Whoever Jason Cosby, of Lincoln, Ill., is, he just blew right past me in the anti-black bigotry department. One of the two players that Floyd Irons set up in a north St. Louis apartment after he moved them across the river from Alton, has been suspended from his basketball scholarship at Lincoln College. Mr. Cosby, reacting to this news, said this:
“Who’s that gonna help?” asked Jason Cosby, a town resident and basketball fan. “No one. I’m just saying — punish every step of the process — but not Bobby Hill.
“If you take basketball away,” he asked between swigs, “what’s left?”
Black men are only good for professional or semi-professional basketball? That’s a line I won’t even cross, simply because it’s not true. Actually, most blacks aren’t professional basketball players, much less most people. As for his question, the answer is a lifetime of affirmative action sinecures.
