Just
as King Trump’s sinister mission is to “take back America
and make it white again . . .” the NFL owners would like to
“take-back” the NFL and make it white again . . . the
National Football League is the premier cultural battlefield in this
undeniably divided states of America, and both the owners and the
White fan base got the Super Bowl matchup they deeply yearned-for - a
aging “Great White Hope” Field General pitted against a
young “Great White Hope Signal Caller.”
Obviously
Donald Trump believes “life ain’t nothin’ but
grabbing . . . and makin’ money.” However I believe,
because he grew-up in a “Klansmen house” - note his momma
n’ daddy were running-around in white sheets - his unbridled
greed has a philosophical base, at least as “philosophical”
as a meatheaded-pimp might formulate - which screams “racist,
sexist, disconnected from reality rich boy.” A rich boy, in
the identical vein as most of the NFL owners who also apparently
support and share Trump’s mission to return this nation to
yesteryear.
Lord
Donald is unofficially the official Grand Pooh-Bah of
the evil-ass angry white male empire - he speaks-for and
sympathises-with the most racist elements within mainstream rank m’
file everyday white America - their monolithic goal - to “take
back,” dig this - ”their” America, and to
make it “white” again, back-to when everything was
“peachy king” for white men. America is a nation-caught
up in a rapidly heating-up cold civil war, one which has most
white folks on one side . . . and everybody but the “sellouts”
on the other side. On both these ideological sides you’ve got
sportsfans, and Trump’s jock supporters want to “take-back”
their NFL and make it white . . . as it profoundly and
purposefully was in say 1938 - when no Blacks were permitted to play.
Or perhaps return the game to it’s 1965 demographics when each
team had a single token, negro. ok maybe two or four - we had to be
in “pairs” for rooming arrangements on the road.
That
segregated USA is what Trump’s America yearns for.
“Re-gentrification” is merely 21st century wording for .
. “re-segregation.” Ponder the thought . . . ..
Time-out!
sideline point: I’d argue, to the cows come home that those
decades of exclusion and discrimination, in which blacks weren’t
permitted to participate those stars and their records ought have
big-ass asterisks attached to them because the best athletes were
deliberately and strategically banned from playing - Slingin’
SammY Baugh, Johnny U, the Galloping Ghost . . . who is to say these
men would have chalked-up these records if Black gladiators were
allowed to strap-on a helmet and lace up some cleats . . . you know.
Bart Starr or Larry Csonka might not have made the team.
Time-in!
Trump is only expressing a widely-held “gut-feeling” held
and shared by, yes, let’s be blunt here - most white men
and about half of all white women, and the NFL roundtable of fat-cat
owners know that disdain, contempt and dislike of Black folks by
white folks is an unquestionable fact of US life. White folks like
their Black mandingo warriors to be docile, obidennant and
non-opinionated. Kaepernick was just the opposite - ”uppity.”
The
owners grasp the simplicity of the moment: if they “hire”
Kaepernick the Redneck fan base will snap, pop and crackle.
Trump
has crumbled, “caved” on the “shut down,”
lost credibility with the good ol boys n’ gals - real white
folk. If any franchise “caves” and signs Kaepernick it
will open a can of neo-confederates - tickets/merchandising will take
a hit. And that will be just the beginning.
The
Kaepernick blackballing is simple, yet complex: he’s a
Quarterback. You have to understand that within the male
soap-opera that the NFL is. Manning the “Field General”
position was not a possibility for Afro-American men for decades
because we were, as Trump backers still do behind closed doors
believe - far too dumb, lazy, and lacking of character, backbone,
grit - name the positive attribute . . and we were “equipped”
with enough of the ”Right stuff” to be a “Signal
Caller” on the gridiron. A black QB couldn’t grasp
complex offenses and they couldn’t breakdown and dissect
complicated NFL defenses - we could just run fast.
Ain’t
that a bitch?!
And
please note, if we did play the “Signal Caller”
position, the “real” fear was we’d redefine
the QB position, inject passion, atletism, creativity, a calm n’
coolness which is the ebony gladiator - see Russell Wilson, see Pat
Mahomes, see Cam , see Deshawn Watrson. White guys knew Wwe’d
“Ali” the QB position, transform it to a point where,
honestly most White guys couldn’t play the position. Think the
Running Back, Receiver and Defensive Back positions -. and with
that domination of a high & mighty alpha-male slot like NFL
Quarterback comes perks: like fame, fortune and . . .
blond-haired, blue eyed shapely cheerleaders, models, teachers,
nurses, stewardess drawn to this “alpha-male position.
Quarterbacks
are that rare combo of “brains and brawn” - in a
barbaric sport where you seperate the men from the the dudes who
can’t take it.
So
see, as we know, a nation’s pastimes reflect the greater
overall society, and vice-versa.
The
fifty-third Super Bowl is unfolding in a climate which is heating-up
- Upon singing the National Anthem, the iconic Gladys Knight is on
that Midnight Train to damnation and scorn because she's being used
by the NFL owners - a useful idiot - who’s aiding and abetting
those who oppose Black Power.
I
love her work, nonetheless she’s allowing herself to be pimped
and exploited by a multi-billion dollar operation which believes
Black folks should be “seen, but not heard.” It’s
insulting, but then again the NFL has been insulting Blacks for a
while now, we exchange our manhood for cold cash. Super Bowl weekend
would be the time to “threaten/promise a labor strike, a player
boycott if Kaepernick isn’t signed to a team by opening day of
the 2019-20 season.
Seize
the opportunity and time while you can. Exercise “Black Power!”
Just
a revolutionary thought.
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