The Ultimate Guide to Selecting an Historically White College and University for the Elite Black Athlete

“The art of decision making includes the art of questioning.”
― Pearl Zhu

What never sleeps? Sports. Despite the shelter-in-place and safety protocols due to COVID-19 and the economic and racial equity protests across the United States, many Americans are still expending a great deal of time and attention to athletes and athletic competition. In fact, it is hard to deny the reality that the nation often takes its lead and accordingly acts based on the decisions of our sporting life. For example, did it not take the NBA to cease all of its games and related activities on March 11 before the country truly awakened to the pandemic? To that end, here is a recommendation to those young Black men who are contemplating where to “take their talents” for the further development of their athletic and academic gifts. Quite possibly, one of the biggest decisions of their lives must include an approach of how their humanity as a Black person will be treated and respected in a location that historically has rarely used the Black body for anything more than labor.

This Ultimate Guide, which is devised to increase the odds of a positive mental health college sport career, is based on lived experiences, observations, racial equity concepts, and sport management realities. It is no longer a secret that the highest level of college sport participation is a very big business. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)…