College football is serious business for colleges and universities, providing up to half of their financial needs. The players are only compensated by Athletic Scholarships..However, those are often an annual renewal, and there are no guarantees of continuation of education, medical insurance, abatement, or redress in the event the player is injured on the field. Adding racial tensions on top of it makes for a volatile situation..One of the right-wing posters on today’s Mike Lester ’toon curtly said “grow a tough skin and deal with it”, just blithely sweeping away as insignificant a very real, human grievance.
College football is serious business for colleges and universities, providing up to half of their financial needs. The players are only compensated by Athletic Scholarships..However, those are often an annual renewal, and there are no guarantees of continuation of education, medical insurance, abatement, or redress in the event the player is injured on the field. Adding racial tensions on top of it makes for a volatile situation..One of the right-wing posters on today’s Mike Lester ’toon curtly said “grow a tough skin and deal with it”, just blithely sweeping away as insignificant a very real, human grievance.