Well, I can’t say I was surprised to read the following news over at Think Progress. Apparently, there’s a whole bunch of white folks that don’t like Teh Crotch Grabbing Gun Toting Basketball Playing Colored Boy. So they started up a basketball league that is officially designated “whites only.” Yes, I’m serious. To play in the league, you must have two “Caucasian” parents and be a *natural born* citizen (not *legal*). Because these white folks were smart enough to realize that there is such a thing as white Latinos.
From Think Progress:
A new professional basketball league called the All-American Basketball Alliance (AABA) sent out a press release on Sunday saying that it intends to start its inaugural season in June, with teams in 12 U.S. cities. However, the AABA is different from other sports leagues because only players who are “natural born United States citizens with both parents of Caucasian race are eligible to play in the league.” AABA commissioner Don “Moose” Lewis insists that he’s not racist, but he just wants to get away from the “street-ball” played by “people of color” and back to “fundamental basketball.” Lewis cited the recent incidents of bad behavior by NBA players, implying that such actions would never happen with white players.
Because, you know–you can’t make RULES that state “no fucking street ball.” No, you have to attribute basketball playing STYLES to a genetic/biological trait.
Sigh. Sometimes dealing with the news is just more than any human being could possibly bear.
Also inaccurate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Andersen
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Hey… It’s a free country… Kinda’ like if I’m going to open an Irish Pub, amd I required to keep some guy named Leroy Washington, dread locks & all, on my staff of bartenders… Hell No…!!!
When Augusta mayor, Duke Copenhaver, begins a campaign toward opening the doors of the many “Black Only” institutions (Universities, TV Networks, Pageants, etc., etc.) to “White Americans”, then, and only then, will this guy admonish Don Lewis regarding his efforts to establish an “All White Basketball League”…
Not likely, though, that Copenhaver would take up such a challenge, so kinda’ hope the dip-shite goes to hell…
And I wish Don Lewis both all the luck in the world and hope that he succeeds.
Catch ya’ later,
Mike
@mike–this argument is full of shit–as I pointed out, this league is not in retaliation to “blacks only” areas (and it’s funny that those black only spaces were formed during Jim Crow segregation –i.e. formed because WHITES created whites only spaces!!–) and now white people are mad because their own rules kept them out of the institutions)–this ban *also* is targeted at Latin@s as well (hence “natural born”). so you can make it all about “whites are angry that Jim Crow forced black people to open institutions for only black people”–but this is really about white supremacy.
and please–help me understand how playing street ball is a biological trait.
Wow, so sad pero like you said Macha, not surprising at all.
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