It’s been a while since black Sports writers have floated the
Plantation terminology to describe the NCAA hustle as defacto minor leagues
without the pay. The truth is somewhere in the middle because minor league
baseball players and D-League “tweeners” don’t travel like the SEC. Colin
Cowherd, these guys are working the glue gun at the Nike Factory and I find it
hard to believe the average BMOC is somehow “exploited” as he climbs from
beneath his hottie pyramid just in time for practice. Jalen Rose won’t talk
about the free Nikes, the test takers, lifelong contacts nor the groupies
magically appearing in C-Webb’s room- because it would cramp his image as
Freedom Fighter. Today we’ll see someone we love to see in the second half of
the Texas A&M vs. Rice Football game and I wonder how my fellow brotha’s
and sista’s feel about casting him as the one to free all of the slaves chained
to the training table.
One Half Suspensions, he’ll be back in the game for I run a
spellcheck on this bitch.
When “we” (Black Folks) want to drop napalm we use language
to paint endless rows of cotton and an overseer’s whip, we use it to make a
point but when things go sideways we back away from it- because it wasn’t fair
in the first place. But since the NCAA is a Plantation/Slave labor system lets
have some fun, let’s play this shit through and talk about what just happened
in the case of the “white slave” that basically let “Massa” know by way of
class “they’ll be no whipping here boss”. That’s right, Black and Progressive
Sports journalists were quick to cast Manziel as anti-establishment and today
proves once and for all he is “establishment”. How do you "Fight the Power"
when your daddy “is” the power? I find it imposable that Sports writers are too
sheltered to know that if Big Oil can dictate to a President ( and participate
in killing one) they give a shit about a bunch of low level crooks like the
NCAA. From day one the kid was going to do what he wanted to do, the “whipping”
post are for African American athletes who don’t come from “Fuck You” money,
sorry Dez Bryant it was never gonna be “fair” and you should know that.
Texas A&M’s Coach Kevin Sumlin certainly wasn’t going to
take a lead in this fiasco; his only choice was to be emasculated by the
process by a 20 year old who can buy him if he wanted. The NCAA can barely hire
Black Coaches let alone allow one they just paid hush money to “be” a moral
leader in the vein of a Bear Bryant, in the Plantation system Coach Sumlin was
just happy to be there. In ways the handling of this is a reflection of our
legal system which is why “Lil Football” never as much as broke a sweat, he’s
20, you think he don’t know there’s different rules for the white and rich? The
NCAA will “Stop and Frisk” the poor and the black while telling them they
should be thankful they’re giving the brotha a chance to make them money-Manziel
knows better. He’s so blatant he often appears on ESPN wearing Bohemian Grove (
a creepy conference for right wing “elites”) apparel- he’s nobodies “slave”
he’s from a class of people who view people making $100,000 a year as slaves.
All the brotha’s on his team have to kick ass today if they have any hope of
getting out of the hell they’ve been subscribed to by birth. All Johnny has to
do is make sure he don’t kill his damn fool self in coming years and he’ll be
fine, there’s nothing to escape and the world is his plantation.
During indentured Servitude Whites and Blacks new to this
country banded together and went at the landed gentry-we had numbers and they
knew it. Race and the purgatory of slavery was created to separate us, it also
gave poor exploited whites something (white supremacy) they could hold onto
despite being hungry as hell. Johnny Manziel was never a poster child for
reforming the NCAA system; he’s an outlier, a rich white kid who can play some
damned ball. He was never going to make a big sacrifice to change anything;
he’s the product of the kind of men who create such a sweet hustle. It’s not
slavery, it’s a racket and American Rackets with staying power are carried out
by white men in suites-those carried out by black men in saggy jeans (or
Italians in Fedora’s) eventually expire. Reckless behavior will always be about
“who” is doing said reckless behavior, Tyrell Pryor’s “reckless” is that of a
streetwise borderline criminal “adult” while Manziels Pro styled signing
session is the folly of a cute kid. Before Black people giggle at Manziel's attorneys
“yeah but can you prove it?” swag understand that if he were black and poor he
would be living under a more circumstantial standard of proof. This is true of
his teammates who can’t possibly want to follow someone who threw a hurtful reality
in their faces, one they always knew was there but nothing they wanted to see
in their Quarterback.
Who wants to pick Cotton next to someone who can walk on and
off the Plantation at will? And how would William C. Roden and other critics of
the NCAA “frame” this. This story was always a class story, another reminder
that institutions are put in place for the benefit and protection of the rich
not the soon to be rich. Johnny Manziel can openly brand himself and profit
from his fame because Oil Money trumps the lightweight money the NCAA mob is
making off of the “Black Gold” in poor neighborhoods. Black folks love them
some Johnny Football and the fact that he will kick it with LeBron because he
can but never forget when LeBron exercised his right to "brand" in Miami after
honoring a contract his former owner damned near called him a “runaway”. Manziel
may be too small and erratic to ever be a pro, or he may be in the tradition of
Drew Breese and Russell Wilson-but one thing he’ll never be is “property”.
He was Never
going to be anybody’s “Boy” because he’s a future “Good Ole Boy” in shoulder
pads.
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