In March, the NAACP’s president and CEO, Derrick Johnson, despatched a letter to NCAA president Charlie Baker on Monday asking Black student-athletes to reconsider attending public colleges and universities in Florida.
Johnson’s letter was in response to dismantling Marxist Range, Fairness, and Inclusion (DEI) packages all through the state.
In January, The Florida Board of Governors passed a regulation limiting public funding for DEI programs, defining them as “any program, campus activity, or policy that classifies individuals on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation and promotes differential or preferential treatment of individuals on the basis of such classification.”
The regulation additionally prevents any expenditures for packages that ‘engage in political or social activism.’
In his letter, Johnson wrote, “To all current and prospective college student-athletes – the NAACP urges you to reconsider any potential decision to attend, and compete at a predominantly white institution in the state of Florida.”
It appears, nevertheless, that student-athletes should not listening to the NAACP’s calls for.
College Fix did an evaluation that recognized at the least 35 of the top-ranked black student-athletes in basketball and soccer who not too long ago signed with universities in Florida.
The Repair shared this record with the NAACP and requested for remark. The group has not responded to 2 emailed inquiries despatched up to now three weeks. The Repair despatched one other electronic mail on April 4 to Press Secretary Alicia Mercedes and Public Relations Supervisor Chyna Fields, asking if anybody has decommitted. Neither responded to the e-mail.
That quantity contains Jalil Bethea, who signed with the College of Miami, and is the sixth finest participant within the class of 2024, in line with ESPN.
He’ll be joined subsequent 12 months by Austin Swartz, the forty third finest participant. College of Florida has two of the highest ten soccer gamers becoming a member of campus subsequent 12 months, each of whom are black.
A information search about “decommits” didn’t yield any proof of black athletes leaving Florida universities because of the NAACP boycott demand.
