Political Quotes

“Mr. Jackson says, let's take a close look and see how many are graduating who are minorities, African Americans. He says: This is March Madness . . . but now NCAA has quietly adjusted the graduation rates to satisfy 'a new interpretation' of federal laws which say that information on any category containing only one or two students 'must be suppressed.' What it basically means is that these schools will not publish the graduation rates of their athletes, and particularly will not publish the graduation rates of the African-American athletes who are playing basketball. Because of the new rules [as interpreted by the NCAA], 37 of the 65 men's teams in this year's tournament did not publish graduation rates of their African-American players. Sixteen schools published no graduation rates at all. Nine of the 16 schools that mysteriously had no graduation rate whatsoever just happen to include last year's most hideous offenders.”