| Fisher: Don't blame NBA for Vegas issues FOXSports.com - 11 hours ago"I've heard a lot of opinions, but those ought to be reserved for when something actually happens," Fisher told the Los Angeles Times. ... |
Jason Whitlock did a follow up that I missed slamming the "Black Ku Klux Klan" who showed up in Vegas which got a lot of people's attention.
| We have a problem in the black community, and it didn't make its debut at All-Star Weekend Vegas. What was impossible to ignore in Vegas was on display in Houston, Atlanta and previous All-Star locations. With the exception of Louis Farrakhan's 1995 Million Man March, it's been on display nearly every time we've gathered in large groups to socialize in the past 15 or so years. The Black Ku Klux Klan shows up in full force and does its best to ruin our good time. Instead of wearing white robes and white hoods, the new KKK has now taken to wearing white Ts and calling themselves gangsta rappers, gangbangers and posse members. Just like the White KKK of the 1940s and '50s, we fear them, keep our eyes lowered, shut our mouths and pray they don't bother us. Our fear makes them stronger. Our silence empowers them. Our lack of courage lets them define who we are. Our excuse-making for their behavior increases their influence and enables them to recruit more freely. We sing their racist songs, gleefully call ourselves the N-word, hype their celebrity and get upset when white people whisper concerns about our sanity. And whenever someone publicly states that the Black KKK is terrorizing black people, black neighborhoods, black social events and glorifying a negative, self-destructive lifestyle, we deny and blame the Man. I don't want to do it anymore." |
Scoop Jackson who has a running feud with Whitlock since the latter said he was a clown and doing a bad Nat X impersonation comes out with a half-hearted defense of young black youth with a really stupid implication in the middle of it.
| "...But what happened while the NBA was in town is headline news? This is what becomes the reflection of a people, a culture? This is what constitutes columns and conversations of lawlessness and over-the-top irrational behavior? This is what gives people the right to editorialize and portray us as animals? Where were these writers and broadcasters during New Year's Eve in Vegas? Where were they when the police reports were being filled out saying that of the 403 arrests, 172 were of local residents and only 231 were from outsiders who came to visit Vegas? Where were they when the police reports said that of those 403 arrests, 239 were for prostitution-related incidents, compared to an average week of 175 arrests for those same crimes. And none of these arrests involved an NBA player. And I won't even get into, as Harvey Araton of the New York Times wrote, how nobody blamed NASCAR "for the death of a motorist who was shot in a road-rage encounter during a traffic jam after leaving the Daytona 500." NASCAR ain't the NBA. You know the difference, I know the difference. But an NFL player comes into town, wilds out, tosses $81,000 up in the air, someone gets shot, and it becomes a reflection of the NBA? Media, please. Yet we are supposed to sit here and accept this? Accept what is being written and said -- and insinuated -- and say nothing? We should remain quiet as if there's absolute truth to what is being communicated about the behavior of the "hip-hop thugs and their baby mammas" (code: young black people) who went to Vegas and displayed a side of ignorance that had veteran reporters and columnists "scared" to go out of their rooms? But in Dallas a few weeks ago at the NHL All-Star Game these same cats felt safe as kittens. Racism, please? It's not even worth me going there." |
It's not worth going because you would be a fool to do so. What about Super Bowl week, heard any stories about that thuggery or people unsafe? No, because NHL and Super Bowl week don't attract the type of thugs you see at the NBA All star weekend.
Pac-Man Jones was there for NBA all-star weekend which makes him part of the hip-hop fanbase the NBA attracts. Here is a member of G-unit who was involved in a brawl in Vegas and NBA all star weekend.
| Infamous/G-Unit recording artist, 40 Glocc, was involved in a brawl early Monday morning (February 19) outside the MGM Grand Casino. According to the rapper's spokesperson, he and his entourage got into an altercation with group of rival gang members, resulting in an all-out brawl that spilled into the casino's parking lot. "Niggas' wanted a problem, so we mashed them out," 40 Glocc told BallerStatus.com. "I'ma real one wit this... I don't wear rags for videos and fashion, gangbangin' is not a fashion! And whoever is using it for record selling and fashion, they gotta run into me and real ones in the streets just like me and gone find out the hard way. That goes for crips and bloods." Shots were reportedly exchanged, and one man was left with a gunshot to the hip. He declined to press charges, and police are not following up on the incident, Las Vegas police spokesman, Jose Montoya, said. |
This is why Scoop Jackson gets called an idiot and a clown because he mixes up what everyone is saying to make it out as racism against all black people which is dishonest. Whitlock/Simmons and others have been pointing out for years when the NBA got mixed up with the hip-hop culture, there was a thug element coming in that would be bad for the NBA image. Now with Vegas, the stories are coming out that are sticking to the NBA they are trying to deflect.
Its not about color, its about character, values and moral behavior. The NBA got the worst of it and trying to imply it is about stereotyping black people is ridiculous. You think if there was a NAACP convention or Urban League you would hear thug stories?
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