The Atlantic - October 2019

THE ATLANTIC OCTOBER 2019 11

IDEAS & PROVOCATIONS

DISPATCHES

OCTOBER 2019

Illustration by OLIVER MUNDAY

As an FBI press release put it in 2016, “If there is such a thing as an ideal profession for a serial killer, it may well be as a long-haul truck driver.”

— Rene Chun, p. 30

• SPORTS

WHY BLACK

ATHLETES SHOULD

LEAVE WHITE

COLLEGES

... and tear down the

NCAA as we know it

BY JEMELE HILL

IN THE SUMMER of 2018 Kayvon
Thibodeaux, who was then ranked as
the top high-school football player in
America, visited Florida A&M Univer-
sity, in Tallahassee. When a player of
Thibodeaux’s caliber visits a perennial
football power—say, Alabama—it’s called
Wednesday. But when he visits a histori-
cally black college or university (HBCU)
like Florida A&M, it threatens to crack
the foundation on which the money-
PH making edifice of college sports rests.

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