The Black Beast: NBC Sports Pro Football Talk .com and The Real Racism of the Game

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, June 25, 2011

NBC Sports Pro Football Talk .com and The Real Racism of the Game

See here's that mess I'm talking about. Pro Footballtalk.com run by a white male named Mike Florio who is well informed and presumably respected by the white males of the industry who informed him and gave him all the info which blew him and his site up and made him soooooo much money. Black man would never have been respected enough to receive such gold as he has. Trust me. You black you know. You ain't. Than you talkin' that mess...Mike Florio is.

Ok. Some context is in order. Seems Cam Newton refuses to discuss the racism in his evaluation of playing the game. Seems he thinks that's making an excuse. No need to get upset. Not at all brothers and sisters. If there is one thing I know, its that when ever one of us seems to excuse their racism, they only find a healthy diet of it at the end of their rainbow. Such is inevitable like the sun rising to bring us every dawn, and it is pervasive, every where people who have deemed themselves white before others have gone. History tells us that.Current events reminds us of it every day. Challenging the racism of a game owned by white men, coached by a vast majority of white males, administered by mostly white males, and played by predominately other than white males is not the purpose of this post.

Let us deal with the truth of it. Mike Florio says one thing about Cam Newton's statement which they all say and in doing so he reveals the true racism of the game...

Seems he finds Cam Newton's denial or refusal to consider racism refreshing....Now I ask you is that not what every racist says? For as long as we have fought racism it has been the most racist of them who have sought out those of us who for whatever reason can not bear the hot battle before the onslaught of racism and called their words of denial, of avoidance...the truth, intelligent,reason....

Refreshing.

Which by deduction makes words attacking racism lies, unintelligent, unreasonable.... Stale...

And that makes those words...well racist.

Wow.

To those of us who have fought racism, we know this perspective. We know Florio's words all too well. Unwittingly all Florio did in proclaiming Cam's position was refreshing was demonstrate his knowledge of the real racism of the game.

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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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