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Message: [QUOTE="triplethrea, post: 2592621, member: 1574"] It is slavery. And the fact that it is mostly black kids that make the NBA, makes it even more blatant. And IMO designed to be racist (1951). Right now you have almost no choice but to go to college in order to make the NBA. All these other "options" like Europe for an 18 year old are outrageous and I lose respect for anybody that makes it seem like they have other options (and there's plenty of you). Everybody around you is making millions off your name, your game, and your likeness including the guy who yells at you from the sideline everyday. Meanwhile you are given a scholarship which is worth almost nothing to the university, ESPECIALLY compared to the value you are bringing back to the school. You are not there for the education yet you are forced to get it (and these schools are accepting students left and right in order to get FAFSA money, watering down college degrees regardless). The school doesn't care about your education to the tune of creating fake classes for you. All for the right to pay you absolutely $0. You are penalized for getting a free cheeseburger, because if you get paid anything it puts their billions of dollars at risk. And then in true psychopathic gaslighting fashion they tell you it is to "protect" student-athletes. All the while they are exchanging money through 12 different hands to happily give recruits $50k while the shills tell the public about the value of an education. How big a sucker do you have to be to buy this? This is what modern slavery looks like. This is not an opinion, this is reality. It is utterly disgusting, and I hate to see the cognitive dissonance once the fans and those supporting these universities, coaches, and AD's come to terms with it. People say it is disrespect to "real" slavery. I say looking the other way at this is disrespecting real slavery. [/QUOTE]

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