The NBA, Black People and "Hate:" It's All Part of the Program

The NBA, Black People and “Hate:” It’s All Part of the Program

Dr. Matthew C. Stelly

Recently I listened while Hall of Famer Magic Johnson, during “NBA Countdown,” told millions of viewers that until Carmelo Anthony of the New York Knicks “hates” LeBron James of the Miami Heat, the Knicks won’t beat them. He said that the Knicks have to “hate” the Heat with the same intensity that the Chicago Bulls “hate” the heat. He then said that he and Isaiah Thomas used to “hate” each other when they played. Isaiah’s teams beat Magic for a championship and Magic returned the favor. But that’s not the point. I have a bone to pick with these “professional negroes” who adopt the white man’s competitive jargon so that they can curry favor with him. That’s all they’re doing. Magic knows good and well that black people don’t hate each other on those basketball courts. They might compete and there might be a dislike, maybe a strong dislike, but these guys use words to make their living and they know that “hate” is too strong a word. That is something that a white coach would tell black players to do so that they (black players) won’t feel too close to their bruthas and so that the “hate” can somehow neutralize our natural affinity for each other. Have you ever heard one of these crackers tell Marc Gasol (Memphis Grizzlies) he has to “hate” his brother, Pau Gasol (Lakers)? Have you ever heard a black black tell another black player to hate a white boy? Not in the history of sport. Even when Magic claimed he hated Bird, that was just for public relations and he ended up kissing Bird’s ass in commercials and later on, in one of those special HBO movies. Besides, a black player would be AFRAID to say he hated a white boy or a white coach. Why? Because they don’t have the guts. You can’t bite the hand that feeds. That’s why none of them raises the issue of this white boy, Stern , serving as commissioner of the NBA for almost 20 years. That’s why you never hear them complain about anything that takes place of a racial nature in and around the cities that the NBA plays in. They simply don’t have the intestinal fortitude to challenge white people on any level. But when it comes to dribbling a basketball, you hear them talking about using “hate” as some kind of motivation, as long as the hate is focused on other black people. This white man has these “coons” trained well. Everything they say during interviews has something to do with the belief that winning is the only thing. Sure, it’s their job, but they wouldn’t be in the NBA without motivation from their mothers (sometimes daddy), a community that supported them, teachers that allowed them to skip through school (grade padding), and then colleges that did the same thing. In many cases their mentors were black people. Then, they get into the NBA and get locked into the “white” (right) way of doing things and now all of a sudden they hate their brutha because he has on a different color uniform. But the “hate” program runs much deeper. How else can you explain the lack of commitment to the black community by these millionaires. You see them bending over backwards for the United Way and they talk about “giving back,” but they give back to the city they’re in, not to their native communities. They land a contract and then move their mother into some white suburb. They act as if they hate the communities from whence they came.
But they sure can love those white fans. They sure can show love for their coaches. They sure can show adoration for those white women that they fall in love with and marry. They sure love those white advertising executives who pay them huge money to peddle shoes, cars and bullshit. They love that money they make that they can then turn around and use to empower every other race but their own. Even the women from the middle east are coming over here and going to college and attending pro games in hopes of landing one of these negroes. How? The long hair that they have, the same hair that black women are gluing onto their heads in droves. It has to be that because it sho’ ain’t skin color because they’re as dark as we are. Hate your own people. Castigate them. Plan against them. Move away from them. Play against them. Cripple them and put them out of the game because those are the rules. Engage in east coast-west coast rap feuds even though none of them has any real talent. Get into local office and spend more time hobnobbing with other people than you do trying to get legislation passed that would help your community. Get talked into loving or hating other black people because the major media tells you to. Whomever white folks dislike, black folks are ordered to feel the same way. And most of you do.
“You’ve got to learn to hate them so you can defeat them,” heh Magic? That’s the same thing the white man said when he came to Africa.