Valid points to ponder. And, I don't really know why, and I can't logically justify it, but I find an all-white something more distasteful than all-anything-else something.
I'll tell you the reason why.
Because we have been conditioned to see the white man as the great evil. The perpetual hater. The harbinger of all things prejudice.
I am not saying this league is a good or a bad thing.
I just think it is an excellent opportunity to demonstrate the conditioning we have been subjected to and how powerful it is concerning our judgments of others actions.
All other races are, basically, pure in their intentions but the evil white man has no other agenda than to keep others down.
Because we have been conditioned to see the white man as the great evil. The perpetual hater. The harbinger of all things prejudice.
I am not saying this league is a good or a bad thing.
I just think it is an excellent opportunity to demonstrate the conditioning we have been subjected to and how powerful it is concerning our judgments of others actions.
All other races are, basically, pure in their intentions but the evil white man has no other agenda than to keep others down.
Racial prejudice is evil in every form.
Yeah, that's it! Thanks!
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I would be interested in knowing if anyones reaction (whether it be positive or negative) would differ any from their reaction to hearing that there was an all black basketball league in the works.
Or all Asian.
Or all Indian?
Well for years our country had bastions that were specifically for blacks only or whites only.
Honestly, if the intents were pure, I'm not sure I could find much to say against it, other than just being against it.
However, by the words of the author of the idea, his intents are not pure.
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Because we have been conditioned to see the white man as the great evil. The perpetual hater. The harbinger of all things prejudice.
I am not saying this league is a good or a bad thing.
I just think it is an excellent opportunity to demonstrate the conditioning we have been subjected to and how powerful it is concerning our judgments of others actions.
All other races are, basically, pure in their intentions but the evil white man has no other agenda than to keep others down.
Racial prejudice is evil in every form.
Unfortunately, there is history to back up many, if not most prejudices.
It's a noble battle to fight prejudices, but to deny their existence or the examples that feed the prejudice is even more problematic.
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I am not saying this league is a good or a bad thing.
Well, from a slightly different perspective it could just be that us white boys don't play basketball as good as them black fellers and we are feeling defeated and outcast and need a boost to our self esteem...
But you are right. The conditioning is there.
Back before the election got good and rolling I took the mission statement from obama's church in Chicago and replaced every instance of the word "black" with the word "white".
I figure if I ever actually posted it anywhere I would have gotten publically flogged and crucified.
I would be interested in knowing if anyones reaction (whether it be positive or negative) would differ any from their reaction to hearing that there was an all black basketball league in the works.
Or all Asian.
Or all Indian?
I personally am bothered by the "all Black" clubs and other such institutions. I guess nobody likes to feel "left out."
About the only good that could come of this would be to see a return to the passing game in pro basketball instead of the prevalent (and boring) "dominate the paint" game that prevails today.
Have you seen film of basketball from the Fifties, white, black, whoever? It's a completely different game, and kind of cool choreography.
But to open up with a "whites only" and "two Caucasian parents" thing is very offensive to me personally. And patently schtoopid.
Unfortunately, there is history to back up many, if not most prejudices.
It's a noble battle to fight prejudices, to deny their existence or the examples that feed the prejudice is even more problematic.
There is a history from many different angles.
There are prejudice people of all colors and the history of slavery is not a black and white one. All races have bought and sold people as property since the very beginnings of recorded history. It is a glorious day that this is now a practice we can see as a part of our past but it doesn't mark any race any differently than it marks another.
All races, colors & creeds have taken part in the practice at some part in history.
There is nothing that marks me. I am one man. A white man. A man who judges people by what I see in them. A man who looks on who you are as a person.
I should be born with no marks from my past. I should not suffer prejudgment because of the actions of people long ago who might have had a similar skin tone than I.
I should not receive that judgment until I earn it and I will not accept it.
The question I posed was... would the same situation be viewed any differently if the league were another race.
if the answer is yes then a judgment has been laid due to skin color and that, without question, is racism and prejudice.
There are prejudice people of all colors and the history of slavery is not a black and white one. All races have bought and sold people as property since the very beginnings of recorded history. It is a glorious day that this is now a practice we can see as a part of our past but it doesn't mark any race any differently than it marks another.
All races, colors & creeds have taken part in the practice at some part in history.
Yeah, but our part is a bit more recent, very recent if you consider that the most violent part of the civil rights movement occurred in memory of some of us here.
The audio book I am currently engaged in is Volume 1 of Shelby Foote's Civil War Narrative. Those were some tough times....
Racism is something I think any right thinking person would find intolerable. Wish there were more peple who could think right.
Yeah, but our part is a bit more recent, very recent if you consider that the most violent part of the civil rights movement occurred in memory of some of us here.
The audio book I am currently engaged in is Volume 1 of Shelby Foote's Civil War Narrative. Those were some tough times....
Racism is something I think any right thinking person would find intolerable. Wish there were more peple who could think right.
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