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Collegiate Athletics is The New Plantation System

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In North Carolina — there has been a controversy surrounding a Confederate Statue known as Silent Sam. This offensive pile of chiselled stone has been removed. Perhaps we should look elsewhere on campus for the last vestiges of the plantation system. Let’s consider the athletic department; where those who do all the work are forbidden any opportunity to be compensated.

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