Undefeated Article on Chamberlain's support of Nixon.

[DynamoEAR]

Playing conservative ball

 

[Juggalo Fred]

Joba can support whoever he wants

 

[The God Poster]

Wilt was bout that PAWG life

 

[bdkane]

You noticed Wilt wasn't in that photo with Ali, Jim Brown, Kareem, and others. He stayed out of the civil rights movement and supported Nixon both times. Arguably(in my mind he is) the greatest basketball player ever but also a superc00n. I know it may be unfair......But one of my litmus tests for people of his generation is what they did during the civil rights movement. For example Hillary Clinton switched to Dem because of civil rights and Reagan went the other way. I find it somewhat effective when you sift through the bullshyt members of that generation say today.
Wilt's c00ning was known then and one of the reason's Kareem couldn't stand him.

 

[Originalman]

You noticed Wilt wasn't in that photo with Ali, Jim Brown, Kareem, and others. He stayed out of the civil rights movement and supported Nixon both times. Arguably(in my mind he is) the greatest basketball player ever but also a superc00n. I know it may be unfair......But one of my litmus tests for people of his generation is what they did during the civil rights movement. For example Hillary Clinton switched to Dem because of civil rights and Reagan went the other way. I find it somewhat effective when you sift through the bullshyt members of that generation say today.
Wilt's c00ning was known then and one of the reason's Kareem couldn't stand him.

Yep and Kareem called him out for that sideways comment he said about black women.

 

[hayesc0]

Yeah Wilt was a lifelong republican seen him
talk about it in interviews

 

[superunknown23]

Jackie Robinson got his wakeup call too

Although Presidents Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson championed what became the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Robinson quit his executive job at Chock Full o’Nuts that spring to campaign for Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York, a Republican, explaining that “we must work for a two-party system, as far as the Negro is concerned.”

But Republicans nominated Barry Goldwater, who opposed the 1964 legislation as unconstitutional. When Rockefeller denounced political extremism at the party’s San Francisco convention, Robinson, a “special delegate,” shouted, “C’mon, Rocky!” As Robinson recalled, an Alabama delegate “turned on me menacingly” before “his wife grabbed his arm and turned him back.”

Spoiling for a fight, Jackie cried, “Turn him loose, lady, turn him loose!” He later wrote with uncharacteristic overstatement that on leaving San Francisco, “I had a better understanding of how it must have felt to be a Jew in Hitler’s Germany.”

That fall, Robinson joined the 94 percent of the African-American electorate that backed President Johnson. (Since then, the percentage of the black vote for Democratic presidential nominees has never dipped below the low 80s.) In 1968, furious over Nixon’s courtship of Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, who had once led the segregationist “Dixiecrats,” Jackie backed the Democratic nominee, Hubert Humphrey.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/07/u...life-and-death-of-a-political-friendship.html

MLK warned him

"The Republican Party geared its appeal and program to racism, reaction, and extremism. All people of goodwill viewed with alarm and concern the frenzied wedding at the Cow Palace of the KKK with the radical right. The "best man" at this ceremony was a senator whose voting record, philosophy, and program were anathema to all the hard-won achievements of the past decade."
- Martin Luther King Jr (July 16, 1964 after witnessing the GOP convention)

When racist white southerners switched to the GOP in 1964, it was a wrap.
The black vote for republicans went from 32% for Nixon in 1960 to 5% for Goldwater in 1964...
That's when they lost the black vote for good.

 

[DynamoEAR]

Joe Louis was on that shyt too.

 

[superunknown23]

Joe Louis was on that shyt too.

shyt was tragic... Dude was okay with the status quo and didn't want any trouble.
Ali called him an Uncle Tom

 

[Koapa]

This is a good thread. Understand what happen in our past so we can make the right decisions when it comes to voting today. The current Republican party done a complete about face since Bush Jr. Years when it comes to black issues. Not saying it was all good but he fukked with us. If the Republicans had an competent Moderate canidate running who would shut down the racist rhetoric and focus on things black folks and the rest of Americans care about like family, jobs, and education, they would beating the shyt outta Hilary right now. But they cant because their party is embedded with racist who put up big money.

 

[who_better_than_me]

Bump

 

[NYC Rebel]

James Brown supported Nixon too.

Black folks shat on JB so bad for it that they started protesting at his shows.

In 1968, Brown endorsed Humphrey for president, though the Black Panthers saw this as an “Uncle Tom” move. Judging Brown as a sellout, some of these critics changed Brown’s nickname to “SoldBrother No. 1.”

JB had his wake up call too when Nixon stopped letting him in the white house after using him. Led JB to produce this cut.

 

[David_TheMan]

You noticed Wilt wasn't in that photo with Ali, Jim Brown, Kareem, and others. He stayed out of the civil rights movement and supported Nixon both times. Arguably(in my mind he is) the greatest basketball player ever but also a superc00n. I know it may be unfair......But one of my litmus tests for people of his generation is what they did during the civil rights movement. For example Hillary Clinton switched to Dem because of civil rights and Reagan went the other way. I find it somewhat effective when you sift through the bullshyt members of that generation say today.
Wilt's c00ning was known then and one of the reason's Kareem couldn't stand him.

Wilt actually helped behind the scenes to integrate a lot of golf courses and etc.
Richard Nixon actually called Corretta and asked to attend MLK's funeral and offer her anything he could, he just didn't want to be photographed. He was at the funeral as well as Wilt, Wilt and Richard helped escort the cascekt on the procession. Wilt saw nixon dipping out and asked Richard for a ride and that was the start of their friendship.

 

[David_TheMan]

I can't for the life of me understand how anyone in this thread can act like the Republican party is evil and not just as bad as the Dems though.
All this time fukking with Dems and them doing nothing and folks still cape for that evil as party that sells blacks up the river.

 

[The War Report]

James Brown supported Nixon too.

Black folks shat on JB so bad for it that they started protesting at his shows.





JB had his wake up call too when Nixon stopped letting him in the white house after using him. Led JB to produce this cut.

James bought into that "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" conservative dogma. He probably believed in it because of his childhood circumstances.