As an award-winning writer, I am first
and foremost a thinker. I have been able to meet a great many people who most
of you would regard as being “famous,” and as such, it is up to me to report on
what I’ve seen, heard and discovered. Most of you are fans and idols of
professional and college athletes and this is your choice. But since I’ve been
on these campuses and have met a great many of these athletes (and wrote term
papers for a number of them at the University of Nebraska and University of
Iowa), I should share what I know so you can get up off your knees and see
these people for what they are.
The claim that Johnny Manziel is worth
all this hue and cry over his signing autographs and getting paid (or not) is a
waste of time, energy and news space. But as usual, I take the situation and
make it something that readers of this blog and young black people can learn
something from. We learn about money, about corruption and racial bias in
college sports and the NCAA, and we also learn a lot about Christians and how
they think in the real world.
Let the teaching begin.
Selling
Autographs
Selling autographs? This kid has been
made into a hero by the sports machine. I’ve heard it said that he’s “the most
exciting player in football, college and pro ranks” (Skip Bayliss). I’ve heard
other statements about how he’s re-defined the game and to tell you, I haven’t
seen it. At the writing of this blog I am in this hellhole called Dallas, Texas
(more on that later) and I hear this crap day in and day out. Manziel is able
to sell autographs because the sports machine here manufactures the status of
its athletes, college and professional. Manziel is going to get DOGGED when and
if he gets to the pros just like Nebraska’s quartebacks Eric Crouch and Scott
Frost.
Manziel claims he didn’t sell the
autographs or never accepted money for them. Somebody did, and he was the one
who signed the autums. Conclusion: guilt by association. The NCAA, in all of
its stupidity and greed (old white men making decisions for young black and
white men to follow) suspended Manziel, not for one game, but for ONE HALF.
Amateurs are not supposed to accept favors and money they claim. When Dez
Bryant had dinner with Deon Sanders (more on that later), he was suspended for
TEN games. When Terrell Pryor sold his own football jersey to a booster for a
funky thousands dollars, he got suspended for five games. Cam Newton’s daddy
was fishing around for a college for his kid to go to and was selling the
rights for $180,000. Suspended for one game although Cam claims he didn’t know.
He did, however, end up going to Auburn. You do the math.
Mo’ Money, Mo’
Money, Mo’ Money
Everybody’s getting paid off the backs
of college athletes. And even some pros are in on it. For the most part, any
African-American professional athlete that white folks adore and put the
spotlight on, you can bet he’s a sellout on some level. This is true of Robert
Griffin III (see my essay on “Rob Parker and RG III” elsewhere on this blog),
Jose Cruz, Marcellus Wiley, to name but a few.
Another one is so-called “Neon Deon
Sanders.” Fronting as if he’s some kind of pastor or preacher, he answers his
phone with “bless you” and talks about God when the conversation is over. But
when I went to his home I saw someone bogged down in materialism. IT’s his
money and his right. But he sits in this chair with “PT” emblazoned on the
back, in red letters, and talks down to people as if they were his servants.
I wrote three grants for Sanders and
his so-called “Prime Time Academy,” some substandard school that he opened
claiming he offered a computer to every child. But it was all about football,
and from the outset, he sold both schools (one in Fort Worth, one in Dallas) to
Under Armour Apparel. Sanders never paid me for the grants, but when I told his
flunky R.L. Williams that I would sue, Williams called everybody but me
screaming and crying like a scatter brained old bitch shouting, “He can’t sue
me! He don’t even have an office!” What he doesn’t know is that when you are a
genius with a track record and skill set like me, you don’t need an office: the
necessary tools go with you wherever you go.
One more thing. I told you how Dez
Bryant got suspended when he had dinner with Sanders. Sanders knew that was
possible and he knew what he was doing. He “counsels” these young people and
gives them tips on how to kiss ass, but he’s not very sharp. He skins and grins
for TV cameras and his wife, who he is divorcing, told the Dallas media that he
was a “minstrel.” She ain’t never lied. Watch his telecasts and you’ll see a
true bootlicker in action. I was only charging him $1,500 for the grants and
his lackey… I mean “pastor,” Omar Jahwar, came back empty handed. They are, for
the most part, two of a kind (more on that later).
These So-Called
Christians
Christians are giving religion a bad
name on all fronts. I don’t subscribe to its tenets although I do believe that
you can believe in a Supreme Being without being a Christian. The arrogance,
bias and built in gender- and racial bias should make any clear thinking person
want to stay home on Sundays. But that’s for you to deal with.
Here’s my point: these people claiming
to be Christians are all part of this controversy surrounding Manziel. The ones
making the token decision, the coaches, the players and the people in the
stand. To a man (and woman) they will all claim that they are Christians. This
fact, in itself, should give you a good indication of what Christianity is all
about. And it’s simple: do what you want to do during the week, but as long as
that money keeps going into the collection plate, and you say enough “hail
Mary’s” or repent, or confess or whatever the chore is, you will be given and
can then move on to continue screwing up for another weak – all in the name of
“de Lawd.”
Back to “Pastor” Deon Sanders. He and
people like Terrell Owens sit in these black mega-churches (one church allows
Michael Irvin to sit on the stage) and then donate huge sums in their pretense
that they are religious people. Scam artists, all. This is done all over the
Lone Star State which thinks it’s a country in itself, so most of you don’t
hear about this crap. The white man protects them because these guys do their
bidding. Irvin was a crack head and a state patrolman pulled him over and a
crack pipe rolled from under his seat. The cop believed Irvin when he told him
that he was holding onto it for someone who was trying to kick the habit. If
the guy is trying to quit, why are you holding his tools
Christian apologists are talking about
these guys as if they are the Disciples. What do they have to do with Manziel?
There are more Manziel’s out there, being shaped and polish by guys of the
Sanders/Irvin ilk. Posing as “role models,” these guys can barely SPELL role
model, none of them with a degree. Sanders’ so-called “pastor” Omar Jahwar owes
me more than $10,000 for grants I wrote when I was Operations Manager for his
church, Faith Memorial, a bastion of immorality in and of itself. More on this
in future articles.
Manziel’s Family
Has Oil Money!
Manziel is a bad person from the
inside-out. He is no poor ghetto kid selling autographs so his parents can buy
a garbage can of beans and rice so they can feed their kids for a month. He’s
doesn’t have holes in the bottom of his shoes or go hungry at night after a
long study session (of course there is no study session). He’s got money and
thinks he’s “big shit.” He didn’t need any money for signing those autographs
because, supposedly, he’s a top draft choice for the professional football
decision makers. So if he didn’t need the money and he signed them, knowing he
wasn’t supposed to, then what else can you call him besides an “asshole”?
This is the mentality of far too many
of these athletes, college and pro. Most of them don’t have a college degree:
“I’ll come back and get it later.” Yeah, sure you will; you’re going to get
dressed, get in your Corvette and drive to campus so you won’t be late for your
basket-weaving class? Bullshit! When you make the pros you’re too tired, too
busy and too rich to even think about college classes. Hell, most students are
going to these classes so they can get what you’ve got!
They all know it and that’s why they
act the way they do – black AND white. It’s the same money-oriented mentality
that motivates MOST Christian ministers (I’ll deal with this in a later
column).
And finally, if the people reading
this blog think I’ve slandered anyone in it and, if you’ve got the GUTS, try to
sue me and watch what I do. All the stuff I know about Sanders, Jahwar and
those athletes I wrote term papers for, will be made even MORE public. Now, as
the old folks say: if you feel froggish – LEAP!
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