Ole Miss recruits. Here's what Sorenson said to the Daily Herald:

"The purpose of BYU, why we're here and why we're playing – and where we're trying to go with this program. It kind of fires you up. It kind of gets you excited.

"To go out there and play for a specific purpose of showing people that we're playing for more than football. This is a faith-based university and we're trying to represent that. The players, and the flag bearers.

"What if we go out there and dominate (at Ole Miss, Sept. 3) and people start seeing us? And they put us on the map, and we're on ESPN. And they start wondering who these kids are – what are they doing with their lives, and why are they so good?

"And maybe a bunch of white boys out there go down and beat up on an SEC team, a big, physical team like (Ole Miss). If we go in there and dominate, what does that say? It starts raising questions and curiosity.

"It starts making things interesting. Getting the pot stirred, and what not. Shoot, that's fun. That's what we're out here to do. We're out here to turn heads. We're out here to change the norm of BYU and what people think of us.

"I would like to see people start fearing us. I don't know. Kind of looking at BYU as a dominant team. Especially the defense. Nobody is going to want to run against us. Start setting that respect

"This is exciting. I can't wait to go down to Ole Miss."

"White boys." What a seditious statement! How dare someone notices that BYU is predominately white (one of the most monochromatic teams in all of college football as Sports Illustrated called them), especially a lily-white player like Sorensen! 

The SEC is perceived, by the entire country, as a Black conference, though Black males probably make up less than 2 percent of the enrollment of each of the 12 schools general student body population. They just don't have the grades to get in, unless the standards and qualifications for enrollment are lowered. 

Remember that current San Diego Chargers tail back and LSU legend Jacob Hester fought massive discrimination from predominately Black SEC defenses back in 2007:

Later in that same article, a telling statement was made by Hester, as he related a tale about Black people and their defense of the ownership of the tailback position:

"Still, there have been other instances in which Hester has removed his helmet without meaning to pull a fast one—like when he's trying to towel off the part of him that is most an anachronism: his white face.

"The fact is, in today's game, it's rare to see a white running back playing the role of dominant rusher on a college football team, let alone a national champion. And Hester hears about it. In 2006, after shedding his headgear during a first-quarter timeout against Tennessee, Vols linebacker Jerod Mayo reacted as if he had seen a ghost. Said Mayo to Hester, "Shouldn't you be playing running back for Air Force?' "

The Air Force Academy fields one of the whitest teams in college football because few Black males have the academic qualifications, and high enough SAT/ACT scores to garner an appointment or scholarship there, or the dedication to stay the whole four years (if you leave the AF Academy after two years there, you owe the government your tuition back).

Peyton Hillis, a University of Arkansas graduate, faced (faces) the same type of discrimination from predominately Black NFL defenses. 

For daring to say "white boys" Sorenson has been blasted in the media. It's not like he called himself a "fucking soldier" like Black University of Miami tight end Kellen Winslow did in the early 2000s. 

Jason Franchuk, who wrote the piece with the quoted "white boys" statement, had this to say in a subsequent article:

Readers that wrote me directly apparently cringed at the quote and weren't thrilled with Sorensen's choice of words. They also admonished me to "be more careful" next time.

Here's part of my response to one reader:

However, I think Daniel's words were a lot more passionate -- and
not really offensive. He spoke from the heart about his excitement
for this season. What he believes the team can accomplish for
itself, and for the school. As for the "white guys" comment -- I
wasn't printing it to produce controversy. Let's face it, fair or
unfair, there are some absurd stereotypes in sports. Daniel, I
think, wants to break them down. Why is it that, even in BYU's best
recent years (or Air Force for that matter), "team speed" is never
one of their strengths? Why is it that Ole Miss absolutely has to
automatically have that advantage? I don't think Daniel believes
HIS team is "just a bunch of white guys." I think he, and
teammates, recognize that's the view point from the National
General Audience (at this point). Going to Ole Miss, SEC Country,
to start the season on ESPN -- I think he is giddy at the
possibilities of breaking that down. I thought the words were
earnest and passionate. Frankly, I'm surprised they're causing such
a uproar of racism. He's not a racist. Just a passionate,
happy-go-lucky kid who wants to show the world that he believes BYU
is really, really good on any level of distinction.

