BYRON ALLEN "I don't want to play in the negro league, I want to play in the global leagues.
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Who’s perception of it?
Doobie Doo
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So he’s shytting on cacs “perception” of the negro league because he wants to be accepted in the “majors”?
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Then why does he care about what a cac thinks?
Thatrogueassdiaz
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yeah, that comment made me curious as to what he meant. I don't understand whether he was saying he doesn't want to just be a black business or if he doesn't want to be boxed in as a black business owner with black businesses. If it's the former, then I'm not sure I like his motivation. Do you have receipts for the history of said misspeaking?
It really is a catch 22, wanting to be included vs wanting to be with your own. Neither options are wrong.
A lot of successful black people don't want to be boxed in. They feel it more than we could ever know. It must hurt to know you're under a ceiling that other white men have as a floor.
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I don’t fully support Sharpton but as a CEO, this was unnecessary to say to a white reporter;
[Comcast] don’t do business with real African-American-owned companies, just give him [Sharpton] $50,000 and a bucket of chicken and we’re good.
Thatrogueassdiaz
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Here's what I really feel. I feel like we truly need to look at the underlying problems of capitalism and the market economy and see that what we want in wealth/black wealth may not have the purest of aims that we think it has. I think sometimes we get so caught up in chasing a place at the table that we forget what that table is made of. There is a prolonged extension of capitalism that is built solely to exploit, especially when it is unchecked (what we have now). This system was paved with the blood of slaves and indigenous people's of this land. And to want to own the system like whites, be in control of the system like whites, leads us down the same exact path of exploitation.
I really like what @African Peasant said. He's right in the money. You have to really check the motivation of these successful black businessmen. I don't know much about this particular guy, so he may have truer, more altruistic aims in mind, but when I hear black billionaires make statements like the one he made, it just makes me harken back to the notion that we are just going in circles as a civilization, that greed corrupts, that the aims of the attainment of wealth (black) is nothing more than the futile attempt to become a part of something that in itself serves nothing truly virtuous, but seeks to empower pockets for the sake of empowering pockets, that does for the few and does nothing to progress society. There's nothing wrong in itself of wanting to be successful and wealthy as a black man, and to crave to be at the same table, but we really must be vigilant about identifying the underlying agent that fuels this desire to have what whites have, and we must know what can happen if we attempt to totally adopt the system of the oppressor. In effect, it's about wearing the same exact clothes as those who have destroyed and killed and exploited and ruined, those who installed this machine that will continue to impair the lives of the people on this Earth. As @African Peasant said, there has to be an aim outside of just being rich and owning things. If not, we are just fooling ourselves to believe that race is the issue as to why we need it--that blacks should have what whites have--when it's much deeper than that. It's the system, not the race, that subjugates and puts people in the position to want to chase what amounts to spiritual and emotional emptiness. We can make this world greater than what white capitalism has to offer. We can make this system greater than what capitalism has to offer.
I really like what @African Peasant said. He's right in the money. You have to really check the motivation of these successful black businessmen. I don't know much about this particular guy, so he may have truer, more altruistic aims in mind, but when I hear black billionaires make statements like the one he made, it just makes me harken back to the notion that we are just going in circles as a civilization, that greed corrupts, that the aims of the attainment of wealth (black) is nothing more than the futile attempt to become a part of something that in itself serves nothing truly virtuous, but seeks to empower pockets for the sake of empowering pockets, that does for the few and does nothing to progress society. There's nothing wrong in itself of wanting to be successful and wealthy as a black man, and to crave to be at the same table, but we really must be vigilant about identifying the underlying agent that fuels this desire to have what whites have, and we must know what can happen if we attempt to totally adopt the system of the oppressor. In effect, it's about wearing the same exact clothes as those who have destroyed and killed and exploited and ruined, those who installed this machine that will continue to impair the lives of the people on this Earth. As @African Peasant said, there has to be an aim outside of just being rich and owning things. If not, we are just fooling ourselves to believe that race is the issue as to why we need it--that blacks should have what whites have--when it's much deeper than that. It's the system, not the race, that subjugates and puts people in the position to want to chase what amounts to spiritual and emotional emptiness. We can make this world greater than what white capitalism has to offer. We can make this system greater than what capitalism has to offer.