Sadly, the culture has had to climb from rock bottom in order to get to the position they are today. I am an outsider, looking in; I would love to be a forty million dollar slave over a twenty thousand dollar college student. There is truth behind the notion of the name; the majority of team owners are white Americans, and they control the fate of the African Americans through contracts that could easily be traded, bought out, or even sold. The importance of this situation is that there is hope for the future. These so called forty million dollar slaves have the money and luxury that the typical American does not have, and that is a chance to have their offspring prosper in a better demographic with their surplus of money. A forty million dollar slave at the end of the day is still a slave, but it is still progression in the right direction. That progression will lead to a brighter future for the offspring of those forty million dollar