BYU is a predominately "white boy" team

Having more "team speed" is how people always describe the SEC, because it has more Black players. The perception being that whites are slower and not as athletic. Why is it that so few Black athlete-students graduate from college again? There was a day when white student-athletes from Auburn, Alabama, the University of Georgia, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Florida, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Louisiana State,  and Kentucky would go on to be doctors, lawyers, or prominent businessmen. A time when the legendary coaches like Shug Jordan, Vince Dooley and Bear Bryant were trying to not only win, but shape and mold future community leaders as well. 

Now, colleges recruit players that have a tendency to get into trouble. Most of those players are Black, as we learn from The Orlando Sentinel's Shannon J. Owen's (or Sports Illustrated's report on crime and college football):

Journalists and sports pundits alike have criticized, analyzed and hypothesized about why the system of college sports is breaking down at length in the past week. But we've been ignoring a big black elephant in the room. 

High profile football players caught in the center of booster controversies are disproportionately African American.

 USC's Reggie Bush, Oklahoma State's Dez Bryant, Georgia's A.J. Green, Alabama's Marcell Dareus, Auburn's Cam Newton and the latest poster child of "amorality" in sports, Terrelle Pryor of Ohio State, have all become infamous for proven — or sometimes unproven — cases of having friends with benefits.

We've seen public disgust directed at these athletes and now even NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is exposing his frustration with NCAA rule-breaking by punishing Pryor with a five-game suspension.

Oddly, Goodell didn't share this same outrage against Pete Carroll when he bolted out of USC's embattled football program to the Seattle Seahawks last year.

Black athletes who break the rules are more likely to face a harsher judgment in the court of public opinion or — even worse — Goodell's court. The facilitators of cheating, many of whom happen to be white, move on to NFL jobs or cushy TV jobs with significantly less criticism.

I have to wonder, does this discrepancy represent an underlying prejudiced attitude towards African-American athletes?

Contrary to popular belief, African-American men don't make up the majority of college athletes. According to the 2009-10 study from the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports, black men made up just 24.9 percent of all college male athletes.

Equally interesting is the fact that black male athletes don't even comprise an overwhelming majority of Division I football players. Until last year, white athletes made up the majority of college football players since the 1999-2000 season. Black and white athletes currently share near equal representation at 45 percent, with African-Americans holding a slight edge at 45.8 to 45.1 percent.

I don't believe high profile black athletes are the only group of rule-breakers. I do believe they're more likely to get caught.

Given the string of high profile cases involving black football players, I spent hours conducting research, speaking with multiple sociologists, a former USC linebacker and even a college runner to determine if African-Americans really are breaking the rules more and if so why.

Ramogi Huma, president of the National College Players Association and a former linebacker at USC, summed up the questions best.

Cheating often takes place behind closed doors so it's impossible to determine who is doing what.
"You only know what comes out," he said.

It's not a stretch, however, to believe black athletes are targeted more by rogue agents, boosters and runners. Black athletes in skill positions like wide receivers, running backs and — in the modern era of college sports — quarterbacks are more lucrative and visible, which translates to greater opportunity for temptation.

Race aside, there is a long history of high-profile athletes receiving and asking for benefits. Most of them see this as an act of rebellion against a college system producing millions on their likeness and image.
But, as proven, this type of rule-breaking doesn't bode well for the image of black athletes.

"I think there does tend to be a perception that African-American athletes and African-Americans in general are more prone to criminal behavior and that might encourage certain individuals to approach them and perhaps not approach other athletes," said Timothy Davis, a law professor at Wake Forrest University who has authored several books about sports, business and race.

