Thursday, November 18, 2004

The Sport of Racism: there'll Owens: Lynching reloaded

Here is another sounding of the alarm for even that is in the state of Utopia. It doesn't matter if a black man has only a cardboard box to live in or Millions of dollars at his disposal, black men have THREE designated positions that America would like to place them in. The first one is of course in the Grave yard. You can research the creation of AIDS and the history of lynching for evidence of that. The Second position for the oh so powerful strapping young buck is obviously prison. There is no need to give endless statistics on how black men dominate the prisons. For further evidence you can just read the fine print on the 13th Amendment which makes imprisonment(New MILLENNIUM slavery) %100 legal. And now the third position is of course the one that may be amongst the most subtle. The capitalizing of the natural melanated ability the black man AKA MUSIC and SPORTS. Before I continue please read this. Now after you have read this the perceptive mind will soon realize that this contraversey is based on two factors. One is the fact that the American system is designed to keep you distracted, divided and your attention diverted from issues of REAL importance. The second factor is that white people base their interactions on how you make them feel not how they feel about you. Now in the recent distraction Terrell Owens is featured in a locker room scene with an actress from the new television series Desperate Housewives. Now lets ask a question for one second. If Donovan McNabb would have done the skit instead of Owens would we really be upset. Or lets say if it was another sport like basketball. If you replace Terell Owens with Allen Iverson I am sure America would be pretty pissed off. However if it was Tim Duncan or Grant Hill America would most certainly be ok with those strapping young black bucks caressing a towel wrapped blond WHITE bombshell. Now this skit is really no big deal until you place it in its proper context. When it comes down to sports racism is all over the place and the essence of racism is present in almost every level of sports entertainment. It is just more subtle and refined. Poor whites subconsciously and some times consciously dislike the fact that black men dominate sports so blatatantly. And with the rise of Hip Hop culture these black men are not only talented but extremely rich and boastful. This mixture of extreme and expressed arrogance does not rub well with its white spectators. It is for those reasons that athletes like a Terrell Owens or a Chad Johnson will get much more slack(modern day lynching) then an athlete that is less vocal and what most white people would call more modest and humble. We have to by now know that this is a double standard that is not going to change any time soon. By double standard I am comparing to the fact that the co-opting of a black woman in the mainstream media is widely accepted and applauded. No one gets highly offended when OPRAH WINFREY repeatedly turns to a Jewish man to help help her extend her creative vision and become a billionaire. You can analyze her relationship with Steven Spielberg and her Jewish business for evidence of that. Halle Berry does everything but give Billy Bob Thornton a blow job in Monsters Ball and of course she is heralded as a great black actress and given an academy award. So when you see things like this please understand that it is a distraction and something that must happened in order to reinforce and strengthen a system that is the direct enemy of ALL BLACK MEN.

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