PhonZhi
Veteran
I was at a truckstop last nite for the game. There was like 6 of us bruthas and like 15 white guys in the t.v room watching.
So anyways, when the white guy caught the touchdown for Clemson's 1st score, one of the white guys was like "hold on...wait, that was a white guy???"
Everybody started laughing except me.
It was a random joke to everyone else but to me it was a reminder of one of the main things that we're known and celebrated for: our athletic ability/prowess. Not our minds and intellect, but how high we jump and fast we run. When that white dude made that catch, it didnt fit the stereotype. Whiteboys aren't suppose to bolt down the field like that. Whiteboys aren't supposed to jump high in the air like that. Whiteboys aren't supposed to make circus catches like that. Thats what WE do. Thats what we're used to seeing. That's what THE WORLD is used to seeing from us. So when a white person displays physical prowess (or the ability to hang with the black athletes) it takes even white people off guard since their minds (along with everyone else's) have been conditioned to link physical prowess with the black athlete.
I actually was going to make this thread a couple days ago.
I was driving up I85 out of GA into S.C and one of the 1st billboards i saw was an ad for Clemson basketball. Of course a black athlete was on it. As im almost into North Carolina, i see a billboard with Cam Newton on it, another black athlete.
Now mind you as im seeing this, im thinkin to myself
"since ive started driving trucks last year, ive seen the most Confederate Flags here in the state of South Carolina". And also of course that awful police shooting
and the church massacre happened here.
With all of this in mind, i thought with all the deep-seeded hatred towards blacks thats here (and throughout the entire country of course) these same folks are gonna be rooting for their majority black college football team to win the championship and their majority black NFL team Panthers (with a black quarterback) to win the Super Bowl.
Maybe i be thinking about shyt too hard, but when you're "conscious", its hard not to be "that guy". But like ive said in other threads
http://www.thecoli.com/threads/how-...aware-changed-the-way-you-view-sports.314193/
as long as we're dunking that basketball and catching those footballs, they love and cheer for us. But other than that, we're simply "******s". They love us as long as we're entertaining them.
Just a random thought. Nothin we dont already know.
Peace
So anyways, when the white guy caught the touchdown for Clemson's 1st score, one of the white guys was like "hold on...wait, that was a white guy???"
Everybody started laughing except me.
It was a random joke to everyone else but to me it was a reminder of one of the main things that we're known and celebrated for: our athletic ability/prowess. Not our minds and intellect, but how high we jump and fast we run. When that white dude made that catch, it didnt fit the stereotype. Whiteboys aren't suppose to bolt down the field like that. Whiteboys aren't supposed to jump high in the air like that. Whiteboys aren't supposed to make circus catches like that. Thats what WE do. Thats what we're used to seeing. That's what THE WORLD is used to seeing from us. So when a white person displays physical prowess (or the ability to hang with the black athletes) it takes even white people off guard since their minds (along with everyone else's) have been conditioned to link physical prowess with the black athlete.
I actually was going to make this thread a couple days ago.
I was driving up I85 out of GA into S.C and one of the 1st billboards i saw was an ad for Clemson basketball. Of course a black athlete was on it. As im almost into North Carolina, i see a billboard with Cam Newton on it, another black athlete.
Now mind you as im seeing this, im thinkin to myself
"since ive started driving trucks last year, ive seen the most Confederate Flags here in the state of South Carolina". And also of course that awful police shooting and the church massacre happened here.
With all of this in mind, i thought with all the deep-seeded hatred towards blacks thats here (and throughout the entire country of course) these same folks are gonna be rooting for their majority black college football team to win the championship and their majority black NFL team Panthers (with a black quarterback) to win the Super Bowl.
Maybe i be thinking about shyt too hard, but when you're "conscious", its hard not to be "that guy". But like ive said in other threads
http://www.thecoli.com/threads/how-...aware-changed-the-way-you-view-sports.314193/
as long as we're dunking that basketball and catching those footballs, they love and cheer for us. But other than that, we're simply "******s". They love us as long as we're entertaining them.
Just a random thought. Nothin we dont already know.
Peace
Like the fukk that even supposed to mean and why is that funny to you?
