The Sad Case of African American Athletes and those who sit by the sidelines

African Americans athletes are perhaps the most apolitical group of African Americans.  Today they are instant millionares, but they do very little for their people.  Take one Manute Bol of the Sudan.  One man, yet he built schools, clinics and other projects in his home country.  There are not hundreds, but thousands of millionare African American athletes, but not one have built a school, library or hospital.  Black folks don't own but one hotel and one hospital that I am aware of, both are in Washington DC, at Howard University.  You mean to tell me that these athletes cannot contribute better than that to the comunities from whence they come?   You mean they can't open a grocery store, or a cab company,  a community center, or a bus company? We don't even have one convention center!!! Are they telling us with their education and money all they can do is sell other people shoes, clothes, cars, and underwear?

 This is sad and what makes it even worse are the side line people who watch sports day in and day out, season after season, spending all kinds of money on tickets, jerserys, and hotdogs making somebody else rich and most don't own the house they live in. And when a team wins a championship they talk about WE won!!!These folk spend more time watching sports than working on their life's plan. I know this all too well. I was one of those folks.  I played football, I even played on the same basketball team growing up with ex LA Laker Clay Johnson.  We were on the same winning baseball team. We played soccer.  I boxed, and ran track, in fact I consider myself today one of the best 50 something runner (in the 5 and 10 K) in the USA. I used to watch every sport, every season.  But I spent little time finding out who I was.  Now I hardly watch any sports except track and field.  But since I left the sports watching alone, I found out I could do things I didn't know I could do.  I am more creative. I am more involved in things that really matter.  I believe sports is a big distraction, keeping men from what they should be doing, and that is fighting for the liberation of our people!!!

Where is Manute Bol today?  Dead at 47! Was it murder?  When you really do something for the people things seem to happen to you...Why is Mahmoud Abdul -Rauf (Chris Jackson) not playing in the NBA? Why does Muhammad Ali have that disease? He didn't wear pink panties on national television!!!