Characterizing an entire race of people based on the actions of some is prejudiced. And the reality is that we live in a prejudiced world.

I cringed when hearing that one of the United Kingdom's largest media providers, British Broadcasting Corporation, allowed guest analyst David Starkey to go unchallenged on his thought that "whites have become blacks" in reference to the disposition of rioters in London.

The inference here, of course, is that black people symbolize deliquency. Apparently, some of those rioters had been infected with "blackness."

As I see one high-profile athlete after another vilified for rule-breaking, I wonder if this same perspective about deliquency and blackness is being applied to college football.

I'm not condoning cheating, but I do hope the attitude towards corruption in college sports is not black and white.

It's not "white boys" getting into trouble (and if they do, normally a bunch of Black guys got them in trouble like at Auburn and LSU recently), but it is white boys keeping those graduation rates up. 

"White boys", Armageddon, and sports; it all comes down to college football being the tool that allowed Birmingham, Atlanta, Memphis, Columbia, and hundreds of other southern cities and counties to be completely turned over to the Black Undertow and corrupt Black city leaders and their Disingenuous White Liberal (DWL) enablers. 

When Boise State plays UGA this coming Saturday in Atlanta at the Georgia Dome and BYU kicks-off against the Mississippi Black Bears from Oxford, remember that Boise State and BYU reflect what SEC football teams should look like. 

As you'll learn this week at SBPDL: very few, VERY FEW of the Black athletes receiving free tuition to SEC schools have the grades or academic qualifications necessary for enrollment, especially at a school like UGA.

 

#11. The BYU "Honor Code"

You can have high standards for your student body population and student athletes by maintaining high moral, ethics, and academic achievement values, or you can have Black athletes. But you can’t have both. Every major college program relies on a disproportionate number of Black athletes to compete on the football field and the basketball court save the Air Force Academy and Brigham Young University (BYU).

Having an "Honor Code" burdens Black athletes who go to BYU

Unlike the Naval Academy, Air Force has yet to lower its academic standards to admit Black students whose grades and standardized test scores are far lower than their white counterparts.

BYU was called the most monochromatic team by Sports Illustrated (SI) in a 2010 story, and in the famed “What Happened to the White Athlete?” story in SI, the school was lambasted as the last refuge for white players to succeed.

Located in Provo, BYU is funded by the Mormon Church, and all students and student-athletes are required to sign an Honor Code:

Honor Code Statement

We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men. . . . If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things (Thirteenth Article of Faith).

As a matter of personal commitment, faculty, administration, staff, and students of Brigham Young University, Brigham Young University—Hawaii, Brigham Young University—Idaho, and LDS Business College seek to demonstrate in daily living on and off campus those moral virtues encompassed in the gospel of Jesus Christ, and will

Be honest
Live a chaste and virtuous life
Obey the law and all campus policies
Use clean language
Respect others
Abstain from alcoholic beverages, tobacco, tea, coffee, and substance abuse
Participate regularly in church services
Observe the Dress and Grooming Standards
Encourage others in their commitment to comply with the Honor Code

Specific policies embodied in the Honor Code include (1) the Academic Honesty Policy, (2) the Dress and Grooming Standards, (3) the Residential Living Standards, and (4) the Continuing Student Ecclesiastical Endorsement. (Refer to institutional policies for more detailed information.)

Sadly, Black athletes at the school – which ESPN stated were needed if the team was to be successful at basketball – means that the Honor Code might soon be in drastic need of amending. Dead Spin reports:

Over the past month, BYU has been held up as a symbol of all that is decent in college sports for its unsparing treatment of Brandon Davies, the African-American basketball player who violated the school's honor code by reportedly having sex with his girlfriend. Davies was suspended shortly before the NCAA tournament, and a braying mainstream press lauded BYU for sticking to its principles. Sports Illustrated's website even wondered if a values-driven, "non-hypocritical" BYU was "on the verge of becoming America's team."

