BOBBEE BEE: “I’M NOT BLACK, I'M O.J.”-SNEAKER WARS pt.3

“I’M NOT BLACK, I'M O.J.”-SNEAKER WARS pt.3
by eric d. graham

Remember, the ultimate pitch man for white capitalist was Orenthal James "O. J." Simpson, whose nicknamed was The Juice. Why? Because, he was smart, clean-cut, well-spoken, good-looking, and had the perfect smile. Plus, he didn't identify as "being Black"-"He was OJ." Simpson, somehow, believed that he had somehow transcended race, due to his athletic prowess on the football field.

However, this quote “I’m not Black, I’m O.J.”originated in 2002 and, for over 15 years, has been mis-attributed to O.J.. The words “I’m not Black, I’m O.J.”, in fact, came from sociology professor Dr. Harry Edwards. who said those words in the 2002 HBO documentary film O.J. Simpson: A Study in Black and White.

See, it was Simpson, the USC running back that won the Heisman Trophy in 1968, who changed the way we see the modern day Black athlete. Because, it was the Juice, whose appearance in the (1975) Hertz Corp's rent a car service commercial, earned him a $600,000 endorsement contract that increased the company's net profits 50% to 42.2 million. This endorsement deal made OJ, the first Black athlete, to be considered a celebrity in the new age of television.

OJ, matter of fact, became the perfect role model for the commercialization and the domestication of the Black male athlete. For this reason, Sports journalist Skip Bayless, even, felt Cam Newton had the potential to be the next OJ when he first entered the league. But, Cam's fashion choices and demeanor on the field and during press conferences, destroyed this football fantasy.

While Newton failed to be America's new favorite pitchman, Tiger Woods & Michael Jordan as well as Serena Williams, later in her career, with her interracial marriage, walked in OJ's footsteps by becoming the "colorless, raceless, apolitical" athlete, who played the middle ground by distancing themselves from issues that affected Black America just like OJ did when he removed himself from athletes like Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown, and Lew Alcindor-Kareem Abdul Jabbar during that time of political unrest.

Follow me on this, OJ, as crazy, as it may seem, was the forerunner to Barack Obama, image wise. As I stated before, OJ was the perfect pitch man for corporate America. No different than President Obama,'" he,too,was smart, clean-cut, well-spoken, good-looking, and had the perfect smile.

Plus, he, like OJ, was (selected) to be the perfect pitchman to sell a multi-cultural dream to America-Bill Cosby style, the former Jell-O spokesman, who was slapped Tuesday with three to 10 years in Pennsylvania state prison for sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004.

Yes, OJ, was the ultimate pitchman like Bill Cosby, the proto-type to Tiger Woods, who referred to himself as Calablasian, while denying his Blackness in the process, before falling victim to the Black Mans Kryptonite, which is known as the white woman, which all of these men suffered from.

See, this multi-cultural dream, tried to commercialize off of the (Black-ish) of Colin Kaepernick. a second-round pick in 2011, who led the 49ers to Super Bowl XLVII by making him the new face and pitchman of their new Nike (Just Do It ) ad, with his Afro, butterscotch leather jacket and Black Panther mannerism.

Believe me, Nike doesn't like Kap. This is business not personal. Because, capitalism is a system of pimps and hoes. The question is-who is getting pimped. (Kap or Nike.) See, I applaud Kaepernick for securing the bag (as the young people say) without coonin or (shuckin and jiving) like OJ did in several of those Naked Gun movies.

But, I have to remind Kaepernick, who like OJ played for the San Francisco 49ers not to get distracted by this Nike Deal and sacrifice his stance against injustice for a pair of shoes. Because, that plantation politics is real crafty. I mean, they are trying to sell us shoes instead of giving us justice. They are really telling us that they could care less about the death of Black people at the hands of the police. It's similar to the 2017 Kendell Jenner Pepsi commercial, which suggested that police brutality could be solved with one Caucasian woman with a Coke and a Smile.

