An illegal corporation, and it's peculiar legacy
part2
The war African entertainers
From the gladiator days of Rome the captured prisoners become enslaved, to perform in the coliseum of death. The ravenous masses go into orgasmic trance as man fights man, fights lions, fights women, fight, fight, fight.. to assuage the blood lust in this "bastion of civilization".
It is said that sports is a metaphor for war and such war metaphor is used in describing certain sports and or qualities in its participants. The boxer who goes toe to toe with his opponent and get the shit beat out of him; till his face is so chewed up his own mother wouldn't recognize him. He is a warrior.
The baller who may suffer a structural injury, determined to came back early. He is a warrior. The pitcher, who throws a baseball at a batters head, is not assaulting but being a warrior. Is it not ironic that the term Fan is short version for Fanatic and occupies a glorious position in his-story from Europe, along with notable ambassador of European culture as the Vandals, Goth and Visigoth? I am not sure of the origin of the term hooligan but...!
America Inc.'s love/hate relationship with its manufactured man created modern arena for gladiator combat and voyeurism. 'knee-grow' where allowed to beat up each other in a boxing pit for sport. They were not worthy to play too much with real people in any other sporting endeavor. Still one couldn't suppress the African-ness that kept coming back. Eventually the 'knee-grows' physicality allowed him/her to be allowed into the hollowed realm of the 'white' entertainment. Sure he could box and run and jump and dance and shuck and step and fetchit! But they knew he couldn't think like real people.
America Inc.'s also had a love/hate relationship with success/wealth. Even among European the antipathy against the wealth remained a remnant of his peasant past when the queen told them to "eat cake". Besides the fact that European wealth was always stolen and hoarded viciously, most of the peasant kept looking at the grass on the other side. They wanted the wealth and the trappings of wealth, but only had the distorted actions of some wealthy as example of how the wealthy does act, to "know" that if you "want to be rich, you hafta be a bitch!"
Today we see that combo of love/hate relationship with 'knee-grows' who entertain and are wealthy and how America Inc. is now trying to take back the corporate identity from the product they had manufactured. Today, the public feasts on the mistakes of the famous and the media are equal opportunity destroyers. Every public figure is one bad moment away from being plastered across every rag in America Inc., and trashed at every water cooler. Every imperfection is sowing the seed of their own destruction.
Since it is deemed un cool to drag a 'knee-grow' out to the nearest tree and string him/her up, most of America Inc. practice what that rock of African consciousness, Clarence Thomas said. electronic lynching!
At American Inc. the propaganda machine, the media, portrays many 'knee-grow' entertainer in a negative light. Negativity sells commercials. In Athletics for example the overwhelming majority of professional athletes are of slave descent.
77% of the players in the NBA,
65% in the NFL,
15% in Major League Baseball (25% are Latino)
57% in NCAA Division I basketball
47% in NCAA Division IA football
65% in the NFL,
15% in Major League Baseball (25% are Latino)
57% in NCAA Division I basketball
47% in NCAA Division IA football
(from http://www.blackathlete.net/)
Surveys continue to show that a majority of European or those who have tasted that cool aide of Euro centrism believe that most 'knee-grows' are less intelligent, are more likely to use drugs, be violent and are more inclined to be violent against women. With the birth of our new PC Culture, polite European society can no longer safely express the stereotypes that so many believe about the "knee-grow'.
Sports, as it is currently being analyzed and reported, now provides European with the chance to talk about 'knee-grow' athletes and entertainers, in a way that reinforces negative stereotypes. With the death of the Civil Rights period, and the official end of state supported racism/Nazism, came the advent of more palatable forms of anti African fear/hatred.
Again culled from http://www.blackathlete.net/, we get this gem:
According to the National Opinion Research Center Survey, whites share the following attitudes:
*56 percent of whites think African-Americans are more violent
*62 percent think African-Americans are not as hard working as whites
*77 percent of whites think most African-Americans live off welfare
*53 percent think African-Americans are less intelligent
The Fanatics, who are mostly white, observe sport/entertainment through a media/propaganda filter which is overwhelmingly made up of Euro centric men and women. Am I suggesting that most or even many of the white writers are racist?Acquaint yourself with the idea of mob mentality, and then ask that answer that question yourself! Most Eurocentric people learn these stereotypes during their upbringing. When they read about an individual or group of 'knee-grows' who have a problem, it becomes easy to leap to a conclusion that fits the stereotype
In the opinion of longtime sports attorney Donald M. Jackson, this trend is not happening by accident. In his new book, "Fourth Down And Twenty Five Years To Go: The African-American Athlete And The Justice System", Jackson chronicles a startling trend of arrests and civil controversies involving African-American sports figures.
A former athlete as well, Jackson's book gives an insightful, well researched analysis of the links between sports, wealth, race, the legal system and the media. His conclusions are non-traditional and very explosive.
They were/are raised in a culture in which many have strong beliefs about what it means to be African in American. They did not create this Anti-black environment, but they have done nothing to ameliorate it either.
"As a youngster in junior high school, I was struck by how many African-American players I saw that had these constant run-in's with the law", said Jackson. "As I got older and began to get more involved in sports, I began to pay closer attention to it.""I was seeing the same issues over and over again whether it be drug offenses or domestic violence. About 10 years ago, I began researching the issue as a whole. During that time, I came up with roughly about 1,500 or so incidents in that period."
From youth leagues to colleges, from high schools to professional sports leagues, Jackson attacks these issues head on and dispenses blame where blame is due. Among some of the overriding factors were discrimination, selectively harsh treatment, outright racism, irresponsible conduct, and the breakdown of the African American family.
Jackson also stressed the level of recent incidents have increased since the aftermath of the O.J. Simpson case. "After the Simpson trial, mainstream media's coverage in regards to African-American athletes has suffered a serious backlash.""When you look at the national media coverage of African-American athletes since then, there has been a significant change and perception." In the book, Jackson states that the Simpson trial and it's aftermath serves as a "watershed event in American judicial history."
Jackson added, "While the (Simpson) case is illustrative of the ways and means by which the justice system is perceived by many in the African-American community to target blacks, it also resulted in substantial revisions in the matter that Americans of European and African descent view one another."
"Fourth Down" gives a groundbreaking and exhaustive look into the links between athletic stardom, race, fame, money and the legal system. It also exposes the underbelly of the sports world and the all too common consequences felt by African American athletes that are all too often entirely unprepared to deal with the consequences of their stardom.
Jackson's hard-hitting perceptions and comprehensive analysis is unflinching. While offering a basic "cause and effect" examination, Jackson has ideas on how these incidents can and should be dealt with before they come to fruition.Given the recent times, Jackson's book may be the one of the most important sports book of its time. It takes an honest and unforgiving look at a disturbing trend with the African-American and sports community.
This is a definite must-read book:
