did the wnba ever have a fashion show?
Lebron James is hosting the first ever NBA fashion show
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Dont know what the big deal is, like posters here dont comment on these dudes fits before every game anyway.
I think its a good idea, and its a good way to get bron and some of the other stars into Saturday night. You lame nikkas hate everything
I think its a good idea, and its a good way to get bron and some of the other stars into Saturday night. You lame nikkas hate everything
Labadi_Mantse
All Star
How is it implicitly racist?because players couldn't wear tall tees on the sidelines any more? Grow the fukk up
http://www.sunypress.edu/p-5321-after-artest.aspx
Read that book for one
Although Stern and others inside the NBA spoke of the policy in universal terms, as an effort to highlight the professionalism and “goodness” of all its players, numerous players saw the policy as something else: a racist assault on hip-hop and yet another instance of the NBA attacking its young black male stars. Blackness exists as “a problematic sign and ontological position” (Williams 1998, p. 140). Given that the NBA does not want to rid itself of its black players, the dress code seeks to lighten, if not whiten, these players in the national (white) imagination. It sought to recreate the illusion of racial transcendence amongst its African Americans players. It works to sever the ties between LeBron, Dwyane, and Kobe and hip-hop, blackness and the criminalized black body, at least within the white imagination. Jason Richardson again makes this clear: “They want to sway away from the hip-hop generation. You think of hip-hop right now and think of things that happen like gangs having shootouts in front of radio stations” (“Pacers' Jackson: dress code is ‘racist’”).
After the NBA's Golden era during Michael Jordan's peak led to decreased viewership and allegations of the NBA as a "thuggish" league, David Stern met with Republican strategist Matthew Dowd to give the NBA "red state appeal."-- because red states have been so historically friendly to blacks...
I've also heard us as black people refer to organizations comprised predominantly of us as "thuggish" http://www.complex.com/style/2014/04/stylish-nba-players-who-were-affected-by-leagues-dress-code/
https://overthecolorline.wordpress.com/2014/02/10/how-david-stern-whitewashed-the-nba/
Like I said, do some reading. Is it overtly racist? Likely not but implicitly there is very little doubt. I question if you're a black man because the rhetoric used is all too familiar when the white elite discuss young black men who are athletes. (Marshawn, Richard Sherman, AI etc)
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AND PEOPLE ARE SOMEHOW SURPRISED?
Trece
Superstar
A prerequisite for entry into Brons runway is to be fatherless.
waltthizzney
All Star
SO THIS WHY LEQUEEF WENT ANERXIC THIS SUMMER? OLE ASS DORITO BOLEMIC CRUSTY ASS NICCA
Bless't
Living the dream
This has the potential to be HILARIOUS.
It's clear some of these dudes take this seriously or try to do some out of the box shyt, and we clown them all season, why not clown them all together during the league's party weekend?
And I don't wanna see no respectable, GQ fashion either, I wanna see Russy go full retard
NBA dudes are the biggest divas in the sports world.
Amare's Right Hook
Southeast World Champion
I like the cut of your lapel
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