MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry: NBA Is About 'Profit From the Sale of Black Bodies'

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2014/05/28/msnbcs-melissa-harris-perry-nba-about-sale-black-bodies ^ | May 28, 2014 | Tom Blumer

[grundle]

HARRIS-PERRY: "All right so let's review the whole story. Wealthy owners? Check. Profit made from the sale of black bodies? Check. Racial angst? Mmm, check. We're going to have more on the case for reparations after this."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osKA0bvELq0

For the record, NBA players are the highest paid professional athletes in America, easily surpassing all other major team sports.

According to Forbes, the average salary in the NBA in 2012 was $5.15 million a year. With the average career lasting 4.8 years, that equates to $24.7 million in total compensation — this is the “average.” The NBA’s top player, Kobe Bryant, yes a black man, earned $30.4 million for the 2013-14 season, USA Today reported.

[Gene Eric]

A Comcast employee.

[skinkinthegrass]

a bald-faced (DNCmsnbc) Racist spews more rancid cr@p to LIVs.
just how many of those poor (poverty-ridden :) players make over a million a year?
[imho] this "tv journalist" is nothing more than DNC whore.

[skinkinthegrass]

I don't know; everytime we, think DNCmsnbc
can't go lower, they exceeded to go lower.
but, then so do NYT/WaPo/LAT/ABCNNBCBS
they're right behind DNCmsnbc. (Gov't MoT/MSM)

[raybbr]

I agree. Let’s disband the NBA.

[EEGator]

I’m sure most NBA players would be successful cardiothoracic surgeons if not for Whitey keeping him down.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“According to Forbes, the average salary in the NBA in 2012 was $5.15 million a year. With the average career lasting 4.8 years, that equates to $24.7 million in total compensation — this is the “average.””

Hardship upon hardship. Such exploitation.

[Alberta's Child]

MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry: NBA Is About 'Profit From the Sale of Black Bodies'

I agree with her. Let's pay an average of $5.15M per year to a bunch of white people and Asians instead.

Where the 'eff do these morons come from?

[miss marmelstein]

I second that. The players can get jobs at McDonalds.

[IamConservative]

What about the white players? OK for them to sell their bodies for millions?

[DainBramage]

There aren’t enough white players as it is. According to averages there should be at least 60% whites represented in this league.
And from now on whites should be named star players along the same lines.

[Geronimo]

Kevin Garnett, 19 years a Slave, about $300 million...

[Amagi]

MSNBC has no credibility anyway, so why bother to censor this blithering moron?

[DaveA37]

“NBA Is About ‘Profit From the Sale of Black Bodies’”....

So was slavery. Abolish the NBA!!!!!

[freeangel]

I guess that’s it then. The whole of the NBA is racist. I say —shut the whole damn thing down.

[Old Yeller]

Nobody is making them play for millions of dollars.

[randita]

I agree. Let’s disband the NBA.

I haven't watched an NBA game in years and last I looked, participation as a player was voluntary and quite lucrative.