BOBBEE BEE: PLAYING PLANTATION POLITICS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL AND DAVID STERN

We, at Blackathlete.net, felt this article should be re-posted, especially with the Donald Sterling issue still being a hot topic on the nightly news and the 2014 NBA Draft coming up.
 

“I work like a slave to become a master” — Antonio Hardy a.k.a. (Big Daddy Kane)
 

NORTH CAROLINA (BASN) — Despite what anyone thinks, America was built on the foundation of “white supremacy and Black inferiority.” Therefore, most relationships formed between whites and non-whites are based on a “master-slave relationship.”

I see it every year around draft time, whether it’s the NFL Draft or the NBA Draft.

Surprisingly, these two highly-rated televised events look shockingly similar to the slave auctions of the past. For those that disagree or are upset with me for making this obvious comparison, let’s not forget that somewhat controversial Sports Illustrated cover with Sir Charles Barkley entitled “Charles Unchained” in which Barkley posed as a “slave” with chains around his neck, wrist and ankles.
 

So as you watch the NBA Draft, carefully observe how all of these white reporters, agents, PR directors, managers, coaches, executives, and owners start advising Black athletes to smile more, wear this and not that, stop looking so mean and lose the attitude.

Why? Because, they are now official property of the NBA. The key word is property. And they can be traded like cattle at anytime.

The New Form of Branding

Why? Because they are slaves to the system,” branded” by corporations like Nike, Reebok, Gatorade, Wheaties, and Hanes.

Consider Cam Newton’s situation last year in Alabama, where Under Armour apparel had a $10.6 million contract with the University of Auburn.Under that particular contract, Newton was contractually obligated to wear at less 12 to 15 logos every game.
 

According to Taylor Branch, an author of the new book Cartel, “Newton had four Armour logos on his helmet, one on each wristband, one on each shoe and one on his head band underneath his helmet.”

“This was all specified by the NCAA office. They said they had to be an exact size…” said Branch, a civil rights historian.And even though, we hate to admit it. This system is strikingly similar to the one that help build America

“They regulate the commercial side of sports and promote it, right down to the tiniest detail while forbidden the athlete from selling their jersey.”
Yes, these new corporate logos are a new form of branding in this system of capitalistic exploitation, where athletes provide free labor without pay, especially in college.
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Sports and Slavery

Therefore, if athletes, collegiate or professionally, speak out against this injustice or act unruly, they will be “cut,” replaced, and even “shipped” overseas for their insubordination.

Yes, these NBA owners and general managers have the ability to “kill” careers with the stroke of a pen, because the pen is mightier than the sword.

As a result, they begin to braking down these young athletes physically, psychologically, spiritually and sometimes sexually as if they were “slaves” who had been traveling in packed slave ships during the Middle Passage before being dropped off in the Caribbean Islands.

Because during these NBA or NFL Combines, they are questioned, provoked, challenged, tested, weighted, measured, humiliated and “whipped” into shape for their personal entertainment.
 

Let’s not forget, what happened to the Dallas Cowboy first round draft pick Dez Bryant during a pre-draft interview this year in Miami when Dolphins’ general manager Jeff Ireland asked him if his mother was a prostitute.
 

But despite all of this probing, these young Black athletes like Bryant must remain calm and never show any sign of anger.
 

They, in fact, must continue to smile, bear it, and “take it like a man.”

Why? Because, nobody wants to see an angry Black man.

Men versus children

Unfortunately for all of these high-paid athletes, expressing any form of Black manhood is frowned upon by league officials.

The league officials unconsciously or consciously like to see their athletes acting childish or child-like.

In other words, they prefer them to be dumb and dribbling balls or running up and down the court or field instead of being intelligent business-minded men.

With that said, notice how NBA superstar Dwyane Wade reacted when Commissioner David Stern started pointing his finger in his face during NBA negotiations.

“Don’t point your finger at me, I’m not a child.” yelled Wade.

Master-Slave Relationship

The Wade and Stern confrontation sparked a controversial commentary from HBO’s Real Sports host Bryant Gumbel, who is quoted as saying: “Stern’s version of what has been going on behind closed doors has of course been disputed, but his efforts were typical of a commissioner who has always seemed eager to be viewed as some kind of modern plantation overseer, treating NBA men as if they were his boys. It’s part of Stern’s M.O., like his past self-serving edicts on dress code and the questioning of officials. His moves were intended to do little more than show how he’s the one keeping the hired hands in their place.”

Remember what I previous stated earlier in this article that most relationships established between whites and non-whites are based upon “a master-slave relationship.”
Gumbel’s commentary highlighted this theory when he called Stern “a modern plantation overseer”

But where have we seen this type of behavior before in the NBA?

Do you remember Cleveland Cavaliers’ owner Dan Gilbert’s “fathead remarks toward LeBron James’ when he decided to “take his talents to Miami” ?

Gilbert’s words were so harsh and mean-spirited that they prompted the Rev.Jesse Jackson, of the Rainbow Push Coalition to say, “His (Gilbert’s) feelings of betrayal personify a slave master mentality. He sees LeBron as a runaway slave.”Jackson’s statement, of course, upset a few white reporters and caused a slight uproar in the sports and entertainment world.

For instance, TMZ’s Harvey “I am a Lawyer” Levin replied “that is absurd…come on.”

As Levin smirked at Jackson’s slavery comparison, one of his paparazzi storm troopers made the sarcastic joke, “You know the difference between a slave and Lebron’s situation ……about 65 million dollars,” which drew a few chuckles in the room.

Here is another classic example of that superior attitude, in which, they try to interpret our emotions and downplay our opinions on situations that affects us. I, however, suggest that they all read “40 Million Dollar Slaves” by William C. Rhoden.

