Andre Ward speaks on Sergey Kovalev and reveals why he's not intimidated...

Mayweather, Maidana, and the Cruel Emasculation of Adrien Broner

Some time ago, I floated a theory and it goes a little something like this; Adrien Broner should get out of the little brother business and aim for a showdown against Floyd Mayweather.  I did not say he was as good, nor did I say he deserved it, I merely stated that Mayweathers patronage was a ploy designed to make the boy assume shit that isn’t guaranteed.  Nobody knows this better than a 37-year-old man who could have easily ended up a run of the mill black defensive fighter that nobody wants to see. Now he is an institution, and institutions crush people like Broner.  It was that close to happening, until Mayweather became the best-marketed fighter of a generation.  In becoming, “that guy” risks were taken and avoided all at maximum compensation and none of it easier than Adrien Broner thought it was.

I told everybody then that “Lil buddies” do not play well when Kevin Durant was working out with LeBron James.  Isiah Thomas was exhibit A for this experiment and it failed, it also failed with Kobe and it will hit Broner too late.  I’ve told you again and again that Broners “act” was never bound to play unless he got down to the business of hunting down the man with the Brinks Truck.Now, the man who claimed to be his “mentor” advised him to go down to 140lbs. only to circle back around and rob him of career defining redemption.  How’s that “when Floyd retires I’ll take over boxing” thing working out Adrien?  The Mayweather “poll” was an antiquated way of doing to Broner what he attempted to do to Maidana, this time the dry hump paid off.  Mayweather was always playing chess, and I repeat he is not the least bit obligated to stop Broner from playing checkers.  Yeah, he tried to give Adrien advice but this came after exposing him to a lifestyle of luxury and whispering in his ear that he would be “next”.

Only Broner could have created a demand that mirrored anything close to what boxing fans felt (and still feel) about Pacquiao, but big brother knew that it was only a matter of time before he played himself.  A dominant performance in an immediate rematch against a certified knockout artist would have put Broner in a position to earn grudging respect- but now he has been reduced to a bully victim.  Floyd will handle Maidana as if he were going for a walk in the park further illustrating Broner's foolishness and it’s all his fault.  Broner should be in there getting that ass kicking on May 3^rd, had he been mature about why you fight, had he really accessed his “inner Floyd” he’d be more than “Hood Rich” by May 3^rd. Entering the ring against Maidana as a Mayweather Fan boy was the worst thing he could have done against a dangerous, grown assed MAN.  Had he entered that fight as the #1 threat to a man he respects but wants to hurt it would have given him a significant psychological edge.  If you are not fighting to be the man in your division then you are fighting to be the boy, and boys usually end up broke.

Floyd’s psychological mastery of Broner is in the fact that he took something intrinsically dangerous, structurally & designed for the young to kill off the old and turned it into Hip Hop Marketing 101. Moreover, Broner being a D-League rapper himself bought that bullshit hook line and sinker. Rappers are surrounded by protégés they promise to “put on” once “I get my shit poppin” and most weak personalities either end up being "under promoted" or never seeing the light of day. The strong, alpha personality usually cannot wait for homie to hook them up and end up becoming rich themselves by attacking the former mentor on mix tapes. They put themselves on, because they know Hip Hop is a blood sport with words, and rivalries are lucrative for all.  Broner had proximity to the King and did not have the sense (or balls) to stab him, now he is doing awkward interviews with Brian Kenny and taking solace in ripping fans who hate Floyd.

Name one athlete in any sport that profited from being a fan boy of his idol?  Even Kobe (the ultimate facsimile) had the good sense to go at Jordan every time he saw him.

How many fighters who say they can “beat anybody” call themselves the closest thing to the active reigning Champion in their weight division?  How many world class pound for pound champions concede seniority (a cute word for superiority) to any fighter?  Wilfred Benetez did not play that shit and he was 17!  Sonny Liston slapped the taste of Cassius Clay’s mouth in a Vegas Casino and at the time was considered as good as Joe Louis was, and it did not matter.  What if Clay had waited around out of deference to Liston and ended up being clipped by some obscure left hooker?  Do you think Liston would have cared?  Do you think it was hard for Floyd to take a fight that Broner absolutely needs?  Of course not, and neither does Al Haymon.

Even a nice guy like Kevin Durant woke up and realized that he had to either snap out of the “LeBron’s buddy” bs and confront him directly or risk being Alex English.  Broner may have as more of a BEEF with Amir Khan, who at least was man enough to try to get paid even after being reduced to a punch line-but Broner, is the bigger joke.  Broner bit hard when Floyd instructed Khan to first beat him if he wanted his shot, so much so that he focused on “fucking Khan up” instead of asking himself what he deserved “if” it were to transpire.  Pride and self-respect matter with men because often it is all we have, it is called masculine currency, and this young man is rather bankrupt.  He is so absent of the currency that instead of getting pissed about Floyd taking his much-needed redemption (vs. Maidana) from him he is now fighting pillow fisted Carlos Molina on the undercard.  Floyd is the kind of big brother who takes your girl after she dumps you and invites you to the wedding and Broner isn’t man enough to see it.

