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John Amaechi -- Hero of the Orwellian Media
John Amaechi, a journeyman NBA center who retired a few years ago, has recently "come out of the closet" and announced he is homosexual. The news had the same shock value as if Michael Moore had announced he was fat. Is there anything more tiresome than some quasi-celebrity making a big deal about their sexual orientation? It's about as interesting as watching home movies, and in this case the subject matter is so unpleasant it's more like watching home movies of someone defecating.
The corporate media's take on the subject can be illustrated by a paragraph from the AP's nationally syndicated columnist John Litke:
"If we're lucky, the men and women who are both enlightened and emboldened will not only be supportive but will drown out the knuckleheads and Neanderthals and everybody who wants to slow the march of progress. Even one step away from tolerance, whether we're talking about race, gender, religious beliefs or sexuality, simply slows the march to the day when none of this stuff matters."
He also wrote:
"A pro athlete who waits until his career is over to declare he's gay, the way John Amaechi just did in a new book, is yesterday's news. He has something to sell, little to lose and does less to advance the cause he's fighting for  helping sports get over its homophobia  than he might have."
So that's it for the propaganda press. It's not about Amaechi, it's about YOU dear fans and how you can be brought more into line with the "correct" way of thinking so as to lose that nasty "homophobia" that humans have been carrying around for about a million years.
You almost get the idea that elite members of society who control the news apparatus have some kind of interest in reducing certain segments of the population by promoting non-reproductive strategies. Naw, that would be PARANOID to even suggest that people in power want to push the homosexual agenda.
Ever get the sensation that the news media is writing for some other kind of reader? That everything you read and see from this government-regulated communication medium is directed at someone else, because surely they can't be expecting you to swallow that garbage?
How can it be that so much of the "news" media does not reflect the views of its readers and is instead trying to convince them or teach them or indoctrinate them to "get over" some way of "incorrect" (to them) way of thinking? Was it that long ago when there was at least one newspaper that printed a point of view that you could read, nod your head, and agree with?
We live in an amazing age. We have more words spoken and written than at any time in history yet we have less actual "freedom" of the press than ever. Virtually all of the mass communicated news is filtered through the same distorted lens, all with the same general slant, all of it part of a larger way of thinking that is antithetical to the core beliefs of so many of its customers.
Since coming out, this Amaechi fellow has had to endure the horrible fate of homosexuals who come out in our society, in other words he has had nothing but good things written and said about him and has been treated like a hero.
Here are some examples of the withering homophobia that homosexuals must endure every day from the "knuckleheads and Neanderthals" and everybody else who wants to slow the march of progress:
Jerry Sloan, Utah Jazz coach
Associated Press
"I always have peoples' feelings at heart. People do what they want to do. I don't have a problem with that."
Doc Rivers, Boston Celtics coach who coached Amaechi in Orlando
Associated Press
"[Amaechi]'s better than a good kid; he's a fantastic kid. John Amaechi, when I was coaching him, was a great kid."
Isiah Thomas, New York Knicks coach
Newark Star-Ledger and Newsday
"If [there was an openly homosexual player] in my locker room, we won't have a problem with it. I can't speak for somebody else's locker room, but if it's in mine, we won't have a problem. I'll make damn sure there's no problem."
Eddie Curry, New York Knicks center
Newsday
"If one of my teammates came out and said that, I'd be supportive of him because those are my teammates. Those are the guys I went to war with night in and night out. Regardless of what he does off the court, we battle together."
Michael Doleac, Miami Heat center and former teammate of Amaechi's in Orlando
Palm Beach Post
"If that's who he is, good for him. John was a smart guy, a great guy, a fun guy."
Grant Hill, Orlando Magic player
Associated Press
"The fact that John has done this, maybe it will give others the comfort or confidence to come out as well, whether they are playing or retiring."
David Stern, NBA Commissioner
Associated Press
"We have a very diverse league. The question at the NBA is always 'Have you got game?' That's it, end of inquiry."
