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’18 Athletic Department Study Showed Serious Racial Bias in Iowa Football
Looking into allegations from Diversity Task Force report compiled in Fall of ’18.
The overarching theme of their anonymous responses indicated that blacks needed to conform to white culture, according to the DTF report.
“The white student-athletes at Iowa are viewed as the standard that African-American student-athletes should strive to mold themselves after,” one student-athlete said in the report.
White student-athletes agreed with this statement and that particularly students from Iowa found it easier to fit the mold.” This “mold” was defined by students as “tough,” “hardworking,” “Iowa,” or “white.”