The NAACP’s Proposed Boycott Over Voting Law Changes Hurts Black Athletes

Originally published by Townhall

Imagine you’re selected to play for the Georgia Bulldogs football team at the University of Georgia.

You’re an incoming freshman with some serious talent. You’re from Mableton or some other suburb of Atlanta. Your parents are middle-class Black Americans, thrilled, as any parent would be, to see their son fulfill his college sports dream. You’ve put in countless hours: early mornings running drills, late evenings studying game strategy, and weekends sacrificed so you could earn a shot at making the team.

And then you make it.

You show up to your first game ready to prove your worth, ready to thwart the other team, and you walk onto that sacred field—only to look up in dismay and confusion, because where in any other year there would be thousands of deliriously excited fans, shouting encouragement, painted in red, black, and white, carrying energy from the stands to the field, you look up and see silence. Vacant seats. No band. No roar. Just a quiet breeze where game day should have been.

Who can you thank?

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