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USA Today: Colorado is still Black America's football team
Posted on 9/25/23 at 9:01 am
Posted on 9/25/23 at 9:01 am
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As Deion Sanders continues to capture the fascination of college football, even when his team gets blown out, something else is happening. It may not make headlines, but it's happening all across the country. In Black homes. In Black businesses. Black fathers and sons, Black moms and daughters, Black friends and workmates – so many in the Black community are talking about Sanders.They are saying that Colorado is Black America's team.
Yes, they still are, despite being obliterated by Oregon on Saturday. No one thought Colorado was going undefeated or that there wouldn't be brutal patches. Sanders is rebuilding a broken program and it was always going to take time. The bandwagon is still full. Of Black fans.
"Not since the Los Angeles Raiders of the 1980s or Michigan's men's basketball team The Fab Five of the 1990s has a team captivated Black America and hip-hop culture like the Buffs have so far," wrote Axios.
There have been stories written like the one by Axios over the past month. They all remain viable. That's because I think Black fans are going to stick with this program through all of its ups and downs as long as Sanders is the coach.
The idea of Colorado as Black America's team may seem absurd, and this is a topic that is certain to infuriate some. The idea that an historically white football program like Colorado's is suddenly a Black team, on the surface, seems goofy. Yet Georgetown was a white program until John Thompson turned them into Black America's basketball team. The Fab Five transformed the image of the University of Michigan. Decades before Doug Williams became the first Black quarterback to start in a Super Bowl, the Washington Commanders were owned by a notorious racist. Williams became Black America's quarterback. Years later, Colin Kaepernick became the same.
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Posted on 9/25/23 at 9:02 am to RLDSC FAN
How much long can this race phase of America last. This is nauseating
Posted on 9/25/23 at 9:02 am to RLDSC FAN
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I’m good. Thanks.
Posted on 9/25/23 at 9:03 am to RLDSC FAN
The media is why people can’t stand Colorado. It has nothing to do with race and nothing to do with the players. Hell, it really doesn’t have that much to do with Deion other than him leaning into the media nonsense.
This post was edited on 9/25/23 at 9:05 am
Posted on 9/25/23 at 9:04 am to Stastny
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How much long can this race phase of America last. This is nauseating
Posted on 9/25/23 at 9:04 am to RLDSC FAN
It's that sentiment which creates strife in the first place. I didn't know of one person anti-Colorado or Deion at first. The way this has been pumped and pumped and pumped has created the dichotomy we now see with them. It goes into the "me first" mentality and is a major turnoff for many.
Posted on 9/25/23 at 9:05 am to Stastny
I'm not too rustled by this. If they are the new U or whatever, that is fine.
Posted on 9/25/23 at 9:05 am to RLDSC FAN
Oh give me a break
A shame trees were cut down and processed so this nonsense could be printed on it
I sadly clicked the link and scrolled through
Black is capitalized and white is not . What a joke.
A shame trees were cut down and processed so this nonsense could be printed on it
I sadly clicked the link and scrolled through
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Deion was always beloved by us because of how he's played the game," said longtime journalist Jemele Hill, who is a contributor for The Atlantic and author of Uphill: A Memoir, to USA TODAY Sports, "and you know we really latch onto any Black figure who is upsetting the traditionally white apple cart."
Black is capitalized and white is not . What a joke.
This post was edited on 9/25/23 at 9:08 am
Posted on 9/25/23 at 9:06 am to RLDSC FAN
Colorado is unique because their college football team is mostly black people
Posted on 9/25/23 at 9:07 am to RLDSC FAN
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The idea that an historically white football program like Colorado's is suddenly a Black team, on the surface, seems goofy.
Did this "journalist" ever hear of the Bill McCartney era? ESPN even did a 30 for 30 on it.
Posted on 9/25/23 at 9:08 am to RLDSC FAN
Reauxlie, you wanna talk about it?
Posted on 9/25/23 at 9:13 am to RLDSC FAN
the author mike freeman, has a history of racialized small minded thinking. just look at his article history...nobody should be surprised at this article.
Posted on 9/25/23 at 9:14 am to Lawyered
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said longtime journalist Jemele Hill
Posted on 9/25/23 at 9:15 am to Stastny
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How much long can this race phase of America last. This is nauseating
As long as it stays profitable and can be used to absolve a certain demographic of any and all personal responsibility.
This post was edited on 9/25/23 at 9:17 am
Posted on 9/25/23 at 9:15 am to Stastny
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How much long can this race phase of America last. This is nauseating
It's actually over. The white liberals who own the media and the blacks who worship race are both relics. These two groups just don't know they are relics at this point.
Posted on 9/25/23 at 9:16 am to RLDSC FAN
If Colorado is black America's football team. Ok, why not. Then why shouldn't Penn State, Maryland, Syracuse, Virginia Notre Dame, Colorado State and formerly Michigan State all get that same support?
Posted on 9/25/23 at 9:18 am to RLDSC FAN
Congrats to Colorado for fielding the first college football team with majority of black players and a black HC. Truly inspiring trailblazers
Posted on 9/25/23 at 9:18 am to RLDSC FAN
The author of this article is clearly racist for turning his back on JSU and the other HBCUs now that Sanders isn't there.
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