If Black America Turned Its Back On Professional Sports...

[kermit da hustla]

Life in America would change significantly. If we officially boycotted professional sports, refusing to play for their teams, the impact would gravitate at all levels. A leader, someone respected, needs to tell these athletes that they are the slaves of the new age. Their willing participation in this slave industry of professional sports is one of the reasons white America continues to feel unthreatened for its perpetuation of white supremacy.

 

[The Coochie Assassin]

Seahawks need to win a Super Bowl first.

 

[Remote]

Sports owners are business men.
They'll just find other people to fill the void until enough of the black athletes feel the pressure of the public and their families to earn that paycheck.

 

[QuintessentialBM]

Yup and black America would be f**ked too....

 

[SpacelySprockets]

like nikkas is gonna walk away from millions of dollars and unlimited bad bytches

 

[Benjamin Sisko]

Seahawks need to win a Super Bowl first.

Cards before Hags

 

[Carter G. Hoodson]

It doesn't matter what we tell these athletes. It's not in their heart to be a Jim Brown, Tommie Smiths, Kareem, Ali, Russell, Chamberlain, John Carlos of the worlds. These athletes today care about money, not about social change. We cannot resort to vilify them as well. If they're open for discussion, then that's a different story. We cannot rely on these entertainers to be the change. We have to become the change. It starts where you live. You have power through your own voice and you don't know it. Stop putting these athletes on a pedestal. Become the change.

 

[Will Ross]

Getting millions to do what you enjoy does not = slavery.

 

[kermit da hustla]

like nikkas is gonna walk away from millions of dollars and unlimited bad bytches

That takes pride and spiritual fortitude. If they can't do that, we aren't worth shyt!

 

[SpacelySprockets]

That takes pride and spiritual fortitude. If they can't do that, we aren't worth shyt!

 

[Benjamin Sisko]

Getting millions to do what you enjoy does not = slavery.

Getting paid millions to shoot and catch a ball while making BILLIONS for the white man = slavery.

 

[Chris.B]

making millions is now slavery?

Heck I would even pick cotton for the amount of money these guys are making.

 

[Remote]

It doesn't matter what we tell these athletes. It's not in their heart to be a Jim Brown, Tommie Smiths, Kareem, Ali, Russell, Chamberlain, John Carlos of the worlds. These athletes today care about money, not about social change. We cannot resort to vilify them as well. If they're open for discussion, then that's a different story. We cannot rely on these entertainers to be the change. We have to become the change. It starts where you live. You have power through your own voice and you don't know it. Stop putting these athletes on a pedestal. Become the change.

Willingly or not, athletes with a high profile have the attention of the country and in some cases, the world. What they do and don't do has an impact.

When you grow up struggling in a certain paradigm and are lucky enough to succeed despite several obstacles, you kinda do have a moral obligation to try and change it to make it better for others like yourself.
To hide behind this "I'm not a role model" or something like that is rather cowardly...especially considering what people like Jim Brown and Muhammad Ali risked in that very same position.

 

[Dirty_Jerz]

we could just start our own leagues plenty of black football baseball bball players to get it done and enough black moguls to invest into it as well

 

[Will Ross]

Getting paid millions to shoot and catch a ball making BILLIONS for the white man = slavery.

The guy that works at wal mart making 10$ a hr is a slave not the guy making millions playing ball.