This is the hidden Hollywood formula, were they profit off of Black pain to increase their economic gain. See, that NEW Nike commercial, was no different. Because, it was nothing more than a multi-million dollar Megan Markle moment, which was equivalent to a multi-level marketing scheme in order to sell stuff we don't need to boost the low NFL ratings to start the 2018 NFL season.

So, don't let a little temporary cash flow change the conversation or narrative, which has some of us hustling backward like OJ, who got arrested for stealing his own stuff in Vegas and spent nine years behind bars for kidnapping and armed robbery..

Therefore, remember, its a movement not an achievement. So, Kaepernick, please continue to be unapologetically Black.

And, not like OJ. 

O.K. 

(fouls & fumbles) (bobbeethehater.blogspot.com)

BOBBEE BEE: I STAND WITH KAP

I STAND WITH KAP

My love for my people serves as the fuel that fortifies my mission. And it is the people’s unbroken love for themselves that motivates me, even when faced with the dehumanizing norms of a system that can lead to the loss of one’s life over simply being Black. History has proven that there has never been a period in the history of America where Anti-Blackness has not been an ever-present terror. Racialized oppression and dehumanization is woven into the very fabric of our nation--the effects of which can be seen in the lawful lynching of Black and brown people by the police, and the mass incarceration of Black and brown lives in the prison industrial complex.

While America bills itself as the land of the free, the receipts show that the U.S. has incarcerated approximately 2.2 million people, the largest prison population in the history of humankind. As police officers continue to terrorize Black and brown communities, abusing their power, and then hiding behind their blue wall of silence, and laws that allow for them to kill us with virtual impunity, I have realized that our love, that sometimes manifests as Black-rage, is a beautiful form of defiance against a system that seeks to suppress our humanity--A system that wants us to hate ourselves. I remind you that love is at the root of our resistance.

It is our love for 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was gunned down by the police in less than two seconds that will not allow us to bury our anger. It is our love for Philando Castille, who was executed in front of his partner and his daughter, that keeps the people fighting back. It is our love for Stephon Clark, who was lynched in his grandma’s backyard that will not allow us to stop until we achieve liberation for our people. Our love is not an individualized love—it is a collective love. A collective love that is constantly combating collective forms of racialized hate.

Chattel slavery, Jim Crow, New Jim Crow, massive plantations, mass incarcerations, slave patrols, police patrols, we as a collective, since the colonization of the Americas have been combating collective forms of systemic racialized hate and oppression. But I am hopeful. I am inspired. This is why we have to protest.

This is why we are so passionate. We protest because we love ourselves, and our people. It was James Baldwin who said, to be Black in America, “and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.” My question is, why aren’t all people?

How can you stand for the national anthem of a nation that preaches and propagates, “freedom and justice for all,” that is so unjust to so many of the people living there? (bobbeethehater.blogspot.com) (fouls & fumbles with Patrick Williams and Eric D. Graham)

BOBBEE BEE: JUST DONT DO IT-

JUST DONT DO IT-

by eric d.graham

We are in a Sneaker War. Remember that....So, for all you so-called Sneakerheads, who will stand in line for 24 hours in order to purchase a pair of limited edition sneakers for $500 or more...…Understand, buying a pair of Nike sneakers or selling them, for that matter, is not a revolutionary act.

Just ask- the 13 UNC football players, who had to learn this the hard way- when they were suspended for four games for selling school-issued Jordan brand sneakers to local boutiques "for as much as $2,500 in cash."

Seriously, purchasing a pair of Nike sneakers does not defeat White Supremacy. Why? Because, we, again, are in a sneaker war which is build on the struggles of Black poverty and the increase of white wealth, who utilizes our swag, style, good-looks, bodies, and style- for capital gain.

See, in the spirit of OJ Simpson, the ultimate pitchman, endorsement deals and shoe contracts- are designed to infiltrate and commercialize the consciousness of all Black athletes, while stripping them of their Blackness in order to make THEM money and sell THEIR products.

Hence, the recent Just Do It Nike commercial starring Colin Kaepernick, which increased the shoe company's digital sales 36% , while raising its stock 6.25 percent, and adding $6.38 billion to the company's value left us with nothing but another slogan and another feel good moment to be reposted on Facebook.

