The Rise of NBA Mix Culture
So, I’m
watching the NBA Draft last night and I couldn’t help but notice a huge Elephant in the room. Half the new drafts had white mothers. “Does anyone else
see this ish”, I thought to myself? But then I said, “Integral, don’t be a damn
hypocrite. Your own son is going out with a white girl”. I also can’t lie and
say I haven’t dated white women before but my greatest desires were always for
Black women.
Today’s Black
youth are attracted to other races for numerous reasons. One of them is the fact that
in a multicultural society, if you don’t consciously try to remain pro-Black,
pop culture will white-wash your thoughts. I’ve actually heard some Black
people welcoming this trend in mixed relationships. They say by 2050 mixed
children will be the new norm. Racism will disappear and everyone will live
happily ever after.
This is not
the case when it comes to these new breed of NBA players though. Today’s breed
of NBA players come from Black fathers who also played in the NBA. Once they joined
the upper class, they completely gave in to their desires and ignored their
conscience. They said to themselves, “I want the prettiest white women to have
my child because I want my children to be attractive”. There is no other reason
I can think of why this is not the case.
Desire is
the key driver of human psychology. Once the two most sought-after desires
(money and beauty) are attained by an unconscious mind, there is no room for Blackconsciousness. Mixed race children often become some of the most pro-Black
people there is but the fact still remains that they will never understand the
psychological trauma of other Black children.
Most of the
new mix- raced NBA draftees have never known struggle because as soon as they
were born, they gained the resources of their already wealthy parents. They fulfilled their greatest goal, which was to make the NBA but it was not to make
it out of poverty so they can feed their families, its was to become as great
as their fathers were.
Poor Black
athletes traditionally had to hope with all their hearts that they could get to
College on Scholarships where they would have a better chance of making it to
the NBA. I’ll bet that most Scholarships today are regularly scooped up by
athletes who could already afford College. I’m not blaming these mixed-race
athletes for anything though. I blame society and the system in which Colleges
compete for a share of the multi-billion dollar College sports pot.
Scholarships
need to be re-prioritized to go toward supporting the millions of great Black athletes
who will never make it to the NBA because they cannot afford the training and the
financial requirements.