Overstating his case

Tennessee Congressman Steve Cohen wants the NBA and the players union to drop the rule requiring governing the minimum age of players.

The rule mandates that players be 19 and a year removed from their high school graduation to be eligible.

Noting the rule affects mostly African-Americans, Cohen, a Democrat, called the it “a vestige of slavery.”

Now, with the corruption that seems to attend recruitment of the “one-and-done” basketball player, I’m leaning Cohen’s way in terms of policy. But not in terms of hyperbole.

“Vestige of slavery?”

Puh-leeze.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/sports/basketball/04webcohen.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=steve%20cohen&st=cse