So there you have it, nothing but nice things to say about the guy. How can he stand the abuse?
Here's a gem from David Steele of the Baltimore Sun:
"The first active athlete to announce himself as gay  and it would have to be an 'announcement,' which, for obvious reasons, [Jackie] Robinson didn't have to do  will have to go through an initiation different from Robinson's, but surely just as brutal. The prejudices against homosexuality in the major sports are deeply ingrained. Just as gay rights leaders have followed the old civil rights playbook almost page by page, this pioneer will have to work from Robinson's playbook, and subs for the roles of [Branch] Rickey, Pee Wee Reese and all the heroes and villains will have to step up."
Another "Jackie Robinson" comparison. We had to put up with that crap during the Super Bowl, when the media acted as if Tony Dungy and Lovie Smith had much to "overcome" rather than the historically low achievement of their people. The real truth is that they have been treated unfailingly well, have been given every opportunity, have gotten special treatment and enjoy legal, governmental, and social support all out of proportion to that which they deserve. Yet we are supposed to believe that these poor souls had to overcome some semblance of antagonism.
It's all so phony and contrived, this imaginary fantasy world of the media where the anointed ones face some kind of hateful scary world in which they are the victims, instead of the real world where they are protected and defended in a manner completely the opposite of that which is insinuated. The real victims are the plain truth and the people unfortunate enough to point out the obvious shortcomings of the chosen ones.
One sportswriter had the courage to write some words of truth. He may no longer be employed since doing it. Steve Luhm, a sports columnist for the Salt Lake Tribune, writes:
"John Amaechi remains one of the worst players in franchise history. I'm not Amaechi-bashing here. I'm just stating a fact. On July 19, 2001, the Jazz signed Amaechi to a four-year, $12 million contract. Over the next two seasons - before being traded - the young Brit redefined the cliche, 'Take the money and run.'
"Amaechi took about $6 million of Larry Miller's money and didn't run . . . didn't shoot . . . didn't rebound. Looking back, the price tag for his astonishingly unproductive layover in Utah is mind-boggling.
"Amaechi ended up being paid $5,660 for every minute played, $21,879 for every point scored and $32,258 for every rebound he ever grabbed for the Jazz. In 104 regular-season games, Amaechi averaged 2.6 points, 1.8 rebounds and shot 32 percent from the field.
"To make matters worse, Amaechi's running feud with coach Jerry Sloan made weekly headlines, it seemed. During his second season, Amaechi became a member of a rebellious clique that also included Mark Jackson and DeShawn Stevenson. They all were unhappy with their roles, and their discontent fractured a locker room that John Stockton and Karl Malone had run relatively smoothly for 15 years. Although Stockton never said anything to me, others insist that the off-the-court turmoil contributed to his decision to retire after the Jazz were eliminated from the 2003 playoffs.
"In his book, Amaechi blames Sloan's demand for focus and effort for their troubled relationship. 'I respect the game of pro basketball,' he wrote. 'I just don't think it's all that important. I wasn't going to be embarrassed by Jerry Sloan because basketball had a proper role in my balanced life and I didn't blindly worship a game he made pretty much the entirety of his existence.'
"Oddly, Amaechi suggests the Jazz should have known his level of play might drop after he secured his first big-money million-dollar contract. 'Why does the performance of so many players decline after they sign multiyear guaranteed deals?' he wrote. 'It's a little thing called human nature. Plenty of guys - Karl Malone and John Stockton are the obvious examples - play hard no matter how much they make. Other guys lack the discipline. Predicting which player falls into which category is the key to scouting.'
"A few paragraphs later, Amaechi explained: 'The problem was not my commitment to the game. I was working as hard, with what I had, as anyone on the team. The truth is Sloan and Jazz management hadn't done their research - otherwise known as scouting. They could tell you all my court tendencies, how I played the game and why I should fit into the system. But they knew nothing of my character'."
So this no talent turd who milked the Jazz and their fans out of millions of dollars with his lousy play is blaming the Jazz management for not realizing what a talentless, lazy, shiftless, rotten, phony, no-good bum he really was.
