Why the NBA and WNBA just PROVED that All Lives DON'T Matter! "Three Fifths"

"We're outta here bruh!" 

Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." Winston Churchill broke it down like this, "The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is." Then Confucius put it where the goats could get it when he spit, "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance." 

Well playas...what if a boy doesn't know the extent of his own ignorance? The duns passin' ignorant laws in the state of North Carolina has cost them millions of dollars bruh! The NBA announced on Thursday that it would be pullin' the 2017 NBA All-Star Game out of Charlotte because of the dull House Bill 2, which limits anti-discrimination protections for gay lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in the state. DULL!!! For all of you simple minded individuals, that means that the law allows boyz to be free to discriminate against cats in the LBGT community which it IGNORANT.

Let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! This mornin' boyz are applaudin' the NBA for pullin' out and I'm askin' a boy "What took you so long?" North Carolina passed the dull law back in March and it's darn near August bruh! Accordin' to the league they've been tryin' to have constructive dialogue with the state to effect positive change. Naw playa, the positive change comes when you tell a boy to kick rocks for bein' stupid and it shouldn't have taken darn near five months. When Indiana (Governor Pence) tried to pull that foolishness last year the NCAA didn't waste any time tellin' a boy that if you don't change the law we're not showin' up for the Final Four and that joint disappeared.  

I'm pissed that the NBA drug it's feet this long. But what I'm more upset about is the fact that they can pull the All-Star game out of Charlotte because they're hollerin' about makin' positive change. However, the WNBA, which is run by the NBA, don't get it twisted, is fining boyz for supportin' the struggle of "Black Lives Matter" by wearin' all black warm up tops. Now I blasted the WNBA on Thursday in the Hot Joint entited "Blacked Out" for bein' hypocritical. They want the players to be involved in the community, to connect with the community as long as it doesn't connect with the struggle of black people. I'm talkin' but y'all ain't listenin' bruh! 

Understand this playboy, there is a soft spot for our LBGT community and there should be. Why? Because EVERYBODY can identify with bein' related to or knowin' someone that is gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. So it's easy to have empathy for that community because EVERYBODY connects with it through some type of relationship. However, not EVERYBODY has relationships with people in the black community, especially duns in positions of power. Most folks can go their ENTIRE lives and not have meaningful relationships with black folks. Therefore, when stuff comes across the desks of those makin' decisions as it pertains to the lives of black people it gets shot down. 

No way should the WNBA, in good conscience, be able to fine teams and players for supportin' the struggle of black folks on one day and then not even 48 hours later move the NBA All-Star Game out of Charlotte in support of the LGBT community when more than 70 percent of it's players are black. Wheredeydodatat? 

You can support one cause but completely diss the other.?That's a slap in the face to all of the black players and fans of the game! If in fact "All Lives Matter" then why are you finin' the WNBA players for supportin' part of the "All Lives Matter?" While we're on this foolishness let me ask all of the people hollerin' "All Lives Matter" where was "All Lives Matter" from 1619 to 2016?  Just in case you didn't know, 1619 was the year when the first slave ship docked and boyz were sold in this country in Jamestown, Virginia! 

Where was All Lives Matter in 1776 when the nation was celebratin' it's independence from the British and black folks where still bein' bought and sold like cattle. Where was "All Lives Matter" when we were considered to be three fifths of a man when the constitution was bein' drawn up?

And for all the folks that get offended by the term "Black Lives Matter" let me take you to school real quick. Just because the campaign says "Black Lives Matter" doesn't mean that ALL other lives don't matter! It's an emphasis on the reality of "some" police in this country killin' black folks as if those lives don't matter to "those" officers. When you act like they "don't" matter there has to be an emphasis put on where the problem is bruh. When year after year, month after month and day after day we see black men and women bein' killed by the police in situations that shouldn't end in death it's a problem. So to reinforce that "Black Lives Matter" is important. We've gotta love each other! 

When we celebrate Breast Cancer Awareness Month and everybody puts on their pink in October we aren't sayin' that ALL of the other cancers aren't important! When November roles around and it's Diabetes Awareness month we aren't sayin' that ALL other chronic diseases aren't important. When duns put together a Gay Pride Parade they aren't sayin' that heterosexuals aren't important. They're only emphasizin' the importance of those movements because they can simply identify with them. 

However, when duns say, "All Lives Matter" and then pull the stunts that the NBA and WNBA just pulled you're really tellin' boyz once again that "All Lives Don't Matter" just those that they deem important. Once boyz stop talkin' out of the side of their necks we can move forward in the country. 

