It was my first semester teaching Intro to Econ at a university known for its basketball team. Two weeks before the final exam, two black players from the BB team came in and said: “We’re here for the final”. I told them the final wasn’t for two more weeks. They said: “We know that, but we get copies early so we can study it for the exam.” I said that wasn’t going to happen. They argued for a few minutes, then realized I wasn’t going to budge.
Thirty seconds later, a senior professor (a Marxist and extremely far-left politically) was in my office saying I had to give them the final. I asked why. He said because they were disadvantaged, had a hard time growing up, ...blah, blah, blah. I then asked his: Chances are these two aren’t going to the NBA, so they will find some job where their employer will quickly discover they don’t know squat about anything. He will then look on their application, see the university’s name, and will never hire another person from that school (sorta like AOC and her Econ major). He turned around and left.
I never had another athlete in any of my subsequent classes from then on.
My previous place of employment didn’t have any black workers. We had Hispanic and Asians along with the whites. We hired a black lady for our receptionist and all she did was complain. The hours, the pay, the workload on and on. She was late a lot and wanted to leave early for this reason or that reason. The boss finally had enough and fired her and never hired another black. She did herself in all on her own.
I think I read only six of twenty two have had winning seasons historically