‘To be silent. A flat line. Because in the hour of chaos we are white lint, not black steel. 50 cent lyrics, not million dollar stanzas.”
In contrast to the silent negroes. . .
“In 2003, Steve Nash came to the NBA All-Star game in Atlanta in a T-shirt that read: “NO WAR. SHOOT FOR PEACE.” Then he was quoted at the time — and more recently in his Man of the Year profile in GQ — as saying, “I think Saddam Hussein is a crazed dictator, but I don’t think he’s threatening us. We haven’t found any nuclear weapons and until that’s finished and decided, I don’t think the war is acceptable.”
During the 1950s, 60s and 70s, black athletes like Jackie Robinson, Jim Brown, Muhammad Ali, Bill Russell, Arthur Ashe, Tommie Smith and others spoke out on social issues frequently–and they had a strong impact. In contrast, athletes like O.J. Simpson, who once quipped, “I’m not Martin Luther King,” played it safe and tried to assimilate. Black athletes today would not dare say award against corporate America. What does it say about TheStateOf the black athlete when Black America is doing so poorly and almost none of these nitwits has opened his mouth? It says to me that they are mental slaves, completely under the control of their (white) agents, lawyers and advisers.
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