Professional Sports in America
written by James Yates Jr.
Is it my blurried vision or does it seem that it's always the Black athletes that seemto be causing the rutkus and are always being led away in handcuffs?
The latest events with the Giants receiver Plaxico Burress are only symbolic of what Black Americans see when it looks inside of professional sports.
What surprises me is how so many people are willing to see this guy go to jail when all of the facts aren't even in. So typical of American. I tell you if we are not prosecuted in America courts we are persecuted in Americas streets.
Somehow I feel that where professional sports went wrong for the Black professional athlete was when we lost the Negro leagues in professional baseball. Mainly due to a lack of support by Americans that turned around and made baseball and apple pie a mainstay in this country. This too reminds me of a cleansing of everything Black in this country to maintain a lilly white appearance.
Since then, there has been no real assembly of Black athletes in this country. The last talk of such action was during the 1968 olympics when John Carlos and Tommie Smith was kicked out of Mexico and thrown to the wolves within the American public. There lives would never be the same again.
Apparrently, athletes today are the tool of the millionaires that control them. Will Black athletes in this country really truly ever have their own? And why not, the other side does. Somehow playing the game is not enough for me. The dream in America is to own something and not work for something your entire life.
I will remain firm in my position that the price of freedom should not come at the price of selling your soul to the devil.
