| African-American football players caught up in the rebellion and buffoonery of hip hop culture have given NFL owners and coaches a justifiable reason to whiten their rosters. That will be the legacy left by Chad, Larry and Tank Johnson, Pacman Jones, Terrell Owens, Michael Vick and all the other football bojanglers. |
I've written about the wasteland that is rap music before. Rap music sales are actually in decline but the "gangsta" culture is haute couture amongst inner city youths (criminals), prisoners and white suburban kids. They ape the gear, the fashion, the attitudes and lifestyles of the mopes that they see in their rap music videos.
I recently met a person who was hired to perform a service for rapper Kanye West. I was told that for the 3 days this person spent with Kanye, the rapper was drunk most of the time, was ignorant and condescending to the people around him. He was generally a grade-A asshole.
Gee - I've never spent a moment with this neanderthal throw-back but I could have guessed that he'd be as much. Just look at what his music says. Look at who he hangs out with. Look at who he aspired to be like when he was young.
Well he got there.
And the horrendous comportment of black athletes gets little media attention. It is almost like the media excuses the bad behavior of these athletes.
As Jason Whitlock points out in his article, the Colts and the Patriots are the whitest in the NFL. They are model franchises. Right now, in Week 6 of the 2007 season, both teams are 6-0.
In sports, as in life, it is better for everyone is people behave properly and conduct themselves with quiet dignity.
There aren't many black athletes right now that you could call "dignified." Bill Cosby really made sense when he decried the current state of black affairs in our country.
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Why watch sports, these games are now played by ghetto thugs. How about making college legit, (you must pass ACT test) Hell, most of these "athletes"? are as smart as a box of rocks. But you worship them? Why have white kids become food blisters? America is doomed....
WHITE POWER MAN!! And they're fucking our women too!! When will it end!?
I step away from posting and checking the blogs for a month or so and this tired, Jim Crow crap is what I come back to?
You short-dick clowns embarrass me.
I won't even dignify that with a response, twerp.
Did you even read Whitlock's article? Did you know he's black? Not that it makes much of a difference to Libs like you , Coldie. Whenever you can pigeonhole someone into a label, you do it.
"Whenever you can pigeonhole someone into a label, you do it"-RSM
You have got to be kidding me. Mr Pot I'd like you to meet Mr. Kettle.
"How many technological advancements came out of Africa? How many vaccines were developed in Kenya? The entire continent has been devolving into a state of entropy for 60 years now. The Left, over the last 40 years, has bent over backwards to install "political correctness" into our collective mentality"-RSM
And the beat goes on. I'm still waiting for your eugenics revival.
I pigeonhole others...unfucking believable.
The funny part is, South Africa was originally a white colony. There wasn't a black man in sight. It was just a stop for trading vessels.
"The funny part is, South Africa was originally a white colony"
-Rosco
You pathetic goof. What we now know today as South Africa had been colonized for millennia by Africans of various ethnicities. So, courtesy of About.com (African History) read and learn:
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Pre-Colonial Cultures in South Africa
For several millennia the San lived in peaceful isolation in what is now South Africa – until two thousand years ago when the first of several waves of colonists swept into South Africa. Each time a new wave arrived the existing populations were marginalised. In the first of these waves, the pastoralist Khoikhoi moved down into the western and southern coastal regions – pushing the hunter-gatherer San inland.
Who were the San?
Of all the peoples of South Africa, only the San are truly indigenous – and they have been displaced and victimized by each successive wave of immigrants. Today there are but a few remnants of this once proud people in South Africa (and Botswana), and inevitably theirs is the voice least heard by government.
The San were hunter-gatherers. Living in highly mobile groups of between 20 and 50, either following the game around the country – and living in close rhythm with the land and its seasons – or maintaining a more settled life along the coastal regions – and depending on seals, shellfish, crayfish, birds and the occasional beached whale, for food.
The San have left a lasting record of their life through thousands of paintings – rock art. Though more closely related to their cultural and spiritual life, many of the paintings give a San perspective on those who came into their land and displaced them. In particular only those paintings found along the west coast of South Africa show sheep, as tended by the pastoralist Khoikhoi, whilst over on the east side of South Africa, at various locations along the base of the Drakensberg mountain range, are a painting of a Renaissance era sailing ship, horse-drawn wagons, and images of San being hunted by rifle-toting horse-riders (potentially either Xhosa or European).
Who were the Khoikhoi?
The Khoikhoi were the first pastoralists to make their way into what is now South Africa, having originated in the northern and eastern regions of what is now Botswana. It is likely that the Khoikhoi developed their pastoral culture approximately 2000 years ago through contact with migrating Bantu tribes from further north (who were traveling down through Africa with domesticated herds of cattle, sheep, and goats).
Archaeological evidence shows that the Khoikhoi entered South Africa from Botswana through two distinct routes – traveling west, skirting the Kalahari to the west coast and thence down towards the Cape, and traveling south-east out into the Highveld and then southwards to the south coast. Differences in geographical resources and archaeological finds suggest that it was only those traveling west who took sheep with them – they were more able to withstand the harsh conditions of land bordering the Kalahari, whereas the Highveld was capable of supporting larger herds of cattle. The west coast is also the only region where San rock art depicts sheep.
Inevitably the Khoikhoi and San competed for land – as grazing herds increased, especially on the more marginal lands, the pastoralist Khoikhoi took the upper hand – having a more consistent food source, a centralized and stable community, and much lager numbers. Bands of San were occasionally incorporated into the Khoikhoi society – but only as clients (working land 'owned' by the Khoikhoi and receiving limited payment in terms of cattle or sheep) or as servants (again working for the Khoikhoi but without the option of owning land or animals). Conflict with those San who remained as hunter-gathers resulted in their indiscriminate 'culling' (a method also later employed by the Bantu peoples and Europeans) or by their being driven into more inhospitable lands. Either way, the San were seen as low-status people compared to the Khoikhoi.
The more consistent food supply provided by herds of sheep and cattle allowed larger communities of Khoikhoi to settle into areas with rich pastures or to nomadically move with the herds in search of fresh grazing in more marginal areas. Khoikhoi at the coast also took advantage of the abundance of sea food.
Principal references:
The Cape Herders: A History of the Khoikhoi of Southern Africa by Emile Boonzaier et al., Ohio Iniversity Press, 1996, ISBN 0821411748.
The Changing Past: Farmers, Kings, and Traders in southern Africa 200–1860 by Martin Hall, James Currey Ltd., 1987, ISBN 0852550294.
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Did you get all of that Dumbo? The San, the Khoikhoi, and the Xhosa all predated the European by thousands of years in what has come to be called South Africa.
If not for the European colonists going to Africa, they would still be playing with spears and not AK's, living in grass huts, not modern style cities........Technology had to come to Africa, since it can't be generated there.......
I give up Rosco, you're simply too dense.
Check out the "christianparty" sight for interesting info on Africa. Eh, Coldtype?
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