For, Business is warfare, if you didn't know. Because, Nike could easily have built a shoe factory in any impoverished neighborhood in the states, while paying them livable wages instead of producing these cheap jays overseas and exploiting the people with another overpriced product.

But, they are driven by profit not the people. See, Nike wanted to neutralize Kaepernick by changing his narrative and diversifying his original protest against police brutality.

Honestly, have we already forgotten about the community members, who confronted a circle of police in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood over a "bait truck" filled with Nike shoes, which were allegedly left open by police aiming to lure potential (thieves) in a sting operation designed to arrest Black youth?

Have we forgotten the Adidas JS Roundhouse Mids, which caused an uproar on-line in 2012, because of their plastic “shackles” that many felt resembled those worn by slaves and inmates along with Adidas pitchman Kanye West's recent foolish- Slavery is a choice comment on TMZ.

Yes, we are in a Sneaker War, where LaVar Ball, the Crown Prince of Chino Hills, upset the sneaker world last year when he decided to design his own signature shoe for his son Lonzo under their Big Baller Brand logo. Or, Stephon Marbury, who attempted to build his own Sneaker Empire $30 at a Time to rival the Nike and Reebok shoe monopoly.

The former NBA point guard, in fact, has said and tweeted several times over the past year that Nike and "Michael Jordan have been robbing the hood,” for years while claiming that their pricey $120 basketball shoes are no different than his ($15-$45 )Starbury sneakers that he sells out of China.

Well, recently, we learnt that Marbury was telling the truth like Kat Williams.

Why? Because, according to recent police records, a counterfeit operation, containing a half million pair of generic Nike Air Jordan's, worth $70 million, ran by five individuals:, Miyuki Suen, Jian Min Huang, Songhua Qu, Kin Lui Chen and Fangrang Qu, who were later charged with counterfeit trafficking conspiracy and trafficking in counterfeit goods- took the counterfeit Jordan's from China, and added the Jump Man logo on the merchandise in Brooklyn and Queens, before distributing and selling them.

Each defendant faces a maximum potential sentence of 20 years in prison

As reported by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (“OECD”) last year, international trade of counterfeit goods represented upwards of 2.5 percent of overall world trade, or $461 billion, in 2013, in which Rolex, Ray Ban, Louis Vuitton, and of course, Nike, are brands that "seem to be more intensely targeted by counterfeiters..."

by eric d.graham (fouls & fumbles) (bobbeethehater.blogspot.com)

BOBBEE BEE: PRAYER & MEDITATION

"He departed to the mountain to pray." Mk 6:46 NKJV

NOONTIME SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR TODAY

Before the (one they called Jesus) walked on the Sea of Galilee. He climbed a mountain to be alone with His Father in prayer or meditation. He left the demands of the crowd at sunset, prayed until dawn, then came down the mountain in the power of the Most High and stilled a raging storm.

Wouldn't you love to know how He prayed that night? (Matthew 6:9–13)

Prayer/meditation is a mountain; you have to climb it. "Peter and John went up together ….at the hour of prayer"( Ac 3:1). If you wait until you feel like it, you won't pray/meditate consistently. It's a discipline.

And the more you pray/meditate, the more you want to meditate, and the more rewarding it becomes. But, first you must turn your back on the "crowd."

Because, the Christ-figure knew how to walk away from life's demands and distractions, He was able to still the storm that threatened His disciples. So before you get caught up in the daily rat race, go to the mountain (Higher Consciousness) of prayer& meditation-that quiet place in your mind.

Why? Because, it's a place of stability in an uncertain world; a place were the view is unobstructed and the frantic pace of life is left behind.

There you gain perspective. There the Christ-Consciousness within you- reminds you that there is nothing you 'll face today, tomorrow or in the future that you can't handle-with the Grace of The Most High. (See) its easy to recognize people who've been to the mountain of prayer or the mountain top as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. beautifully said.

Because, you can see their inner peace, even in the eye of the storm. Their struggles, however, are no different from yours-some are even more challenging.

