Derek Jeter honors Muhammad Ali for living the life he never would

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This is actually kinda pathetic. Jim Lampley madeva huge point tonight. No athlete today would have taken the stance Ali had taken during that three year period.

So don't just fault Jeter. If any other athlete were faced with that predicament, they would fold.

Exactly. You literally had Donald Sterling telling his side piece to not bring "******s" to his games and when the whole team of nikkas that are employed by him had a chance to knock the sport on its ass (in the playoffs no less) they bytched up and turned their shirts inside out.

Ali was right. No Vietcong ever called him a ****** but since the infancy of this nation a millions of CACs and white supremacist practitioners have had no issue with using "******" with the near easy of something like talking a shyt. It was/is a natural reflex to them.

So piling on Jeter in this instance is lame. He is MJ Jr. when it comes to speaking on social issues and frankly I don't think he even knows enough to take a stance on any real issues. Dude been in a bubble since he was 16 and if he ever wanted to feel "black" all he has to do is turn to his dad or Gerald Williams, his bff

If athletes wanted to speak up, they would. Because there's been enough police shootings in the last 5 years alone to kick start their activism. It's a matter of picking a cause. Truth is a lot of these dudes get a check from white daddy, got thots to trick off on, care more about the sport and (more importantly) know that even somewhat speaking on real shyt somehow pulls them back into a world they wanna escape forever, but only visit on occasion.
 
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Exactly. You literally had Donald Sterling telling his side piece to not bring "******s" to his games and when the whole team of nikkas that are employed by him had a chance to knock the sport on its ass (in the playoffs no less) they bytched up and turned their shirts inside out.

Ali was right. No Vietcong ever called him a ****** but since the infancy of this national millions of CACs and white supremacist practitioners have had no issue with using "******" with the near easy of something like talking a shyt. It was/is a natural reflex to them.

So piling on Jeter in this instance is lame. He is MJ Jr. when it comes to speaking on social issues and frankly I don't think he even knows enough to take a stance on any real issues. Dude been in a bubble since he was 16 and if he ever wanted to feel "black" all he has to do is turn to his dad or Gerald Williams, his bff

If athletes wanted to speak up, they would. Because there's been enough police shootings in the last 5 years alone to kick start their activism. It's a matter of picking a cause. Truth is a lot of these dudes get a check from white daddy, got thots to trick off on, care more about the sport and (more importantly) know that even somewhat speaking on real shyt somehow pulls them back into a world they wanna escape forever, but only visit on occasion.
Yeah.
So then maybe you look like a dikk talking about all these things that Muhammad Ali taught you, which was the point of the piece.

You guys are here upset that Jeter was singled out. He's the biggest star in NY making a fraudulent tribute and a NY columnist called him out on it.

As far as all the other guys this article could be written about, take it up with Bill Plaschke in LA, or whoever is in Texas, Miami, etc...

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Ali's willingness to risk everything by speaking up on certain issues is what made him unique and why he's as celebrated as he is. You can't expect everybody else to have the same courage that he did. We already know the money athletes make is a factor so I don't why people keep trying to make these comparisons.

I don't even want to hear a lot of these dudes opinions on anything outside of sports.
 

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Ali's willingness to risk everything by speaking up on certain issues is what made him unique and why he's as celebrated as he is. You can't expect everybody else to have the same courage that he did. We already know the money athletes make is a factor so I don't why people keep trying to make these comparisons.

I don't even want to hear a lot of these dudes opinions on anything outside of sports.
The biggest difference was Ali still lived in Louisville in the Black area. None of these others anywhere near brehs
 
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