Jackie Robinson

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The NCAA is in the news for everything from potential pay for football players getting to the reduction in the number of sanctioned Football Bowl Games.

But you don't hear much about the racial disparity in the hiring of head football coaches.

Given that it is #JackieRobinsonDay - this seemed like something worth addressing.

SportsJoshua B. HoeApril 15, 2016Steve Spurrier, NCAA, Jim Harbaugh., Nick Sabin, Race, Gender, #OscarsSoWhite, #JackieRobinsonDay, Jackie Robinson, Ken Burns, PBS, Football, NCAA Football Comments

The Race of Rock? (Simmons v N.W.A. part 3)

This is my third post concerning the dispute between Gene Simmons of the band Kiss and Ice Cube of the hip-hop group N.W.A.

I am writing this because I was concerned with several of the responses I received yesterday and wanted to make my arguments even more directly to these arguments.