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NAACP’s harmful boycott: Letters to the Editor — May 25, 2026

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The Issue: Black athletes encouraged by the NAACP to boycott universities in redistricting southern states.

How absolutely maniacal to encourage black athletes to avoid bettering themselves at southern universities — Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, you have carried your racist rants too far (“The NAACP vs. Black Athletes,” Editorial, May 21).

Your fear tactics are disgusting and are nothing but a power play for your own job. Every young person has the right to pursue their future however they deem necessary no matter their race or religion.

No serious student — athlete or not — nor their parents, will “boycott” any college that prizes a student for their academic prowess or athletic ability on the sole ground that the state in which the college sits voted to “weaken” blacks’ voting rights.

We blacks win some and we lose some. It would be silly to urge our youth to “boycott” scholarships and higher education opportunities offered to them in protest of how voters in southern states voted on a single electoral issue.

Would we suggest that minority justices on the Supreme Court boycott their colleagues for voting against “minority”........

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