Mo’Nique wants you to boycott Netflix

Even tho i told u don't quote me smh

u mean the NBA, that was segregated?

So only white players could play

That has only one minority owner

White Ppl didn't create or are representative of the game today

That crap they played back then before they left blacks play was as much ball as you know it as ping pong is tennis

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~class/am483_97/projects/walters/mjbball.html

Basketball: The Black Game

Just as important to the Jordan icon as his amazing play and remarkable marketing skill is the game he plays. Basketball is no longer the strictly white game that it was when James Naismith invented it as an American sport in 1892. On January 15 of that year the sport was first played in recognized and organized fashion in YMCA's around Springfield, Massachussetts. As the game's appeal continued to grow, it spread to universities around the country as a game played dominantly by whites. But this white domination did not last long because blacks began to play the game in the cities as a sport of their own in post-Civil War America. It has come a long way from Naismith's original game -- so far, in fact that the original peach "baskets" on barns have turned into rusted metal rims with chain "nets" on courts covered with broken glass in the inner city ghettos. It is now this image that defines a game that truly has become an African-American game. Black Americans have "invented" basketball just as much, or more than, Naismith did. Basketball has become a reflection of black ghetto culture, much in the form of jazz and blues music represented black culture in the American past. (George: xvii) Especially to lower class blacks in the inner cities of America, basketball has become one of the most expressive modes of cultural expression -- much like music, literature and fashion in other forms. It has become a ritual of expression.

"Basketball was originally invented as a white man's game." This quote from Michael Novack's The Joy of Sports is featured on the first page of Nelson George's Elevating the Game. (George: 1) But the game no longer is. It has ultimately become a black game. Basketball has developed in terms of socio-economic, cultural and ethnic spheres alike as it has evolved into a game continually created and dominated by blacks. It has become a cultural object in this sense. Blacks first began playing organized basketball together in large numbers at the collegiate level. In 1916, nine educators, coaches and faculty members from Hampton Institute, Shaw, Lincoln, Virginia Union and Howard universities formed the first black college conference, the Central Interscholastic Athletic Association. (George: 23) It was first in these organized black leagues and in the unorganized and spontaneous games on the streets that blacks started to define American basketball.

In the city some argue it has become much more than a game. In these areas " ... it also became a way of ritualizing racial achievement against social barriers to cultural performance." (Dyson: 66-67) It is this game which has helped to produce the entity of Michael Jordan and it is this game which he represents culturally. The game of basketball brings the black man to mind immediately because it is primarily a game dominated by blacks. Sixty-one percent of NCAA Division I college basketball players are black. Eighty percent of NBA players are black. Thirty -four percent of white men interviewed in a December 1997 Sports Illustrated poll agreed that "African-American players have become so dominant in sports like football and basketball that many white athletes feel they can't compete at the same level." (Price: 33) A distinct divergence in the game of basketball has become the domination of the sport by blacks. The NBA has not even had a true white superstar since the Boston Celtics' legendary Larry Bird retired in 1991.

Players of the game do not even deny this difference. Orlando Magic center Rony Seikley said "If 80% of the league is black, that means that black players are better than white players ... the black players are superior. No doubt." (Price: 40) This black game is the game played on the street where basketball means more than winning and losing. The black domination of basketball may be the result of how much it means to inner-city black players -- it often becomes the greatest piece of culture they have, something they will fight for and something at which they will fight to be the best. Just as in the Nike P.L.A.Y. campaign when Jordan asked "If there were no sports, would I still be your hero?" sports -- especially basketball -- are a tremendously valuable cultural object to inner city youth. Many coaches believe that it is the desire of inner-city black players that separates them from other white players. William Ellerbee, head basketball coach at Simon Gratz High school in Philadelphia -- a national powerhouse in basketball -- agrees with this hypothesis. Ellerbee believes "Suburban kids tend to play for the fun of it ... but inner city kids look at basketball as a matter of life and death." (Price: 36) The white basketball player often is simply not as hungry as the black athlete and therefore black players often come out on top.