But, they had an inner peace that transcended family problems, health concerns, budgetary shortfalls, and hurricanes.

You can endure hard times with Grace when you know that the summit is just a prayer away! (Source: Word of Today) (bobbeethehater.blogspot.com)

BOBBEE BEE: CHOICES?

"Choices made, whether bad or good, follow you forever and affect everyone in their path one way or another.”

by Jeffrey X Barnes

Deliberate decision making is a life skill that must be taught. Our lives are the sum total of all the choices we have made and will make. But what does decision really mean? Have you ever considered the root word in decide? It’s “cide”. Cide originates from the Latin word caedere meaning “to kill”. Here are some other words that have the same root:
Homocide
Suicide
Genocide
Pesticide
Fungicide
There are hundreds more, but the point is they all mean to cut off or kill something. So when we decide, what are we killing? We are killing off all of the other options. Our decisions can either kill progress or stagnation.

From the movie soundtrack (GUCCI BAG) and album Evolution of an MC: Pocket Full of Ghetto Poems Vol.2

BOBBEE BEE: THE ARREST OF A TRAP GOD-EL CHAPO GUZMAN pt.2

THE ARREST OF A TRAP GOD-EL CHAPO GUZMAN pt.2

The arrest of Chris Baines, a local drug dealer, known by the DEA as a Traveling Vice Lord, a gang — on the West Side of Chicago, sprung a 13-month investigation, which led to the imprisonment of Mexican Drug Lord El Chapo , who was indicted in Chicago in 2009 for exported tons of drugs to the United States via ships and submarines.

It, all began on July 3, 2007, when Baines and his cousin Charles Parker sold 50 grams of heroin — less than a cup — to a government informant, who was paid $3,500 by the DEA to infiltrate his criminal organization.

Ill-advised Baines, known as “West Side,” offered to put the informant on his “team” of heroin dealers, which led to his arrest by a DEA task force of federal agents, Chicago Police Department investigators and members of other law-enforcement agencies.

While being incarcerated, Baines refused to snitch, however, one of his associates, a higher-level dealer named Michael “Fat Mike” King, agreed to cooperate with the FEDS.

So, King, who suppliers were Pedro “Peter” Flores and Margarito “Junior” Flores, identical twin brothers, alleged members of the Latin Kings, that grew up in Chicago’s Little Village, whom were El Chapo’s main connection in Chicago, which is the supply point for international distribution to Detroit; Milwaukee; Philadelphia; Washington, DC; Cincinnati and Columbus, OH; New York; Los Angeles and Vancouver, became the fall guys to this dangerous underworld of guns, gangs and drugs, by secretly recording damaging phone conversation with their supplier — the infamous Trap God, El Chapo Guzman, which became the key evidence in the 2009 federal indictment filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago..

In early 2016, El Chapo was extradited to New York, the city of Mob-Buster, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, where he’s being held awaiting a trial set for November. by eric d.graham (Source:SunTimes/Don Diva)(bobbeethehater.blogspot.com)

BOBBEE BEE: THE TRAIL OF A TRAP GOD: EL CHAPO pt.1

THE TRAIL OF A TRAP GOD: EL CHAPO pt.1

A federal judge ruled Monday to delay the trial of accused drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman by two months.

U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan for the Eastern District of New York delayed the start of the trial from Sept. 5 to Nov. 5 at the request of Guzman's lawyer, Eduardo Balarezo, after he received new evidence from prosecutors.

Many conspiracy theorist feel Guzman, who faces indictment for felony charges, including cocaine trafficking, money laundering, and conspiracy to commit kidnapping, torture, and murder, was extricated to the US as a political "goodwill gift" to Donald Trump, who threatened to build a Wall, before his inauguration ceremony on ‎January 20, 2017.

The trial for Guzman, the head of the Sinaloa Cartel, who smuggled unimaginable quantities of drugs from Mexico into the US, is expected to last 12 weeks.

But, shockingly, according to the HighTimes, its the testimony from two government informants, Margarito and Pedro Flores, twin brothers from Chicago, who are expected to provide the most damaging evidence against their former boss, who escaped from prison twice in Mexico.

