The Black Beast: The Big Picture or Understanding The Black Beast Or Why We Should Care About Discrimination Against Millionaires

About the Black Beast title

A blog on racism in professional and college Sports...Beast, animal, and the like were the first names our ancestors were given out of their own name by the slavers. This dehumanized them and set the stage for the entire enlavement process. It was objectification. Today, adult black men who play professional sport are referred to as beasts (and required to be more athletic than their professional white counter parts who are only required to be some what athletic and intelligent so that better black athletes are cut and more white ones are given large sums of money to be professional(as if black athletes do not demonstrate intelligence) which would not happen if all athletes were equally appraised. But more white athletes is a requirement by white coaches, white owners, white ruled leagues who realize that white children look up to, even idolize these men in uniform and that role can never fall to the Black Beast alone. Moreover the self identity of the white male is at stake, for the white male must be able to compete. (The white male must!) This beastly objectification harkens back to the day of the slaver when our ancestor was nothing more than muscle to do their bidding. Here in this blog, The Black Beast is loosed to take back humanity, to demand treatment as a human being, more than muscle and sinew bid to win or loose for white males.Here in this space, it's the Black Beast walkin' down every iota of racism and vindicating all uses of the race card against those who created it.

Friday, August 13, 2010

The Big Picture or Understanding The Black Beast Or Why We Should Care About Discrimination Against Millionaires

I can't sympathize with pro athletes .. A sharecropper is one step away from a slave.. The differene between a SLAVE and a Pro Athletic(sic) is at minimum 5 million dollars!!!!!!!!!!!! Plzzz..

Kamau Atem NO. You can not, must not be jealous of what one has. Wealth given in abundance must be shared equally. It is a difficult spiritual lesson but it is truth...Just because the numbers are larger does not mean there is no discrimination. To do otherwise is simply to objectify those individuals, yet again. No one asks for sympathy, what is sought is equal treatment. Allow them to be treated unequally and this attitude only "trickles down" to every strata of society. Your boss who accepts it as fine that there is inequality in NFL contracts, lets say, will only believe the same is fine in your contract...Unnerstand?

Above is an interaction from facebook. The commenter has a view point shared by many who read my work on Racism in Pro Sports for the first time. I understand it and love her misconception that Pro Athletes get paid a minimum. It is difficult to see why racism toward millionaires would be worthy of a blog, of my time. But my answer is standard and you see it above next to my facebook pic.

You see this is about the big picture. Fighting racism is hard. It's like fighting people's minds. And in doing so you have to fight everywhere the mind may dwell, any food the mind may eat. Pro Sports, like every entertainment is a powerful drug in America. It's influencing your enemies and making them friends. It unites them in their negative thinking all across the land due in large part to the power of the air waves. Understand it this way, it's not just the Klan at home teaching Little Johnny how to think that you have to worry about any more, but the talking heads and the General Managers telling them and showing them how it's gonna be to use updated phraseology as well.

I like Pro Sports. Luv football. So here I fight. Find your niche. Come join the war and let us see what a world we may create. I'll say it again. It's hard. But behind closed doors, I'm making a difference. This past spring the NFL held its 1st Historically Black College and University scouting event giving brothers an opportunity. Ya think the black beast had something to do with its success? Every time I get an email or some other communication from someone I always say it...Ya never know who reads the beast.... and ya never know how they change their life because of it....

I may not reap the direct benefits of what The Beast produces but Karma is a mutha...
especially here at The Black beast. And believe me I got a lot a good comin' especially cause a The Beast... And I do it because it should be done cause I'm a big picture kinda guy.

You'll always get a big picture, here at The Black Beast.

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For The Record

I give little to no love to any one other than Brothers in this space, even if I love them, because these other ballers have ESPN, Sports Illustrated, CNN, Network TV NFL Network and its Media Machine, The AP, UPI, Every Corporate Sponsor, TV announcers and so called experts trumpeting average or merely above average exploits daily to the detriment of Black men (and women in other sports)who routinely do the incredible in front of the either purposefully ignorant or the uninformed as an entire society ignores these feats in large part due to the previously mentioned Media Outlets, Corporations, TV announcers and experts own often intentional or unintentional racism .

The Big Picture: Why we should care about Racism in Pro Sports

Statement:

I can't sympathize with pro athletes .. A sharecropper is one step away from a slave.. The differene between a SLAVE and a Pro Athletic(sic) is at minimum 5 million dollars!!!!!!!!!!!! Plzzz..

Answer:

NO. You can not, must not be jealous of what one has. Wealth given in abundance must be shared equally. It is a difficult spiritual lesson but it is truth...Just because the numbers are larger does not mean there is no discrimination. To do otherwise is simply to objectify those individuals, yet again. No one asks for sympathy, what is sought is equal treatment. Allow them to be treated unequally and this attitude only "trickles down" to every strata of society. Your boss who accepts it as fine that there is inequality in NFL contracts, lets say, will only believe the same is fine in your contract...Unnerstand?

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