Champagne Sharks podcast thread (@RickyRawls from Twitter)

Kitsch

Superstar
Joined
Dec 20, 2014
Messages
15,417
Reputation
3,860
Daps
51,019
Reppin
London


Dr. Tommy Curry (http://www.twitter.com/DrTJC) rejoins us for a two-part episode to discuss recent findings about Black men in studies that have made the news from both the Equality of Opportunity Project (covered in the NY Times) and the Brookings Institute. We also offer Dr. Curry the opportunity to respond to criticisms about him and his work that we’ve heard over the past year.

Mentioned in the episode:

 

Kitsch

Superstar
Joined
Dec 20, 2014
Messages
15,417
Reputation
3,860
Daps
51,019
Reppin
London
biJAvSp.jpg
 
Joined
Nov 3, 2015
Messages
188
Reputation
90
Daps
860



Interesting topic. I've always wondered what's really going on with these athletes.

There are literally NBA and NFL locker rooms full of multi-millionaires all across America, so shouldn't that by proxy have a significantly positive impact on African-American entrepreneurship? I'm obviously completely clueless on this topic and would love for you to educate me.

It just seems like it would've been easy for them to pool their money together and dominate an industry while making a positive impact. Like, for example, build chains of grocery stores around the country and employ locals. Whichever industry they get into, they could buy raw materials directly from Africa, and maybe even start their own shipping companies. Obviously, this couldn't happen overnight, but athletes across the country earn millions upon millions every year - this has been the case for decades.

Are athletes so utterly useless that they can't organize even a little bit, or do they just not acknowledge the global need for black entrepreneurship and ownership?

Just another random example - during the 90s music was super lucrative, and there was a lot of intermingling between athletes and musicians.Yet no attempt at building a real distribution company?

Point being - is there just no interest at all in building institutional power and wealth? Which are the main structural challenges they face, and how are they addressing these?

I could understand the logic of just wanting to make their millions and forget about regular people. However, it amazes me that they don't even attempt to build a "society within society" in order to take care of themselves. They are literally multi-millionaires hanging out with each other, and yet many of them go broke after retirement. Little to no real organizing, even to secure themselves? It just looks so utterly stupid from the outside, but I'm clueless about this stuff which is why I'm asking.
 

Kitsch

Superstar
Joined
Dec 20, 2014
Messages
15,417
Reputation
3,860
Daps
51,019
Reppin
London

I have 3 questions:

1. How did he get started with BSO and if applicable when did he start seeing money from it? :dame:

2. His current operations, what's his current day-to-day involve? How many members of staff at BSO?

3. Does he feel that in today's media space, he has to be congnisant of what he says? Have they tried to cancel him yet?
 

Lord_Chief_Rocka

Superstar
Joined
Apr 20, 2015
Messages
17,721
Reputation
1,480
Daps
50,042
- What was Robert's issue with Bomani Jones?

- What kind of racism has he dealt with in terms of getting access to the teams/leagues?

- Some personal stories on any c00ning he's witnessed by other blacks in the industry?
 

Cape Town JHB

All Star
Joined
Nov 18, 2016
Messages
2,223
Reputation
985
Daps
7,845
Can they breakdown the whole College Athlete being unpaid and the millions, actually billions of dolllars generated annually by black college athletes and how systematically the money is spread out amongst white institutions.
 

Cape Town JHB

All Star
Joined
Nov 18, 2016
Messages
2,223
Reputation
985
Daps
7,845
Here's my definitive list for documentaries that make for great counter racist study. I posted these in 2 other Documentary suggestion threads but I feel they are more applicable here too.
(I also posted on the CS Reddit page but that page is not that active)

Secret Daughter (mid 90s)

The 12 O Clock Boys(2012/3)

ESPN OJ Made in America(2017)

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson(2004) (*First and greatest black heavyweight world champion)

Let the Fire Burn (2013) documentary detailing Philly's 1985 MOVE bombing

Wild Wild Country (Netflix)(2018)

Soul Power (1974)

Cowboy Del Amor (2005)

Mr Dynamite : The Rise of James Brown (2014)

Art and Craft(2014).

American Pimp (1999)

Alone In the Wilderness(2004)

Beware of Mr Baker (2012)

We Live In Public(2009)

Spellbound(2002)

Color Oustside The Lines, Black Tattoo Documentary (2012)

7Up South Africa(1992), 14Up South Africa(1999), 21Up South Africa(2006) 28Up South Africa (2012/13)

Weiner (2016)

Crazy Love (2007)

The Trials of Muhammad Ali(2013)

Iceberg Slim: Portairt of a Pimp (2014)

Frontline- Firestone and the Warlord

The Power Principle

The Panama Deception

the French African Connection (ep1-3)

Nina Simone: The Legend

After Innocence

Style Wars (1983)

Touching the void (2003)

Noam Chomsky: Power, Dissent and Racism (1992)

BBC Still Bill (Bill Withers) (2009)

BBC Legends Series: The Charlie Parker Story (2005)

Afro Germany: Being black and German

The Anglo Boer War 1899-1902

Crime Inc: The Story of the Mafia Part 1-7.

Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance (2002)

Helvetica

ESCORTS (Netflix 2015)

I Called Him Morgan (2016)

The Man Who Skied Everest.

Ethnic Notions (1987)

Color Adjustment (1992)


ESPN 30 FOR 30:

Celtics Lakers, Best of Enemies
Fantastic Lies
Bad Boys /Detroit Pistons
Agry Sky
Ric Flair
Survive and Advance
Fantarctic Lies
Four Falls Of Buffalo



Dawg Fight

Into The Abyss

Requiem for the American Dream

The Thin Blue Line

Generation Iron

Fear of 13

Whitey: USA vs James J. Bulger

Banging in Little Rock

HBO's Autopsy series

Forks Over Knives

Last Chance U

13th

A Murder In the Park

Central Park Five

The Iceman: Confessions of a Hitman

Peace.
 
Last edited:

Kitsch

Superstar
Joined
Dec 20, 2014
Messages
15,417
Reputation
3,860
Daps
51,019
Reppin
London
Listen to CS 081: Black Men and Weath Study Pt. 2 feat. Tommy Curry (@DrTJC) (04/01/2018) by Champagne Sharks #np on #SoundCloud



Dr. Tommy Curry (http://www.twitter.com/DrTJC) rejoins us for a two-part episode to discuss recent findings about Black men in studies that have made the news from both the Equality of Opportunity Project (covered in the NY Times) and the Brookings Institute. We also offer Dr. Curry the opportunity to respond to criticisms about him and his work that we’ve heard over the past year.

Mentioned in the episode:

 
Top