After reading “40 Million Dollar Slaves”, hearing Gilbert’s rants plus analyzing Gumbel’s lastest commentary, maybe they will see things a little differently.

Eric D.Graham, a graduate of Winston-Salem State University, where he received a B.A. in Mass Communication with a concentration in Radio and Television, with a minor in History, with an emphasis in African-American Studies, is currently the Managing Editor of Black Athlete Sports Network, where his articles appear daily along with his controversial cartoon character Bobbee Bee “The Hater.” Graham can be reached at lbiass34@yahoo.com

BOBBEE BEE: The Politics of Corruption: Taking a closer look at college sports

With the recent scandal involving Texas A&M and Johnny Manziel, we, at BlackAthlete.com, felt it was necessary to re-publish this excellent article.
NORTH CAROLINA–(BASN)”In life, never forget the golden rule. Those with the gold make the rules.” The government of the United States should investigate the BCS and the NCAA like it was the MOB.

It should infiltrate it as if it was a Mega Church full of prosperity pimps or a drug cartel.

Why? Because according to certain reports, a university like THE OHIO STATE can make millions of dollars a year while an athlete, like Terrelle Pryor “shamefully” makes $40,000 from signing his autograph on a few sports items, is criminalized and vilified.

While pondering that scenario, one must conclude that the NCAA is a bunch of white collar criminals.

They are, in fact, no different from these corporate CEOs, who make millions of dollars off of cheap labor in “so-called” third world countries. But for some odd reason, the media focuses its attention on punishing those, who commit blue collar “crimes.”

The Blame Game
Therefore, they accuse Reggie Bush rather than USC for the problem.

They blame Cam Newton instead of Mississippi State for the problem.

They punish Terrelle Pryor instead of Ohio State for the problem.

As a result, in the end, they bailout the universities instead of the players like President Obama bailed out the bankers on Wall Street.

This is similar to the War on Drugs in the USA, where they lock up petty street hustlers or the small time drug users instead of arresting the big-time drug kingpins.

Former Ohio State (RB) Maurice Clarett confirmed this recently on the Dan Patrick Show when he said, “It’s not a Terrelle Pryor problem. It’s not a Jim Tressel problem, it’s a culture….” '
Clarett was correct.

The problem begins and ends with a culture that has been corrupt from the top down, and not from the bottom up.
A System of Pimps and Hoes

 To be brutally honest, college athletics is a system of pimps and hoes.

To prove this point, recently South Carolina Gamecocks football head coach Steve Spurrier offered a payment proposal, where the coaches would pay the players $300 a game out of their own pockets.
But many sports analysts felt that Spurrier’s proposal to pay players was simply a clever recruiting tool for South Carolina and the SEC.

“A bunch of us coaches felt so strongly about it that we would be willing to pay it–70 guys 300 bucks a game.”

“This is only $21,000 a game. I doubt it will get passed, but as coaches in the SEC, we make all the money, as do universities, and television. And we need to get more to our players….” said Spurrier, who makes $2.5 million a year not including other bonuses.

If this ain’t a pimp-move, I don’t know what is.

The Fear of Socialism in Sports

Spurrier’s proposal to pay players, in effect, had a few shrewd capitalists feeling as if he was practicing some weird form of Socialism.

But did Spurrier really want to “share the wealth” like President Obama suggested during his 2008 campaign? According to NCAA President Mark Emmert, Spurrier’s payment proposal would destroy the “sacredness” of college athletics.


“I think paying players by game doesn’t make any sense to me at all.” Emmert said.

“Are you going to pay them for every game they go to, are you going to pay them for women’s volleyball, and why $300, why not $600, why not $1000.

If you are just paying them for a game why not $3,000?” he scolded. “Where do you set that number and why do you set that number? That’s converting student-athletes into employees and I’m adamantly opposed to that and I think that would be the death of intercollegiate athletics.”

Despite Emmert’s disapproval of paying college athletes, he can’t deny the fact that college sports is a big business.

College athletics is a Big Business.

How big a business is it?

According to the dailybeast.com, during the 20 day basketball extravaganza known as March Madness, the NCAA makes $185 million on corporate sponsorships plus $300 million off of NCAA merchadise sales, while $770 million is spend on TV license fees, $613.8 million on television advertisement, and $7.5 million on beer sells.

Seeing those numbers, there is no question, college athletics is a big business.

And to understand the game, just like politics, one must follow the money.
Politics of Corruption

Why? Because there is a Politics of Corruption running college sports.

What do I mean by a politics of corruption? When you look at the word politics, the first part of the word “poli” which means many.

And the last part of the word is tics, which means a bloodsucker.

Therefore, by definition the term politics means “many bloodsuckers.”

And without a doubt, we all have to agree that the NCAA is sucking the life force of these young college athletes by collecting billions of dollars annually off of their blood, sweat, and tears.

Even though we know that this form of economic exploitation is wrong, the philosophy of college sports of see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil protects this evil empire.

Football Rules

Why? Because there is a code of silence that governs the game.

For instance, you know the old saying, “What happens in Vegas; Stays in Vegas.”

Well, that phrase is a little different in college sports.

The motto for many universities: is football rules or basketball rules.

Therefore, there are no rules.

Why? Because, football is the cash cow.

And you are not going to kill the holy cow, if it is worshipped and viewed as being sacred by the people in order to feed a few hungry athletes hamburgers for dinner. But this golden calf must be destroyed just like Moses, the Lawgiver, did in the Bible….

In other words, there must be some new laws or commandments to govern this growing entity.

A system driven by greed.

According to Jesse Jackson, of the Rainbow Push Coalition, Capitalism only works if they are checks and balances.

Well, if it is true for Capitalism, it is true for the NCAA.
But this will be a difficult task, because greed drives both of these institutions.

