The Black Beast: The Incomprable Michael Vick in "Vickesque": The 2010 Black Beast of the Year.

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.

Saturday, November 20, 2010

The Incomprable Michael Vick in "Vickesque": The 2010 Black Beast of the Year.

In the history of the NFL no man black nor white has ever done what Mike Vick did last monday night against the Redskins. It is incomparable by definition because there is nothing to compare it to. You can read the stat line as much as you like. And I'll set it apart for emphasis:

20-28, 333 yards, four TDs; 80 yards rushing including two touch downs.

Ask yourself who foresaw this. Few did. I was one period. I long called this Black Beast one of the greatest players to ever quarterback. I once saw training film of MV when he was coming out of college. He threw a ball into a moving plastic garbage while he was on full throttle 80 yards away.

Jordanesque I called him then.

After Monday, so are many others. And he is Black Beast of the Year, not simply because of his dominance, his utter incredible pure skill, his ability to make the incredible seem incredibly easy but because....

The Mchael Vick story is one of overcoming all of the worse that America's racism disguised as vitriol can throw at one black man and making America bow. It is an incredible story. One which we should tell our children to use the imagery of entertainment against them in our battle with them over it in which they have portrayed us so negatively for so long.

And make no mistake this is what we must remember as we start to use the words Vickesque; for indeed we shall.

Incomparable, Indefatigable. The human will. The Soul of the Black Beast within us all.

Surely this league will run from the truth and attempt to gloss over the facts. They will, in the end say nothing of his league leading passer rating. Say nothing of the many incredible plays which are sure to occur as he places his footprint upon The Commissioner Roger Goodell's memory, as he fills the Tea Party Carnivores' who feigned so much anger at the destruction of dogs who numbers paled beside the tons of animals killed nearly daily in the name of food for the populace. Surely there will much disclaimer about him being a changed man before they bow and crown him a great athlete and give the award to Peyton Manning or the white winner of the Superbowl, or some other golden boy. You may think me mad but I remember a wonderful season by Steve McNair in which he had to share the MVP.

But here at The Beast we do not turn from the truth.

Vickesque.

And no one else has even a glimmer of a chance at the award for Black Beast of the Year..

*Vick is also Black Beast of the week for 2010 NFL Week 9 and 10. Week 9 stats: 218 passing and 74 rushing. Including 1 Td throwing 1 td rushing against a good Colts team in his first game back from injury. Week 10 stats are discussed above.

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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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