The mother of former Duke Blue Devils forward Wendell Carter compared being a top-level NCAA student-athlete to the days of slavery during a speech.
According to ESPN's Heather Dinich, Kylia Carter was speaking Monday in front of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics when she made the parallel:
"When you remove all the bling and the bells and the sneakers and all that, you've paid for a child to come to your school to do what you wanted them to do for you, for free, and you made a lot of money when he did that, and you've got all these rules in place that say he cannot share in any of that.