NBA Suspends Games After Jacob Blake Shooting

I’m not sure how suspending the NBA Playoffs does anything to get Donald Trump and William Barr out of the White House. If one looks at the last election in 2016 in the three pivotal states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania….somewhere around 70,000 total in those three states determined the election which enabled Donald Trump to take office.

The black turnouts in Milwaukee, Detroit, and Philadelphia were anemic.

I don’t see how canceling the NBA Playoffs in any way energizes the black turnput in those three cities which in essence turned the Electoral College red for David Duke’s candidate of choice.

There are injustices taking place in this country everyday where white people take advantage of uneducated white people. White people abuse white people every day in America.

Black people abuse black people everyday in America. If I recall that was a theme in the movie The Color Purple.

The poor white people in the three states I just listed have in no way been helped by Donald Trump’s presidency. Just ask Dave Chappelle.

I hate to be blunt and direct, but both poor whites and blacks who didn’t vote to keep Donald Trump out of the White House in no way will be aided by the NBA season being cancelled.

In fact…I think doing this will only help Trump.

Freedom and democracy aren’t just given out like Halloween candy. Nor should they be. Some effort is required if you want change.

It’s called voting. It’s called getting more people who aren’t white to participate in the governance of their own country.

I think this is a terrible move by the NBA Players Association.

Jackie Robinson retired from baseball the year I was born in 1957. Several years before that my father and Joe Carter Sr. were refused service in a downtown Oklahoma City cafe.

In my view the election of Barack Obama infused a renewed hatred in certain whites from the old school Silent Majority which was fueled by George Wallace, Richard Nixon and then again in 2016 by Donald Trump.

But these police murders of blacks by police officers aren’t just taking place in the Solid South. They are happening throughout the United States.

What I’m saying here is if Major League Baseball had canceled their season because of all the vile treatment Jackie Robisnon received in his first season what would have happened to other black athletes in other sports? In other realms of our culture?

It is incredibly sad for our country to have literally no presidential leadership on race relations, but that’s where we find ourselves and the only way out is to climb back out of the darkness and into the light together.

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