LETS BE REAL!!!!

14 replies · 3438 views · Started by sowthwestplaya03 · Jul 2004

Yesterday , I was having a conversation with some sports agents and other business men/women and the topic was : Why cant african americans come together and head to the top of the economic totem pole? The sports agents said these pro basketball/football players are just knuckle heads with athletic talent.Take away their talent and more than likely they would be in prison. Another reason is that the white sports agents just use them for their money, while for the most part black sports agents try to teach community responsibility. The business men/women said these reasons: NO EDUCATION kids raising kids rap music/sports only paths outside the hood. light skinned vs. dark skin picking up a book and speaking properly is seen as acting white can not face the truth (ie bill cosby comments offended ppl) What are your thoughts or reasons? If so, could you please provide a solution?

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natalie_g · Aug 2004

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sowthwestplaya03 wrote:
The business men/women said these reasons: NO EDUCATION kids raising kids rap music/sports only paths outside the hood. light skinned vs. dark skin picking up a book and speaking properly is seen as acting white can not face the truth (ie bill cosby comments offended ppl) What are your thoughts or reasons? If so, could you please provide a solution?

couldn't have said it any better

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EkWoah · Aug 2004

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it seems to me that professional sports and the music industry are types of slavery, what type of slavery? gladiator, i say this because they are all held in high esteem and looked at like trophies, and they sit there and exhaust their minds and bodies while white men control them, buy them sell them trade them, tell them what to wear, and turn them against each other, and the fact that a good majority of people have "hoop dreams" and sometimes once they arent realized, its almost too late for them to do anything, and plus, why would anybody do anything when they could sit at home and watch somebody else do it on TV. our society is ruled by the box with moving pictures

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· Aug 2004

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sowthwestplaya03 wrote:
The business men/women said these reasons: NO EDUCATION kids raising kids rap music/sports only paths outside the hood. light skinned vs. dark skin picking up a book and speaking properly is seen as acting white can not face the truth (ie bill cosby comments offended ppl) What are your thoughts or reasons? If so, could you please provide a solution?

Interesting; being that these are the same problems black poeple have had for the past 140 years since the end of slavery. Tha last problem though is new. In the 1960's when so called equal rights were passed, the only other problem with black people is ourselves. Instead of fixing the problem we ignore it.