The reason I called for Broner vs. Mayweather is that “AB” was no less overmatched than anybody else was in the Golden Boy cache if we are playing by Cold War rules.  To be the guy Floyd promised he would be post 2015 at the bare minimum he needed to handle this Maidana business and now he has to stand by emasculated while his “Big Bro” does it for him.  If he were anything close to a grown man, he would have screamed bloody murder when Floyd mentioned Maidana in his phony poll.  What good is Maidana to Broner’s sense of self when Floyd is done with him?  Is that something you want to have on your resume?  Boxing is not a schoolyard, it is a hard place with nobody to hide behind, and Broner seems to have a loose interpretation of what that means. To make the cringe fest worse Broner tries to emulate Mayweathers Twitter polls as if there is a hint of mystery to his career.  Newsflash, Floyd took the guy you needed to fight and he will take the next guy who beats you-congrats, your Andre Berto with a shoulder roll.  

Much attention was given to what Maidana did to Broner in the ring but I liked what I saw in Broner, he faught hard even when it was clear he was going to get his ass whipped.  Maidana did what he had to do, but Broner’s mindset before and after the fight is his real weakness.  Maidana knew what we all knew, that he wasn’t Floyd but Broner’s delusion is what put him in this bad position in the first place.  Had he been his own man he would have differentiated himself from Floyd from the start and just maybe he’d be in a more advantageous place right now.  Everything he has done publicly chipped away at his manhood dating all the way back to the disgusting fake marriage proposal on HBO.  I was on to him and his lack of masculinity back then but nobody listens in this “Worldstar” climate.  A person capable of that is a person who has no gauge on what being the man really is, nor when he is being patronized.  Mayweather (with Broner’s complicity) had been chipping away at this little boys manhood for a while now, Marcos Maidana merely swept up what was left of it.

 

 

The Last and Final Word on the NFL and Nigger

“The Feudal Overlord of the one world Global System is the Corporate CEO”

                                                                                        Carroll Quigley

The 15 yard “N Word Penalty” is unenforceable and the NFL knows it, but it sent the stronger message is that old black men DID NOT go to “Massa Goodell” to curtail the speech of young black men.  The Corporate/Neo Feudalist NFL “culture” will be protected even though nobody can hear the N word; any controversy (manufactured or otherwise) will not get in the way of our Hunger Games.  The cabal of the men in suits is one of Non Profit Status, Billion dollar partnerships and the blackmailing of fan-bases (ironically of the same taxes they do not pay) to erect brick and mortar monstrosities.

The “N word” penalty is only provocative in that it isolates cultural language and criminalizes benign exchanges between men who are not even speaking to the customer.  Intimacies between powerless black men are now under scrutiny by liberal plantation overseers and their faithful nonprofit (a top down swindle) butlers.

The Fitz Pollard Alliance is a Non-Profit Organization that monitors and advocates for minority jobs but now they are in the “proper respect” business.  This is important because they are in partnership with the (Anglo) Corporate Oligarchy that now want to define what is “hate speech”.  Hate speech to CEO’s is better described as “don’t get in my way” speech, because people who are protesting are not buying- a preferred permanent state.  The customers are white, and when they feel they have been shortchanged they use the word in ways that would make Incognito blush.  In these free speech outbursts, gladiators have to accept the eating habits of the lion- because it is the lion that fuels the non-taxable profit.  Many of these same Fitz Pollard brotha’s grew up in the 60’s and consumed Muhammad Ali, Gil Scott Heron, and Richard Pryor-all of whom used the word commercially. 

That’s right, Nigga’s are scared of Revolution, but they are all about some well-funded fake reform- and our brother’s keepers shall keep the funds.  One should go out on the limb and say they only objected when Tupac came along in the 90’s, because that is when they had officially reached middle age .Ironically, Tupac was of more danger to fuel an autonomous, indigenous black revolution than all of them put together, hence his FBI surveillance.

Neutered, Black Corporate bullhorns amplified to the public to espouse the virtues of intellect and progressivism when they know good and damned well that the field is not a place for that shit.  The football field is “regressive”, it is not a work environment (the facility, media room and film room are) it is a fucking warzone and men in duress are brutal men physically and verbally.  They know this, but they have jobs and brotha’s with jobs within the corporate matrix will say almost anything.  Even the Godfather of Douchebags Bill Romanowski identified Incognito and Riley Cooper as outliers, which places the “target” squarely on censorship of Black Players. 

