Why the NAACP’s “Out of Bounds” Campaign Misses the Point
By Don Allen, Ed.S., M. A. Ed., MAT (ABD) The NAACP’s “Out of Bounds” campaign may be one of the most politically theatrical - and intellectually incomplete activist campaigns launched in recent years. Not because voting rights are unimportant. They are critically important. Not because racial gerrymandering is fake. It is real. But because the NAACP decided to weaponize Black college athletes as symbolic political leverage while conveniently skipping over every adult inside the educational ecosystem who actually understands how these institutions function. Where were the teachers? Where were the professors? Where were the assistant coaches? Where were the academic advisors? Where were the trainers, tutors, custodians, support staff, and campus employees? Where were the Black faculty unions? Where were the Black studies departments? Where were the longtime HBCU scholars? Where were the actual educational practitioners? Instead, the NAACP appears to have built ...