im sorry i must need to get new glasses, where's the white man in that gif that made Mike hit that move? Mike decided to do that not anyone else. I watched the video it was full of bad dance moves by mike this just the worst one
you fake militants round here (not you specifically this board in general)try to make everything more than it is. like a black man can't have fun. he can't sing, he can't dance, he can't smile, he can't laugh, all he can do is scowl, frown, and not show any signs of enjoyment in life or else the white man wins. Sit at home Mike and not do what you've done all your life and that's entertain cause when you entertain you have fun and having fun is c00nish behavior. Don't use your new found outlets for peace and joy in life, sit at home and mean mug the TV and refill your heart with the hate that you've worked so hard to get rid of.
and remember one of the main reasons Tyson ended up broke besides his own transgressions, was because of the honorable black man don king.
but im gon get called a c00n for stating facts.
And no one in here said Mike shouldn't be an entertainer to feed himself, but there are blatant levels to this sh1t.
Men like Ben Vereen, Sammy Davis Jr, Nipsey Russel all came up at a time in America where if a black man wanted to be a mainstream entertainer, especially in the realm of comedy, they were expected to c00n it up, dance fo massa, & play stereotypes, no ifs, ands, or buts. I'm sure it was degrading but they had to do what they had to do for their careers & to open doors for younger black talents.
In the mid 1970s, after the civil rights era 1960s, newly created Saturday Night Live hired 1 black actor, Garrette Morris, to basically be the resident c00n. GM & Lorne Michaels will tell you that themselves.
In the 1990s, George Forman went through a MAJOR re-imaging and we all saw him as the fat, lovable, black family man who's cheeks white America just can't wait to get a hold of and pinch. Some sensitive types would have accused George of c00ning then (not me)...
But no matter their reasons for c00ning, you can search for days, weeks, & months, and I guarantee you won't find 1 gif, photo, or eyewitness account of any of the aforementioned men on their back, legs a-spread, and pepperin dat angus in thot-wear for the amusement of a mostly white audience. No, just no. Even if you have to c00n it up to make ends meet, the minute you gotta do what Mike is doing in that gif... well... sorry fam, you've now become an exercise in the pathos of c00nery.
If you don't view something like this through a historic lens, then I can see why you can't see the danger in what's going on. And if in reading these replies you're getting this uneasy feeling that black men have to live by a somewhat different set of rules in the USA, you're getting that feeling because it's the truth.