The reality isn't so appealing. While it's impossible to know how many students disobey BYU's honor code, which prohibits fornication and alcohol use, among other things, the honor code violations that come to light almost always involve student-athletes. And they almost always involve athletes of color. Since 1993, according to our research, at least 70 athletes have been suspended, dismissed, put on probation, or forced to withdraw from their teams or the school after running afoul of the honor code. Fifty-four of them, or nearly 80 percent, are minorities. Forty-one, or almost 60 percent, are black men. These are conservative numbers, compiled from media reports and interviews. In several cases, we could not confirm an honor code violation. In other cases, we could not establish the race or ethnicity of the athlete involved. We excluded those cases from our tally.

Clearly, though, something is amiss at BYU, where around 23 percent of the athletes are minorities, according to the university. Only .6 percent of the student body is black (176 out of the 32,947 students enrolled in 2010). Yet a majority of the honor code violations involve black athletes. Do these numbers mean these athletes "sin" more than everyone else? Hardly. Several former BYU football players told us that their white teammates routinely broke the honor code and got away with it, either because they didn't get caught or because their violations were covered up. (To a lesser extent, this holds true for Polynesian athletes, 14 of whom are included in our honor code tally. More on that later.) Mormon athletes can turn to bishops and church leaders from their own homogeneous communities — people who look like them and might even be related to them — to "repent" and avoid official punishment. Black athletes, who are typically non-Mormon, rarely have this option.

That's not surprising. Of the 116 players currently on the football roster, only 10 of them are black. That's less than 9 percent. A few years ago, the team was 15 percent black. Intentionally or not, the program seems to have sidestepped the honor code's racial and religious biases by signing more Polynesians, who tend to be LDS and now make up 23 percent of the roster. Whether these numbers indicate a recruiting shift away from blacks or an increased effort by the school to find LDS players is unclear. (Only eight or nine players on the team are non-Mormon, according to Chambers.) But the effect is the same: fewer black athletes and a difficult experience for many of those who do enroll.

"We want students to come to the university who are very comfortable with the environment," Jenkins says. "We're working very hard to make sure that every student understands the honor code before they get here. We start the day they apply. It's something that defines us. For the last 13 years, we've been The Princeton Review's number one stone-cold sober university. We're proud of it."

This year, Brandon Davies was the latest honor code martyr. Davies took his punishment in stride. He had little choice. How his suspension will affect his career or his outlook remains to be seen. But BYU's treatment of scores of black athletes should give pause to any African-American considering enrolling there. Our research indicates it already has. Almost every black athlete we spoke with had tried to dissuade a black recruit from playing for BYU. "We had some recruit coming to school," Thomas Stancil recalls. "I just told him what it was really like at BYU. I told him that if he was going to come here and think he was going to be having sex with all these women and partying, you got the wrong school. The next day the guy redid his plane ticket and left." Stancil's honesty only got him in trouble with the coaching staff.

You can look at police blotters in college towns across America and see that the majority of athletes getting arrested are Black. The majority of violent crime offenders are Black (our thanks to Jeff Benedict for cataloging this data) and virtually all of these Black people wouldn’t be on the campuses if they weren’t athletes.

One could state that if every college had standards like BYU, their football and basketball programs would field more white athletes.

SI ran a cover story on the 2010 Top 25 football programs and the incredible arrest rates the racked up by the athletes that played for them. Not surprisingly, the majority of the big crimes were committed by Black athletes. (Boise State had a large number of arrests, but almost all were for alcohol infractions.)

It’s funny: the popular college football blog Everydayshouldbesaturday.com has what they call the “Fulmer Cup” where they keep up with all arrests at major colleges and award a prize (named after Phil Fulmer, who relied on thugs to win games at Tennessee) to the school fielding the most criminals.

