Average American
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I recently posted something on Iverson's current financial & domestic problems.. I don't delight in other people's suffering, truth is.. I probably would've run thru all my $ if I had started collecting large paychecks @ 20 yrs old.. I get that part.
My issue is more with the culture that elevates these guys to heroic levels.. guys who squander their money, beat up their wives, can't read & write, etc..
The Black 'community' desparate for heroes & role models give these guys a heavy (public) load in trying to represent Black America at large. Iverson was sentenced to 15 years for his role in beating up a woman in VA.. but the Black community (including the Black governor Wilder, who pardoned Iverson), literally did everything in their power :director:to keep him on track to fame.. even at the expense of justice.
Advertisers & (a predominately White) sports media carry on a public love affair with guys who may not even want the adulation.. so we have a DWF culture that have worshipped dopes & perverts like LT, Vince Young, Dennis Rodman, 'His Airness', etc.. It's a crazy effort, that ends predictably with these role models back in front of judges, broke, on trial for murder.. or in early graves..
When will the DWF matrix seek out different men as role models for themselves & their kids (?) is there a solution (?)
ps- I had to throw Manley in there, cuz his revelation that he was moved thru high school and college, even tho he couldn't read, was my first childhood glimpse @ the DWF support system Black athletes enjoy.. even tho' it is ultimately/likely to their detriment.
My issue is more with the culture that elevates these guys to heroic levels.. guys who squander their money, beat up their wives, can't read & write, etc..
The Black 'community' desparate for heroes & role models give these guys a heavy (public) load in trying to represent Black America at large. Iverson was sentenced to 15 years for his role in beating up a woman in VA.. but the Black community (including the Black governor Wilder, who pardoned Iverson), literally did everything in their power :director:to keep him on track to fame.. even at the expense of justice.
Advertisers & (a predominately White) sports media carry on a public love affair with guys who may not even want the adulation.. so we have a DWF culture that have worshipped dopes & perverts like LT, Vince Young, Dennis Rodman, 'His Airness', etc.. It's a crazy effort, that ends predictably with these role models back in front of judges, broke, on trial for murder.. or in early graves..
When will the DWF matrix seek out different men as role models for themselves & their kids (?) is there a solution (?)
ps- I had to throw Manley in there, cuz his revelation that he was moved thru high school and college, even tho he couldn't read, was my first childhood glimpse @ the DWF support system Black athletes enjoy.. even tho' it is ultimately/likely to their detriment.