The NAACP issued the following press release yesterday.
The NAACP today launched the "Out of Bounds" campaign, a national call for Black athletes, families, fans, alumni, and consumers to withhold athletic and financial support from public universities in states that have moved to limit, weaken, or erase Black voting representation in the wake of the Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, which gutted what was left of the Voting Rights Act. The NAACP identified eight priority states — Tennessee, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, and Georgia — and targeted flagship public athletic programs generating more than $100 million in annual revenue that continue to recruit Black athletes while their state governments dismantle the political power of Black communities. "What these states have done is not a policy disagreement. It is a sprint to erase Black political power," said Derrick Johnson, President & CEO, NAACP. "These actions happened in days, in some cases in hours, of a Supreme Court ruling that gives extremist lawmakers a playbook to erode Black representation. The NAACP will not watch the same institutions that depend on Black athletic prowess to fill their stadiums and their bank accounts remain silent while their states strip Black communities of their voice. Out of Bounds is our answer: we are naming the contradiction, and we are calling on Black athletes, families, fans, and consumers to act on it. The same power that built these programs can be redirected. And it will be." The economic stakes of the campaign are significant. The flagship universities in the eight targeted states collectively generate billions of dollars in annual athletic revenue. The "Out of Bounds" campaign focuses on one primary ask, calling on top football and basketball recruits currently being actively recruited by targeted programs to withhold their commitments until the states in question restore fair congressional maps and meaningful Black representation. The campaign also calls on current college athletes — including those who may already be enrolled at targeted programs — to consider their options, including the transfer portal, and to use their platforms and NIL reach to elevate fair maps and voting rights. "This generation of Black athletes understands something that those who came before them were never afforded the chance to say so plainly: your talent is yours, and so is your community's political power," said Tylik McMillan, National Director, Youth and College Division, NAACP. "These are not separate issues. The state that is working to erase your grandmother's congressional district is the same state whose governor will stand on the field and celebrate your touchdown or game-winning shot. We are asking young people — recruits, current athletes, fans — to see that connection clearly and to act on it. The Out of Bounds campaign is about redirecting what has always been ours, power and perseverance." The campaign issues calls to action across three audiences. * Black athletes and recruits are asked to withhold commitments from targeted programs, to ask coaches and athletic directors where their universities stand on voting rights, and to visit and seriously consider HBCUs.* Current college athletes are asked to use their platforms to elevate the issue, to ask institutional leadership for public statements opposing racial vote dilution, and to consider all available options under the transfer portal.
* Fans, alumni, donors, and consumers are asked to stop purchasing tickets, merchandise, and licensed apparel from targeted programs and to redirect that spending to HBCUs — their athletics programs, scholarship funds, NIL collectives, bands, and alumni foundations.
The Out of Bounds campaign will remain in effect until targeted states adopt state-level voting rights protections, repeal maps that dilute Black voting power, restore congressional and judicial districts that reflect the Black population's actual strength, and commit to transparent and community-centered redistricting processes. Our sentiment is clear: No Representation. No Recruitment. No Revenue.
Kingfish note: It's Derrick Johnson. Need we say more?
33 comments:
Someone tell Derrick Johnson the athletes only care about the benjamins.
Just a side note. They are not upset because they will loose black representation they are upset because they will loose a guaranteed democrat seat. Let's be clear
Here is a place were the black person is judged by their ability and not race and the NAACP can not stand it. This group must keep the the black person from being economically dependent for the NAACP exist only by pushing division.
This will have absolute 0 impact.
@12:13 It’s “lose.” Please go back to elementary school.
Derrick Johnson is basically asking young black athletes to sacrifice their careers to further his.
So what are athletes suppose to do? NAACP or associates have nothing to offer most of these athletes. At least the many that won't go further in sports stand a fighting chance of obtaining a quality education or skillset for a better life. Y'all should be focusing on the trifling representation and stop being poverty pips at the expense of poor people. You must be trying to get a grant, huh?
12:24, excellent comment.
Uumm lets see. Alcorn will pay me $2000 per year to play for them. Ole Miss(on the plantation) will pay me $650,000 per year to play for them. Hotty toddy!!
.......dumbest idea ever if you are the athlete being asked.........
Hasn't Derrick been satiated by Lame's groveling down in Corndog Country?
... it didn't take long for someone, presumably an MSU fan, to refer to Ole Miss as the plantation. Perhaps MSU is more like Kiffin than he will admit.
RMQ
NIL rules!
Is Bo Bounds going to sue the NAACP for gimmick infringement?
mississippi is finally a ''priority'' state..........................after all these years.
what is derrick johnsons yearly salary?
The man with nothing but a hammer seeing everything as a nail.
Mississippi hasn't even done anything yet regarding redistricting but they're still on the list.
Please translate your gobbledygook.....and I'm a Rebel.
RMQ - hate to break it to you, but we are the plantation.
-Colonel Reb
Derick Johnson… he’s a real mental giant. What a bunch of bitches. Ask for equality then cry wolf when privileged districts are stripped away. It’s comical really to think about
Lane knew and managed to escape
+100,000
All of you MAGAtards are too stupid to know that racial gerrymandering is the same as disenfranchisement.
2:18, if you are truly an Ole Miss alum, your circle of friends may benefit from expansion. I can’t think of anyone in administration, board of directors for the alumni, and other alumni that would agree with you. I can think of less than 5 who may prefer to be like that. You may aw wide set of Ole Miss friends, but your view is not representative of Ole Miss.
RMQ
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The NAACP should be promoting educational opportunities for these individuals--not stifling them.
Now all of the “conservatives” whose whole lives revolve around sports instead of society/civilization are going to want to cancel the redistricting! The NAACP is making a great play here. You hit “conservatives” in the only thing that matters to them (sports) and they will surely lay down their arms. See the State Flag in 2020 for example with Kylin Hill at MSU.
1:04, I do believe that 12:35 was actually saying that as a good thing
Best news I have heard in a long time. Maybe that will lessen the numbers of thugs who want money for playing a child game.
Im sure there will be a few takers. Not so sure it will have the total impact they hope. Race isn’t such a big deal to young people as it is to the way older crowd.
There are lots of white kids who will gladly take that scholly and, no matter how good you are, the TV masses aren’t going to watch a Tennessee St vs Valley game
I'm really kind of surprised that so many of the commenters do not recognize a shakedown when they hear it. With NIL there are millions of dollars at stake and the NAACP hustlers want to be the gatekeepers. It's called "pay to play" and like most boycotts the payors can still get the players if they know who to pay. The hustlers simply want their cut. This redistricting is just the pretext, the big NIL money is the thing.
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