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United Airlines Provides Free Travel For Black Athletes

Matthew Klint Posted onJuly 7, 2022July 7, 2022 27 Comments

United Airlines has offered generous travel grants to the golf programs at a number of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) that will aid in recruiting efforts and allow teams to travel to more golf tournaments.

United Airlines Provides Travel Grants, Mentorship To Black Golf Athletes

In February, United announced it was sending $10,000 in travel credit to the golf programs at 51 HBCUs, totaling $510,000. Student athletes were also offered access to mentorship and career coaching from United employees. The move was described as a joint effort with the PGA Tour to “diversify and grow the sport and provide resources that allow HBCUs to recruit and compete at the highest levels of collegiate golf.”

United President Brett Hart explained:

“Removing barriers for HBCU students to have the same opportunities given to other collegiate athletes will open doors for countless young black golfers to achieve their dreams and for HBCU golf programs to develop to their full potential. United is committed to advancing inclusion and racial equity and that begins with making meaningful mentorship and scholarship investments in the communities we serve.”

When you think about what holds some people back, it is not necessarily the theoretical lack of equal opportunity, but the lack of resources that enable the cultivation of skill and networking that is so essential in climbing social hierarchies and promoting a more perfect union.

When I think about my own career, I quickly concede that traveling to legal symposiums and travel conferences has led to key relationships that are frankly far more important than my grades or what is on my resume. The old cliche, “It’s Not What You Know. It’s Who You Know” is true. It’s undeniably true.

To further raise awareness about its efforts, United tapped golf influencer Roger Steele to host a four-part digital content series set for release later this month called “Game Recognize Game.”

Here’s a trailer for the new series:

Full episodes will debut on Fridays here.

CONCLUSION

United Airlines is helping athletes and golf programs at HBCUs to be able to recruit the best athletes and travel around the country in a way that will open doors and relationships that otherwise remain out of reach. A new series on YouTube will showcase the practical impact of this effort.

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Matthew is an avid traveler who calls Los Angeles home. Each year he travels more than 200,000 miles by air and has visited more than 135 countries. Working both in the aviation industry and as a travel consultant, Matthew has been featured in major media outlets around the world and uses his Live and Let's Fly blog to share the latest news in the airline industry, commentary on frequent flyer programs, and detailed reports of his worldwide travel.

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27 Comments

  1. Harish Reply
    July 7, 2022 at 10:21 am

    The comments here will be lovely

  2. Debit Reply
    July 7, 2022 at 12:28 pm

    “it is not necessarily the theoretical lack of equal opportunity, but the lack of resources that enable the cultivation of skill and networking that is so essential in climbing social hierarchies”

    This is exactly what people mean when they say white privilege. And this is also something very easy to dismiss by people that aren’t well intentioned, or simply too sheltered to be aware of or care other people’s experiences.

    On wall street people with BA degrees end up becoming hedge fund managers. They might succeed or not on their own mariott, but no one gives a BA money to manage to start out with unless you are obligated to help them.

    • DC Reply
      July 7, 2022 at 6:19 pm

      Debit- it is doubtful anyone can succeed “on their own mariott”. Nobody succeeds with Marriott lately.

      • Stu Gatz Reply
        July 7, 2022 at 7:18 pm

        However, they might succeed on their own hyatt.

    • Amy Fischer Reply
      July 9, 2022 at 12:38 am

      Pretending that Blacks haven’t achieved what White people have achieved because they don’t have the same resources or are disenfranchised will do absolutely nothing to help Blacks as it is a lie. Blacks have the lowest average IQ of any race in the world. Blacks also have the highest violent crime rates everywhere they are in the world. It’s for one reason: genetics.

      Blacks have received trillions of dollars in the form of welfare over the last 150 years. It hasn’t changed anything. The propagandists make it seem like Blacks would have put men on the moon if it were not for White people. It’s of course a lie. The majority of Blacks who exist or who have ever existed are incapable of contemplating anything more advanced than mud bricks and grass. The Greeks had temples 2500 years ago.

