Gawker: "Black People Are Cowards"

[kp404]

The NFL,NBA, And MLB are very insignificant in the grand scheme of things, Financially.

Consider this as of 2013 the NFL made 9.5 Billion in revenue.

Which sounds like a lot but would make it about the #285th ranked business in the United States(If it was applicable to be a fortune 500 company....Its not because its not publicly traded)

Keep it mind GAMESTOP would come in at #296 with a revenue of 9.4 billion and Sherwin Williams would come in Tied at #285.....

So the markets would be fine regardless of what happens to any of those sports.

Looking at it both economically and culturally and longterm, the markets would not be ok if they lost all three sports for a year or multiple years. That's still revenue and when billions are lost, global markets are shook. Don't forget the cultural shift that would occur as well; Adrian Burgos wrote a great book on Baseball and the cultural shift of the world after the color line was broken by black and brown people; its caled Playing America's game; powerful work

 

[Kill Dat Noize]

I disagree. I'm not a nihilist. Oppression can be stopped but it takes work

"The power is in the people and the politics we address"

- Pac

 

[kp404]

"The power is in the people and the politics we address"

- Pac

Pac was well read. He knew the game. The supremacists know it too that's why their job for the last 500 years has been to divide the masses so we cannot collectivize our voice of resistance

 

[the next guy]

it has to be collective. If all of the players sat out, or enough to disrupt the play of each game, it would crash so many markets in the country. NBA Playoffs is big, big money and the owners/NBA execs would oust Sterling with no hesitation if the players fukked up the money. Sure, the players would lose some money too, but that's the sacrifice they have to be willing to make; remember, capitalism cannot coincide with collectivism and teamwork; if the workers band together, they damage the mode and means of production; Marx wasn't lying there; the workers have to be willing to make the jump though

This is exactly want I want to happen. It didn't yesterday and that's why I agree with the author. Everyone has to. Sterling has to be forced out by united effort.

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

Fair but when this forum is not talking about black women or bashing NY it's always about how pepole born after December 1989 are worthless idiots.

This legitimately had me cracking up...

 

[kp404]

This is exactly want I want to happen. It didn't yesterday and that's why I agree with the author. Everyone has to. Sterling has to be forced out by united effort.

I agree with you, but my issue is calling black people "cowards." That word puts another negative connotation on blacks, which is something we do not need as white people and black bourgeois will read it and say "Yep blacks are cowards, haha." negative words, (and incorrect words because we are not cowards) stereotypes us negatively. Black athletes (and all athletes in general) are corrupted and exploited by owners; I would not call them cowards though or the black masses

 

[Non Sequitur]

An article attacking complacency and armchair revolutionaries? No wonder y'all hate it

 

[the next guy]

This legitimately had me cracking up...

It's funny it's sad and it's true. Not that things don't deserve criticism. I mean look at NYC gentrification, but we need to stick together rather then calling folks c00ns all the time. Selling out has to be called out but not just because you don't like them, then it becomes diving and conquering.

 

[Tommy Knocks]

You've read my posts...have I ever disappeared from a conversation on solution driven methods

Again, I am not a nihilist. I believe racial capitalist oppression can be overturned because it almost did in Reconstruction (See Du Bois' Black Reconstruction). I just said it throughout the thread. if I was Lebron james, I know my net worth, my fan base, my monumental popularity: I would sit out and demand my teammates and other players to stop the playoffs and explain how it would kill the owners' money and they would be forced to remove Sterling. Regardless of their decision, I would sit out. My sitting out as Lebron James would send a shockwave through the global sphere; i would give interviews on why I did it and explain to all ethnicities that this is racial oppression and I demand for Sterling's removal or I will not play. All it takes is for one member of the vanguard to step up and others will follow. Other players will not play and once games are disrupted and television revenue and rating drop, NBA bleeds money, panic ensues, shyt gets done. Other things like community consciousness would follow too because Lebron's counterhegemonic act would be looked at as legendary and be in the history books

but but but 29 Sterlings are still there, the c00ns will still be playing basketball for them next season. what about black capitalism? that won't prompt it. how will that change black culture? ahem.

 

[the next guy]

I agree with you, but my issue is calling black people "cowards." That word puts another negative connotation on blacks, which is something we do not need as white people and black bourgeois will read it and say "Yep blacks are cowards, haha." negative words, (and incorrect words because we are not cowards) stereotypes us negatively. Black athletes (and all athletes in general) are corrupted and exploited by owners; I would not call them cowards though or the black masses

Perhaps. But to me it's there has to be a harsh wake up call, not to you or me, but to those who value money too much. To me it's no different from Bills Cosby's Pound Cake speech or my Dad telling me what's up when I was younger.

 

[Killer Instinct]

So far the responses in here are pretty decent.

I was expecting ppl to miss the point.

It's the coli. Failure to see the forest for the trees and emotional responses are commonplace here.

 

[kp404]

but but but 29 Sterlings are still there, the c00ns will still be playing basketball for them next season. what about black capitalism? that won't prompt it. how will that change black culture? ahem.

I don't believe in black capitalism because it has never historically worked at all...Read the Book "The Business of Black Power" which details how we ahve tried repeatedly to embrace capitalism but it has destroyed the black community and the whites in cooperation ditched the black owners and they fell into great debt; the playing field got too large so only a small number of blacks are allowed to be owners or else capitalism is disrupted. Capitalism and race are the two driving forces in the creation and sustaining of racial oppression in the United States.

Like I said earlier, a change in the political economy would fix this issue but it starts with social movements from the grassroots level: the workers must united, collectivize, and hurt production; the boycotting of the playoffs by all black players would start a cataclysmic event; sure the players would lose tons of money, but that's what they are afraid of; the owners would be fukked up and the NBA would bleed;

 

[MsBigHead]

Anything to shyt on black people. Its either we are cowards or sterling did nothing wrong......those people are so simpleminded. Harvey Levin did this to shyt on black people not expose Sterling. He knows how these types of situations pan out. He knew the c00ns would come to Sterling's rescue and the rest of us would be so busy fighting the c00ns that his buddy would be ok. Where are all of those white gay people that try to pull us into their battles . Did you really think they would really boycott and protest for us like they expect us to do for them? Which is why I at those that put on the cape for them

 

[kp404]

Perhaps. But to me it's there has to be a harsh wake up call, not to you or me, but to those who value money too much. To me it's no different from Bills Cosby's Pound Cake speech or my Dad telling me what's up when I was younger.

You sir, are correct, and that's the dilemma: where is the wake up call gonna come from and how do we initiate it? I argue mass social movement from the oppressed would do it, but we gotta map it out and it has to be widespread

 

[yo moms]

You've read my posts...have I ever disappeared from a conversation on solution driven methods

Again, I am not a nihilist. I believe racial capitalist oppression can be overturned because it almost did in Reconstruction (See Du Bois' Black Reconstruction). I just said it throughout the thread. if I was Lebron james, I know my net worth, my fan base, my monumental popularity: I would sit out and demand my teammates and other players to stop the playoffs and explain how it would kill the owners' money and they would be forced to remove Sterling. Regardless of their decision, I would sit out. My sitting out as Lebron James would send a shockwave through the global sphere; i would give interviews on why I did it and explain to all ethnicities that this is racial oppression and I demand for Sterling's removal or I will not play. All it takes is for one member of the vanguard to step up and others will follow. Other players will not play and once games are disrupted and television revenue and rating drop, NBA bleeds money, panic ensues, shyt gets done. Other things like community consciousness would follow too because Lebron's counterhegemonic act would be looked at as legendary and be in the history books

this is lebron