I came across this article on ESPN.com today. It discusses the graduation rates for the Division I schools in the United States and compares athletes to the students at large. I don’t know what shocks me more: the fact that at a 62 percent graduation rate for athletes that’s 2 percent higher than for students at large (both seem low to me) or the fact that near the end of the article, they start comparing “black” and “white” athletes. Even though I’m shocked that in this day and age they still make this comparison, perhaps with better terminology/writing it wouldn’t have caught me off-guard as much as it did.