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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From my experience as an athlete (white woman D3 back in the olden days) with kids who are current college athletes (black/white D1 and D3 kids), athletes hang together and don't really interact with non-athletes no matter the school. This tends to be truer when the athletes are not white.

There are so few non-white people on college campuses that the non-white kids hang together and the fact that they're also athletes only gives them another data point to bond over. The non-white and white athletes also hang together to the exclusion of non-athletes, but the white athletes are more likely to mix in because they feel comfortable doing so. My niece who is black said the black athletes are friendly but hang together. Not with non-athletes. She goes to a D1 school so maybe at a SLAC black athletes hang with other black poeple who are not athletes because there are so few black people.

According to my kids and their friends, when you're a minority on a campus you spend enough time in the classroom with others so on your down time you rather be where you're most comfortable (with other minorities and/or other athletes if you are one).[/quote]

Black athletes in d1 also are wary of regulars trying to connect for nefarious purposes since they could be going pro

Paulo Banchero said that about duke - that he felt he was like a zoo animal at times with normies whispering about him or trying to sneak photos

Black athletes might be wary your neice is lookin for a future bag [/quote]

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