Turn down for what?
Historic civil rights institutions become obsolete the moment they demand economic sacrifice from young Black people while delivering mostly workshops, grants, hashtags, and press releases in return.
You can’t keep asking broke 19-year-olds to risk scholarships, NIL money, and careers while billionaire leagues, celebrity athletes, gambling sponsors, and corporate power centers remain untouched.
NAACP President Derrick Johnson: The NAACP is calling on athletes coming out of high school not to attend any state-funded schools of states that have moved to minimize our right to vote. The NAACP will fight in solidarity with the CBC to ensure that we have representation, and if we don't, we will withhold the talent that play on the football field on the basketball court in this moment.