Dont Let Last Nights NBA Draft Fool Yall Into Thinking "Everything's Ok"

[calixprynce]

Militants are jumping the shark

If being in the NBA is modern day slavery than sign me up

thanks for reminding me scary coward c00n

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[Elvira Sol]

If anyone did a simple google search on these players, they'd know. Plus some of these players have done short documentaries or what have you on their upbringing. Plus commentators in games say these things. Like about Kris Dunn and his mother passing away, going to prison, him and older brother being homeless as children for years until they found their father. Labissiere from Kentucky being from Haiti and being affected by the earthquake. I knew all of that by watching their games and the commentators talking about it, or doing a simple google search on them.

That's even more reason why it doesn't need to be repeated once again on national television on one of the biggest nights of their lives. It just came off very backhanded to me. It's like yeah you're celebrating something major but let's talk about how you came from nothing in front of millions of people to reinforce certain stereotypes. It's twisted to me.

 

[Elvira Sol]

They love to sell the story of the poo helpless knee grow. ESPN is the worse when it comes to this.....that is why I don't watch the NFL pregame shows my more because of this.

God forbid a brotha didn't grow up poor or in a two parent neighborhood or else they don't know what to talk about with them.

Another fukked up thing is they love these dudes to do impressions or dance for them. Sick is really sickening.

I agree. It's disturbing.

 

[Funk Flex]

I don't believe OP is black I think he is a st0rmfr0nt plant who likes to remind black people how hard we have it and how "fukked" up we are. Second Get your circle and fam and build that, blacks in the west will never be allowed to prosper as one unit without the government running interference. It has to be done by small pockets individually acroos the country. If you try to form like voltron the CIA/FBI gonna ask what up.

 

[Funk Flex]

That's even more reason why it doesn't need to be repeated once again on national television on one of the biggest nights of their lives. It just came off very backhanded to me. It's like yeah you're celebrating something major but let's talk about how you came from nothing in front of millions of people to reinforce certain stereotypes. It's twisted to me.

It sounds to me like you are ashamed of their stories. That's something you should work out.

 

[SheWantTheD]

That's even more reason why it doesn't need to be repeated once again on national television on one of the biggest nights of their lives. It just came off very backhanded to me. It's like yeah you're celebrating something major but let's talk about how you came from nothing in front of millions of people to reinforce certain stereotypes. It's twisted to me.

Yeah I get where you are coming from, they use it to pull at peoples heart strings. Seeing the underdog come from poverty or whatever to signing multimillion dollar contracts. They do it a lot, especially with black athletes.

But if these athletes don't see a problem with it and people find inspiration from it then I won't fault it.

 

[SheWantTheD]

A bunch of good players went late in the draft, under foreign players who we've only seen play suspect competition.

9+ international players drafted in the first round smh. Tyler Ulyiss got done dirty, I wonder what his contact is being drafted so late, same with Ben Bentil at 51

 

[Elvira Sol]

It sounds to me like you are ashamed of their stories. That's something you should work out.

Sounds to me like you should stop assuming.

 

[Elvira Sol]

Yeah I get where you are coming from, they use it to pull at peoples heart strings. Seeing the underdog come from poverty or whatever to signing multimillion dollar contracts. They do it a lot, especially with black athletes.

But if these athletes don't see a problem with it and people find inspiration from it then I won't fault it.

True. That's another way to look at it.

 

[Liquid]

Silly thread. Many of these kids from players will grow up in an environment where they are able to succeed. Success takes time to show up.

 

[MF_BREW]

This was a pretty weak draft.

 

[Sk3ptical]

playing sports >>>>

fukk these race threads nikka

 

[Juven]

exactly. The fact that black men are generating trillions of dollars between the NFL and NBA yet have almost zero ownership should let people know that this shyt is set up like modern slavery.

man you dudes are clueless. ESPN had massive layoffs because they overpaid for the nfl and nba. How is making 20 million modern day slavery? if thats slavery then wtf is your life

 

[hood b. goode]

Only on the Coli is it slavery to have a job

 

[Ronnie Lott]

When it comes to entertainment like rap, dunking basketballs and catching football's we're at the top of the list. Going by what's on tv would lead people worldwide (including black people) that everything is ok.

Don't let a few black faces making millions to dunk basketballs fool ya. We're still last in every other category where it REALLY counts.

Gatdamn nikka, you reached like a MF with this nut ass thread

Who in the hell ever made the assumption that a handful of millionaires made up for all the millions of disenfranchised black people