Knicks great calls for all-black league amid Clippers race fiasco

New York Post ^ | April 27, 2014 | Marc Berman

[MeshugeMikey]

Knicks executive and former player Larry Johnson had a decidedly different but still strong reaction to the racially insensitive remarks Clippers owner Donald Sterling is alleged to have made.

On Saturday night, Johnson tweeted: “Black people your Focusing on the wrong thing. We should be focusing on having our own, Own team own League! To For Self!!’’

[exit82]

Resist we much, Larry.

[MeshugeMikey]

I not a fan these days.

Bizarre and ignorant make for a very entertaining coupling...and this suggestion is truly fully both!!

[SpaceBar]

Seventy years ago give or take, a timid minority that sought to get-along and integrate into society was targeted for destruction, despite being industrious, family oriented, and successful. Fast forward. Our prisons are packed disproportionately with a certain demographic, while crime statistics only reinforce the obvious. Entire cities are no-go areas. How does this story end?

[MeshugeMikey]

that was the baseball league... but yes... it was professional sports.

The Black Fives Era In Perspective

Just after the game of basketball was invented in 1891, teams were called “fives” in reference to their five starting players.

Basketball, like American society, was racially segregated. Teams made up entirely of African American players were often known as “colored quints,” “Negro cagers,” or “black fives.”

The sport remained divided from 1904 — when basketball was first introduced to African Americans on a wide scale organized basis — until the racial integration of the National Basketball League in the 1940s and the National Basketball Association in 1950.

http://www.blackfives.org/about/

and the guy making this inane suggestion about segregated leagues...cant do a simple search on the net yet??

[MeshugeMikey]

darned good question.

[MeshugeMikey]

I cant WAIT for Revrant Sharpton to pick This Ball....

GET THE POPCORN READY!!!!

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Go for it!

[MeshugeMikey]

http://www.blackfives.org/about/

it used to be the order of the day!!

this knicks rube evidently has never STUDIED UP on this...”n whatever”

[mcshot]

I can’t even watch or listen to the one we’re housing in DC let alone a collection of special round ballers. I see back lashes growing in several areas.

[Sarah Barracuda]

I was watching the Hawks Vs Pacers right now on NBA TV and I saw one..Kyle Korver, who many call an Ashton Kutcher lookalike plays for the Hawks, who won, boy talk about an upset if they beat the Pacers

[Dubh_Ghlase]

Better take a long look at the race of the $$$ paying fans in the seats. Pull this crap and they won't be there, and neither will your multi-million dollar salaries.

You're more than welcome to make your racist statement, but that doesn't mean the fans you diss are going to continue to support you in that effort...

Actions have consequences...

[angry elephant]

Are they going for segregation again? Since the blacks are mistreated in basketball and the black kids are unfairly chastised in the schools?

[Caipirabob]

Lol...and they can have their own water fountains! Idiots...all of them.

[tumblindice]

"Chocolate Thunder" That's racist!

[driftdiver]

Isn’t Larry white?

How would an all black NBA be any different then the current NBA? Maybe white people wouldnt be allowed to buy tickets?

Just think what would happen if someone proposed an all white league.

[eyedigress]

I agree. Your own damn society. Leave me the hell alone.

[ConservativeStatement]

Will there be dance squads and will white chicks need not apply?

[Alberta's Child]

He does have a good point. If you had NBA teams with black owners in the same proportion that the NBA has black players, the Don Sterling story wouldn’t even make the news and he’d be laughed out of the room by his fellow owners.

[MeshugeMikey]

I will save my decision until I hear from The Prince of Crown Hieghts....Revrant Sharpton.....ahahahaha

I can almost hear him now...'".BURN DOWN THE NBA'......

[MeshugeMikey]

Im rather surprised that neither of the BIG TIME race pimps has not sent out a tweet press release yet???

JESSE?? AL? where you AT?...