Sometimes I like what television personality, podcast host and sports analyst Stephen A.Smith has to say.
Other times, I just shake my head and ask, "What?" This is one of those times.The man recently looked at the Los Angeles Lakers’ roster in the post-LeBron James era and saw that its top three players are White.He decided that their skin color was newsworthy.
"This ain't golf," he said."This ain't baseball.
It ain't even soccer." He spoke as if basketball has some sort of pigmentation requirement for getting on the court.He acted as if the gatekeepers messed up by letting three White dudes onto the court.Let’s call this what it is: racism.
I’m not being anything but factual.This man looked at three other men and decided the most important thing about them was their skin color.
This man also took it upon himself to decide that basketball belongs to Black people.If this isn’t racism, then what is it?STEPHEN A SMITH SHOWS HIS PRIVILEGE BY MOCKING LAKERS' ROSTER FOR HAVING TOO MANY 'WHITE DUDES'All of this is absurd.
Race is absurd.Under segregation, White men kept Black people out of all the top leagues because of the color of their skin.
Now Stephen A.Smith wants to step into those shoes?Somewhere along the way, we decided there are two sets of rules.
Point out that a team has a lot of great Black players, and it's seen as something to be proud of, something to be celebrated as progress.But if you point out that a team has a lot of great White players, suddenly it’s suspicious.
It’s something that needs explaining.When Stephen A.Smith frames three great players as some kind of anomaly because of their skin color, he's not being bold or honest.
He’s showcasing the worst in us.Tribalism.
Racism.Division.
Entitlement.The best players in the NBA didn't get there because of their race.They got there because they outworked everybody else on the planet who wanted the same thing.
Michael Jordan didn't wake up every morning and work on his blackne...