Todd Cox, Associate Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, testifies during a Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Constitution on implementing the Supreme Court's ruling on racial gerrymandering in Louisiana v. Callais, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, May 19, 2026. REUTERS See more of our coverage in your search results.
Add The New York Post on Google When it comes to moronic political stunts, the NAACP’s call for a black boycott of athletic programs at southern universities is hard to beat.
After all, the group’s “Out of Bounds” campaign, backed by the Congressional Black Caucus, looks primed to harm the very people it claims to champion: black teen athletes.
The campaign asks these teens — as well as families, fans, alumni and others — to stay away from public universities in southern states that are (purportedly) weakening black voting rights.
Don’t fund them, attend them, take part in their athletic programs, etc.
Why? The states’ redistricting plans after the Supreme Court limited the creation of racially gerrymandered districts.
The Black Caucus, NAACP and other allies pretend the redistricting hurts minority voting rights, but the real gripe is that it’ll mean fewer Democrats in the House.
Set aside the debate over using racism to fight racism: What makes the campaign dumber than dumb is that the schools in the targeted states — Tennessee, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Georgia — have nothing to do with the Supreme Court case or the redistricting.
Nor do the teen athletes being told to pass on the opportunities those schools offer.
This is the haves — the insiders who run the NAACP, the successful politicians in the CBC — telling have-nots (high school athletes) to sacrifice their futures simply to make some kind of statement (not even a clear one) for the “cause” that the haves milk for their own living.
The pols behind the redistricting will pay no price, only the black kids.
This is even more idiotic than Major League Baseball’s 2021 rush to pull the All-Star Game out of Atlanta over Georgia’s voting-rights law: The law went ahead (and minority turnout soared), and the MLB ultimately returned the game to Atlanta.
The only ones to suffer: Businesses, workers and residents in the city, which is nearly half black (and mostly didn’t support the law in the first place).
Set aside the left’s pathetic fury when the rules of democracy don’t favor Democrats.
Trying to con black teen athletes into being political pawns is as idiotic as it is despicable.
