re: Kareem Abdul Jabbar weighs in on pay for college athletes

I usually like Kareems comments, but I'm with rtr on this one.

I hate that inflammatory indentured servant bullshite language. One it is a not so subtle reference to blacks and slavery. Two it is fricking stupid. I paid and worked my way through 5 years of college with no support in or out of the classroom except myself. Busted arse to get a master's with honors, worked part time jobs almost the entire time to have enough money to survive and took out tens of thousands in loans that I had to pay back for years.

Athletes have all that taken care of. It's much more like they have a silver spoon in their mouth than an indentured servant in a sweat shop. Let them try it my way. Most would flunk out and quit immediately. And I could do it their way, no doubt about it. Would be fine switching places with one of them in a second.