Whereare the great activist and orators of years gone by?  he is in sports, falsely telling you sports is a microcosm of society.  Our following generations all took to sports journalism where they became “individuals” commissioned to make LeBron’s decision sound like a cultural happening instead of what it was a show.  ESPN is 24/7 folks and so is the NFL, which is fastly becoming the opiate of a people unaware of the world around them.  Today, whether a Football Player calls his teammate “my nigga” is more important than the poverty and disenfranchisement that makes one see football as his only way out.

Not unlike slavery, we need a steady supply of the poor, big, black, and strong.

Many of the black players who complained about Goodell's overreach were inarticulate (James Harrison) and written off as ignorant brutes by paid operatives of the corporate controlled media.  Inherently they know you cannot render something politically safe that is built on violence (except national security) and we have all forfeited a slice of our humanity every Sunday in the fall.  We are living in times of Consolidation and full spectrum surveillance and now the NFL wants to practice censorship with the approval of intelligent men who would never challenge Hip Hop directly.  Because those rappers’ cannot be controlled so easily, many of them (with corporate sanction) are in the very process of becoming feudal lords themselves.

Corporate interests have merged with the state and yet nobody will challenge Roger Goodell's lack of leadership, when you wantonly use coercion instead of reason you are an autocratic dictator -not a leader.  Yet in the parallel universe of the NFL, this style is lauded because the American psyche is still imprinted with the mythical danger of big black men run amuck.  When so-called black men of reason side with the state they are saying, “We aren’t the elders we thought we were” so please do the hard work for us.  Corporate interests make a ton of money on the fallacy of a post racial world, and bullying a workforce into biting their tongues 50 yards out of earshot of the customer sends one message…  “The Gladiators are now becoming more and more mechanized folks, that way you don’t have to be reminded most of them come from places you don’t care about”.

Roger Goodell’s $44 million dollar “salary” is not a symbol of our vaunted free market system as proverbial social Darwinists would lead you to believe-he is actually a symbol of the new “game”.  Corporate Feudalism is the New Normal, which is why Goodell would not “step to” the Billionaire Dan Snyder (a fellow lord) about his own blatant racism-because Snyder paid some of that 44 million!  Michael Sam will be protected more than Native Americans will because the Gay Community has deeper pockets and lobbyist who can afford the patronage of the tastemakers in politics and media.  Who is lobbying for the mostly black workforce who has been reduced to all manner of scrutiny by outside forces on and off the clock?  Harry Carson can call “Nigga” disrespectful but he will not have to suffer the ludicrous symbolism of old white men exposing young black men to instant viral condemnation. “Schadenfreude” for those sorry saps who watch the black players participate in “acceptable violence “on Sundays.  Maybe it can be collectively bargained in the future to install Orwellian styled confessional booths on the sidelines in the future.

The league already has an investigation body and routinely treats Draft Prospects like suspects complete with body language experts and background checks.  Feudal Lords can ask black men if they intend to “stay clean” or if their mothers are prostitutes all for the coveted, right to get their brains scrambled for money.  Next, there will be thought crimes and technology based predictive screening where they can weed out the Aaron Hernandez’s of the world-to separate those who cannot turn the violence off from the herd.  If Silicone Valley can merge with the surveillance, state companies as powerful as the NFL will soon court the assistance of the Government.  If Politics and Big Time Sports were incompatible, the President would not invite the Super Bowl Champion to the White House.  The Rooney Rule is great but it does elimate the possibility of an African American “maverick” coming into the league without the “stamp” of approval.

Ultimately, the feudal lords with help from the NSA will be able to identify potential narcissists like Chad Johnson and T.O. and disqualify them before they apply for the privilege of gladiatorial status.  “Potential for Self Aggrandizement and Distraction” Nigger please keep the helmet on and your mouth shut.  The continued prohibition of African American perspective (positive and negative) will not cease until en masse we make it clear that some things we will not stifle for money.  This will be impossible because nobody needs money like black folks need money; nobody is more vulnerable to Oligarchies than we are.  Michael Wilbon was the only media type with the courage to point out the irony in white feudal lords telling black subjects what they cannot say to one another regardless of context.  It will take more courage to identify the fascist nexus of corporate power and political correctness, and the sickening irony that as the world becomes less empathetic people with influence want the underclasses to talk nicer.