And for all of my Michael Jordan fans, where is the MOST POWERFUL black man influentially on the face of the earth? Somewhere with his head stuck in the sand tryin' not to give his opinion! His franchise loses the All-Star Game and you and I both know that he had the juice and influence to at least try to stop this foolishness from gettin' away.  And before you clowns run off and say that I'm blamin' MJ for the loss. Naw playa, I'm blamin' MJ for bein' who he is. A dun that NEVER opens his mouth about anything unless it benefits he and his brand. And yes, he gave his opinion back in April but nobody heard him. And why is it that the MOST POWERFUL black man on the face of the planet spoke out and nobody heard him. I'm listenin'! But we'll know when the new Jordan's comin' out though! Stop me when I start lyin'! 

Playas Thesaurus: 

1) Spit: verb - to say 

2) Dun: noun - the person in question, dude, guy, etc. It's whoever I'm talkin' about and its non-gender specific. 

3) Put it where the goats can get it: verb phrase - to make it as elementary as possible. To put it at ground level so everyone can understand it. 
4) I'm listenin': verb phrase - tell me what I already know bruh!

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Why the WNBA is hypocritical in it's thinkin' by fining teams andplayers! "Blacked Out"

"We're gonna keep prayin' that things get better!"

Andrew Vachss, the famous actor, once said, "Fighting means you could lose. Bullying means you can't. A bully wants to beat somebody; he doesn't want to fight somebody." Shay Mitchell, the Canadian actress, gave it to us like this, "I realized that bullying never has to do with you. It's the bully who's insecure." Then Lady Starlight, the singer, broke it down so that it would forever be broken when she spit, "Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying." 

Well playas...the WNBA has the nerve to do just that bruh! They've put a huge restriction on their team's and player's freedom of speech by finin' a boy or in this particular case, a girl for speakin' up about the recent shootings of both black men and police officers alike. The league has now fined the New York Liberty, Phoenix Mercury and Indiana Fever for wearin' all black warm up shirts even though they are made by Adidas, the official outfitter of the league. 

Let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! The WNBA hollers out of one side of their necks that they want their players to be active in their communities and use their platforms to make a difference. Then out of the other side they tell a boy not to get involved with issues that make people uncomfortable. Well playboy, welcome to the world I live in! Folks that look like me have been uncomfortable for more than 350 years around this piece bruh! 

Don't give players a platform and then tell them not to use it and by finin' them that's exactly what you're doin'!! The league hit the teams for $5,000 then turned around and hit the players for $500 apiece!! The average salary in the WNBA is only $72K bruh! The minimum rookie salary is like $38K and the max veteran joint is $108K. Even the duns at the top of the pay scale that are makin' the 100 stacks can't afford to give a boy $500 every time they wear a shirt! That's crazy!! So guess what pimpin', you win!  

Duns in the NBA can afford to pay ridiculous fines like $25K for complainin' about the refs etc. Paul George can give a boy that type of bread because he's got a guaranteed boy for $90 million. You can't expect a player that's only makin' on average $72K to come out of $500 every time they rock a shirt speak out against some foolishness that should be spoken out against. 

Yeah and I know what the policy says about bein' out of uniform but sometimes bein' out of uniform has it's place. Let me put it where the goats can get. Duns are out of uniform when NFL teams are bringin' awareness to Breast Cancer Awareness when everybody and their baby's momma's momma are rockin' pink in October. So don't tell me about policy. Policies can be changed or altered for the good of the cause. NOBODY is watchin' the WNBA so this can bring more eyeballs to the game or are you so blind that you can't see that? 

Don't tell me about a boy stayin' in compliance! Tell me about doin' the right thing and givin' your players an opportunity to express themselves durin' this very stressful time in American history. Tell me about supportin' your communities and bein' in tune with the sufferin' that folks are dealin' with. 

Be a catalyst for change and not a hinderance to it bruh. Be on the forefront of social change and don't hide in the ride waitin' for somebody else to do it. Believe it or not WNBA, your players both black and white are affected by this foolishness just like everybody in the communities you play in. 

Now if boyz are gonna keep it all the way 100 these NBA cats need to step up and pay the fines for these ladies! That's if they really wanna make a difference. I'm just sayin' and stop me when I start lyin'! 

Playas Thesaurus: 

1) Spit: verb - to say 

2) Dun: noun - the person in question, dude, guy, etc. It's whoever I'm talkin' about and its non-gender specific. 

3) Boy: noun - anybody whether it's male or female, anything bruh it doesn't matter what I'm talkin' about. Understand this playa, some words have dual meanings. Whatever noun I'm talkin' about could be a boy. Got it? Good. 

4) Put it where the goats can get it: verb phrase - to make it as elementary as possible. To put it at ground level so everyone can understand it. 

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Why even after 3 more officers are killed Trump is reckless on Twitter! "Whoofin'"

"I'm reckless even when I should know better bruh!" 

Hunter S. Thompson, the journalist and author, once said, "There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge." P.J. O'Rourke, the political satirist, gave it to us like this, "The world is being run by irresponsible spoiled brats." Then Rita Mae Brown, the writer and activist, broke it down like a playa at a pimp convention when she spit, "I've met many irresponsible people in my life but never an irresponsible cat." 

Well playas...she hasn't met Donald J. Trump yet because that dun has to be the most irresponsible cat alive! Our country is in the middle of some serious CHAOS right now and he's on Twitter talkin' crazy. After the President spoke eloquently on the ignorance of some fool killin' 3 Baton Rouge police officers on Sunday not a week after 5 Dallas police were killed. Oh and not to mention the the police shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile that has this country reelin', here goes Trump on Twitter: 

"President Obama just had a news conference, but he doesn't have a clue. Our country is a divided crime scene, and it will only get worse!" Then the dun jumped all of the way out of the birthday cake butt naked with the next tweet: "Our country is totally divided and our enemies are watching. We are not looking good, we are not looking smart, we are not looking tough!"

Let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! He ran his ENTIRE campaign on dividin' America and he's got the nerve to say that our country is totally divided now. Donald Trump has given the worst that America has to offer a voice again! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?  These cats are climbin' out of holes all over this country. 

This is the same dun that said that he would ban Muslims from enterin' this country "until he figures things out." He's the same cat that said that Mexicans were thieves and rapists. He's the same cat that just picked up the Governor of Indiana as his VP candidate that passed a religious freedom act last year that would have made it legal for restaurants to discriminate against gays and lesbians. He would have kept it on the table but the NCAA threatened to pull the Tournament out of the state so he pulled it. Bread is more important than bein' a bigot I guess.  

But now he wants to tell Obama that he doesn't have a clue!! Where is this cat from? We're facin' dangerous times in this country right now bruh and we don't need a hot head in charge. That dun will get us all killed because he's reckless in his approach to everything. I wrote a crazy Hot Joint when he first started all of this foolishness entitled "Sets and Factions" explainin' to boyz how the world is nothin' but a big old ghetto that operates with the same rules and regulations.  He thinks that it's cool to talk crazy and get all of the good ole boyz fired up but what he doesn't realize how dangerous that is.

I’ve said for years that the best place in the WORLD to be from is the ghetto. Why? Because you learn what the word “Diplomacy” means by the time your 8 years old. You don’t learn what that word really means at all growin’ up in rural or suburban America. Why? Because it’s never been important to exercise it in order to survive. Diplomacy is what Trump is missin' durin' times like these bruh! There are a lot of people hurtin' right now and bein' reckless only pours salt in their wounds and it creates an atmosphere of further division and that's not presidential! 

He has boyz all over this country excited about his ability to piss folks off by sayin’ whatever is on his mind regardless of how ignorant it sounds when it comes out. Well here’s the problem playboy, durin' times of crises we need LEADERSHIP that will keep folks together not divide them even further. 

Talked about us not lookin' tough on Twitter. How would bein' tough stop some deranged lunatics from shootin' police officers? How would bein' tough stop racists cops from beatin' and shootin' black men to death? I'm listenin'!! 

Regardless of your politics you've got to realize that President Obama is tryin' to keep this thing from completely EXPLODING by choosin' his words carefully because it's a powder keg just waitin' to pop. You can't start talkin' reckless because there are a ton of ignorant people in this country that can't wait to act a fool. We've already had 2 fools commit suicide by killin' 8 cops. We've already seen Trump's presidential campaign run on the premise of separatism where folks were gettin' beaten up, spit on and insulted for bein' different or simply havin' a difference of opinion.  We've seen the Ku Klu Klan support him and it wasn't until he took some heat that he finally disavowed them. 

Division? He's been the king of division! Don't act like you haven't seen it all year. We've all seen it. This country has been more divided since the Trump Circus hit the road than in any other time in my lifetime bruh and I'm 49! I don't remember the Civil Rights Movement because I was only a year old when Dr. King was killed.  

Durin' times like these we need REAL leadership not some fool whoofin' tryin' to get the most ignorant of Americans hyped up for a race war. He's playin' off of people's emotions instead of tryin' to be responsible.  Three police officers just lost their lives bruh! This isn't a campaign opportunity to fire people up. It's an opportunity to bring us ALL together. That's what presidents are supposed to do.  Stop me when I start lyin! 

Playas Thesaurus: 

1) Spit: verb - to say 

2) Dun: noun - the person in question, dude, guy, etc. It's whoever I'm talkin' about and its non-gender specific. 

3) Put it where the goats can get it: verb phrase - to make it as elementary as possible. To put it at ground level so everyone can understand it. 

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Why you can't have a REAL conversation on race with thePresident! "Real Talk?"

"Now you know we gotta stay in the middle on this right?"

Albert Einstein once said, "Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding." Mahatma Gandhi gave it to us like this, "Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding." Then Tony Robbins broke it down like a playa at a pimp convention when he spit, "To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others." 

Well playas...until we realize that we all see the world from different perspectives and that we've all had different experiences in this country. Tryin' to communicate is worthless. On Thursday evenin' President Barack Obama held a Town Hall on Race in America. Two minutes into the discussion I said that it was worthless. Why? Because you can't have REAL dialogue on race with a black president in a country where he's still a minority. I'm sorry to burst your bubble bruh but black folks didn't elect Barack Obama. There isn't enough of us to have elected him even if all 13 percent of us voted. He's the president for EVERYBODY and he's got to stay in the middle on this topic and most importantly he's gotta keep the police happy because they protect he and his family. He's the most powerful man in the world and he needs to keep them happy more than anything. 

Let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! This dun has less than 6 months left in office. He's protected by local, state and federal police daily along with the secret service. His family is protected by them as well. He can't get on TV and really tell a boy how he really feels about what "some" police are doin' out here because nobody is willin' to listen to reason. We all know that most cops are good cops and people! You've got to be a COMPLETE fool to think that all cops are bad! However, the system is broken because the bad cops keep gettin' protected and therefore they are empowered when they aren't held accountable and Obama knows that. 

He hasn't always been the president bruh and he's a black man in America. So his experience in this country is no different than most black men. He's been pulled over. He's been questioned. He's been racially profiled! Why? Because we've all have. That's the basic experience of bein' black in America! It's real out here but when you don't experience it you don't think that its real. 

But until we can have a real conversation about it without non-black folks gettin' offended that you aren't includin' them when they aren't havin' the same experiences. We can't move forward with the discussion because people aren't empathetic. Why? Because it isn't real to them. 

Like when the white mother of a Baltimore police officer stood up and said that she worries about her son everyday when he puts his uniform on to go to work. She says that someone has thrown a brick through his squad car window and he's been threatened. As I listened to her talk I couldn't help but think, "Are you kidding me?"Your son has an option as to whether he puts on that uniform and goes to work. My son has no option as to whether he puts on his black skin this mornin'. I don't have an option as to whether I put mine on either. My son and I don't have a bullet proof vest, a badge and an entire police force, the DA and the Fraternal Order of Police there to protect us when we walk out of the house. 

If we get pulled over by 1or 2 percent that boyz keep claimin' are out here actin' a fool we can't call for backup or protect ourselves. Why? Because we're at the mercy of the dun that pulled us over. So we've got to pray he's not the infamous 1 or 2 percent. But we know that if and when an incident occurs the entire police force is goin' to close ranks around that dun. That's the problem bruh but when it's not happenin' to you or your family you don't wanna talk about it. 

It's called systemic! That means that the culture has created and protected it. So as I empathize with the mother of the Baltimore policeman her problem isn't as grave as mine because her son has a choice and mine doesn't.  

Not until people sit down and are willin' to listen to the very real experiences of black folks in America will we move the needle forward. The only person within that hour long special that said anything of importance or value was the police chief from Milwaukee. He understood that the inner city was the most vulnerable and needed the most attention. He understood what #BlackLivesMatter actually means because that is the sector of our society that is the most vulnerable. He wanted real answers but you can't get real answers from the president on live TV because he can't afford to upset folks that don't care about the issue at hand. 

And for all the folks that get offended by the term #BlackLivesMatter let me take you to school real quick. Just because the campaign says #BlackLivesMatter doesn't mean that ALL other lives don't matter! It's an emphasis on the reality of "some" police in this country killin' black folks as if those lives don't matter to "those" officers. When you act like they "don't" matter there has to be an emphasis put on where the problem is bruh. When year after year, month after month and day after day we see black men and women bein' killed by the police in situations that shouldn't end in death it's a problem. So to reinforce that #BlackLivesMatter is important. We've gotta love each other! 

When we celebrate Breast Cancer Awareness Month and everybody puts on their pink in October we aren't sayin' that ALL of the other cancers aren't important! When November roles around and it's Diabetes Awareness month we aren't sayin' that ALL other chronic diseases aren't important. When duns put together a Gay Pride Parade they aren't sayin' that heterosexuals aren't important. They're only emphasizin' the importance of those movements because they can simply identify with them. 
Let me put it where the goats can get it bruh! 

Most people that aren't black in America don't have to care about black men bein' mistreated by the police. Why? Because it doesn't show up at their houses. It's no different than the heroin epidemic of the 1960's and '70's in the ghetto. Boyz have been addicted to heroin since I can remember walkin' school as a kid in Gary, Indiana. Now all of a sudden there is a "so-called" epidemic because that same heroin is no longer in the ghetto. It's finally found it's way to the suburbs and now white folks are addicted to it. Now it's a problem. 

It's not a problem until you have to deal with it. Since we're not havin' extraordinary amounts of young unarmed white males bein' killed by the police most Americans don't care. It's no different than the plight of the Native American. Most people don't know or see them so their problems aren't important. I'm talkin' but y'all ain't listenin'! 

It's nothin' to get upset about! It's just what it is! Why would I expect someone to understand what I as a black man have to deal with on a daily basis when they'll never be me or my son? What I have to do is teach him how to navigate this life by avoidin' as many land mines as possible. I don't need to watch a waste of time TV special in Race to learn that we're out here alone and that it's up to us to figure out how to survive by ALWAYS doin' the right things. And even when we do the right things like Philando Castile we're still at risk of runnin' into the so-called 1 or 2 percent of boyz that don't care a thing about takin' our lives. Until folks are willin' to try to understand the experiences of other people we'll be at a stand still in this country. It's sad but true but I'm trustin' that God to bring us all together to have those conversations. Remember this, most people in America hated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and all he wanted for us to do was have REAL conversations about treating EVERYBODY equally. Stop me when I start lyin'!  

Playas Thesaurus: 

1) Spit: verb - to say 

2) Dun: noun - the person in question, dude, guy, etc. It's whoever I'm talkin' about and its non-gender specific. 

3) Put it where the goats can get it: verb phrase - to make it as elementary as possible. To put it at ground level so everyone can understand it. 

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Why JORDAN could learn something from LeBron, Melo, CP3 and DWade! "Torches"

"We're in the ride too bruh!" 

John D. Rockefeller once said, "Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty." Dick Gephardt, the politician, gave it to us like this, "Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune." Then Phil Crane, another politician, put it where the goats could get it when he spit, "As my dad said, you have an obligation to leave the world better than how you found it. And he also reminded us to be givers in this life, and not takers." 

Well playas...as I watched the ESPY's on Wednesday night and saw duns like Melo, CP3, D. Wade and LeBron stand before America and tell a boy that enough is enough with the gun violence, police brutality and retaliation my soul smiled!! These cats understand full well what the reality of black folks and black males are in this country. They used their platform to make a difference. They reminded America that they are just as black, just as vulnerable and just as affected by this foolishness as Pookie and Ray-Ray are in the Delaney Projects off in the G!  

Let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! Everyone of those cats have family in some hood in America and all of their family looks just like them. They've all got children that will one day drive a vehicle and will ultimately be stopped by the police. Those are the FACTS playboy!! And what boyz don't realize is that their kids will be GREATER targets by some racist cop than mine. Why? Because their kid will pull up in some multi-million dollar neighborhood drivin' a luxury vehicle and the freakin' cop isn't goin' to know that that's LeBron's or Melo's kid when he pulls them over talkin' crazy with the gun drawn. That's not me speculatin' bruh! That's me givin' you the reality of bein' black in America! 

Just because you see these cats on TV every night and that they've got hundreds of millions of dollars it doesn't exclude them from the conversation of worryin' about their family and friends gettin' brutalized by the police and in some cases maybe even killed. So I applaud these cats for doin' what Michael Jordan has refused to do in all of his 32 years as a professional athlete. Say something, anything!! And that's why I've got NO respect for him!!! 

Ole boy is the most powerful and influential person in the history of sports because of his resume and the Jordan Brand which should be respected because he's earned it. However, he's NEVER used that power to do anything but play basketball and sell shoes. Black men in this country are bein' hunted from all angles. Like I said in the crazy Hot Joint yesterday entitled "Surface Area" not only are cats havin' to run from the gangstas in these streets but now they've gotta run from the duns that were sworn in to protect and serve them! Wheredeydodatat?  I've got enemies in the streets and my safe haven is killin' me too! 

Y'all can keep havin' the love-fest on Jordan if you want to but I can't ride with a boy that won't love me back! See Muhammad Ali was the G.O.A.T. not because of his ability to box bruh! He became the G.O.A.T because of his ability to make a difference in the lives of his people! He understood the value of his platform and he used it to make change in this world not only for black folks but for all folks. When God blesses you he's not just blessin' you bruh! He's wants to bless others through you!! 

So when Melo took out a full page ad in the New York Daily to express how he felt about this foolishness he immediately became somebody that I mess with. Why? Because he didn't have to do it! He could have acted like he and his family were immune to the violence that everyday black folks in America are subject to but he's not crazy. Salute my brother. 

I'm glad to see that these young cats playin' today understand that it's more to it than just playin' ball and gettin' rich. It's about makin' a difference.  Cats like Jim Brown, Kareem Abdul Jabbar and Muhammad Ali put their careers on the line daily by supportin' the civil rights movement and other social issues in this country. People hated Ali until he was unable to speak, but he died a national hero. Why? Because he stood up to the government in protest of the draft and the Vietnam war etc. Brown founded the Amer-I-can program in 1988 to help young African-American males transition out of the gang life and prisons in L.A. and Cleveland. Kareem was very active in the civil rights movement in the late 1960's. 

They tried to pass the torch down to Jordan but he let that joint hit the ground. He was given the opportunity to make the impact that he has made on the world as a result of their efforts! But all he wanted was the bread and not the obligation to help change the world.  

I'm so glad that these young boyz didn't learn anything from Jordan and they decided to skip over him and take their lead from the old heads. 

Beyond seein' these young boyz doin' what they did at the ESPY's on Wednesday night they're steppin' up big time. We're seein' them more and more athletes speakin' out on the injustice  of our people in America. We've seen cats like D. Rose, the five wide receivers from the St. Louis Rams with their hands up etc. We've seen boyz rockin' hoodies and t-shirts "I Can't Breathe!" We just saw the WNBA's Minnesota Lynx, who are the defendin' champs, wearin' the "Justice and Accountabilty" warm up shirts before a game this week in support of those that have died in these streets at the hands of the police or "so-called" police. 

We even saw Cardale Jones, who was just a college quarterback at the time, use his power of influence to at least make a statement about the injustice surroundin' the Sandra Bland foolishness. But for more than 32 years all we've EVER gotten from Jordan was a jumper, a slam dunk, a tongue wag and some darn shoes! And that's the edited version. 

Naw playa, I wanna see a boy get in the ride with me and everybody that looks like me and say enough is enough. That's love! And I don't care what color you are it affects all of us. Because until we learn to love each other we're still goin' to be dealin' with this foolishness. And don't get it twisted bruh, I speak at schools and to teams in the hood on a regular basis! Why? Because I've got a platform too and it's not just about sports. It's about encouragin' people to live up to their potential regardless of their circumstances. 

So SALUTE to Melo, CP3, D.Wade and LeBron for usin' their platform to bring attention to this nonsense. And on your way to the crib stop by Jordan's house and remind him that his kids are black too. And that goes for his new kids too. Especially in the eyes of a racist cop. Stop me when I start lyin'! 

Playas Thesaurus: 

1) Spit: verb - to say 

2) Dun: noun - the person in question, dude, guy, etc. It's whoever I'm talkin' about and its non-gender specific. 

3) Put it where the goats can get it: verb phrase - to make it as elementary as possible. To put it at ground level so everyone can understand it. 

4) The G: Noun - Gary, Indiana

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How Charles Barkley has COMPLETELY "souled" out! "Surface Area"

"I sold out a long time ago bruh! Now I can't help it!" 

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the German writer and statesman, once said, "Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago." Benjamin Disraeli, the 1st Earl of Beaconsfield a British politician, broke it down like this, "To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge." Then Benjamin Franklin put it where the goats could get it when he spit, "We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." 

Well playas...Charles Barkley has been workin' his butt off to remain stupid since 1984!!! This dun continues to get on national television and radio talkin' like a darn fool and that's the edited version bruh. On Tuesday, once again, he jumps on the Dan Le Batard Show and proves to America that's he's the sell out that most black folks already knew that he was. This dun, in a nut shell, blamed Philando Castile for his own death by sayin' that he shouldn't have kept his ID in the same place as his gun. In his own words he said, "First of all every thing is happening in fast motion. What I think happened was that the cop said, 'Can I have your ID!' And the next thing he said was 'I have a gun.' And he reaches and I think the cop just panicked." This is what this fool said out of his own mouth bruh. 

Dan Le Batard then tries to save him by sayin', "I know but Charles they're more likely to panic around black people because there is a fear of black people."Then this dun says, "But Dan it's fair because some black people are out there are crooks." 

Now let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st!  I refuse to blame Charles Barkley anymore for bein' an idiot! He's proven that he's a consistent idiot for the past 32 years!! I blame all of these fake media-types for givin' him a platform to say what they really want to say about black folks but can't say. So they bring this fool on to do it for them. Now Le Batard will tell you otherwise, but he keeps bringin' him on the show and he knows he's gonna talk crazy. And that goes for Dan Patrick too. 

Charles Barkley doesn't know his butt from a hole in the ground about ANYTHING but people keep talkin' to him about issues concernin' race and cutlure because he makes black folks look stupid every time he opens his mouth. Even when he's talkin' basketball he's lyin' and talkin' crazy. I just wrote a Hot Joint entitled, "What!!?" last week about him slammin' KD for goin' to Golden State and tellin' boyz that he didn't cheat by tryin' to jump on teams to chase a ring!! But everybody and their Aunt Ester saw him go to both Phoenix and Houston tryin' to win a title. But y'all keep listenin' to this dun. 

But let's get back to his comments on Le Batard's show. To get on a national show and say "I think what happened was" is to be completely irresponsible! To blame a dun for his OWN death when he told the cop that he was gettin' his ID is crazy. I'm not even a cop and I know that there are 10 different ways to de-escalate that situation even if the cop was nervous! 

How about tellin' ole boy to put both of his hands in the air, then get out of the car with both hands where I can see them. Put him in hand cuffs and then reach into the car and get the gun, ID and the gun permit. The professional on hand is supposed to understand how to handle that situation. Or how about callin' for back up and makin' him sit there with his hands either up or on the steering wheel until one of his boyz pulls up. There is no reason for the cop to panic even if he's scared. HE'S THE FREAKIN' PROFESSIONAL!!  

But to blame Philando is to let the cop off of the hook and to make the black man look guilty of this foolishness. Then he says that black folks are crooks so that gives the cop a justified reason to panic and kill the man. White folks are crooks too Charles! Every race of people have crooks. They aren't killin' them for havin' a busted tail light, sellin' cigarettes, CD's, playin' with toy guns in the park or walkin' down the street with a pop and Skittles in their hands! At some point enough is enough!! 

White folks get pulled over all of the time, will curse the police officer clean out and drive off without incident and a gun is never pulled. But Charles is tellin' a national radio audience that it's okay to kill black folks because we're crooks. To get on the show and go in on blacks bein' to blame for this foolishness is beyond dancin' the jig at this point bruh! Then he says the same ignorance that people spit up every time they wanna justify police shootings of black people. Why isn't anybody mad when blacks kill blacks? 

Where has this fool been? I grew up in the middle of the ghetto and black folks have always been mad. They don't march and protest at the same level durin' those circumstances because who is there to protest? The dun killin' folks in the ghetto doesn't work for a local, state or federal agency that is held to a standard of excellence and wasn't sworn in to protect and serve!! The dun sellin' drugs in the hood doesn't work for the Drug Dealers Association of America funded by local and state tax dollars. The police are the one's that took an oath to protect and serve. So now I've got to run from both the cops and the gangstas? 

Again, where is this fool from? EVERYBODY in the hood knows that Lil' Shotgun is sellin' all the drugs and killin' everybody. But if you live in that neighborhood or your mother lives in that neighborhood you can't march and protest Lil' Shotgun!! Why? Because you and yo momma will come up missin'! And anybody else that talks to the police! But if you've never been to the ghetto you wouldn't know that. EVERYBODY in the hood is sick and tired of the violence but they can't do a darn thing about it if they want to keep breathing because they don't have the money to move. Is that real enough for you playboy? 

And for all of the fools like Charles that want to show people that they're smart by throwin' numbers up that somebody else gave them. They'll tell you that 93 percent of all black homicides are committed by other blacks. But what they don't tell you is that 85 percent of all white homicides were committed by other whites. Why? Because people tend to get into arguments and fights with people that look like them because ethnicities typically run together. If the Italian cat gets into a fight at the bar with someone, the person he more likely than not is fightin' and beefin' with looks like him. Why? Because it's the Italian bar that all of the Italians in the neighborhood frequent. No different than the black cat beefin' with the dude down the street in the all black neighborhood that they both live in. 

When idiots like Charles say stuff like that they're provin' to the world that they only know the surface area foolishness because they aren't smart enough to dig into the root of the problem. He knows better because he grew up black in the segregated south in Leeds, Alabama in the 1960's! But he wants the mainstream audience to like him so he trashes black folks every time he gets on a show. 

You don't find it strange that every time there is an issue of race in this country that the mainstream media runs and gets duns like Charles Barkley, Jason Whitlock and Stacy Dash to discuss it. When everybody and their baby's momma's momma, Ms. Jackson, knows they're goin' to trash the black community. Oh, and now you can throw Wendy Williams into the car with them too! 

Since Barkley wants us to deal with the problem of black on black crime in the ghetto who's gonna address the reason why there is an alarmin' rate of homicides in the ghetto? Boyz aren't just killin' each other for sport out here bruh. Drugs and territory to sell drugs is at the root of the problem. Well how did the drugs get into the ghetto in the first place? The people that live there didn't bring them in. Nobody in the hood owns an airplane, a ship to import them or a freakin' passport to go get them. 

As a matter of fact, how did ghettos in America come to be? I guess you forgot that there was such a thing as housing discrimination laws that existed up until 1968 and the amendments to that law didn't come until 1988. So black folks were forced to live, regardless of income, in the same neighborhoods and somebody decided to drop drugs off into those neighborhoods but you can't figure out why the crime rate is so high. 

I'm not tellin' you what I heard playboy I'm tellin' you what I know. Both of my parents were college educated blacks in the 1950's! When most black folks couldn't even go to college my father was a pharmacist and my mother was a school teacher. However, I grew up on a middle class street smack dab in the middle of the ghetto in Gary, Indiana! Why? Because we couldn't live in the suburbs. Why? Because we were black! So I watched heroin addicts walk up and down the streets in the early 1970's as a kid even though my parents could afford to live in the suburbs.  

Now you're seein' on the news that there is a heroin epidemic in America because it's no longer contained to the ghetto. Somebody finally dropped it off in the suburbs. Now it's a problem bruh! However, it wasn't a problem when I saw it at 6 years old in 1973. But duns like Charles will tell you that it's all black folks fault because all he wants to tell you is the surface area foolishness. Stop me when I start lyin'! 

Playas Thesaurus: 

1) Spit: verb - to say 

2) Dun: noun - the person in question, dude, guy, etc. It's whoever I'm talkin' about and its non-gender specific. 

3) Put it where the goats can get it: verb phrase - to make it as elementary as possible. To put it at ground level so everyone can understand it. 

4) Ms. Jackson: noun - hit song by the rap group OutKast

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Why the cops that walked out on the Lynx may as well have pulled the trigger too! "DEAD WRONG"

"Way to go ladies! Real change starts with us!"

David Brin, the famous scientist, once said, "When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else." John Thune, the US Senator from South Dakota, gave it to us like this, "I just think we need more accountability and more transparency." Then Henry Cloud, the author, put it where the goats could get it when he spit, "If you are building a culture where honest expectations are communicated and peer accountability is the norm, then the group will address poor performance and attitudes." 

Well playas...it doesn't look like many of these police departments are tryin' to build a culture where honest expectations are communicated and peer accountability is the norm bruh. On Saturday the Minnesota Lynx of the WNBA wore warm up shirts that simply read, "Change Starts With Us" with the words "Justice and Accountability" on the back of it with the Dallas Police Department badge and "Black Lives Matter" on it. When the team came out to warm up four of the police officers that were workin' as security left their posts. For all of you simple minded individuals that means that they quit. 

Now let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! Everybody and their baby's momma's momma keeps hollerin' that bad cops or racist cops only make up 1 to 2 percent of the cops on the streets. So it's not all cops that are the problem. Now I'm smart enough to know that bruh! However, if there are only 1 to 2 percent of duns out here bein' reckless and mistreatin' black folks when are the good cops goin' to stand up and call their boyz out? As long as when something foul happens and the entire department closes ranks to protect the bad cops then it becomes more than just 1 or 2 percent. If the entire department is protectin' the fools then the entire department is the problem!! 

Every dun in America can see that there is a systemic problem when it comes to police brutality against black men but when nothin' is bein' done about it all you do is empower the next fool to shoot and kill a brother. 

If my kid acts a darn fool at school (edited version), slaps his teacher and they show me the video tape of it and I simply do nothin'. What is my child goin' to do the next day at school to the very same teacher? He's goin' to stand up in his chair, steal her purse and shoot spit balls at her all day! Why? Because I've empowered him to do so by NOT holdin' him accountable. 

When someone sees injustice and says that they want "justice and accountability" and all the freakin' cops decide to take the side of the dun that wrongfully killed a man at a freakin' traffic stop. What do you think's goin' to happen today when another brother gets pulled over by the same department? Now it's not the 1 or 2 percent that you keep tryin' to tell us about. The dun that walked out of the Lynx game has just added himself to that number bruh! He's got the same attitude as the original dun that pulled the trigger on Philando Castile. Why? Because he supports his actions. Am I the only one around here that's thinkin' today? 

Just because a dun has on the same uniform that you have on doesn't mean that he's always right. If a boy is dead wrong then he's dead wrong!! No man deserves to be killed because he was pulled over for a busted tail light that we've now found out wasn't even busted. But to support his actions just because he's got on the same uniform as you do is foul. That's like if all black folks supported the actions on the lone gunman that killed 5 innocent white police officers in Dallas. THAT'S IGNORANT BRUH!!!  HE WAS DEAD WRONG and you've got to be a darn fool to support that type of behavior regardless of his color or uniform. And that's the edited version.  

Until people start holdin' folks accountable for bein' racist then nothin' is ever goin' to change. If you see someone at work tryin' to sabotage another employee just because they're black and you say nothin'. Then you're just as racist! If you hear a friend talkin' reckless and crazy about race and you say nothin' then you're racist too! Why? Because you did nothin' to stop it. If you see another cop (your colleague) mistreat someone on the street and you do nothin' to stop it or report it. Then you're the same bad cop! 

My dad always taught me that if I'm in the ride with some fools that rob a bank and I don't jump out of the car and report it then I'm just as guilty as they are and I'm goin' to jail too. And what does the law say bruh? If you're with someone that commits a crime then you're just as guilty as they are of the same crime. 

So all of the cops that walked out on the Lynx on Saturday are just as guilty of murderin' Philando Castile as the dun that pulled the trigger. Why? Because they don't want "justice or accountability" for this foolishness! But I bet if Philando were their child or nephew they would have put on a freakin' T-shirt in support of "justice and accountability." Stop me when I start lyin'! 

Playas Thesaurus: 

1) Spit: verb - to say 

2) Dun: noun - the person in question, dude, guy, etc. It's whoever I'm talkin' about and its non-gender specific. 

3) Put it where the goats can get it: verb phrase - to make it as elementary as possible. To put it at ground level so everyone can understand it. 

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