And now the media wants all of us homophobic fans to pay homage to this low-life and bestow some sort of honor upon him, not due to the "content of his character" but merely because he sodomizes other men.
He freely admits that he didn't want to "blindly worship" the game he was paid millions of dollars to play, that he had a "balanced life" which included, I guess, buggering other guys.
Who's to say this guy is really homosexual? Maybe it's another ploy to milk money out of an unsuspecting public with his book and the resulting publicity. He was a phony basketball player, maybe he is a phony homosexual, too. How can you believe anything this guy says, and thus why would anyone want to hear or read anything that he might have to say?
Another interesting question is how Amaechi was able to bounce around the NBA for so long and get paid so well. It's one thing for the NBA to waste millions on ghetto thugs with few skills, no hustle, and little desire to play. After all, the league is filled with those types, so it's no surprise when another one shows up. But Amaechi is British, the unlikely amalgamation of a white mother and Nigerian father. He didn't even play the game until he was 17, and he clearly never even liked to play. How does a guy like this get by the scouting services and into the NBA?
I guess it's no longer a mystery why so many white American 6-10 centers with game and heart are not playing in the NBA. A clumsy, lazy, unmotivated malcontent from several thousand miles away who crossed the pond to play for Penn State's less than imposing basketball program can get a shot at the pros, but a guy like Kevin Pittsnoggle ends a stellar college career at WVU without even so much as a nod from the NBA.
Maybe the NBA has a "gay Nigerian" quota to fill that they're not telling anyone about, because other than a quota system there is no reason this clown should ever have put on a pro uniform.
The career of John Amaechi was an embarrassment. So is the story of his post-NBA life. He is the kind of guy who should be criticized, not lionized. The fact that his story is being pushed upon us and that larger implications are being drawn from those experiences are indicative of the destruction of our traditional system of values that has been going on in this country for some time. It's another signpost on the way to hell. Enjoy the ride.
Edited by: administrator
John Amaechi, a journeyman NBA center who retired a few years ago, has recently "come out of the closet" and announced he is homosexual. The news had the same shock value as if Michael Moore had announced he was fat. Is there anything more tiresome than some quasi-celebrity making a big deal about their sexual orientation? It's about as interesting as watching home movies, and in this case the subject matter is so unpleasant it's more like watching home movies of someone defecating.
The corporate media's take on the subject can be illustrated by a paragraph from the AP's nationally syndicated columnist John Litke:
"If we're lucky, the men and women who are both enlightened and emboldened will not only be supportive but will drown out the knuckleheads and Neanderthals and everybody who wants to slow the march of progress. Even one step away from tolerance, whether we're talking about race, gender, religious beliefs or sexuality, simply slows the march to the day when none of this stuff matters."
He also wrote:
"A pro athlete who waits until his career is over to declare he's gay, the way John Amaechi just did in a new book, is yesterday's news. He has something to sell, little to lose and does less to advance the cause he's fighting for  helping sports get over its homophobia  than he might have."
So that's it for the propaganda press. It's not about Amaechi, it's about YOU dear fans and how you can be brought more into line with the "correct" way of thinking so as to lose that nasty "homophobia" that humans have been carrying around for about a million years.
You almost get the idea that elite members of society who control the news apparatus have some kind of interest in reducing certain segments of the population by promoting non-reproductive strategies. Naw, that would be PARANOID to even suggest that people in power want to push the homosexual agenda.
Ever get the sensation that the news media is writing for some other kind of reader? That everything you read and see from this government-regulated communication medium is directed at someone else, because surely they can't be expecting you to swallow that garbage?
How can it be that so much of the "news" media does not reflect the views of its readers and is instead trying to convince them or teach them or indoctrinate them to "get over" some way of "incorrect" (to them) way of thinking? Was it that long ago when there was at least one newspaper that printed a point of view that you could read, nod your head, and agree with?