And in a world, where we worship the rich and despise the poor, the rich will always get richer.

Not surprisingly, the NCAA is a microcosm of the macrocosm.
In other words, it is a capitalistic system based off of exploitation, where profit over the people is the law of the land.

Or should I say, profit over the players is the law of the field or the court.

But now this capitalistic system is slowly collapsing, as more universities are being investigated.
And with each investigation, more scandals are surfacing.

Why? Because the NCAA is not a democracy.

It is not governed of, for, and by the people or the players.

It is a plutocracy.

Rich getting richer
A plutocracy means ruled for the rich by the rich.
And a plutocracy’s only purpose is to protect the wealth of the rich.

Therefore, the biggest threat to a plutocracy is for the peasants or the players to revolt against the system.
The sense of rebellion can be seen with the new “one and done” phenomenon occurring in college basketball.

But let’s remember the famous words of Frederick Douglas, who said “Power concedes nothing without demand."

 Therefore, maybe all college athletes should unite, organize and boycott the NCAA and create and articulate a list of demands.

This type of athletic alliance could spark a revolution in college sports like none other and potentially change the way the game is played.

If this happens, then, and only then, will the ball truly be in the hands of the players.

If this doesn’t happen, college athletes will continue to be exploited while the rich get richer and richer.

Eric D.Graham is a graduate of Winston-Salem State University, where he received a B.A. in Mass Communication with a concentration in Radio and Television and a minor in History, with an emphasis in African-American Studies. Currently, he is the Editor and Chief of Black Athlete Sports Network, where his articles appear daily along with his controversial cartoon character Bobbee Bee “The Hater.”Graham can be reached at lbiass34@yahoo.com

BOBBEE BEE: MY LETTER TO RASHAD McCANTS

By Eric Graham 

Staff Reporter

www.blackathlete.com
This is a letter to the next generation of high school basketball players hoping to get a scholarship from a Division I school.

 Money talks and bull**** walks.

College basketball is a business.
Point blank.

Let’s be truthful.

Your ball handlings skills pay my bills.

It pays for my luxury home.
It pays for my daughter’s college tuition .
It pays for my wife’s fancy car and my mistress’s fur coat.
And for my son’s cocaine habit…

See, despite what you have been told…

Nobody cares if you are 6-foot tall and can dunk a basketball.

Nobody cares whether you graduate.

Nobody cares about your major, your minor or your lousy G.P.A .

Why? Because, we gave you a scholarship to play ball, nothing else.
Learning is secondary; but Winning is primary.
Why? Because this is your job.
This is not a game.
And the brutal bottom-line is…. you win or I get fired.

You win or you get benched.
You win or you go somewhere else.
You either win or get replaced by the next group of eager recruits coming the following year.

It’s a cold capitalistic reality.
This is a human assembly line.

And, we can manufacture another You, next year.

A taller model, a slick version, a better dribbler, a sharper shooter and a higher jumper.
Yes, this is a system of exploitation.
And you will be exploited.

The system is based off of the Willie Lynch letter; you were too stupid to read.
It has just been updated and modified to meet the modern-day times.

Matter of fact, you are nothing special.
You are no different from the next guy standing next to you because once you “blow-out” your knee; I’ll be giving your jersey to someone else.

I know it is cruel but you better get used to it.
Because we make the rules, change the rules, and modify them to benefit us and only us.

Why? Because…We make the money, we make the merchandise, we sign the lucrative contracts, and you just better pray your sweet Black ass …..  that you are good enough to get drafted in the NBA in the first round.

Why? Because, this is how things work around here.

And if you don’t like it, you can go back to the street corner in the hood and play pick-up games in the park with your homeboys.

Listen, do you hear those fans cheering and screaming your name.

You can’t get that type of adulation anywhere else in the world.

But those same cheers can turn to boos within a minute and disappear in a second with a bad pass, a missed shot, or a stupid decision.

If you want it, you can have it.
If not, give the pen to the next kid and let him sign his name on the dotted line.

And hurry up…because my baby needs a pair of shoes.

Eric D.Graham, a graduate of Winston-Salem State University, where he received a B.A. in Mass Communication with a concentration in Radio and Television, with a minor in History, with an emphasis in African-American Studies, is currently the Managing Editor of Black Athlete Sports Network, where his articles appear daily along with his controversial cartoon character Bobbee Bee “The Hater.” Graham can be reached at lbiass34@yahoo.com or go to www.bobbeethehater.blogspot.com 

BOBBEE BEE: Breaking Down Donald Sterling: Bigotry, Basketball and a Billion Dollar Blow-Job pt.3

 by Eric D.Graham

     

So when the Jews were punished and beaten and murdered, they left Spain. Where did you go? Went into the Caribbean. Went into South America and you became plantation owners. That is why many Jewish people don’t want us to talk about reparations. I’m not a hater, just get that out of your mind. My passion is for truth and justice. But no Jewish person who will be brave enough to read your history will come away saying your hands are cleaned. Here’s a book, where’s my book? Here it is – it’s called The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews… One of our brothers, brother Allen, did research in Jewish libraries, he never quoted a rabbi or Jewish scholar who was a hater of the Jewish people. He put out this book.”  -The Honorable Louis Farrakhan, Saviours’ Day Speech, Chicago, 2/29/04

NORTH CAROLINA-(BASN)-In a week were TMZ revealed old footage of a young pop star Justin Bieber telling racist jokes and singing “Nigger love songs,  and actor Jonah Hill hurling an anti-gay slur at a paparazzo in California, another one of Donald Sterling’s “alleged” mistresses, Maiko Maya King, who served as his “personal assistant” between 2005 and 2011, claimed he fired her after  she complained about his “racist and sexist taunts.”

