Democrats and left-wing activists continue to try to use black college athletes as puppets for their political agenda, demanding that those athletes make sacrifices so that Democrats can score political wins.
After the Supreme Court ruled against racially drawn congressional districts, GOP-run southern states have begun planning to redraw their congressional maps. Democrats claim that it is racist not to give black voters their own segregated, “separate but equal” congressional districts, because these redrawn maps will eliminate safe Democratic states.
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In hopes of maintaining these segregated congressional districts, Democratic activists are now trying to pressure black college athletes into abandoning SEC schools. Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison tried to blackmail the SEC into condemning these redistricting pushes, threatening, “Or maybe it’s just time for our children and these young brothers and sisters to find new playing fields that actually respect their humanity, their voices, and their value.”
He was joined by actor Wendell Pierce, who called on black athletes to “TRANSFER AND DECOMMIT.” CNN entertained these activist calls in a segment with LZ Granderson from the Los Angeles Times, and HBCU Gameday likewise encouraged these athletes to abandon SEC schools such as Alabama, Louisiana State University, and Ole Miss, in favor of historically black colleges and universities. (Similar statements were attributed to top ESPN racebaiter Ryan Clark on social media, but, to his credit, Clark has not jumped in on this tactic).
This has been the new go-to weapon for Democrats, who are politically powerless in most of the South. The NAACP encouraged boycotts back in 2024 after the University of Florida eliminated “diversity, equity, and inclusion” positions used to peddle racist left-wing DEI. NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson said of black athletes that “it’s time they take their talents elsewhere.”
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The irony is somehow lost that the NAACP and Jaime Harrison are treating black athletes like pawns on a political chessboard, telling those athletes to give up on their dreams of playing for the Crimson Tide or the Gators and telling them to give up the money those universities are handing them. They expect those black athletes to march to the tune of the NAACP and to change the course of their lives because “it’s time they take their talents elsewhere.”
And again, this is all because Republican states don’t think black voters should be segregated into their own congressional districts, because Republicans think black voters are just as American as everyone else. Democrats, evidently, do not. So, in order to fight to continue to segregate black voters, Democrats are now demanding that black athletes do their bidding, because Democrats would rather try to generate boycotts in the South at other people’s expense than do any of the political legwork to win elections.