From T.O. to Michael Vick to Paul Pierce to Ron Artest to Stephen Jackson to Caron Butler, it's the same bulls---. Black Athletes with enormous talent are subjected to inordinate and criminal forms of interrogation and surveillance. Michael Jordan's flamboyant attitude on-court was rapidly challenged by white pundits who we're uncomfortable with his irreducible-presence and unmitigable-impact. Now, the NFL, just like the NBA have taken it too damn far. To ensure that Black Athletes don't freely celebrate and exist un-shackled, the NFL is now employing a special team to "investigate... hand signals of street gangs" that some players might have displayed in their moments of elation. Like David Stern of the NBA, Roger Goodell has lost his mind. There's no telling what the next regulation would pan out to be. Let's hope it doesn't come with an abolition of blackness. The AP reports tonight that:
The NFL is stepping up its monitoring of on-field player activities to ensure that no one is flashing the hand signals of street gangs.
The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday that the league had hired experts to look at game tapes and identify players or team officials who might be using suspected gang signals. Violators would be warned and disciplined if the episodes recurred.
League officials said Tuesday that avoiding gang-related activities has long been stressed.
They said the scrutiny was intensified after the shooting death of Denver cornerback Darrent Williams in 2007 after Williams was involved in a dispute with known gang members. Anti-gang information is included in orientation literature and stressed in the annual mandatory league meeting for rookies.
The NFL took further notice after Paul Pierce of the NBA’s Boston Celtics was fined $25,000 in April for what the league said was a “menacing gesture” toward the Atlanta Hawks’ bench. “I 100 percent do not in any way promote gang violence or anything close to it.” Pierce said in a statement. “I am sorry if it was misinterpreted that way at Saturday’s game.”
The Times said that was the precipitating incident for the NFL.....
Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ap-nflgangs&prov=ap&type=lgns - It ain't easy being a Black Man w/ Cheese...
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