I went back and read that column again this morning, twice. I really wanted to see if I was missing something. I still have a problem with it.
I don't like it when people tell other people what they are supposed to be doing with their time or their money. Jason is basically telling Prime he is supposed to keep living in a shit hole that he keeps getting robbed at.
Jason doesn't say "I'm donating the firt (insert whatever dollar amount here) for the next coach to try and build something here"...or to use the same figure, and apply it to cleaning up their water.
He takes shot after shot at Prime, then says he doesn't want to take shots at Prime....yet that what his column is doing.
He kills one famous black person after another for charitable things they do on a broad scale in other countries, at the same time making it sound like they ignore their own country. Example, I hate Bron Bron, talk about a royal ass, but even I know he gives tons of time and money to charities and the like right here in the States, why rip him because Bron didn't feel like he should step in to save the day in Jackson State? Same for Oprah and many others he mentioned, in fact all of them.
Is it possible Prime leaving opens up the door for another Black guy to get that HC job at Jackson State that would not have happened if Prime stays? So that guy gets to elevate his life and family, and who knows what he does with the opportunity, maybe he helps do all those things Jason is asking of others.
Maybe Prime going to Colorado gets a lot of black kids who never otherwise would have sniffed Colorado, to come there and obtain a degree they put to great use to help out tons of other kids in that players hometown or elsewhere? Maybe even keeps a kid from dying of gang violence at his high school because he gets a scholly offer from Prime and immediately starts walking the line, so he doesn't lose it and drops out of a gang?
There are so many positives to spin from Prime to Colorado I could go on and on. I just think that article could have been written so much better, so as not to vilify people, but educate people and bring awareness to the situation, without killing so many celebrities in the process...and I despise most of the celebrities he mentioned, and even I am coming to their defense that article sucked so bad.