re: White kid goes to HBCU. Vice does piece on black admin/student reaction

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remember when Southern has a white QB.

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I remember when Southern has a white QB.

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The most disturbing story is that of Marcus Jacoby (no relation to me), the unsuspecting white 19-year-old who starts at quarterback for Southern University, a largely black school in Baton Rouge, La. Jacoby is hazed in the locker room, booed on the field, mercilessly isolated on campus:shame:. During one game, an all-black squad hits him so hard that he has to be hospitalized. When his team doesn't win, disappointed fans threaten him, at least once with rope nooses and once with guns:shame:, and there are frequent "disturbances" at the stadiums where he plays--to the point that he needs a police escort. Nobody takes the slightest trouble to disguise the racial nature of their hatred, and when another student questions the implacable color-coding on campus, his father complains that this young man isn't race-conscious enough. Still, at the end of the piece, as Jacoby is driven to leave Southern and quit football, the Times appears to endorse the judgment of a gruff black coach who notes that the problem was the quarterback's sensitivity: Another player in the same circumstance would have handled it better, "sucking it up" and getting on with the game.

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