If he hadn t taken the class, he might not be in college now. If DeMarr Johnson of Cincinnati, and Eric Barkley of St. John s had not gone to Maine Central Institute, they very well could have been academic non-qualifiers under the plantation s Proposition 48 rules, which say that a high school diploma is not enough. Never mind that the other option was a huge urban public school where they could have fallen through the cracks, and never gotten the credits they needed. These are not rich kids. If they could have afforded to pay for school, they would have.
Nobody goes to an inner-city public school by choice.
They are also all young black men. The NCAA has not suspended any white players over this. But dropping the hammer on black kids is standard on most plantations, and it has been common practice in the NCAA, where Proposition 48 limits access to college for kids who are most in need of a way up from poverty. There are hundreds, if not thousands of AAU programs like the ones that covered tuition for Lyde, Barkley and Johnson. The plantation and its masters are making some examples, and everyone else is getting off free.