Corporations and Special interest groups are well trained by Bernay’s to speak from utopian platitudes but the truth is in the actual behavior of monoliths like the NFL.  The cost of going to a game is skewing up, the players on the field are coming from poorer black neighborhoods, and yet the NFL’s response to the “Gladitorialization” (David Zirin- the Nation) is to pander to white middle class mothers.  White women are not producing the “product”, but they are important because if white boys get hurt in Pop Warner mom just may force dad to give up the season tickets.  Poor Black Mothers give birth to the player who is willing to risk life and limb by age ten and there’s no appeal to her maternal instincts.  It may be instructive that now he must learn the syntax of the Duke of Windsor in order to get out of poverty.  You also have to assure true stakeholders in America’s Hunger Game that the rich brotha’s on that field are under control, that ultimately they must be culturally sanitized for the privilege of millionaire servitude.

Who cares why they say Nigga? or if it’s generational?  Alternatively, if it is the whole “Blame it On Hip Hop” meme; the bottom line is “if” the word is “taboo” to the dominant society it should not be a luxury to the powerless minority.  Repressed angst because they are prohibited to use the word?  One of the few things white folks have no unfettered access to despite it being thrown in their faces every day like cherry cheesecake?  Older Black Folks who can recall overt racism usually fall for this stuff hook line and sinker much as they do the victimhood based rhetoric of so-called liberal “talkers”.  Roger Goodell is not emotional, no corporate welfare recipient is, but he knows he can get emotional support from a certain segment of the population who are conditioned to obey and reform.  That is right, obey and reform as opposed to tear down and rebuild in a self-determined structure like early Hip Hop.  Our community always tended to lean toward reform politics and it always seems to be led by the brotha’s from the Non Profit sector and academia.  The same people who think the word Nigger is obscene did not find anything wrong with a Militarist, tool of Wall Street using MLK’s Bible when inaugurated again in 2013.

In fact, many of them cried, So Nigga’s Please.

Let us get one thing straight, the generation that put their lives on the line for Civil Rights Legislation is directly responsible for our plight today but they do not own the young .They are “Baby Boomers”, and prone to self-congratulatory grandstanding and practicing the "politricks" they once despised just like their white counterparts.  They have the impulse response of using the system to throw empty legislation at every perceived problem even when it has been a disservice to their children and grandchildren.  Their obsession with integration as opposed to nation building rendered the following generations more capitalistic and less interested in one another.  Poor folks were calling one another Nigga for years, but it is now unbearable for the educated class to see those same people making money.  They were making money in the 70’s and becoming transcendent when New York was milked dry of resources, those same poor black children transcended them in return and created Hip Hop.

The Rappers and Athletes grew up in places the talented 10^th gave less of a shit about than white folks did because success (and foundations) demanded they forget about their origins.  The same foundations divested in MLK after the “Beyond Vietnam” Speech and the well-funded class of Negroes (who ceremonially burry “Nigger” today) turned on him for messing up their paper.  Those that were left behind do not talk like them and view the world with clear delineation between those who know and those who do not know.  If you do not know the difference between “that nigger” and “them’s my nigga’s” then you fall in the latter.  They know that if they weren’t as big and fast and violent as they are they’d be shut out from the American dream many are one major injury (or 9 baby mama’s) away from going back.  They had no time to read about the history of the game or Civil Rights (the real pet peeve of former players) because they were totally focused on survival.  Now they have to concern themselves with gag orders from a generation that left them behind to die 40 years ago.

When Lyndon B. Johnson a devout racist signed the Civil Rights Bill of 1965, he crowed prophetic words to insiders “I’ll have them Niggers voting Democrat for the next 200 years”.  That usage of the word is the only one Black Men of a certain age should be concerned with, but few of them even know about it due to myopic talking points being fed to them.  They are a cynical and pragmatic lot, willing to look the other way when white men of power throw them crumbs while becoming mean as rattlesnakes when it comes to the Hip Hop Generation.  During the ESPN Propaganda piece dedicated to that “hateful word”, Jason Whitlock scoffed and giggled at the notion that the word was not still the intellectual property of white racists.  The statement alone is a tip of the cap to the despotism of whites in that it suggests they can steal everything culturally from us (like Rock and Roll and soon Hip Hop) but we could never steal anything from them.  Wilbon put it best when he correctly stated that “ownership don’t get a vote” but I’ll go one further and say neither do the Talented 10th.

They left these young men to Hip Hop years ago and now they want a measure of control since the sons of single mothers are earning generational wealth.  I say until the Fitz Pollard Alliance can pompously concern themselves with pathologizing the rank and file they must first fulfill the obligation of all Non Profits and provide a disclosure page on their website.  Prove by financial disclosure that their ideology is autonomous and not simply the continuation of the Non Profit Industrial Complex.  We have had our share of 501 3C’s marketing blacks as “at risk” and victims of the system while the money always seems to make its way to the bourgeoisie.  “Respect” is a vague “goal” but financials tell us the real story of just why certain sectors of our community prioritize the things they do.

 

This will article will be reposted on RaceCardsports.com