We live in an amazing age. We have more words spoken and written than at any time in history yet we have less actual "freedom" of the press than ever. Virtually all of the mass communicated news is filtered through the same distorted lens, all with the same general slant, all of it part of a larger way of thinking that is antithetical to the core beliefs of so many of its customers.
Since coming out, this Amaechi fellow has had to endure the horrible fate of homosexuals who come out in our society, in other words he has had nothing but good things written and said about him and has been treated like a hero.
Here are some examples of the withering homophobia that homosexuals must endure every day from the "knuckleheads and Neanderthals" and everybody else who wants to slow the march of progress:
Jerry Sloan, Utah Jazz coach
Associated Press
"I always have peoples' feelings at heart. People do what they want to do. I don't have a problem with that."
Doc Rivers, Boston Celtics coach who coached Amaechi in Orlando
Associated Press
"[Amaechi]'s better than a good kid; he's a fantastic kid. John Amaechi, when I was coaching him, was a great kid."
Isiah Thomas, New York Knicks coach
Newark Star-Ledger and Newsday
"If [there was an openly homosexual player] in my locker room, we won't have a problem with it. I can't speak for somebody else's locker room, but if it's in mine, we won't have a problem. I'll make damn sure there's no problem."
Eddie Curry, New York Knicks center
Newsday
"If one of my teammates came out and said that, I'd be supportive of him because those are my teammates. Those are the guys I went to war with night in and night out. Regardless of what he does off the court, we battle together."
Michael Doleac, Miami Heat center and former teammate of Amaechi's in Orlando
Palm Beach Post
"If that's who he is, good for him. John was a smart guy, a great guy, a fun guy."
Grant Hill, Orlando Magic player
Associated Press
"The fact that John has done this, maybe it will give others the comfort or confidence to come out as well, whether they are playing or retiring."
David Stern, NBA Commissioner
Associated Press
"We have a very diverse league. The question at the NBA is always 'Have you got game?' That's it, end of inquiry."
So there you have it, nothing but nice things to say about the guy. How can he stand the abuse?
Here's a gem from David Steele of the Baltimore Sun:
"The first active athlete to announce himself as gay  and it would have to be an 'announcement,' which, for obvious reasons, [Jackie] Robinson didn't have to do  will have to go through an initiation different from Robinson's, but surely just as brutal. The prejudices against homosexuality in the major sports are deeply ingrained. Just as gay rights leaders have followed the old civil rights playbook almost page by page, this pioneer will have to work from Robinson's playbook, and subs for the roles of [Branch] Rickey, Pee Wee Reese and all the heroes and villains will have to step up."
Another "Jackie Robinson" comparison. We had to put up with that crap during the Super Bowl, when the media acted as if Tony Dungy and Lovie Smith had much to "overcome" rather than the historically low achievement of their people. The real truth is that they have been treated unfailingly well, have been given every opportunity, have gotten special treatment and enjoy legal, governmental, and social support all out of proportion to that which they deserve. Yet we are supposed to believe that these poor souls had to overcome some semblance of antagonism.
It's all so phony and contrived, this imaginary fantasy world of the media where the anointed ones face some kind of hateful scary world in which they are the victims, instead of the real world where they are protected and defended in a manner completely the opposite of that which is insinuated. The real victims are the plain truth and the people unfortunate enough to point out the obvious shortcomings of the chosen ones.
One sportswriter had the courage to write some words of truth. He may no longer be employed since doing it. Steve Luhm, a sports columnist for the Salt Lake Tribune, writes:
"John Amaechi remains one of the worst players in franchise history. I'm not Amaechi-bashing here. I'm just stating a fact. On July 19, 2001, the Jazz signed Amaechi to a four-year, $12 million contract. Over the next two seasons - before being traded - the young Brit redefined the cliche, 'Take the money and run.'
"Amaechi took about $6 million of Larry Miller's money and didn't run . . . didn't shoot . . . didn't rebound. Looking back, the price tag for his astonishingly unproductive layover in Utah is mind-boggling.
