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Democrats Using Black Athletes As Pawns In Redistricting War

The Congressional Black Caucus, aligned with the NAACP, is urging black college athletes to avoid Southeastern Conference schools in Southern states as a form of economic pressure against Republican-drawn redistricting maps that eliminate majority-black congressional districts. The campaign is called "Out of Bounds,” and is essentially asking young black athletes to forfeit their best shot at a professional sports career so Democratic lawmakers can make a political statement about redistricting.

NAACP calls for black athletes to boycott college sports in south

“Across the South, Black athletes have helped build some of the most profitable college athletic programs in America, generating hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue,” the NAACP argues on its “Out of Bounds” campaign website. “At the same time, several southern state governments are moving to limit, reduce, weaken, or erase Black voting representation by creating new, unconstitutional voting districts.”

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries framed the redistricting fights as "an unprecedented attack on black political representation,” demanding "an unprecedented response." That response, apparently, involves steering eighteen-year-old football recruits away from Alabama, Georgia, LSU, Florida, Tennessee, Texas, and Texas A&M - programs that collectively represent the most direct pipeline to the NFL in American sports. Jeffries said black lawmakers are "standing in solidarity with NAACP in its call for athletes to boycott institutions within the SEC that belong to states that have unleashed these Jim Crow-like racially oppressive tactics, which is unacceptable, unconscionable and un-American,” he continued. “And we believe that the silence of these institutions is complicity, and we will not stand for it.” 

For a talented black athlete from anywhere in the country, an SEC scholarship is frequently the fastest and most visible route to a professional contract, financial security and generational wealth. Yet, Jeffries and CBC Chair Yvette Clarke are asking those athletes to set that aside. 

"The Congressional Black Caucus cannot support legislation benefiting major athletic institutions that continue to remain silent while black voting rights and black political power are being systematically dismantled across the South,” Clarke said.

The legislation in question is the SCORE Act, a bipartisan proposal backed by the NCAA that would establish national standards for compensating college athletes. The bill had been scheduled for a House floor vote before Republican leaders were forced to postpone it after CBC members signaled opposition. 

In other words, a bill designed to ensure college athletes get paid was delayed, in part, because black Democratic lawmakers blocked it to protest that Southern public universities are not taking a stand against redistricting. 

According to Jeffries, these universities "should feel compelled to speak up. Not because of their athletic programs; because it's the right thing to do." Clarke argued that "institutions that profit from black talent and black communities have a responsibility to stand with those communities when their fundamental rights are under attack," extending that logic beyond athletics to "corporate America or any other institution within American civil society."

Clarke warned that the effort is "just the beginning" and could spread beyond state universities, adding, "Let this serve as an example: Silence from our institutions in moments of injustice carries consequences."

The CBC and NAACP can package this campaign in the language of “justice” and “solidarity,” but strip away the rhetoric, and the message is brutally simple: Democratic politicians want young black athletes to torpedo their own futures to wage a political pressure campaign over congressional maps. Democrats may be angry over Republican redistricting efforts, but they are asking young black athletes to walk away from the fastest route to the NFL, millions of dollars, and generational wealth over a political battle that has nothing to do with them or SEC football programs.

Tyler Durden Mon, 05/25/2026 - 18:10

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"It Should Be Studied": RFK Jr Says 'Trump Derangement Syndrome Is 'A Real Thing'

Authored by James Howard Kunstler,

For The Honored Dead

“I told my staff today that we need an ICD code for Trump Derangement Syndrome, because it is a real thing … It should be studied.”

- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

As of this holiday morning, America is informed that the negotiations between the US and Iran may take several more days to resolve. You better believe that Iran is going to make a deal. One way or another, they will give up their stash of sixty-percent enriched uranium. Nobody believes they would not attempt to make bombs with it, especially Mr. Trump. So, Iran will not be going back to whatever is considered normal life until they agree to give it up, and then make it happen. Iran is like a demon-possessed teenager with a firearm getting its head banged into the sidewalk. What part of give-it-up don’t you understand?

The news media apparently forgot what it broadcast a couple of weeks ago: Iran’s oil storage capacity was nearing the red-line. If the wells have to be shut-in, such is the geology that it would wreck the oil fields themselves. Perhaps this is happening now. Nobody is reporting on it. But the news media doesn’t really report on anything. It opines. It spins. It constructs story-lines for advantage, it gaslights, it perverts the consensus about reality out of existence, it just plain lies.

If Iran is jerking the US around again, this will be the last time. They will prove to be negotiation-incapable, as the Russian phrase goes. They will punch their own express ticket back to the 12th century, lights out, bridges down across the rugged terrain, back to donkey carts, magic lamps, and vizeers instead of mullahs.

Why does America’s lefty-left beat its drum for an Iranian victory when 1) it’s not happening, and 2) it’s hardly in the interest of Western Civ for anything like that to happen? You can conclude that they hate and despise Western Civ, especially anything that resembles America’s traditional sense-of-self: a republic based on civic and economic liberty. Liberty means individuals making their own decisions within an armature of laws written in good faith, to mean what they say.

The Lefty-left is mainly about acquiring power through bad faith in order to push everyone around, tell them what they’re allowed to want out of life, and severely punish anyone who objects to that treatment. What’s often overlooked is the role that sadism plays in the psychology of the Lefty-left. They seem to love it when illegal aliens rape and strangle 19-year-old American girls. (You don’t hear them deplore it, do you? Their house-organ, The New York Times, won’t even report it.) More than anything they want to subject you to the most savage humiliations.

We are at a dangerous pass this Memorial Day.

Mr. Trump and his people are methodically rearranging the works to expel these grifting demons. Their resistance to being expelled will manifest in ever more dirty fighting as spring blossoms into a summer of violent “activism.” They will try as hard as possible to wreck the country’s 250th birthday celebrations. It might look like civil war. They will not stop trying to kill Donald Trump and possibly other figures around him.

Even if they manage that, it will not stop what it is coming for them.

This time around nobody believes their sob stories, their whining about “oppression,” their bullshit about “equity” and “justice.” This time, they will not be allowed to get away with sheer lawlessness. They will not be able to pass off fake martyrs such as George Floyd. The elections this time — if they can happen — will be clean and fair. That can be the only way they will be allowed to happen.

This will be the most emphatic counter-revolution in modern history, a complete rejection of childish unreality — the cavalcade of absurdities you have been told to swallow for a mad decade:

That you can change your sex “assigned at birth.” (Assigned by whom? By some cosmic committee of gender komisars?)

That merit has no merit (don’t be good at anything).

That men and maleness represent some inferior way of being human?

That people from outside American society, from faraway lands, deserve to live here under a special gift economy of vast subsidies, at your expense, to set up antagonistic counter-cultures?

That words don’t mean what they mean?

Expect the pace to quicken now, even with Tulsi Gabbard gone. Her operational deputy DNI, Aaron Lukas, is a proven, capable warrior. Most of the critical information has already been recovered from the Deep State’s vaults, hidden rooms, burn bags, and SCIFs. The adjudication of crimes against our country will be spooling out the next hundred days as a vivid and orderly counterpoint to whatever nose-ringed chaos the Democrats send out into the streets.

The republic will celebrate its 250th birthday by carrying-on as it was designed to do, while the demons skulk back into the shadows until the next great turning.

Tyler Durden Mon, 05/25/2026 - 17:35

One option floated inside the Trump administration would have Iran deliver the nearly 1,000 pounds of near-weapons-grade uranium to Pakistan, Turkey, Russia or China, a national security official said Monday.

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