King, who claimed to be in a romantic relationship with Sterling, stated that the former LA Clippers owner said in reference to her ex-husband and their children, “Why would you bring black people into the world?”  “Black people do not take care of their children. All they do is sit at home and smoke dope.”

As more and more people come out of the closet revealing Sterling’s ‘racist philosophy on life and bigoted believes, we, as Black people, will, probably, honestly, never find out how many other owners in the NBA feel the same way that Mister Sterling does….

Seriously, how many people living in LA have been in the company of Sterling in the last 30 years, in private, at restaurants, parties, in the sky box, in exclusive board meetings, who’ve heard him spit out some of this racist venom  and said nothing, while secretly believing it to be true?

Let’s not forget, Sterling is, or was, the longest tenured owner in the NBA (33 years) up until this bombshell of a tape being released by TMZ and NBA Commissioner Adam Silver banning him for life from the league.

In Sterling’s defense, however, how many of us are living up to the stereotypes that the former LA Clippers owner is projecting and believes represents us as a people?

 Let’s not pretend that we haven’t sat stupidly in front of distasteful television shows like Jerry Springer and Maury Povich, who have richly profited off of our foolishness, which were produced and promoted by Hollywood.
With that said, we really have to take a serious look at the Black/ Jews relationship in this country. For this reason, I am thankful for www.blackfives.org for providing www.blackathlete.com with an in-depth history of the Black-Jewish relationship in Basketball with their excellent piece entitled The Original Nexus of Blacks and Jews in Basketball.
I, however, decided to take a look at this relationship from a different angle or a different vintage point, which many may feel is too controversial to address.

That’s why, I feel, at the this time, we must revisit Dr. Tony Martin’s book The Jewish Onslaught: Despatches from the Wellesley Battlefront as well as the Secret Relationships Between Blacks and Jews, which was published in 1991 by the Nation of Islam, which exposes the fact that many “so-called Jews” participated in the international slave trade, which brought the bodies of kidnapped Africans to the shores of the called “New World” despite scholars crafty efforts to camouflage it,  especially after hearing Sterling’s comments.

Before we start to analyze and breakdown Sterling’s comments, let’s first take a closer look at some of the key points and highlights from the Secret Relationships Between Blacks and Jews collected and complied by the NOI Research Group:

Nine out of ten Africans were shipped to Brazil. Jewish scholar Dr. Arnold Wiznitzer described the early Jewish presence there: Besides their important position in the sugar industry and in tax farming, they dominated the slave trade….The buyers who appeared at the auctions were almost always Jews, and because of this lack of competitors they could buy slaves at low prices.
 

According to Wiesenthal Center scholar Dr. Harold Brackman, during the 1600s “slave trading in Brazil became a ‘Jewish’ mercantile specialty in much the same way it had been in early medieval Europe.” Arnold Wiznitzer Jewish scholar Jonathan Schorsch wrote, “Jewish merchants routinely possessed enormous numbers of slaves temporarily before selling them off.” The Jewish Encyclopedia adds, “Jewish commercial activity” in this time included a “monopoly of the slave trade.” The synagogue in Brazil imposed a tax on its members’ slaves. Slave auctions were postponed if they fell on a Jewish holiday.

The Jews of Surinam owned plantations with Hebrew names like Machanayim, Nachamu, and Goshen, where, according to Dr. Marcus Arkin, they used “many thousands” of Black slaves. Rabbi Herbert I. Bloom added that the “slave trade was one of the most important Jewish activities here…” In 1694, Jews owned 9,000 Africans, and by 1791 there were 100 “Jewish mulattoes”in Surinam—the unwanted result of the rape of African women by their Jewish enslavers.

Jewish historian Dr. Cecil Roth wrote that the slave revolts in parts of South America “were largely directed against [Jews], as being the greatest slave-holders of the region.”

The Jews of Barbados, wrote one Jewish scholar, “made a good deal of their money by purchasing and hiring out negroes…” All Barbadian Jews—including the rabbi—owned Black slaves. Jews warehoused so many African slaves in Barbados that Gentile authorities moved to limit the number of captives they could possess. Jews became the major traders in “refuse slaves“—Africans who were weak and sick from the Middle Passage voyage. Jewish traders “fattened them up“and sold them at a profit.

Jews set up militias with the sole purpose of fighting the Black Maroons, the escaped Africans who were fighting to free their enslaved brethren. The Jewish militias murdered the Maroons and cut off their hands to award as trophies. The first Hebrew poem written in the “New World” was a bitter attack on the Black Maroon leaders.
Jewish scholars Isaac and Susan Emmanuel reported that in Curaçao, which was a major slave-trading depot, “the shipping business was mainly a Jewish enterprise.” Rabbi Marc Lee Raphael wrote that in Curaçao in the seventeenth century, as well as in Barbados and Jamaica in the eighteenth century, “Jewish merchants played a major role in the slave trade.”


A Jewish shipper had a monopoly on trade to the notorious slave dungeon at Gorée Island—the Auschwitz of the Black Holocaust.
After reading a few of the excerpts from this well-researched book:Secret Relationships Between Blacks and Jews, they are still those who claim that the book is biased and shouldn’t be used by students of history.

One of those objecting to the research collected in these two volumes of work includes David Brion Davis, Sterling Professor of History Yale University, who said: “[Much of the historical evidence regarding Jewish involvement in the slave system is biased by deliberate Spanish efforts to encourage anti-Semitism in Holland…. Given this long history of conspiratorial fantasy and collective scapegoating, a selective search for Jewish slave traders becomes inherently anti-Semitic unless one keeps in view the larger context and the very marginal place of Jews in the history of the overall system. It is easy enough to point to Jewish slave-trading firms in Amsterdam (the Belmontes), in Bordeaux (the Gradis and Mendez), in Newport, Rhode Island (Aaron Lopez and Jacob Rivera). But far from suggesting that Jews constituted a major force behind the exploitation of Africa, closer investigation shows that these were exceptional merchants, far outnumbered by the thousands of Catholics and Protestants who flocked to share in the great bonanza.”


