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No, it’s not. At best it’s a black tradition. What it really is, is the same thing it was in my hometown and neighborhood … the only sport poor kids could afford to play and you could play with as few as two people. And because it was so widespread (you could play anywhere there was a relatively flat space and a place to put up a hoop and backboard) a lot of them got good at it. It’s a lot like soccer in that respect.

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That amounts to 328 black players. What percent if black men in America is that?

Culture … :smirk:

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No no, black people get to claim it for their own because they are at the top. dominate the field, guess white people get medicine, science, engineering and business then.

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I guess if you want to claim that medicine and science is white culture… sure

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Guess I will just go ahead and claim all advanced civilizations for Asians and whites. Psst, Wakanda doesn’t count.

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Well, math is racist you know, so it’s not much of a stretch.

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There’s reality and then there’s what’s been spun as reality. What’s truly sad is how sheoplized our nation has become and this phony racism is the reality of many. That said, for the most part, I am not on a path that will likely encounter this hate.

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Wakanda doesn’t huh? Ohhh because I’m black. Got it.

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The big problem in all this is not that whites are being victimized here…so the cries of victimization are really uninteresting.

The real problem is the lens of anti-racism is now focused too strongly on getting everyone to agree/admit there’s still work to do (I.e. virtue signal about “yes I recognize there is still ‘systemic racism’”) and less focused on actually coming up with things that help people.

Why I’m not fond of the BLM movement nationally. Far too many cries of “look how unjust this all is”…far fewer focusing on any types of problem analysis and development of actual solutions.

MLK switched his focus to combatting poverty (which transcended race) right before he was shot and killed.

We should/could have some sort of similar type focus shift.

Please do not come back with “the virtue signaling is the point” responses. Those are also uninteresting and just lead to a lot of talking back and forth.

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Pretty good post.

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Did his switch transcend race?

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Yes he was beginning to reach out to the poor of all colors before he was killed.

The the poor white working class folks he reached out to he said (need to find the correct citation…recently read it but forgot to save it, so even though this is in quotes, it is a paraphrase) “You should be with us”.

Signifying that what the civil rights movement was trying to do for blacks could be applicable to the poor/working class in general.

Also RE: the guy who did the video in the OP. He has a couple of other videos I am watching about how to try and stop talking past one another and “meet in the middle”, so to speak.

They aren’t bad so far.

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I’d like to see your source for this please

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I think he might have him confused with Fred Hampton.

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It’s a good and true premise.

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Surprised you aren’t familiar with the “poor peoples campaign” led by MLK.

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I’ll look at it from you too.

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https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/poor-peoples-campaign

King told delegates at an early planning meeting, describing the campaign as “the beginning of a new co-operation, understanding, and a determination by poor people of all colors and backgrounds to assert and win their right to a decent life and respect for their culture and dignity” (SCLC, 15 March 1968). Many leaders of American Indian, Puerto Rican, Mexican American, and poor white communities pledged themselves to the Poor People’s Campaign.

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Thanks. I like him even more now.

Ruling vs Rural

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Hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but it seems like when Black activists decide to focus less on race, it spells doom for them. MLK, Malcolm X, and Fred Hampton immediately come to mind. It’s as if they strayed from the approved narrative and need to be disposed of.

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