The Flores twins, known as the turncoat twins, were trusted aides to the Sinaloa’s kingpin from 1998 to 2008, where they ran a nearly $2 billion drug ring in the Windy City, which supplied 80 percent of the cocaine sold on Chicago’s street in 2013, until a routine police stop and a half a joint in 2003 later encouraged them to turn on their Mexican supplier—El Chapo Guzman. (bobbeethehater.blogspot.com)

BOBBEE BEE: THE NATURE OF THE THREAT (WHY, WE STILL KNEEL?)

THE NATURE OF THE THREAT (WHY, WE STILL KNEEL?)

by eric d.graham 

Jill Nelson, author of Police Brutality: An Anthology stated “The notion of the 'Black male predator' is so historically rooted in the American consciousness that we have come to accept the brutalization and murder of citizens by the police as an acceptable method of law enforcement.

The assumption is that Black men are the bad guys, the police are the good guys, and if the police killed someone it must have been for a good reason. They must have done something.”

We see evidence of this in the recent murder of Botham Shem Jean by a white Dallas off-duty police officer, Amber R. Guyger, who, according to the NY Times, claimed that she mistakenly entered the wrong apartment after returning home from her 14-hour shift and believed Mr. Jean, who was Black, was an intruder.

As a result, she fired her weapon twice, striking him once in the torso. See, this is the real reason why Colin Kaepernick took a knee in the first place. And, that Nike (Just Do It) commercial didn't change anything at all. 

This is the real Nature of the Threat. 

(bobbeethehater.blogspot.com)

FEAR: THE INSIDE STORY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP, AS ONLY BOB WOODWARD CAN TELL IT

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” —Marie Curie

FEAR: THE INSIDE STORY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP

With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump’s White House and precisely how he makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies. Woodward draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries, files and documents. 

The focus is on the explosive debates and the decision-making in the Oval Office, the Situation Room, Air Force One and the White House residence.

Fear is the most intimate portrait of a sitting president ever published during the president’s first years in office.

“People better wake up to what’s going on,” Woodward told “CBS Sunday Morning.” 

“You look at the operation of this White House and you have to say, ‘Let’s hope to God we don’t have a crisis.'” (bobbeethehater.blogspot.com)

BOBBEE BEE: THE POLITICS OF FEAR

THE POLITICS OF FEAR

Nearly 3,000 people were killed on September 11, 2001, when planes hijacked by jihadists hit the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field near Shanksville, PA, hurling America into a new consciousness of the threat of global terrorism.

With that knowledge, Bob Woodward is scheduled to release his new book FEAR: Trumps In The White House on the Anniversary of 9/11.

Woodward’s forthcoming book, published by Simon & Schuster, draws on “hundreds of hours” of interviews, along with notes, files and diaries to evoke the “harrowing life” within the Trump administration.

“Fear is the most intimate portrait of a sitting president ever published during a president’s first years in office,” one source told CNN. “It will give readers a front row seat to Trump and his time in the White House,” the source added. “You are in the Oval office, the Situation Room, Air Force One and the White House residence. You are face to face with Trump and the book documents detailed conversations, meetings, policy debates and critical decisions.”

Woodward’s title appears to reference a remark from a Trump interview that he conducted with colleague Robert Costa.

When asked if he concurs with then-President Barack Obama’s definition of power — “[getting] what you want without having to exert violence” — Trump expanded on the definition. “Well, I think there’s a certain truth to that… Real power is through respect,” he said, adding, “Real power is, I don’t even want to use the word: ‘Fear.’” (Source:Breitbart) (bobbeethehater.blogspot.com)

BOBBEE BEE: THEM DUDES FROM DUPLIN

THEM DUDES FROM DUPLIN

Congratulations!!! to Keyshawn Canady (ECU), Johnnie Glaspie (Fayetteville State), Javonte Williams (UNC) & Marcelias Sutton (Oklahoma) who are all playing college football today on national television.