With that said, now let’s read the comments by Donald Sterling:
V: I don’t understand, I don’t see your views. I wasn’t raised the way you were raised.
DS: Well then, if you don’t feel—don’t come to my games. Don’t bring black people, and don’t come.
V: Do you know that you have a whole team that’s black, that plays for you?
DS: You just, do I know? I support them and give them food, and clothes, and cars, and houses. Who gives it to them? Does someone else give it to them? Do I know that I have—Who makes the game? Do I make the game, or do they make the game? Is there 30 owners, that created the league?


Sterling’s comments, of course, reflects the master/slave relationship paradigm that currently rules the world, whether consciously or sub-consciously in economics, labor, law, sports, entertainment, education, health, war, sex and politics, and was displayed openingly and angrily by the Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert during Lebron James’ infamous 2010 decision to “take his talents to South Beach,” which the Reverend Jesse Jackson, of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, boldly replied: “He speaks as an owner of LeBron and not the owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers.”

 ”His feelings of betrayal personify a slave master mentality. He sees LeBron as a runaway slave. This is an owner employee relationship — between business partners — and LeBron honored his contract.”

And let’s not forget HBO’s Sports Bryant Gumbel’s commentary on then-NBA Commissioner David Stern when he said: “Stern’s version of what has been going on behind closed doors has of course been disputed, but his efforts were typical of a commissioner who has always seemed eager to be viewed as some kind of modern plantation overseer, treating NBA men as if they were his boys. It’s part of Stern’s M.O., like his past self-serving edicts on dress code and the questioning of officials. His moves were intended to do little more than show how he’s the one keeping the hired hands in their place.”

This form of plantation politics, while upsetting to some in the “so-called African-American” community, just as Sterling suggested, are still dependent on others to feed, clothed, house and employ them, which is a part of the slave mentality and “alleged” Willie Lynch syndrome that continues to plague our people.


The usage of the phrase plantation politics, however, is an old term,  which was coined by Timuel Black, the longtime civil rights activist, professor, and historian, who coined the phrase to describe the way congressman William Dawson ruled over Blacks in Chicago, according Chicago Historian.
Shockingly, however, then-Senator Hiliary Clinton also utilized the term while  in Harlem at an event honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr, when she said the GOP was running the House “like a plantation” because ideas from the minority Democrats were not respected.

Child’s Play

Why? Because, we are perceived to be children to the elite, who run the world.

Therefore, they feel that they have to make all of our decisions for us, read all our contracts for us, select all of our leaders for us as well as telling us how to think, act, and believe.

We are, in essences, perceived to their property or their cattle.
 

And shamefully, like little adult children, they give us balls to play games with, in order to keep us occupied and them entertained.

The Last Poets, a group of poets and musicians, rising from the late 1960s African American civil rights movement, offered a wonderful psychological perspective into this theory, with their powerful poem Niggers are scared of revolution, which contained the following lyrics:
Niggers are players, niggers are players, are players
Niggers play football, baseball and basketball
While the white man cuttin’ off their ballsWhen the nigger’s play ain’t tight enough
To play with some black thighs
Niggers play with white thighs
To see if they still have some play left
And when there ain’t no white thighs to play with
Niggers play with themselves
Niggers tell you they’re ready to be liberated
But when you say ‘Let’s go take our liberation’
Niggers reply: ‘I was just playin’
Niggers are playing with revolution and losing

 Niggers are scared of revolution.

If you don’t believe this, look at the  childish political theater that was displayed by these grown men, who love bouncing balls and hoisting up trophies over their heads more than making a stand against an open racist by only wearing black socks and turning their jersey inside out.

Seriously, why weren’t they brave enough to just walk off the court, refuse to play, live on national television-on some gangster shit- and boycott this racist bastard, which would in effect hit the NBA in its back pockets, postponing the playoffs, shutting down TNT, TBS, NBA TV, ESPN and ABC, which would have given Skip Bayless something to talk about as well as Dan Patrick and  eliminated all the advertisement dollars coming from all the shoe companies, that produce all of those jackets, hats, along with all the sports drinks, fast food and video games.

Do for self

And after doing this revolutionary act, the player’s should then pool together all of their resources, purchase their own teams, and start their own league instead of accepting a few bread crumbs from the table of rich men, while becoming their personal lap-dogs.

Sterling's comments , in fact, should’ve inspired Black people to do for self, just as the  Most Honorable Marcus Garvey, Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Honorable Louis Farrakhan have been trying to teach Black people for years, which unfortunately have fallen to deaf ears.(Read my article Situation Sterling: In a league of your own)

Pt 4 of Bigotry, Basketball and Billion Dollar Blow Job continues 

Eric D.Graham, a graduate of Winston-Salem State University, where he received a B.A. in Mass Communication with a concentration in Radio and Television, with a minor in History, with an emphasis in African-American Studies, is currently the Managing Editor of Black Athlete Sports Network, where his articles appear daily along with his controversial cartoon character Bobbee Bee “The Hater.” Graham can be reached at lbiass34@yahoo.com or go to www.bobbeethehater.blogspot.com

BOBBEE BEE: Breaking Down Donald Sterling:Bigotry, Basketball and a Billion-Dollar Blow Job pt.1

By Eric Graham    

 

