For decades, institutions of higher education have actively sought out the best athletic talent in the country to create a ‘winning culture’ at their institutions. Historically speaking, institutions of higher education primarily seek out Black athletes at a higher rate because of their apparent athletic talents in revenue-generating (RG) sports. Consequently, minority athletes are (c)overtly being forced to operate in a colonization system that mirrors that of labor outlawed by the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. The current ‘amateurism’ model favors the predominantly-white non-revenue generating (NRG) athletes by allowing them more time to choose majors that will lead to better employment opportunities after graduation while revenue-generating athletes are clustered into innocuous majors that allow more flexibility to focus on athletic endeavors and bring in money to fund the NRG sports. The current model is also protected by legal precedent and holds no validity to the claims made in its defense. Through the Critical Race Theory (CRT) lens, this author argues that the current ‘amateurism’ model is (c)overtly racial and disadvantageous to the predominantly-black RG student-athletes. The author builds the collective argument through the use of the CRT tenets, an analysis of academic exploitation and the dangers of legal doctrine.