The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) wants black athletes and fans to boycott the athletic programs of public universities in states that are redrawing congressional maps to redistrict Democratic lawmakers, many who are black.
The organization claims Tennessee, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Georgia have laws in place to undermine black voters.
When asked for his thoughts on the "Out of Bounds" campaign, Curtis Hill (R), a former attorney general for the state of Indiana, posed, "What does college football have to do with redistricting?"
Hill says the NAACP has an "unholy partnership" with the Democratic Party, tagging anything they want to take down as "racist."
He also notes that California and Virginia are not included on the boycott list because their redistricting plans are meant to give Democrats more power.
In Virginia, conservatives have criticized the race-conscious effort to eliminate all but one Republican district as unconstitutional gerrymandering, while supporters argue it is necessary to protect minority representation under the Voting Rights Act.
After the state's bipartisan redistricting commission failed to agree on new maps, the Supreme Court of Virginia stepped in and ruled that the deadlock left no valid legislative plan in place for the post-2020 Census cycle.
As a result, the court appointed special masters to draw new congressional and state legislative district maps, then ultimately approved those court-drawn maps for use in elections that typically leave the Democrats with six seats and the Republicans with five in the U.S. House.
The Democrats were aiming for 10.
The NAACP hopes its boycott call will compel athletes, fans and donors to shun the most prominent and wealthy athletic conferences in NCAA Division I sports and show more love and attention to Historically Black Colleges and Universities, but Hill does not think that will happen.
Like what sportswriter Tom Joyce recently told AFN, name, image, and likeness (NIL) money is one of the main reasons why modern-day athletes are not going to stand with the NAACP.
"Whether it's for a noble cause or not, to think that a young kid who has an opportunity to make hundreds of thousands of dollars—or in many cases, millions of dollars—to turn that down for some type of social justice product—that's just not going to happen," Hill asserts.
Hill now works with organizations such as the National Center for Public Policy Research, the Project 21 Black Leadership Network, and the Center for Urban Renewal and Education advancing the cause of freedom in America.