Racism (white supremacy) is the local and global power system and dynamic, structured and maintained by persons who classify themselves as white, whether consciously or subconsciously determined; which consists of patterns of perception, logic, symbol formation, thought, speech, action, and emotional response, as conducted, simultaneously in all areas of people activity (economics, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion, sex, and war); for the ultimate purpose of white genetic survival and to prevent white genetic annihilation on planet Earth – a planet upon which the vast and overwhelming majority of people are classified as nonwhite (black, brown, red and yellow) by white skinned people, and all of the nonwhite people are genetically dominant (in terms of skin coloration) compared to the genetic recessive white skin people.”-Dr. Francis Cress Welsing, author of the Isis Paper

NORTH CAROLINA-(BASN)-”First, and foremost, I would like to thank Donald Tokowitz-Sterling’s  for having diarrhea of the mouth by spitting that real sh*# from an old, racist “Jewish” perspective by revealing that elephant in the room and  proving that Racism/White Supremacy is real and not an attitude or  a fragment of Black people’s imagination.

I would also like to congratulate V. Stiviano, despite her botched plastic surgery, self-hatred,  and bleached skin, for being a ‘great” double agent, while posing as an allegedly “dumb-bimbo” for having the wit to expose and “possibly” take down the Clippers racist empire and given America another “Ni***r wake-up call” like the legendary comedian Paul Mooney has always suggested.

Yes, we will have to debate later whether this sister, whom the world views as simply a gold-digger, whether her act of recording Mister Tokowitz, was simply an act of seduction for material gain or a revolutionary act to entrap an old racist, with a slave master mentality? So, as Tariq Nasheed, the producer of the classic film Hidden Colors hilariously stated: Stiviano is the Harriet Tubman of Hoe-ing, and the Rosa Parks of Ratchetness for revealing the refined racism in the NBA, which sits on the front row of its games.

Billion dollar blow job

Why do I say this? Because, on a revolutionary note, Black women have always used their sex appeal and femininity even in the antebellum South on the plantation, to spy, distract and seduce the slave master before slicing his throat or poisoning him.

Yes, the power of the p#$*y has always had the ability to make “so-called powerful men” make dumb decisions, while making them look weak in the public eye. Former President Bill Clinton can contest to this, especially after his Monica Lewinsky sex scandal, which had him lying to the American people while under oath. And even Donald Tokowitz- Sterling, with all of his money (1.9 billion estimated) and shrewd business sense, along with his racists remarks, failed victim to the inverted pyramid between the legs of V.Stiviano, who had him revealing his deepest and darkest thoughts as well as his hidden hatred for an opportunity to have an “alleged” billion-dollar blow-job, despite still being married to his poor “rich” wife, who stills pretends to have no idea about his history of discrimination and racist rhetoric, while trying to sue his mistress for the gifts she collected from him.

Despite Miss Sterling’s disapproval of her husband’s alleged mistress, historically, she like other Caucasian women of the past, will have to deal with their husbands sleeping and lusting after women of color, whether during slavery, after the “so-called” Reconstruction era, during the period of segregation, or currently in the boardrooms of corporate America.
Let’s not forget the bedroom politics of Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss Kahn, who was considered the “king of the party” at orgies hosted around the world, according to documents leaked to Le Figarowas , which  linked him to a suspected prostitution ring run out of a luxury hotel in Lille, where he “allegedly” treated girls like pieces of meat and was charged with “aggravated pimping.” This is the same Kahn,who avoided a sexual assault charge in New York  involving Nafissatou Diallo, an African housekeeper, who accused him of raping her in 2011 at a New York City hotel, which charges later where dropped.

Let’s make this clear, by no way I am comparing Donald Sterling’s racists comments to Dominique Strass Khan’s “aggravated pimping charges” or his “alleged” sexual assault charges.
I am, however, comparing the fact that these are two older men, who are chasing their youth, by chasing after younger women.



And while, we are all imperfect men, with our own vices.

Sterling, according to several reports, came in the same foul spirit as the smut peddler, Hugh Hefner, of Playboy magazine, who without shame, flaunts his phony sexual prowess with his armful of stupid blondes, while being celebrated in his old age as if he is some-type of sex machine. But truthfully, he is nothing but a glorified old pimp, like the one’s Yehuda Rimerman wrote about in his book ”Prostitution and the Deviant Girl,” a book that reviews the history of Jewish prostitution in the modern era.

Why do I say this? Because, in Franz Lidz May 5, 2014 Sports Illustrated article entitled “Sterling Reputation”…Lidz writes: This is a guy (Sterling) who in 2003, at 69, stated in a deposition that he regularly paid a woman for sex. (“All over my building, in my bathroom, upstairs, in the corner, in the elevator….It was purely sex for money, money for sex….I probably didn’t tell my wife.) Sterling conceded that he had asked the woman in 01’ whether to hire Alvin Gentry as coach and which players deserved contract extensions.

With Lidz exposing Sterling’s sexual escapades, one wonders why he tried to condemn “Magic” Johnson for his sex life during his now infamous interview with Anderson Cooper on CNN. We will take a deeper look at this later in the article.

By way of deception

With that said, despite all the hatred being generated toward Stiviano, honestly, she should actually be applauded and considered to be folk hero, especially by those practicing or claiming the jewish faith, traditions, and myths.

Why? Because, she used the same deceptive tactics or trickery, however different, that biblical characters like Eve, Lot’s daughter, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, Leah, Temar, and Potiphar’s wife relished throughout the Book of Genesis.  Alan M. Dershowitz, in fact, explores this idea in his book The Genesis of Justice: Ten Stories of Biblical Injustice that led to Ten Commandments and Modern Law.
Plus, let’s not overlook the story of Jacob, whose name was later changed to Israel, who was rewarded by God despite his deception. For those brothers and sisters in the “so-called Black conscious community” this is what the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad called “Trick-nology.”
Yes. Trick-nology-It is what places like Las Vegas were built upon, especially with all of its- slot machines, con-men, hookers, hustlers, gamblers, magicians, card sharks, and gamblers. It is what Wall Street is built upon. It was what men like Bernie Madoff utilized to swindle people out of their money, in  elaborate $50 billion Ponzi Schemes. It is what fuels movies like Ocean 13 starring Brad Pitt and George Clooney.

