NAACP’s ‘voting rights’ boycott won’t work — – Latest News
When it involves moronic political stunts, the NAACP’s call for a black boycott of athletic applications at southern universities is difficult to beat.
After all, the group’s “Out of Bounds” marketing campaign, backed by the Congressional Black Caucus, appears to be like primed to hurt the very people it claims to champion: black teen athletes.
The marketing campaign asks these teenagers — in addition to households, followers, alumni and others — to avoid public universities in southern states which might be (purportedly) weakening black voting rights.
Don’t fund them, attend them, participate of their athletic applications, and many others.
Why? The states’ redistricting plans after the Supreme Court restricted the creation of racially gerrymandered districts.
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The Black Caucus, NAACP and different allies fake the redistricting hurts minority voting rights, however the actual gripe is that it’ll imply fewer Democrats within the House.
Set apart the talk over utilizing racism to struggle racism: What makes the marketing campaign dumber than dumb is that the faculties within the focused states — Tennessee, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Georgia — don’t have anything to do with the Supreme Court case or the redistricting.
Nor do the teenager athletes being informed to go on the alternatives these faculties offer.
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This is the haves — the insiders who run the NAACP, the profitable politicians within the CBC — telling have-nots (high college athletes) to sacrifice their futures merely to make some variety of assertion (not even a clear one) for the “cause” that the haves milk for his or her own dwelling.
The pols behind the redistricting can pay no price, solely the black children.
This is even more idiotic than Major League Baseball’s 2021 rush to tug the All-Star Game out of Atlanta over Georgia’s voting-rights law: The law went forward (and minority turnout soared), and the MLB in the end returned the sport to Atlanta.
The solely ones to undergo: Businesses, employees and residents within the metropolis, which is almost half black (and largely didn’t assist the law within the first place).
Set apart the left’s pathetic fury when the foundations of democracy don’t favor Democrats.
Trying to con black teen athletes into being political pawns is as idiotic as it’s despicable.
