.EdgeofSports: If more top-tier athletes start flowing to HBCUs, it will mark a gigantic transfer of wealth from the predominantly white institutions that depend on football as an economic tentpole for their entire operation.
.” That was an ironic label given that HBCUs exist because white colleges practiced segregation. But in calling for Black athletes to enroll at HBCUs, Hill argued for a community solidarity that could help rebuild HBCUs, so many of which are in financial straits.
Referring to the country’s most talented Black high school athletes, she wrote, “They attract money and attention to the predominantly white universities that showcase them, while HBCUs struggle. What would happen if they collectively decided to go to black schools?” She noted, “The entire endowment of North Carolina A&T is worth barely as much as Clemson’s football campus.
As ugly as it was that white colleges limited the number of Black football players they recruited, that racism greatly benefited HBCU sports and made their programs a focus of attraction — not to mention revenue — on the college football circuit. Those same Black collegiate athletics programs have suffered during the last 30 years as white schools have gone scorched-earth in their search for Black athletic excellence.
Hunter’s decision could be a one-off or a harbinger of more to come, thereby transforming Hill’s column from plea to prophesy. What is certain is that we are living at an inflection point where Black politics — or the politics of anti-racism — and sports have not been so intertwined since the 1970s. That was the era Harry Edwards called “the revolt of the Black athlete.”
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