"Amaechi ended up being paid $5,660 for every minute played, $21,879 for every point scored and $32,258 for every rebound he ever grabbed for the Jazz. In 104 regular-season games, Amaechi averaged 2.6 points, 1.8 rebounds and shot 32 percent from the field.
"To make matters worse, Amaechi's running feud with coach Jerry Sloan made weekly headlines, it seemed. During his second season, Amaechi became a member of a rebellious clique that also included Mark Jackson and DeShawn Stevenson. They all were unhappy with their roles, and their discontent fractured a locker room that John Stockton and Karl Malone had run relatively smoothly for 15 years. Although Stockton never said anything to me, others insist that the off-the-court turmoil contributed to his decision to retire after the Jazz were eliminated from the 2003 playoffs.
"In his book, Amaechi blames Sloan's demand for focus and effort for their troubled relationship. 'I respect the game of pro basketball,' he wrote. 'I just don't think it's all that important. I wasn't going to be embarrassed by Jerry Sloan because basketball had a proper role in my balanced life and I didn't blindly worship a game he made pretty much the entirety of his existence.'
"Oddly, Amaechi suggests the Jazz should have known his level of play might drop after he secured his first big-money million-dollar contract. 'Why does the performance of so many players decline after they sign multiyear guaranteed deals?' he wrote. 'It's a little thing called human nature. Plenty of guys - Karl Malone and John Stockton are the obvious examples - play hard no matter how much they make. Other guys lack the discipline. Predicting which player falls into which category is the key to scouting.'
"A few paragraphs later, Amaechi explained: 'The problem was not my commitment to the game. I was working as hard, with what I had, as anyone on the team. The truth is Sloan and Jazz management hadn't done their research - otherwise known as scouting. They could tell you all my court tendencies, how I played the game and why I should fit into the system. But they knew nothing of my character'."
So this no talent turd who milked the Jazz and their fans out of millions of dollars with his lousy play is blaming the Jazz management for not realizing what a talentless, lazy, shiftless, rotten, phony, no-good bum he really was.
And now the media wants all of us homophobic fans to pay homage to this low-life and bestow some sort of honor upon him, not due to the "content of his character" but merely because he sodomizes other men.
He freely admits that he didn't want to "blindly worship" the game he was paid millions of dollars to play, that he had a "balanced life" which included, I guess, buggering other guys.
Who's to say this guy is really homosexual? Maybe it's another ploy to milk money out of an unsuspecting public with his book and the resulting publicity. He was a phony basketball player, maybe he is a phony homosexual, too. How can you believe anything this guy says, and thus why would anyone want to hear or read anything that he might have to say?
Another interesting question is how Amaechi was able to bounce around the NBA for so long and get paid so well. It's one thing for the NBA to waste millions on ghetto thugs with few skills, no hustle, and little desire to play. After all, the league is filled with those types, so it's no surprise when another one shows up. But Amaechi is British, the unlikely amalgamation of a white mother and Nigerian father. He didn't even play the game until he was 17, and he clearly never even liked to play. How does a guy like this get by the scouting services and into the NBA?
I guess it's no longer a mystery why so many white American 6-10 centers with game and heart are not playing in the NBA. A clumsy, lazy, unmotivated malcontent from several thousand miles away who crossed the pond to play for Penn State's less than imposing basketball program can get a shot at the pros, but a guy like Kevin Pittsnoggle ends a stellar college career at WVU without even so much as a nod from the NBA.
Maybe the NBA has a "gay Nigerian" quota to fill that they're not telling anyone about, because other than a quota system there is no reason this clown should ever have put on a pro uniform.
The career of John Amaechi was an embarrassment. So is the story of his post-NBA life. He is the kind of guy who should be criticized, not lionized. The fact that his story is being pushed upon us and that larger implications are being drawn from those experiences are indicative of the destruction of our traditional system of values that has been going on in this country for some time. It's another signpost on the way to hell. Enjoy the ride.
Edited by: administrator