The reliance on Black athletes to compete at major academic institutions has required every school to lower their moral and academic standards so that Black players can stay in school.  Richard Lapchick has shown that Black athletes can’t compete in the classroom as compared to white athletes – graduation rates always reflect a huge disparity between white and Black athletes – and stories of major colleges staking Black athletes in easy classes (Auburn had its sociology scandal; Michigan had its scandal, as did Stanford) show that the caliber of student-athlete being recruited is far below that of the normal student enrolling to take classes in hopes of earning a degree.


Every school in the Southeastern Conference (SEC), the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), the Big East, the Pac-12, the Big 10, the Big 12, and Conference USA has had to lower moral, ethical, and academic standards just to accommodate Black atheletes. Read this story from 1991 that shows how the SEC went from lily-white teams to virtually all-Black athletic teams.

Indeed, having any standards to aspire to at all is something Black people find highly offensive and exclusive.

BYU has recently left the Mountain West Conference (MWC) and will be, like Notre Dame, an independent. Knowing that most colleges and universities are administered and controlled by radical Disingenuous White Liberals (DWLs), it’s only a matter of time before BYU finds it difficult to schedule teams to play against on the field of athletic competition. GLAAD and the NAACP will pressure ESPN and other media outlets from televising BYU games.

That the Mormons are the last group to oppose homosexuals and gay marriage; that the Mormons try and stop the march to lowest common denominator behavior by having an honor code; that the BYU football and basketball team relies on white athletes when every team in America relies disproportionately on Black athletes all point to a future where the school will be boycotted.

  A university can either have standards or it can have Black athletes. Just look at what is happening at Oxford in England, where Black people find it exceedingly difficult to gain admittance to that prestigious school. Standards are vital to integrity.

BYU wants to have integrity, thus they have an Honor Code. Oxford wants to maintain its status as one of the elite institutions of higher learning in the world.  That both schools' drive for maintaining standards has a tendency to leave Black people behind is a sign that values and principles at some institutions are more important than regressing to the mean.

Stuff Black People Don’t Like includes the BYU Honor Code, because if every school in America had this code, Black athletes would be forced to play for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). And as the New York Times reported, degrees from those institutions aren’t worth much.

That HBCU degrees aren't worth much must have something to do with high academic standards, right? While ignorant alumni of SEC, ACC, Big Ten, Big East, and Conference USA colleges and universities cheer on teams that field players who have no businesses at a major institution of higher learning, BYU fields a team of actual student-athletes.

Schools like Florida, Georgia, Auburn, Alabama, Tennessee, Iowa, Oregon and Oklahoma recruit Black players whose athletic ability is the only requirement they need to gain admittance to the university. That they get into trouble on campus and with the law is of little concern to ravenous white alumni desirous of football or basketball glory.

As we learned in the terrifying book on the University of Washington football program, all that matters is Scoreboard Baby (all the players profiled in the book for committing heinous crimes that the Washington coaches, prominent alumni, and police in Seattle cover up are Black).

Well, at BYU the Honor Code still matters. Notre Dame once had similar requirements, but they abandoned them in the pursuit of football glory.

In Black Run America (BRA), all standards have been abandoned so that the Black Undertow can be placated. Having moral, educational or ethical standards runs counter to BRA’s goals, and BYU will be targeted with boycotts and threats.

Daring to field a team of white athletes; requiring morality which disproportionately affects Black athletes; and opposing the mainstreaming of homosexuality is just too much in a nation dedicated to regression to the mean.

Such is life in Black Run America (BRA), where having an Honor Code is tantamount to Jim Crow and oppression.

Because Black athletes provide so many positive images for their community that their communities are unable to provide, high rates of Black crime, out-of-wedlock birthrates, anti-social behavior in school and overall degeneracy is excused.

BYU's honor code, attacked as hypocritical by Dead Spin and the Black athletes who violate it, exposes so many truths of life in Black Run America. The attacks on the code of honor show that our dead sprint to lowest common denominator behavior is all but confirmed.