Two recent court decisions have made it pretty clear that Democrats have lost the redistricting battle, as we head into the November mid-terms, and that has led the party, backed by the liberal media, to cry racism, and claim that we are heading back to the racial injustices of Jim Crow. In fact the NAACP, is urging black athletes not to select universities in states where redistricting is taking place, and that position was championed by the Reverend Al Sharpton Saturday on MS NOW.
Sharpton first appeared on Alex Witt Reports, hosted by Britt Miller.
MILLER: New reaction to the call for black student athletes to boycott mostly white colleges in southern states, eliminating black voting districts....Think Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana and yes, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas, too. The NAACP is exploring all avenues, really to fight back right now against the decimation of black representation in the south. That's what we're seeing.
SHARPTON: What you must do is, on various levels, resist. And there's no question that college athletics is a big deal in these states. It hits them not only financially, but hits them culturally. And the the real question is, are you choosing between whether now athletes can make some money, but at the same time, you don't have any, you're being disenfranchised, you don't have any voting rights. And it's a real moral position that I think the Congressional Black Caucus has come in and they initiated this. And many of us, National Action Network and others are supportive of the idea, how you are able to implement it. We will see. But morally, I think the question is you cannot use us to make money and then disenfranchise us at the same time, because then you're paying us to be powerless.
Now that college athletes are allowed to be paid, Miller asked Sharpton about those who say, some black athletes would lose seven figure incomes with NIL deals, which are their name, image and likeness, and the Reverend made an outrageously obscene analogy, comparing redistricting now, to the racial injustices that existed in South Africa.
SHARPTON: I remember when we were fighting apartheid in South Africa many years ago, people would say, well, black artists should go to South Africa. They've got to make those big concert fees that was being paid, but not at the price of your dignity. So once they started boycotting, it added to those of us that were marching and boycotting here, because then the economic withdrawal hurts South Africa. So if just like you say, the athletes can make money, well, those colleges will not make money if they don't have those athletes, their money goes down and they will start pressuring the state legislatures that you can't do this. You can not implement this without oppressing us.
Later on his own show, Politics Nation, Sharpton welcomed in long time New York Times sports writer William Rhoden, now with ESPN's Andscape, and asked him about the CBC's blocking of the Score Act, until NCAA conference leaders oppose redistricting efforts.
SHARPTON: The Caucus said that it, quote, believes institutions that profit from black talent and black communities have a responsibility to stand with those communities when their fundamental rights are under attack. Silence in the face of injustice is not neutrality, it's complicity.
RHODEN: I'm down with it. For the last 50 years, I've spent, my career trying to pull this growing black athletic community into the struggle for our continued freedom. Whether it's black athletes in track and field or the NFL and NBA. And now college. So I think this is wonderful. I'm down with any form of resistance and attack. Do I think it's going to be a a hard sell? I do.
Then Rhoden seemed to attack young black athletes.
RHODEN: It used to be that a lot of young college athletes were with us because they were saying, we're being exploited and it's not fair, and we want to burn this system. Now, because many of them are getting paid, they want to be part of a corrupt system. They don't want to bring it down....But I think that people, the Caucus and all that, they've got to understand that this is going to be a big struggle because you're talking about a group of people who have been brainwashed.
Apartheid, no voting rights, resistance, attack, corrupt system, bring it down. Outrageous rhetoric, but the worst part is that Sharpton and Rhoden seem willing to have young blacks suffer, in order to satisfy their radical non-sensical narrative. Isn't the liberal media wonderful?