      Most Blacks can only succeed on the backs of White civilization and White technology. Everything in the history of the world was invented by the White man from telephony to electricity to automobiles to space travel. The only way an average Black will be preferable in hiring or academics than the average White is if tests are dumbed down like they did with the fire fighter exam or because woke hiring policies value higher crime rates and worse performance,

      • UA-NYC Reply
        July 9, 2022 at 5:20 pm

        Ahhhh I see not all the racist white nationalists are gone from LALF. What a nasty b!tch you are.

    • Koggerj Reply
      July 14, 2022 at 12:18 pm

      “white privilege” is something people who suffer from success envy say as an excuse for their own personal failures

  3. Don Reply
    July 7, 2022 at 12:31 pm

    Nothing like judging people by the color of their skin.

    I love how that’s the newest trend in the 2020s.

    • Tee Jay Reply
      July 7, 2022 at 1:09 pm

      Yeah, I thought we’re supposed to be colorblind.

      • Aaron Reply
        July 7, 2022 at 3:18 pm

        In theory yes but too many people with racial biases undermine all of that.

    • Carlos Miranda Reply
      July 9, 2022 at 12:32 am

      That’s racism, this is really getting out of hand.

  4. David Reply
    July 7, 2022 at 3:10 pm

    What a crock of shit. So it’s only black students who have a lack of opportunities? The Hispanics, Asians, low income white students and others can kiss off. Notice how skin color is the deciding factor and not income. Nice racist stereotype UA!

    • Aaron Reply
      July 7, 2022 at 3:17 pm

      You pretending to care about most of those groups listed is the real crock of shit.

    • MC Reply
      July 7, 2022 at 10:30 pm

      These funds are not restricted to only “black” students. Any student enrolled at these universities on the golf team will benefit. So if you’re a white guy that wants to go to Howard and play on the golf team, go for it, you’ll benefit from this support.

      • Jerry Reply
        July 8, 2022 at 4:42 pm

        Good luck getting in to Howard… But your point is valid.

        • William Robert Reply
          July 8, 2022 at 5:25 pm

          A quick Google search shows Howard University is only about 2/3 black, so not as difficult to get in as you probably think.

    • Carlos Miranda Reply
      July 8, 2022 at 7:34 pm

      THANK YOU HOW ABOUT LATINOS ASIAN AND WHITE. THATS RACIST.

    • Michael Owen Reply
      July 10, 2022 at 12:25 pm

      That the UA president is part black may have something to do with it.

  5. Doug Austin Reply
    July 7, 2022 at 4:05 pm

    Why does this smack of racism??

  6. Ken Reply
    July 7, 2022 at 4:25 pm

    I’m just here for the pearl-clutching comments of conservatives who are always whining that private companies should be able to do what they want, and then whine even louder when said companies actually do exactly that (but somehow feel threatened, scared, or discriminated against). Suffer!

    • Amy Fischer Reply
      July 9, 2022 at 12:43 am

      The issue is not private companies or private schools deciding to do this. The problem is only non Whites and non christians are allowed to do this by the government but Whites and Christians doing the same thing are not allowed to do this.

      • UA-NYC Reply
        July 10, 2022 at 7:51 pm

        Racist c*nt, piss off

  7. Chi Hsuan Reply
    July 7, 2022 at 4:33 pm

    How privileged.

  8. Jan Reply
    July 7, 2022 at 4:57 pm

    Asians will never get opportunity for free stuff like this. We’ll have to do it the old fashioned way by doing great in school, working hard and actually having decent income to pay for things. Equity FTL.

    • Billy Bob Reply
      July 7, 2022 at 5:22 pm

      When the worst stereotype of Asians in Americam society is that they are good at math I don’t think you can compare that to the biases that Black Americans face everyday. Why not look up why HBCUs exist in the first place? Hint: It’s not because Black Americans want free flights from United

  9. Jason Reply
    July 7, 2022 at 6:21 pm

    It’s ok, it’s good racism, which is permitted and encouraged, and will never have any unintended consequences.

  10. Carl Reply
    July 8, 2022 at 8:56 am

    Why didn’t you just say the college golf team ? Color does not need to be mentioned except for showcase.

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