Aug 18, 2026 · 22 min · 11 segments
Bob talks about: Why Black Americans Should Rethink Their Loyalty to College Football Programs in States Redrawing Black Voting Districts. This episode also includes 3 new podcast segments which…
And I am a huge college football fan, and my favorite team is a well-established powerhouse school in college football.
So what I am about to say has got me with some fucked up feelings about the sport and college team that I have loved and supported for decades.
I am not here to tell you what to do, but here is some serious shit for you to consider.
The states of Texas, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Florida, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Alabama have willingly decided to comply with Donald Trump's request to dilute or eliminate black voting districts, black voting power, and black representation by gerrymandering, redistricting, and manipulating their state's voting areas and boundaries.
You can Google it, chat GPT it, or ask any person that whose opinion and knowledge that you respect.
These state-run colleges and universities want their black fans, black alumni, and black viewers to watch their games on TV and on paid streaming services, buy their school paraphernalia, buy tickets to their games, and even bet money on some of their sorry-ass teams even when they are having terrible games and seasons.
I know that many die-hard black fans aren't going to pay any attention to what I am saying.
And you're going to do what you do, and I respect that, but I don't agree with you.
We all know that the black dollar and our spending power is a force to be reckoned with when we flex it.
We need to start moving differently and start supporting our HBCUs financially because this current presidential administration and the current political climate is squeezing all our HBCUs by reducing and eliminating necessary funding and grants that these schools desperately need and have been receiving for decades.
Howard University, one of our premier HBCUs, that right now is going through some difficult and hard situations because of those actions.
So this football season, if you're not doing it now, let's start watching and supporting more HBCU football and other HBCU sports.
Just think about an HBCU school every time you want to say Roll Tide or some other southern school's catchphrase.
And I am a huge college football fan, and my favorite team is a well-established powerhouse school in college football.
So what I am about to say has got me with some fucked up feelings about the sport and college team that I have loved and supported for decades.
I am not here to tell you what to do, but here is some serious shit for you to consider.
The states of Texas, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Florida, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Alabama have willingly decided to comply with Donald Trump's request to dilute or eliminate black voting districts, black voting power, and black representation by gerrymandering, redistricting, and manipulating their state's voting areas and boundaries.
You can Google it, chat GPT it, or ask any person that whose opinion and knowledge that you respect.
These state-run colleges and universities want their black fans, black alumni, and black viewers to watch their games on TV and on paid streaming services, buy their school paraphernalia, buy tickets to their games, and even bet money on some of their sorry-ass teams even when they are having terrible games and seasons.
I know that many die-hard black fans aren't going to pay any attention to what I am saying.
And you're going to do what you do, and I respect that, but I don't agree with you.
We all know that the black dollar and our spending power is a force to be reckoned with when we flex it.
We need to start moving differently and start supporting our HBCUs financially because this current presidential administration and the current political climate is squeezing all our HBCUs by reducing and eliminating necessary funding and grants that these schools desperately need and have been receiving for decades.
Howard University, one of our premier HBCUs, that right now is going through some difficult and hard situations because of those actions.
So this football season, if you're not doing it now, let's start watching and supporting more HBCU football and other HBCU sports.
Just think about an HBCU school every time you want to say Roll Tide or some other southern school's catchphrase.
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