You played yourself when you said “Africa” was a “country.” Nothing you said after that even mattered, holmes.

I definitely understand where you are coming from brotha.

On the big scale of things I would love Angola to win. Boy that would have everyone pissed. A team full of blacks from a so called 3rd world country. Boy folks would be rioting…..

These are self-ackowledged “NBA guys,” you see, whereas I’m a “John Carlos and Tommie Smith” type of guy. Get my point?

Since 1992, when Stern first sent his fungible property to Barcelona, these affranchised slaves have had numerous opportunities to stand for something far greater than themselves, and to bring some clarity to issues and problems that affect millions of lives both here and overseas. But what do they do instead? Yesterday’s Nike men wrapped themselves in the American flag in order to hide the logo on their Olympic unis which were sponsored by Reebok.

That’s bullshit. Despite the fact that they play for “free,” such an act only proves the lengths some slaves will go to protect their master’s monetary interests.

They talk about how the olympis are for sport, not for politics.

That’s bullshit. If war is politics with a gun, and politics is war without a gun; then sports (as well as nearly every other human activity you can think of) is politics with a football, basketball, baseball, etc. If that weren’t so, then why does TSF even exist? Why does SOMM exist? Why the hell are we ganging up on the likes of Boney or that other cracker who is fond of using African names when they post comments reflecting white supremacist ideology - even in sports?

They talk about how they’ve just come to play basketball, how basketball is their “focus” now.

That’s bullshit. As if it’s cool to say later for those Team Darfur cats I used to rep, later for brothers getting lynched, women getting raped, and whole villages getting burned to the ground - shid, we’ve got a ballgame to play, corporate interests to protect, and the image of a sho good grateful nigger to maintain. As if a grown-ass man or a woman can’t “focus” on more than one thing at a time. When I listen to these slaves speak, I’m insulted, and I’m ashamed for my race. Seriously.

People around the world used to look toward African Americans as a kind of vanguard in human rights movements, but not anymore. In the eyes of many, we have joined the historical oppressor in the expression and satisfaction of our needs, wants, and desires. These slaves who blatantly misrepresent the condition of the masses in the United States are nonetheless apt symbols and examples of American excessiveness and opulence which has been condemned in advance by many members of developing nations throughout the world - shid, it’s gotten to the point that, in my travels, I refuse to tell people I’m from the United States because I can’t countenance the look of sadness and dismay - and sometimes anger - that flitters across their faces when I do.

I know this comment was more than anyone bargained for - it was much more than I originally intended to write. I mean to say, “I’m a Tommie Smith type of cat” and leave it at that.

So I said all that to say this: damn the slaves to hell, I’m rooting for Angola.

Now excuse (and forgive) me while I exit this rant…