Dr. Umar Johnson visited The Breakfast Club this week where he weighed in on Deion Sanders‘ decision to stop coaching football at a historically Black university (HBCU) and work for a predominantly white college.
“Deion Sanders used, abused and exploited HBCU Jackson State just to be given an opportunity to show predominately white institutions that he could coach,” Johnson said, expressing his disappointment in Sanders.
“That one man could have been a catalyst for a movement that would have revolutionized the survival of HBCUs,” Johnson continued.
“The abolition wasn’t just about Frederick Douglass, but if Frederick Douglass would have pulled out, he would have hurt it. The underground railroad wasn’t just about Harriet Tubman, but if she would have pulled out, it would have failed,” Johnson went on. “For [Sanders] to pull out of Jackson State the way that he did before making sure the HBCU system survived, to me, was selfish. He chose money over the movement.”
The controversial psychologist says Sanders should receive “50,000 lashes” for his actions.
Is he right?
