The Black Beast: Jerry Sloan And Deron Williams, Jeff Fisher and Vince Young: White Coach Black Star Musings

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, February 12, 2011

Jerry Sloan And Deron Williams, Jeff Fisher and Vince Young: White Coach Black Star Musings

In a span of a few months we have seen some very interesting things in the coaching world. It's not often when we see it, but it does transpire. Oh no? Quick what's the name of Magic Johnson's first coach?

And it ain't Pat Reilly.

It's Paul Westhead. He got into a fight with the franchise player on the bench one night in the middle of the start of Showtime. He was gone the next day. And before anyone asks I'll tell you the coach doesn't dribble one ball, he doesn't touch another person. Stars win. Players play. And coaches? Know when to shut the hell up.

But of course there's a deeper meaning here. When I was in high school we all know Westhead got fired for arguing with Magic. I mean Magic was incredible night in night out in every sense of the word. In a way that the Cats today ain't. He was truly original. Truly incredibly gifted. Coaches? You can get another coach, you can't get another Magic.

You can't simply go and get another...
Deron Williams. (one of only a hand full of franchise players now in the league)
Vince Young (Winning NFL Quarterback no matter who you put out there.)

I could go on, but these are the young brothers at issue in the moment. So what happened with these young cats so that the coaches were fired. And if you believe the spin, I got a bridge to sell you and you just one an email sweepstakes, pay 2,000 U.S. Dollars to get it in Egypt. Seriously. What happens in these flare ups? You must understand at some point the coaches forget that it's not about them and believe that the players must loose their dignity to follow them. At that point all love is gone from their voices and they start to treat the players like children and the disrespect goes one way. Believe me it goes down like this. You combine that with obvious subtle racism in the coaches head and well the athlete hears the word niggah even if it ain't said.

And no they won't ever tell. None of them will. This is their jobs. But imagine if you had to go to your job with mostly white folks screaming at you all day long? This is what it can be as a professional athlete in the NBA or NFL. And you a franchise Player and know it? You know deep in your heart they ain't got that many of you. Even if they want to play you against your running back? And you know They'd never treat Tom Brady like this? Hell you know they wouldn't even treat Skelton (Cards QB) like this? That they'd never never treat a Euro-turned NBA star like this and in fact seen the 68 year old Jerry Sloan fail to do so?

Do you need to be there to know there's more love in a Pro Coaches voice when he's screaming at the white players? Really?

Let's put aside for the moment that Bud Adams Owner of the Titans put down the Crack pipe after he allowed the white men who tried to cover up Vince's mistreatment by backing Fisher and finally let Fisher go. Of Course, he finally came to his senses and said I can get another Coach, but a winning Quarterback? In the NFL? Ask the Dolphins and the Broncos, both teams have been searching since their hall of fame QBs retired in the 90s. Bud Adams should have let Fisher go the minute he saw Fisher's ego was in competition with his own--Remember Bud had to make Fisher play Vince Young so they would start winning? Fisher should have been gone in the off season, even if VY brought them back from a horrendous start. And Fisher's explosion really should have been the last straw. Over taking VY's taking off his shirt and throwing it in the stands? And explode publicly? He was no longer acting like the coach but demanding respect in a locker room which he failed to lead by bringing his problem star behind closed doors.

But I digress. Here's the deal. When coaches attempt to get into ego fights with Star Brothers they loose time and time again. Truly star Beasts. It's a fact and perhaps the only time. Now that's musing....

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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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