It’s crazy how basketball has monopolized tall black men

[King]

Like legitimately.

If you’re a black man in America who’s 6’5+ people will automatically assume you’re either playing basketball or have played basketball before.

If you’re a black child who’s above average in height, chances are you will be approached to join a basketball team. And that’s not even considering mfers who are literally bred to be basketball players. Like people make decisions in advance on who they partner with knowing that their kids will be a certain height, JUST so they can make em play basketball

It’s weird as hell, like some kind of living eugenics. When you take a step back and really look at it, its really fukked up. Like once a black man is past a certain height you cease being a human being with autonomy and become a commodity.

 

[RaspberryFitted]

this reads like a nikka who’s 5’4 and stopped playing basketball once he entered junior high

 

[Wild self]

That's athletic black men nowadays, in general. Society doesn't respect intelligent black men very much, and even if you're a Neil Degrasse Tyson or a Barack Obama they still put you in the backburner.

 

[Chrishaune]

That's athletic black men nowadays, in general. Society doesn't respect intelligent black men very much, and even if you're a Neil Degrasse Tyson or a Barack Obama they still put you in the backburner.

It's made the world look a whole lot different realizing the world doesn't really want to hear from black men. You're at war constantly in this world as a black man. Fighting to survive, to be heard, for respect, for love, for true knowledge and not indoctrination.

 

[Rottweiler]

this reads like a nikka who’s 5’4 and stopped playing basketball once he entered junior high

Or a tall breh that can't hoop

 

[Paper Boi]

 

[africngiant]

Like legitimately.

If you’re a black man in America who’s 6’5+ people will automatically assume you’re either playing basketball or have played basketball before.

If you’re a black child who’s above average in height, chances are you will be approached to join a basketball team. And that’s not even considering mfers who are literally bred to be basketball players. Like people make decisions in advance on who they partner with knowing that their kids will be a certain height, JUST so they can make em play basketball

It’s weird as hell, like some kind of living eugenics. When you take a step back and really look at it, its really fukked up. Like once a black man is past a certain height you cease being a human being with autonomy and become a commodity.

the world puts me in a box for being tall and dark. too many expectations for a sheltered kid just seeing the world. no i can’t dance or do backflips and no im not d1. and no i don’t got a gun im about let off rn to fetish you

 

[Cereal_Bowl_Assassin]

I understand what you're saying but some things shouldn't be a thread

 

[Jaguar93]

This is not a race thing op. Anyone that is tall is expected/asked to hoop. No different than big bruhs being expected/asked to play football.

 

[RaspberryFitted]

Or a tall breh that can't hoop

God forbid brehs can’t capitalize on their natural born gifts because they’d be getting “monopolized”

 

[Treblemaka]

It's made the world look a whole lot different realizing the world doesn't really want to hear from black men. You're at war constantly in this world as a black man. Fighting to survive, to be heard, for respect, for love, for true knowledge and not indoctrination.

When did you realize this? History says this has been the case as long as there have been dominant European empires.

 

[Cloutius Maximus]

this nikka said monoplized. sound like a radical feminist bedwench on tik tok

 

[Phantum]

Hey OP a midget or he snapped after hearing some CAC say "hey how's the weather up there?"

 

[Chrishaune]

When did you realize this? History says this has been the case as long as there have been dominant European empires.

Everybody comes to this realization at a different time. When you're being indoctrinated in U.S. public schools you tend to not see the truth until you are out of it. Being young you think there might be some hope, and it wasn't long ago that we thought Civil Rights was working. Think about the Obama situation. Black people thought it was getting better. That was a lie, and he was a puppet. They use us against us now. Now you have black people in on keeping black folks down as long as they get paid.

 

[RaspberryFitted]

Everybody comes to this realization at a different time. When you're being indoctrinated in U.S. public schools you tend to not see the truth until you are out of it. Being young you think there might be some hope, and it wasn't long ago that we thought Civil Rights was working. Think about the Obama situation. Black people thought it was getting better.

A more concerning issue is despite knowing this, BM across the world still made their voices been known.

What is stopping us from being past BM?