The Race Card is Getting Pretty Frayed in this One

We read:

"A longtime critic of Rutgers University's drive into big-time sports is being criticized over a newspaper article comment that university officials have branded as racist.

At the end of a Wednesday New York Times article about William C. Dowling's failed efforts to get Rutgers to turn away from high-stakes athletics, the tenured English professor responded to arguments that athletic scholarships provide opportunity to low-income, minority students.

"If you were giving the scholarship to an intellectually brilliant kid who happens to play a sport, that's fine," Dowling said. "But they give it to a functional illiterate who can't read a cereal box, and then make him spend 50 hours a week on physical skills. That's not opportunity. If you want to give financial help to minorities, go find the ones who are at the library after school."

Rutgers Athletic Director Bob Mulcahy told local newspapers that Dowling's comment was "a blatantly racist statement." In a statement released by the university, Rutgers President Richard McCormick called it "inaccurate and inhumane." "It also has a racist implication that has no place whatsoever in our civil discourse," McCormick said in the statement.

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Sounds like the university is saying that there are no smart blacks. So who exactly is being racist here?

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