Former James Kenan (RB) Marcelias Sutton will appear on Fox Network as the #6 Sooners of Oklahoma will take on the Bruins of UCLA at 1pm, while former Wallace Rose Hill Running Backs #31. Keyshawn Canady and #25 Javonte Williams face each other on ESPNU on channel 82 on Spectrum, and channel 208 on Direct TV at 3:30 pm and Johnnie Glaspie will step on the field for Fayetteville State) against Wingate at 6pm on ESPN3. (fouls & fumbles with Patrick Williams & Eric Graham (bobbeethehater.blogspot.com)

ECU PIRATE TIGHT END WITH DUPLIN TIES

ECU PIRATE TIGHT END WITH DUPLIN TIES

CONGRATULATIONS to #96 Tight End 6'4, 234 Pound freshman Angelo Lavonte McKinnie of Kenansville, N.C., who is the son of Carlos and Monique Roberts for joining the PIRATE NATION.

McKinnie, who attended EE Smith Middle School,was a team captain and key figure on Southwest Onslow HS’s defensive unit which rolled to a 2017 Coastal 1A/2A Conference championship with a perfect 7-0 league record, helped the Stallions to the Eastern 2A finals before finishing with an overall mark of 11-4 as a senior.

During his senior season, he was credited with 52 tackles (18 solo), 14 TFLs, 5.5 sacks, four quarterback hurries and one fumble recovery during his senior campaign to earn all-conference (first-team) honors.

Angelo, who is a strong student in the classroom, earned a membership into the National Honor Society and Beta Club, was also selected to the all-conference unit (honorable mention) as a junior and reportedly was timed at 4.9 in the 40-yard dash, while participating in the 2017 Shrine Bowl Combine in Kinston, N.C. (fouls & fumbles with Patrick Williams & Eric Graham)

BOBBEE BEE:KAEPERNICK-DEAL OR NO DEAL

Is the new Nike commercial featuring Colin Kaepernick a Big Deal or a Big Deal?
by eric d.graham

Dr. Umar Johnson says "What they can NOT stop; they co-op." What does this mean? By definition co-opting means to divert or use in a role different from the original idea.

Therefore, did Nike pay for Colin's political silence? Did they hi-jack the original reason for us protesting in the first place?

Therefore, has our Black outrage against police brutality been transformed into a white capitalist wet dream in order to sell us an emotional commercial about diversity and buying shoes?

Seriously, you can't have a revolution sponsored by Nike. The marketing team at Nike, truthfully, turned Black Lives Matters to All Lives Matter. And, now, Only Money Matters.

Consider the fact that, on Tuesday, before the release of this commercial, Nike and the NFL extended their partnership for 8 years-from 2020 to 2028, where all (32) teams will wear the swoosh on game day.

Remember, money is used to neutralize revolutions as well as individuals in order for the status quo to maintain its power. Never forget this

...Because, the new Nike commercial seeks praise and profit-not justice. And, while the financial details of the NFL deal haven't been released yet, the Nike deal with the NBA was reportedly worth $1 billion for eight years.

So, while Kaepernick might have a good heart, this commercial is simply a stimulus package. Because, money with no politics equals another powerless Negro with an afro.

Lets not forget..there are no mention of Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice, Walter Scott, Freddie Gray, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Alton Sterling or police brutality during this commercial.

This is fantasy football.
Because, the game is fixed.
Plus, all of these Nike sweatshops are working with and for the NFL. And, white capitalism doesn't do anything without it benefitting their self-interest. Fuck, anything and everyone else.

This is a PR stunt. Nikes well-crafted campaign pitch to sell a dream is no different than President Obamas Hope and Change Slogans.

So, Just Do It. Game recognizes game. And, you have been played-all in your feelings. Why? Because, this once grassroot protest has turned into an artificial turf made for TV movie.

Yes, it has been co-opted into another manufactured uprising, where the people care more about the burning of sneakers, the waving of a flag, the singing of an anthem than the lives of innocent Black people murdered at the hands of the police.

White Capitalism wins again-highlights on ESPN at 10. (Fouls and Fumbles) (bobbeethehater.blogspot.com)