Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

College golf teams are representative of ‘white privilege,’ argues golfer
The College Fix ^ | 08/15/2017 | Daniel Payne

Posted on 08/16/2017 9:40:18 AM PDT by ForYourChildren

It is easy for golfers to “turn a blind eye to [their] privilege,” athlete claims

A professional athlete has identified an unexpected source of white privilege at our institutions of higher education: the back nine.

“Golf is a perfect example of the world we live in terms of the haves and have nots,” writes Anya Alvarez at Salon.

Alvarez writes of discovering “the white privilege in college sports” when she learned that less-popular sports (such as golf) are often bankrolled by a university’s football and basketball programs—“the labor,” she writes, “of African-American athletes on the football and basketball teams who make it possible for other sports to exist at universities.”

{..snip..}

(Excerpt) Read more at thecollegefix.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: athletes; colleges; golf; golfers; leftismoncampus; racecard; white
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-46 next last
To: Jolla

These are the kind of people who will “Make America Great Again”. God bless them...


21 posted on 08/16/2017 10:12:49 AM PDT by Russ
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: ForYourChildren

I really enjoy watching college golf tournaments on TV. Half the female student team members are Asian or Asian Americans. A decent percentage of male college golfers are also Asian. All of them I’ve seen interviewed sound like they have I.Q.’s necessary to attain at least a bachelor degree. On the other hand, most of the football and basketball players who are mostly black, display I.Q.’s equal to or lower than my lowest round of the year. A five over par 76.


22 posted on 08/16/2017 10:13:22 AM PDT by VietVet876
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: FatherofFive
Oh, and we rode our bikes, with our incomplete sets of clubs slung over one handlebar, over 2 miles and back, only got rides when playing with my dad or girlfriend's mom or some other adult.

My mom got me out of the house for hours that way. And I usually played with my Jewish gf across the street. At the park. And the country club was closed to Jews at that time. But when they opened it up to Jews, they joined. And took me as a guest. My parents would never join the country club because they felt we couldn't afford it.

But my favorite course was the one in my photograph. I live less than a mile from it now.

23 posted on 08/16/2017 10:14:19 AM PDT by Aliska
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: Aliska
And you forgot cart fees ;-(.

Because I never played on a golf course! I always drove the beer cart at charity events.

24 posted on 08/16/2017 10:18:35 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: FatherofFive

Oh. We never had a beer cart. The only refreshments were at the ninth and 18th holes. This lady made the best sloppy joes at the ninth hole, long gone now. Food’s probably too expensive, too.


25 posted on 08/16/2017 10:23:49 AM PDT by Aliska
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: ForYourChildren
Alvarez writes of discovering “the white privilege in college sports” when she learned that less-popular sports (such as golf) are often bankrolled by a university’s football and basketball programs—“the labor,” she writes, “of African-American athletes on the football and basketball teams who make it possible for other sports to exist at universities.”

You mean like Women's Sports?

26 posted on 08/16/2017 10:25:30 AM PDT by dfwgator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ForYourChildren

Why is it that the most idiotic ideas of people on the Left are given the light of day and all are supposed to either accept them or consider them valid and worthy of further thought?


27 posted on 08/16/2017 10:27:58 AM PDT by falcon99
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Aliska
Back when I was barely a teenager, I admired Lee Trevino.

(Still did, until b-school, and we analyzed some dinky ad he did for a company in the still nascent cellphone industry.

Not that there was anything wrong with the ad per se, it just didn't generate the need for closure in me that the prof said the ad was designed to accomplish.)

28 posted on 08/16/2017 10:34:37 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: ForYourChildren

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efiW2K8gASM

Key & Peele - Black Ice


29 posted on 08/16/2017 10:37:27 AM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: FatherofFive

Right. And “poor” people can’t afford phones.

Golf isn’t expensive anymore.


30 posted on 08/16/2017 11:56:03 AM PDT by subterfuge (Save the monuments!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: kabar

Not Asians dominating the lpga, Koreans.


31 posted on 08/16/2017 11:59:18 AM PDT by subterfuge (Save the monuments!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: subterfuge
Golf isn’t expensive anymore.

Let's compare:

Basketball - $21
Transportation to court - $0
Court Fee - $0

Golf

Set of clubs -
Transportation to golf course -
Green fees -
Cart fee -

Annual cost:
Basketball - $21
Golf -

Fill in the blanks

32 posted on 08/16/2017 12:05:23 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies]

To: FatherofFive

Ok, I’ll play!

Set of clubs - free, picked up a couple of sets on the curb.

Transportation - same as whatever it costs to travel to a basketball court.

Greens & cart fee - $20 in the afternoon in Florida.

What do I win?!!

But basically, you and I differ on what “expensive” is. Sure, if you want to go to an exclusive country club (most don’t) then yes, it is expensive. You can play in central Florida for as little as $10.


33 posted on 08/16/2017 12:49:37 PM PDT by subterfuge (Save the monuments!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]

To: subterfuge
Transportation - same as whatever it costs to travel to a basketball court.

You live in Harlem. You can walk to 20 basketball courts.

Where is the nearest golf course?

34 posted on 08/16/2017 1:44:23 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: subterfuge
Greens & cart fee - $20 in the afternoon in Florida

Basketball court - $0

Golf = 5 times a week for a year $5,200

35 posted on 08/16/2017 2:00:07 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: FatherofFive

Basketball Court: selling nickel bags four nights per week— +$30,000 per year tax free


36 posted on 08/16/2017 2:04:57 PM PDT by VietVet876
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 35 | View Replies]

To: VietVet876
Basketball Court: selling nickel bags four nights per week— +$30,000 per year tax free

Interesting take. What can you make selling coke on the golf course?

37 posted on 08/16/2017 2:08:48 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies]

To: ForYourChildren

OK, Fine bitch.
The new rule is all sports teams must be 1/4 white, 1/4 black, 1/4 asian/pacific islander and 1/4 native american.
NO EXCEPTIONS-NO RULE CHANGES.
Now lets see how many of your BLACK THUG athletes become millionaires in the next 20 years.
The same rules shall apply to all professional sports teams.


38 posted on 08/16/2017 6:35:44 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: simpson96

That picture is RACIST, if she isn’t BLACK it’s racist because the snowflakes say so.


39 posted on 08/16/2017 6:37:45 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Snickering Hound

Is the coach the only ugly one there?


40 posted on 08/16/2017 6:41:16 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-46 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson