Foolish Thinking

I'm just doin' what I do playboy!"

Ray Comfort, the famous evangelist, once said, “Rhetoric, which is the use of  language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily fooled by language and how it's used by others.” Francois La Rochefoucauld, the 15th century French author,  had boyz in the barber shop quiet when he dropped this one, “The intellect is always fooled by the heart.”

The dull media has fooled boyz into believing that LeBron is the enemy ever since he took his talents to South Beach. It’s amazing that cats keep falling for it but in this world it easy to tell folks something crazy and they’ll run with it because there are very few independent thinkers out here. Most people let others dictate what they should think. Therefore, we have the hatred for LeBron James.

When the media tells you that you should hate on this dun because he’s not something that you should admire you do it without question. However, if you’re from the ghetto something inside of you SHOULD resist the temptation because he’s setting the example for all ghetto children. Let me put something on ya head playboy!

I like the kid because he was born and raised in the ghetto in a very unstable environment with a single parent that wasn’t really a parent at all. However, during his entire career he's never once been on the police blotter or in the news for doing anything other than playing basketball. Keep in mind that he signed a $90 million Nike deal before he had even graduated from high school! How many duns would have given up as soon as the huge check came in? We’re watching Derrick Rose do it right now playboy! This cat was filthy rich two months before he became the 1st pick of the NBA draft? Wheredeydodatat and not lose their minds?

Now I would expect all of the hate to come from folks that grew up in the suburbs that can't begin to imagine how difficult it is for a black male to get out of the ghetto alive at 18. Not to mention being a 16 year old on the cover of Sports Illustrated still living in the middle of the war zone with all of the active land mines waiting for him. I'm blown away at the amount of duns that grew up with the same story as LeBron that won't support him. Let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! If you grew up in the ghetto and you can't appreciate what this guy has done on and off of the court you're a fool!

This cat changed the NBA right before our eyes and Joe’s are too ignorant see it. For years the league has told players where they could and could not play. All player moves have been organization driven. The owners dictated where boyz had to play without conversation especially if they were still under contract and some degree boyz that weren't under contract because of the power of influence. Stop me when I start lyin' playboy!

Then a 25 year old black kid from the ghetto decided that he wasn’t going to waste his career in a dump of an organization AFTER he had played out TWO contracts and put together his own player movement the world frowned upon it. What should he have done, wasted his career like Reggie Miller in Indiana, Barkley in Philly, Malone in Utah, Ewing in New York etc. because the world said that you can't play where you wanna play even if you're a free agent? That's foolishness playa!

Now I expected that reaction from mainstream America but not from brothers from the hood. The old timers used to call it "slave mentality" because as long as someone was thinking for you it was OK. Now that this brother was thinking for himself it wasn’t OK? You can stop me when I start trippin real bad! You know how boyz start lyin' so bad that they start spittin' too?  When I get close to that I'll shut up.

Don’t give me the line, “It was the way he did it with the whole “Decision” on ESPN!” First of all, how was the Decision any different than putting these high school kids on TV with 3 hats in front of them to tell the world where they’re going to play college football. Secondly, didn’t ESPN broadcast the joint and give him 2 hrs  of pre-show air time and then an hour of live TV? But now they are the very duns telling you that they didn’t like the way he did it. Am I the only one awake around this piece?

You love Jordan but he won't touch the ghetto with a ten foot pole. He'll sell the hood shoes but won't show up to speak to the very kids wearing them. You love Kobe but he’s the same cat that got arrested for sexual assault and threw Shaq under the bus when he wasn't even there. They call that being a snitch where I’m from.

You love the neighborhood drug dealer that is destroying lives for generations to come. Think about this, some kid has to go to school today with learning disabilities because the guy YOU admire sold his mother drugs while she was pregnant. So now with some hope and a lot of prayers he may be able to at least function as an adult one day. But you hate LeBron for playing the game of basketball and being a pioneer and taking free agency to another level. There is no rule that says that he can’t call his patna’s and team up. Name me one superstar that has ever won a title by himself? Crickets!!

The Lakers have been teaming up the best players in the league for years and boyz never complained about it. Almost annually they make a trade for a superstar to sure up another title, 16 in all. They’ve had nearly every superstar big man to ever play the game in LA. That wasn’t by accident bruh!

These same cats complaining about LeBron and D. Wade hooking up are running an AAU team or some little league team and stacking the joint! Y'all know how boyz do! The 4 best kids in the league end up on the same team to dominate because their dads hooked up on purpose to win a championship but LeBron and D. Wade can't do it? Give me a break!

You also love the cat that just spent 20 years in prison for murder because he's REAL in your opinion. You’ll give him love on the street but LeBron setting the example on how to come out of the ghetto and succeed can’t?  This is bigger than basketball playboy and you refuse to see it because the dull media told you that it wasn’t!

There are a whole lot of things to dislike in the world but not a kid that has overcome all sorts of obstacles even before entering the league like poverty, an unstable home etc. He's the kid that all of these single mothers in the ghetto should be encouraging their young sons to pay attention to because he didn't have a father either but look at what he's done with his life.

I had a boy tell me that the Pacers shouldn't let me in their locker room anymore because I love LeBron! I love any cat that's handling his business bruh! If this dun is the real deal and I didn't keep it real about him then what kind of journalist would I be playboy? The only reason boyz keep up with me is because Ima give it to you raw!

You know you're a hater when you've read this joint and still say, "Man whatever, I still don't like him!" Just like my man Francois said, “The intellect is always fooled by the heart.”

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
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