Why? Because, deception is the first act of war.

Plus, I think, it is safe to say that Sterling, the trick, got tricked by the trickster, V.Stivano like in the classic movie (1994) The Maverick,  which is about Bret Maverick played by Mel Gibson, who’s in need of  cash, enters a poker tournament, only to be scammed in the end, by a charming female thief played by Jodie Foster.

Matter of fact, Victor Ostrosky makes this simple as plain in his book entitled oddly enough By Way of Deception: The Making and Unmasking of Mossad Officer.

Plus, this is shown clearly in the gripping, smart, and unforgettable must see movie The Debt, which tells the tale of a trio of Mossad agents who hunted down a wanted Nazi war criminal.
While considering of all of this, V. Stiviano who has used six different aliases in the past, according to TMZ, which includes: Vanessa Maria Perez, Monica Gallegos, Maria Valdez, Maria Vanessa Perez and Mariamonica Perez Gallegos, while pursuing a model career, cleverly maneuvered through the smog of  LA like true  chameleon as if she had read excerpts from Robert Greene’s 33 Strategies of War by gaining the trust and heart of former Clippers’ owner Donald Sterling. Here is an excerpt from the book, which could be applied to Stiviano & Sterling’s strange love affair:

The camouflage strategy can be applied to daily life in two ways. First, it is always good to be able to blend into the social landscape, to avoid calling attention to yourself unless you choose to do so. When you talk and act like everyone else, mimicking their belief system. When you blend into the crowd, you make it impossible for people to read anything particular in your behavior. That gives you great room to move and plot without being noticed. Like a grasshopper on a leaf, you can not be picked from your context-an excellent defense in times of weakness. Second, if you are preparing an attack of some sort and begin by blending into the environment-show no sign of activity, your attack will seem to come out of nowhere, doubling its power.

For this reason, some have foolishly compared her to Cleopatra, who was a seductive woman who  used her “talents to maintain and expand her power, which she conquered Julius Caesar in 48 BC, who was 52, while she was 22 as well as Marc Anthony.



Oddly enough, the same guy who wrote 33 Stragedies of War, also wrote another classic book entitled The Art of Seduction, which examines social power through the lens of seduction. But in the case of Stivano, who clearly seduced Sterling, one wonders whether or not she will live to talk about it, especially in Los Angeles, where women mysteriously end up missing or dead from a drug overdose like Whitney Houston, Anna Nicole, or Marilyn Monroe.

Honestly, let’s not take former LA Dodgers manager Tony Lasorda’s comments lightly, who admitted to being  friends with Sterling for 30 years,”, when he said “It doesn’t surprise me that he said those things. That doesn’t surprise me. And he shouldn’t have said it, and he just hurt himself by talking too much and doing things that he shouldn’t be doing.
“And I don’t wish that girl any bad luck, but I hope she gets hit with a car.”

Not surprisingly, on Sunday night, according to RadarOnline, Stiviano was  badly beaten up by two white men in New York City around 7pm, as she was leaving the Gansevoort Hotel in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District,  who hit her and called her the N word.

Seriously, this story is far from over. Plus, the streets are watching as the wolves start to descend on Miss Little Red Ridin’ Hood. I suggest, she hire some bodyguards quickly.

Private conversation made public

With all of that out of the way, I, personally, don’t think Mr. Sterling should lose his team or property to a private conversation with his alleged “mistress, side-piece, bed wench, or his little Mexican sex kitten”-sorry personal assistant, who allegedly recorded him and sent the tape to TMZ, which is owned by Harvey Levin, who released the tape without hesitation or regrets to the general public.

Why? Because, as I have stated before, we are heading into a dangerous territory, where a Pandora’s box could be unleashed on- privacy rights and freedom of speech, especially if a Gestapo-type thought police were to be created, where a person could be punished or arrested because his or her private or personal opinions, especially if they differ from the so-called norm, whether they’re unpopular, perceived to be racist, homophobic, against the status qou, or against the American government.

Let’s not forget, all of this is occurring, while whistleblower Eric Snowden has revealed the hidden capabilities of the NSA and their “alleged” spy techniques on the American public.(Read my article entitled Taking a second look at the Conspiracy of Conversation on BASN and Big Brother is Watching for more details)
For this reason, in essence, I agree with Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, in theory, who made these comments concerning Donald Sterling:

What Donald said was wrong. It was abhorrent. There’s no place for racism in the NBA, any business I’m associated with, and I don’t want to be associated with people who have that position.” “I think you’ve got to be very, very careful when you start making blanket statements about what people say and think, as opposed to what they do. It’s a very, very slippery slope.”

“If it’s about racism and we’re ready to kick people out of the league, OK? Then what about homophobia? What about somebody who doesn’t like a particular religion? What about somebody who’s anti-Semitic? What about a xenophobe?”

“In this country, people are allowed to be morons.”



With that said, Dr. Frances Cress Welsing beautifully counters Cuban’s comments,  by saying that the only way we can truly understand White Supremacy is to be able to hear what white people say in private.

Why? Because, it is not what you say, it is what is heard.

Sorry, Mark Cuban, welcome to the real Shark Tank, where you have to swim in a pool full of blood with your homeboy Donald Tokowitz, especially after your recent statement which I felt you shouldn’t have apologized for:”

I know I’m prejudiced, and I know I’m bigoted in a lot of different ways,” Cuban said in an interview shown at the annual GrowCo convention hosted by Inc. magazine, according to The Tennessean.

