🚀 go-pugleaf

You just eloquently described the "niggerzation" of sports in America.
It is one of the reasons I don't go downtown anymore with my family and 
watch the Hawks

Between the niggers on MARTA and the niggers on the basketball court, I 
would rather watch grass grow. It's a shame because I really loved 
basketball once. Basketball is just another victim of Politically 
Correct Tyranny in America


Sammy M wrote:
> Trickin' White Folks: Why the Hood Loves Ron Artest
> 
> Commentary, Kevin Weston,
> Pacific News Service, Nov 23, 2004
> 
> Editor's Note: Black Americans hear echoes of an African trickster god
> in the actions of Indian Pacers bad-boy Ron Artest and the racially
> charged atmosphere of the NBA. 
> 
> OAKLAND, Calif.--Ron Artest, the Indiana Pacers forward suspended by
> the NBA for a year after a fan-and-player melee in Detroit on Friday,
> gets love in the hood because black people have a history of rooting
> for the anti-superhero who butts up against the establishment -- tales
> that go back past slavery to African lore.
> 
> Elegua is the trickster in the pantheon of the Yorba religion.
> Kidnapped Africans brought Yorba to the Western Hemisphere and
> continued to worship Orishas, or gods, like Elegua. While the religion
> stayed largely intact in places like Haiti and Cuba, Africans brought
> to America, where African ways and religions were more harshly
> punished, had to mask the archetype of the trickster god while
> adapting his legend to our North American experience. Elegua became
> High John the Conqueror.
> 
> According to Julius Lester, author of the book "Black Folktales," High
> John is a "Be man -- be here when hard times come, and be here when
> hard times are gone."
> 
> High John, Julius writes, is a slave on a Mississippi plantation ruled
> by "white folks so mean that the rattlesnakes wouldn't bite 'em.
> 'Fraid they poison themselves."
> 
> But John, because he is a Be man, "made up his mind to do as much
> living and as little slaving as he could...."
> 
> "He used to break the hoes, accidentally of course. Set the massa
> house on fire. Accidentally of course. He always had a hard time
> getting to the fields on time..."
> 
> Then this African God in Mississippi would flip it. "Ol massa was
> never sure whether John was doing it all on purpose, because some
> years John would work hard and make a good crop. The next year,
> though, it seemed that everything he touched got destroyed. But the
> following year, he'd pick more cotton than anyone thought possible. So
> the white folks were never sure what side John was on. And you better
> believe that that was the way John wanted it."
> 
> Ron Artest is known as a head case in the NBA. Unpredictable.
> Dangerous. At the same time, he's the league's most dominant defender,
> a premiere rebounder and a better-than-average scorer. A week before
> the Detroit brawl, where he jumped into the stands after being hit
> with a beer, he was suspended two games for asking for time off to
> promote an R&B group on his record label. 
> 
> For years he was known as a cheap-shot artist because of the hard
> fouls he would deliver to opponents in the paint. Annually, Artest
> would be among the league leaders in technical fouls. But
> mysteriously, last year he cleaned up his act, wound up as an All-Star
> and won Defensive Player of the Year. In large part due to Artest, the
> Pacers were one of the favorites to win the NBA title this year. 
> Then Artest burned his massa's field house -- the Conseco Field House,
> where the Pacers play -- to the ground. (Or at least their
> championship prospects this year.)
> 
> While he ruined his short-term prospects for making money in the NBA
> (eventually some NBA squad will pay him to play; he's simply too good
> to pass up), he's made his hood legend. Everyone and their momma is
> talking about this, from the one-way streets to Wall Street. His #23
> (after Jordan) blue and gold pinstriped jersey will be sold out
> worldwide by the end of the week.
> 
> This has been a bad year for the NBA. Detroit Pistons coach Larry
> Brown also coached the U.S. Olympic Team. That team of NBA stars was
> hated at home and abroad. At home because it had no white players (the
> euphemisms for white players are "roll players" or "pure shooters"),
> and because it did have Allen Iverson, a perennial target for scorn in
> the media (the corn rolls, the tats, the rap CD, the "I Don't Give a
> F---" attitude). As well as a bunch of youngstas, including the two
> high school-aged kids, Carmelo Anthony and Lebron "100 million dollar
> man" James. Team USA got the Bronze. 
> 
> Kobe Bryant beating a charge of raping a white woman -- something that
> just a generation ago would get a ni--a hung so quick so fast,
> innocent or guilty -- didn't help, either.
> 
> It is widely felt in the Black community that these players get hated
> on because of their fame and fortune, attitude, gender and skin color.
> It is also widely felt among blacks that a lot of them bring the
> negative attention onto themselves. (See Kobe and O.J.) I've watched
> as the media and dominant culture has become less and less tolerant of
> these coddled multi-millionaires. Much of the criticism stems from
> perceived "lack of effort" or "selfish play," or "too much attitude"
> and "too street/ghetto."
> 
> We've also seen these well paid, attractive and well conditioned
> negroes self-destruct, blow their money, turn their backs on the
> community, build hospitals and community centers, take care of legions
> of their extended families, do gang prevention and anti-violence work,
> get hooked on dope, sell dope -- whatever. They are the best and the
> worst of who we are, living their public and private lives in front of
> us. We root and boo. But it's with love.
> 
> The Black athletes who get love in mainstream America are molded after
> Jackie Robinson, the pioneer Brooklyn Dodgers second basemen who broke
> the color line in baseball over 50 years ago. Jackie got called so
> many ni--as he probably thought it was his name. He was loved because
> he took it.
> 
> Who knows what Artest was thinking as he punched his way out of his $6
> million yearly salary. He wouldn't take the disrespect, and he's
> paying for it. The upside is, he can focus on his independent record
> company and his Destiny's Child-esque group Allure. Their single, "Uh
> Oh" featuring Dance Hall reggae superstar Elephant Man, is aight. If
> they happen to go platinum, Artest could make back much of his lost
> salary. High John the Conqueror is watching this somewhere, smiling.
> So am I.
> 
> PNS contributor Kevin Weston is a writer and editor-in-chief at YO!
> Youth Outlook Multimedia (www.youthoutlook.org), a project of Pacific
> News Service.
> 
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