It is exactly this life-or-death style that defines what the game of basketball is known as today -- the black brand of basketball. Nelson George emphasizes this definition in Elevating the Game when he declares "The Black aesthetic has not only changed basketball but, after a rough period in the seventies, has been the catalytic force behind the sport's extraordinary growth in popularity and profitability ever since." (George: xx) To many blacks in the inner-city in America, basketball is much more than a sport -- it is a form of education and expression. African-American culture from the city has brought a much more graceful, speed-oriented, physical, all-around skill aspect to basketball. Basketball, especially in these areas, teaches social skills, rights of passage, creativity and cultural identity.

While some authors -- George and Dyson both acknowledge this -- discuss how the allure of professional basketball can lead some blacks down a road which will only end in frustration, most still respect the fact that the game of basketball is -- at the heart -- based on black cultural identity. In fact, according to George, this temptation is not at all the fault of the blacks who helped create it, but instead the fault of the white-dominated institutions that attempt to glorify it. George said, "The white universities and NBA made basketball glamorous with the promise of millionaire contracts, throwing out of whack the role of basketball in Black America and leading all but 2 percent of Black athletes down a road to frustration." (George: xx) While some criticize Jordan himself for contributing to this false allure with his multi-million dollar contracts and endorsement deal, this is not truly his responsibility -- he has used his incredible brand of black basketball to thrust himself into the public eye as a symbol of excellence, integrity, grace, financial wizardry and black culture itself. Jordan has not forgotten his black heritage -- in fact he performs a part of it every time he steps on the court.
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hand2handking said:
36 ppl is A LOT of heat?

or the gay counter protesters?

or was it elton john supporting him?
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Pretty sure GLAAD is bigger than 36 people :lol:

You might just be too young. He got the Marilyn Manson treatment for a while in the early 2000's.

Since the debut of The Slim Shady LP in 1999, critics, civil rights organizations, and music fans with consciences have blasted Eminem over the rampant use of lyrics in his songs that could be construed as homophobic, or, at the very least, hateful and offensive to the gay community.
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getback said:
Pretty sure GLAAD is bigger than 36 people :lol:

You might just be too young. He got the Marilyn Manson treatment for a while in the early 2000's.
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nah

none of that stopped dude from making millions right?

being this "credible" rapper?

you say marilyn manson treatment like marilyn manson doesnt deserve marilyn manson treatment

and glaad might be so why they could only get 36 there to protest at the biggest show in town?

prolly had more gay counter protestors there supporting him
 
hand2handking said:
nah

none of that stopped dude from making millions right?
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Of course not. I've never claimed it to. I was merely adding to criticism he's faced in the eyes of the public.

being this "credible" rapper?
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Never claimed that either. I thought he was talented, but never my flavor.

you say marilyn manson treatment like marilyn manson doesnt deserve marilyn manson treatment
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Why do you think Marilyn Manson deserved the criticism he got? Dude was a just a weirdo who sang rock music. Then the catholic church came out and slandered the hell out of him. I have a bigger beef with the catholic church TBH. Marilyn Manson has zero effect me.

glaad might be so why they could only get 36 there to protest at the biggest show in town?
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IDK I heard LA traffic is rough though.
 
i was under the impression that marilyn manson was a satan worshipper

like an active recruiter of devil worshippers

like ive never heard anyone say marilyn manson was just a "rock artist"
 
hand2handking said:
hell maybe you a recruiter

maybe thats what you do

i didnt bring up marilyn manson

:nerd:
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No I just don't think people with an unconventional set of beliefs deserve to be ostracized because they look or talk different :nerd:

But you made it sound like Marilyn Manson deserved all the backlash he got so I guess we don't see eye to eye on that. Donald Trump and the GOP would probably welcome your take with open arms.
 
they probably opened their arms to manson first

neo nazism and satanism are closer related than manson being the symbol of liberal identity
 
I'm saying tho. These dudes are the black GOP.

They hold the same exclusionary mindset.
 
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