“If I see a black kid in a hoodie on my side of the street, I’ll move to the other side of the street. If I see a white guy with a shaved head and tattoos (on the side he now is on), I’ll move back to the other side of the street. None of us have pure thoughts; we all live in glass houses.”

Shockingly, one of Cuban’s co-stars on The Shark Tank, Daymond John, the creative genius behind the iconic fashion brand FUBU, which stands for “For Us By Us”, appeared in disguise with a toboggan and locks and a hoodie on for ABC’s What Would You Do: Racial Profiling In A High End N.Y. Store in the heart of Wall Street.


Therefore, we must be very careful in condemning Sterling for expressing his thoughts and for telling his perspective of truth, while asking the NBA to illegally take his property from him.

Why? Because, now everyone is forced to remain silent on issues, which they may feel strongly about or against, whether publicly or private, in their home, or in the barber shop, especially with all of these cellphones, Twitter accounts and Google glasses being sold.

No opinion of your own

For instance, when Missouri’s Michael Sam, the first openly gay player, got drafted by the St. Louis Rams , shockingly kissed his boyfriend on national television, while smearing cake into his mouth,  most of the American public, in my public opinion, was disgusted by the act, but due to fear of being called homophobic, they said absolutely nothing.
Matter of fact, when Miami Dolphins safety Don Jones tweeted “horrible” in regards to Michael Sam’s kiss, he was fined by the Dolphins and forced to apologize.

“I want to apologize to Michael Sam for the inappropriate comments that I made last night on social media. I take full responsibility for them and I regret that these tweets took away from his draft moment. I remember last year when I was drafted in the seventh round and all of the emotions and happiness I felt when I received the call that gave me an opportunity to play for an NFL team and I wish him all the best in his NFL career. I sincerely apologize to Mr. Ross, my teammates, coaches, staff and fans for these tweets. I am committed to represent the values of the Miami Dolphins organization and appreciate the opportunity I have been given to do so going forward.”

It, however, is a sad state in America, especially when the “so-called” Gay Mafia, which is an agent of White Supremacy, has become so powerful in this country, that they have put a lot of us in a “head-lock” or better yet a “figure-four leglock,”  while pushing their agenda and forcing us to accept their perversion as normal.



So, now, even Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson, who set off a firestorm after his comments in GQ magazine  linked homosexual behavior to bestiality, was suspended by A&E for nine days, and later forced to apologize.

“I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person… The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them,” Robertson said. ‘I’m with the blacks, because we’re white trash. We’re going across the field…. They’re singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one black person, say, ‘I tell you what: These doggone white people’—not a word!”

Yes, in this Brave New World, words can get you into a lot of trouble. So, most of us, walk on eggshells, trying not to offend anybody or anyone, which is almost impossible, especially if you are an politician, whether privately or publicly.

If you recall, during the election of 2008, a snippet of one of Pastor Jeremiah Wright’s sermons from  Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, was mysteriously released to FOX News and considered Hate Speech, when he said,

The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three strike law, and then wants us to sing God Bless America…no, no, no ....
Not God bless America, God damn America. That’s in the Bible, for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating her citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme. The United States government has failed the vast majority of her citizens of African descent. Think about this, think about this. For every one Oprah, a billionaire, you’ve got 5 million blacks who out of work. For every one Colin Powell, a millionaire, you’ve got 10 million blacks who cannot read. For every one Condoskeeza Rice, you’ve got 1 million in prison.
For every one Tiger Woods, who needs to get beat, at the Masters, with his cap, blazin’ hips playing on a course that discriminates against women. God has his way of bringing you up short when you get to big for your cap, blazin britches. For every one Tiger Woods, we got 10,000 black kids who will never see a golf course. The United States government has failed the vast majority of her citizens of African descent.



Regardless of the truth in Wright’s sermon, which was spoken in the house of God, it almost prevented Barack Obama from being elected president of the United States in 2008, because a large portion of   “white” America, felt it was anti-America and hateful.


As a result, then Senator Obama, was forced to condemn Wright’s comments and force to distance himself from the man, whom he once called his friend and mentor.

This, however, is not an isolated incident.

Therefore, Donald Sterling doesn’t have to feel so bad. Besides, he is not the only one would was captured on Candid Camera saying something foolish-remember, in 2008, during Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s famous $50,000 dinner fundraiser, when he was secretly filmed by bartender Scott Prouty saying  that 47 percent of voters would chose Obama “no matter what” because they are people “who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them….

While Romney remarks caused a stir, Jesse Jackson’s “Hymie Town” comments, while running for president in the 1984, had the world in an uproar. Plus, who can forget the flames from a 1993 speech at Kean College given by brother Khallid Abdul Muhammad, who referred to Jews as bloodsuckers; labeled the Pope a “no-good cracker”; and advocated the murder of all whites in South Africa if they didn’t leave the country with a 24 hours period, which was denounced by the United States Senate, who voted 97–0 to censure him in a special session by the United States House of Representatives.

With that said, we must address the Black-Jewish relationship in this Sterling Scandal, which most people are afraid to discuss in part 3 of Breaking Down Donald Sterling:Bigotry, Basketball and a Billion-Dollar Blow Job……


Eric D.Graham, a graduate of Winston-Salem State University, where he received a B.A. in Mass Communication with a concentration in Radio and Television, with a minor in History, with an emphasis in African-American Studies, is currently the Managing Editor of Black Athlete Sports Network, where his articles appear daily along with his controversial cartoon character Bobbee Bee “The Hater.” Graham can be reached at lbiass34@yahoo.com