I don’t consider myself white even though my birth certificate says I’m white. I was the darkest kid at both my elementary and junior high schools.
There were times I was called a nigger, a half nigger, a wop, and a spic. It hurt. But for me sports was an equalizer. I was the starting third baseman on two state AAU baseball teams and not a terrible football player when I was trying. I was a starting two guard in junior high.
Sports gave me the chance to silence those comments by some weak white kids who weren’t taught any better by their parents.
Then when I went to John Marshall for high school half of the student body was black. I fit right in. Sports have been an equalizer for non-whites because the whites want to win.
You think Mullet King Mike Gundy would be making $5 million a year if he only had played white running backs and receivers?
You think that O-State fans? Cause let me tell you something you are completely full of shit if that’s what you think. It is a completly different deal with the speed of the black athlete. Night and day.
Same tbing with Barry Switzer. You think Barry Switzer would have won without black players at OU? Barry Switzer hosted a Donald Trump fundraiser at his home in 2016 which is absolutely shameful.
Same thing with Bobby Knight. You think Bobby Knight would have won a national championship without Quinn Buckner, Scott May, Isiah Thomas, or Keith Smart?
And while I understand the pain and frustration of Kenny Smith and the black athlete in our society…like Shaq…I ask how does this move anything forward?
It doesn’t.
Black people were getting murdered during the eight years of Barack Obama. Chicago became a war zone. When Michael Bloomberg was mayor of NYC he instituted stop and frisk because in a certain geographical region of his jurisdiction people were getting murdered at an alarming rate.
I just don’t think calling off the NBA season does anything of consequence.
It has to start in the black communities with black men becoming better fathers and dedicating themselves to their sons becoming strong contributors to society. This applies to white fathers across this country as well. Some of you suck as fathers as well. Try and be a role model for your son. Try and make sure they don’t turn out like Fred or Donald Trump.
Your dream should be your son becomes a better man than you. That was always my dream for Chris Jackson. Mission accomplished.
Easier said than done for sure, but for me that’s where all of this starts. Canceling the NBA season does nothing except signal a surrender to Donald Trump and other racists like him in white mainstream America.