Here's what I see a lot of (in addition to the comma splice in the first sentence):
"It goes both ways, the college hones the skills of the black athlete and gives him/her a place to showcase those skills. They in turn make the school money. But later if the athlete turns pro and cashes in on all that talent, they are sadly left without the education that they would need after the skills are no longer there. I think that every athlete that leaves school early to turn pro should have to pay for a scholarship to cover another student for their education. "
The writer gets the pronoun/antecedent agreement right the first time (black athlete = him/her) but then shifts to plural pronouns ("they") in the rest of the paragraph.
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Exactly. The whole issue would be solved by simply starting in the plural in the first place to avoid the him/her issue, but for some reason students -- and people in general -- don't want to do that.
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