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“The Sunday Morning Bray”, by Bray!

This is a post I wrote in the Oregon sports page and heads exploded:

Since the dumb snowflakes were triggered for having no sense of humor we may as well talk about the elephant in the stadium. Why is it the team is 80% black yet the stands 99% white? Is that racism or is it something else?

Everyone in the stands wish they had half the speed and talent on the field and most the field wish they had the ability to afford seats in the stands although 5 or 6 will be able to afford dozens of seats in a year or two and that is really the answer to the racism question. Both groups are chasing their dreams. Capitalism is the strongest survives and thrives and fueled by chasing dreams.

Blacks for the most part are using their talents to improve their economic situation. Unfortunately, inside the black neighborhoods there are a few ways which they believe they can improve their situation from generations of cultural beliefs. There are basically three main ways out of their situation which are sports, rap or music and crime or a combination.

Blacks in general have a superior physical ability from thousands of years of living in a very physical living existence. In the Africa days when being chased by a lion or jaguar you didn’t have to outrun the cat you only had to outrun the kid next to you which by natural selection made surviving generations faster and stronger so Darwin was right about something as they adapted to their environment of eat or be eaten.

Today you see kids in black sections of town becoming wonder kids on the field and they are competing to get scholarships and eventually winners of life’s lottery into the NFL. The problem with lotteries is only a very few win them and those kids eventually have to beat physical specimens like Freeman Rolls and fall short since Freeman is the one in a million who has all the God given tools in one package which is a true rarity and why we appreciate those rare talents.

Only about 10 of these amazing Ducks will make their dream come true as the other 80 will have to rely on their education to get a job doing something else. The tragedy comes if they don’t take full advantage of the classroom opportunity.

The stands have the same competition only rather than competing against the Freeman’s of the world they are competing against each other. They have been taught for thousands of years to compete in the classroom to prepare to compete in the corporate world in the same way and have won that competition enough to purchase the tickets to attend.

Rather than having to beat the Phil Knights of the world those whites in the stands only have to beat the 50% who they are competing against and make a choice to value purchasing those tickets. Some of the whites in the stands have tried the athletic route and found out early they do not have the physical talent to make a living and were encouraged to take the education field to compete in the corporate world and work just as hard as those on the field in the classroom to get their ticket to economic freedom.

The fact that 80% of the players on the field are black and 99% of the fans are white is not racism, it is simply cultural. There is no right or wrong answer to is this racism or is it cultural as much as an observation which nobody wants to talk about for fear of being called a racist or Uncle Tom. This issue continues to exist and those blacks who chase that lottery ticket and fail to win are the tragedies when they have no learned skills for the corporate world for chasing a dream which is nearly impossible to catch and fall back into poverty.

Now the local thought Nazis are going to scream racism since they never want this said or talked about, but scream away. Some of us don’t have a racist bone in our noses so who cares what others accuse, they should look in the mirror. Most of the time people accuse others of what they are.

Go Ducks

Note: The above opinion is not necessarily my own, but FReeper Bray’s. If you wish to discuss this, please ping Bray.