Im Finally Seeing Sports For What It Really Is

[JamilALAmin]

A slave market filled with potential multi millionaires ?

You do realize that you don't HAVE to draw a parallel between everything and slavery right

True. But at the same time slavery happened and I will never forget that shyt because it was some epic historical level type shyt. Just like the Holocaust, Native American genocide just to name a few. Our ancestors didn't deserve to go thru that, they should've been able to pursue their hopes and dreams just like everybody else. My grandfather would be 106 if he was still alive today, dude literally grew up with people who were slaves at one time. And I can sit here in 2015 and remember him talking about growing up and being around people who were actually in bondage just reinforces the fact that shyt really wasn't that long ago. If I'm one of those cats who totes around and injects slavery into everything then I'll be that. That shyt was very serious, and I look around and I see white folks with generational wealth that a lot of them gained off our free labor and I just can not and will not let that shyt go. That dont mean I don't watch sports, it just means I see shyt for what it is

 

[Fart Knocker]

disrespect your ancestors by comparing the legitimate suffering and atrocities they went through to men who sit in the highest tax bracket for catching a ball, brehs

 

[↓R↑LYB]

True. But at the same time slavery happened and I will never forget that shyt because it was some epic historical level type shyt. Our ancestors didn't deserve to go thru that, they should've been able to pursue their hopes and dreams just like everybody else. My grandfather would be 106 if he was still alive today, dude literally grew up with people who were slaves at one time. And I can sit here in 2015 and remember him talking about growing up and being around people who were actually in bondage just reinforces the fact that shyt really wasn't that long ago. If I'm one of those cats who totes around and injects slavery into everything then I'll be that. That shyt was very serious, and I look around and I see white folks with generational wealth that a lot of them gained off our free labor and I just can not and will not let that shyt go. That dont mean I don't watch sports, it just means I see shyt for what it is

Breh, considering everything our ancestors went through during slavery, don't you think comparing that to the NFL combine is disrespectful to what they had to go through? I mean they literally we beat, raped, murdered, and hung.

 

[beanz]

sports is something meaningless that is done for fun. nobody forcing u to play sports. u can only become a multi millionaire athlete because of your love for the game and the dedication u put into becoming great.

ya gonna compare that to being forced onto a ship and whipped and beaten into picking cotton or cutting sugar cane. being paid with food only so u dont starve and can pick again the next day. then being separated and sold away from your family. being prohibited from reading. having your mom and sisters and wife raped daily and having your arm chopped off if u dared to defend them.

yea totally the same thing

 

[Fart Knocker]

Breh, considering everything our ancestors went through during slavery, don't you think comparing that to the NFL combine is disrespectful to what they had to go through? I mean they literally we beat, raped, murdered, and hung.

shady mccoy showed up to training camp in a rolls royce and these nikkas wanna act like he's a slave suffering tremendous hardships

 

[JamilALAmin]

Breh, considering everything our ancestors went through during slavery, don't you think comparing that to the NFL combine is disrespectful to what they had to go through? I mean they literally we beat, raped, murdered, and hung.

I see your point but I respectfully disagree. Anytime I see Black folks on a stage in basically underwear being observed and prodded by white folks I cringe. I don't care that these cats will make tons of money, cuz at the end of the day what they will make will be a drop in the bucket to what the owners make anyway.

 

[↓R↑LYB]

I see your point but I respectfully disagree. Anytime I see Black folks on a stage in basically underwear being observed and prodded by white folks I cringe. I don't care that these cats will make tons of money, cuz at the end of the day what they will make will be a drop in the bucket to what the owners make anyway.

I'm not saying you shouldn't cringe, and I can understand how you would feel that way, but I still don't see how you can compare that shyt to slavery. I mean we all know what happened to our ancestors, and we should never forgive, forget, or get over it. But using the slavery comparison

That's like someone trying to compare the native american genocide to the fact someone messed their order up at McDonald's.

More importantly though, you shouldn't disagree with me breh. That's what the white man wants you to do

 

[Codeine Crazy]

Alot of these athletes try to start businesses but they fail. They should really pool their money together to take the sting off any potential losses if they want to give opportunities to their people. Athletes sadly are really all we've got for high end investors.

You cant get 100 black folks to Pitch in and buy a grocery store which in light of not being able to buy one solo is what we should be doing

what statistics do you have to support that?

 

[Fart Knocker]

what statistics do you have to support that?

curt schilling

 

[mozichrome]

he had to start this thread here in tlr, because he knew how stupid it would sound in coliseum

 

[↓R↑LYB]

shady mccoy showed up to training camp in a rolls royce and these nikkas wanna act like he's a slave suffering tremendous hardships

Not only that, these dudes actually want to be in the NFL. They've been dreaming about the shyt. They practice, work out, and push themselves for the opportunity to be there. shyt they actually COMPETE to sign that contract.

 

[JamilALAmin]

I'm not saying you shouldn't cringe, and I can understand how you would feel that way, but I still don't see how you can compare that shyt to slavery. I mean we all know what happened to our ancestors, and we should never forgive, forget, or get over it. But using the slavery comparison

That's like someone trying to compare the native american genocide to the fact someone messed their order up at McDonald's.

More importantly though, you shouldn't disagree with me breh. That's what the white man wants you to do

I'm not comparing dudes in the league to slavery. I said that the NFL combine is eerily similar to a slave market. Old white dudes watching half naked Black dudes flex their muscles, run and jump. And white men want us to disagree yes, but there is nothing wrong with a stimulating convo between brothers about this type of shyt. We not not name calling and arguing. I respect you and I would hope that you respect me, that doesn't mean we can have a differing of opinion on a particular topic. shyt like this is healthy for our people. We not always going to be on the same page with everything but as long as we both have the same goal in mind we good.

 

[↓R↑LYB]

I'm not comparing dudes in the league to slavery. I said that the NFL combine is eerily similar to a slave market. Old white dudes watching half naked Black dudes flex their muscles, run and jump. And white men want us to disagree yes, but there is nothing wrong with a stimulating convo between brothers about this type of shyt. We not not name calling and arguing. I respect you and I would hope that you respect me, that doesn't mean we can have a differing of opinion on a particular topic. shyt like this is healthy for our people. We not always going to be on the same page with everything but as long as we both have the same goal in mind we good.

I think you misunderstood my statement breh. What I meant was you should just agree with everything I say...unless you're a cac in disguise :cacpls:

 

[JamilALAmin]

I think you misunderstood my statement breh. What I meant was you should just agree with everything I say...unless you're a cac in disguise :cacpls:

I think you know better than that bruh

 

[How Sway?]

no one is forcing them to play you know