... week when he compared Cleveland Cavaliers' owner Dan Gilbert to a slave owner, saying that Gilbert had a slave-owner's mentality, and that Gilbert was angry because his slave, LeBron James, had escaped.

That Jackson's comments sparked a brief, poorly publicized controversy speaks to just how ludicrous his comments were; there are very few people in the United States who are going to the notion that LeBron James, who hopes to one day become the first billionaire athlete, is being treated like a slave by anyone.

However, if Jackson would be so kind as to redirect his attention, he will find another sports industry that operates very much as a plantation economy. We're speaking, of course, about college athletics.

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