Yes the NFL draft sucks as the picks reinforce the "black as superior athlete" meme over and over. White players with better measurables or better college production are passed over for 'projects' and unknowns. But while fans may think that the draft is a way of restocking teams with the best players available the fact is that the NFL is very important to those that control the media for one important reason. It provides one of the only positive real life images of black males in the country. Do not ever lose site of the fact that the NFL is a propaganda tool first and foremost. It will make the baffling decisions to make heroes of people like Michael Vick and Michael Sam, while crucifying someone like Tim Tebow much more clearer.
And with race relations at a low point what with blacks rioting every time a black criminal manages to get his dumb ass killed, it is very important that the NFL put on its annual love fest of black athletes so as to remind whites just how great black people really are. So we get a parade of black athletes dressed up in suits, with tattoos hidden, dread locks washed, room brightning smiles flashing, happily putting on the jersey of the local team. In short all of the things that have proved to make 21[SUP]st[/SUP] century white men cheer and modern white women swoon.
The popularity of the NFL borders on religious fervor. Probably more people worship their local football team in person or on TV during fall Sundays then worship in a house of God. On Thursday night the parishioners of NFL fandom said a prayer to Roger Goodell in hopes that he would announce to them the savior their team has been looking for. Most fans consider the Super Bowl as the football equivalent of Christmas and this Thursday’s Draft Day would be the sports Easter. The game celebrates a rebirth, a new influx of players, mostly black, that bring with them the promise of taking their teams to the Promised Land.
Public attitude manipulators realized long ago that white people have a genetic weakness in regards to their passion for what group they consider their “home†team. This absurd fanaticism expresses itself in irrational behavior, like spending hundreds of dollars on team sports wear, obsessively following the local team, painting their bodies for games, and even getting tattoos of their beloved team carved into their skin.
It forces otherwise sane white men to consider the black players that play for the local team as some kind of kin that deserve special affection usually only reserved for family or close genetic relatives. Despite the clear disdain black athletes have for white people and white culture, the white sports fan will still obsessively support even the most despicable of black players as long as they are part of “their†team and can help the team win.
A stark example of this type of thinking is the case of Jameis Winston, the first pick in this years draft. Winston played for a southern college, Florida State, in the evil racist bigoted South. He was charged a year ago with sexual assault, basically for raping a white woman. The local authorities did all they could to cover up and make the case disappear, the college did what it could to ignore the situation and not punish Winston in anyway that would damage the teams fortunes. The white men on the police force and local prosecutors, media, college officials, etc were complicit in what appears to be the unpunished rape of a white woman. In the not so long ago past this kind of alleged crime would not have been met with indifference and support for the black man but instead serious ramifications and the possibility of a real honest to goodness lynching.
Draft Day is another frightening example of how white people have surrendered in-group loyalties to whomever the media-corporate-political system commands. May God help us all.
And with race relations at a low point what with blacks rioting every time a black criminal manages to get his dumb ass killed, it is very important that the NFL put on its annual love fest of black athletes so as to remind whites just how great black people really are. So we get a parade of black athletes dressed up in suits, with tattoos hidden, dread locks washed, room brightning smiles flashing, happily putting on the jersey of the local team. In short all of the things that have proved to make 21[SUP]st[/SUP] century white men cheer and modern white women swoon.
The popularity of the NFL borders on religious fervor. Probably more people worship their local football team in person or on TV during fall Sundays then worship in a house of God. On Thursday night the parishioners of NFL fandom said a prayer to Roger Goodell in hopes that he would announce to them the savior their team has been looking for. Most fans consider the Super Bowl as the football equivalent of Christmas and this Thursday’s Draft Day would be the sports Easter. The game celebrates a rebirth, a new influx of players, mostly black, that bring with them the promise of taking their teams to the Promised Land.
Public attitude manipulators realized long ago that white people have a genetic weakness in regards to their passion for what group they consider their “home†team. This absurd fanaticism expresses itself in irrational behavior, like spending hundreds of dollars on team sports wear, obsessively following the local team, painting their bodies for games, and even getting tattoos of their beloved team carved into their skin.
It forces otherwise sane white men to consider the black players that play for the local team as some kind of kin that deserve special affection usually only reserved for family or close genetic relatives. Despite the clear disdain black athletes have for white people and white culture, the white sports fan will still obsessively support even the most despicable of black players as long as they are part of “their†team and can help the team win.
A stark example of this type of thinking is the case of Jameis Winston, the first pick in this years draft. Winston played for a southern college, Florida State, in the evil racist bigoted South. He was charged a year ago with sexual assault, basically for raping a white woman. The local authorities did all they could to cover up and make the case disappear, the college did what it could to ignore the situation and not punish Winston in anyway that would damage the teams fortunes. The white men on the police force and local prosecutors, media, college officials, etc were complicit in what appears to be the unpunished rape of a white woman. In the not so long ago past this kind of alleged crime would not have been met with indifference and support for the black man but instead serious ramifications and the possibility of a real honest to goodness lynching.
Draft Day is another frightening example of how white people have surrendered in-group loyalties to whomever the media-corporate-political system commands. May God help us all.
