The Milk Carton Women: Diana, Nicole, Martina, and Jenny
July 16, 2009 by dwil
Martina turned out to be a little snow bunny.
Former U.S. champion and Olympic ice skater Nicole Bobek, was recently busted for distribution of methamphetamine. But at 17 and near the height of her skating career, Bobek was also arrested for first degree home invasion, for which she received probation.
Diana Taurasi, of the Phoenix Mercury and Olympic gold medalist, was cited and charged with DUI just hours after her WNBA team defeated the Seattle Storm team with Sue Bird and Lauren Jackson, 93-81. Taurasi, the leading vote-getter for this season’s WNBA All-Star game, is 27. Taurasi, though, is known to be a partier, from her days at the University of Connecticut through to now.
Multiple grand slam tennis champion Martina Hingis was forced to retire form the game in 2007 when she tested positive for cocaine, apparently ingested after suffering a third round loss at Wimbledon.
In 1993 tennis star, Jennifer Capriati, unexpectedly lost a first round match at the U.S. Open. Three months later she was arrested for attempting to shoplift a cheap ring. In May of the following year she was busted in a seedy Coral Gables, Florida hotel room for marijuana. During the police’s search of the room a 17-year old runaway and her 19-year old friend pulled up in Capriati’s car. They had with them two bags of heroin. The male who was arrested later said, through his lawyer, that Capriati used her money to support her own and her two acquaintances’ heroin and general drug use. Capriati was all of 18 at the time.
On the surface it can be said that only four female athletes – all White – have run afoul of the law in some form or fashion.
But take a peek beneath the surface and there are distinct reasons for the seeming paucity of women in sports – outside of the Black Olympian sprinters who tested positive or a variety of performance-enhancing drugs – who fall prey to the privileges that go hand-in-hand with being an elite athlete.
The primary reason is that women’s sports are not as popular as men’s sports and do not receive the same blanket coverage as the NBA, NFL, or MLB. Only women’s professional tennis has rivaled its male counterpart for press coverage. Perhaps this is why two of the above four examples of wayward behavior come from the WTA Tour, in Hingis and Capriati.
These women were and are stars in their respective fields. It is not at all a stretch to consider that, if these four women used illicit drugs and drank to excess, this type of behavior might just be endemic in the world of women’s sports. Where then, are the polls outlining drug and alcohol abuse for women in both the college and professional ranks? Where are the comprehensive university studies detailing drug and alcohol abuse by women in sports?
Nicole hearts "go fast."
And. Where is the uproar by the leagues in which these women participate and in the press over this behavior?
When viewed by mainstream sports news outlets, women’s sports are seen as a lesser entity than are men’s sports. In-depth articles delving into a variety of personal abuses in women’s sports do not “move the readership meter” say sports news outlet editors and sports news television producers. League management is complicit in keeping these transgressions away from the spotlight. As part of their marketing strategies they subtly stress that part of what separates them from their male counterparts are their allegedly spotless records. Unless an incident has no choice but to hit the sports pages or webpages or Sportscenter, the powers that be in the women’s leagues are just as efficient as are their male league office peers in squelching media reports of negative behavior by the athletes.
And the press? Well, they are pliant, compliant and, in the end, accessories to the cover up of women who have run-ins with police. And, of course, there is the tawdry fact of sexism existing in everything that is sports and sports-related. Sexism is so deep in the sports news game that even the women who write or report the games and cover the athletes and leagues largely turn their backs on dealing with female athletes – unless the woman or women have been deemed by men as coverage worthy.
What all this amounts to is a “pass” on nearly every level for the likes of Bobek, Taurasi, Capriati, and Hingis. How else can you explain being Grand Slam tournament champions, former number one players in the world, and media darlings, and have your drug use and the life you’d led to that point basically swept under the rug by the press?
It was whispered that the reason Hingis retired the first time was due to cocaine abuse and not injuries, that she cracked under the psychological pressure applied to her by her domineering mother, Melanie Molitor. Capriati was a train wreck waiting to happen. Her infamous father, Stefano, was all but banned from WTA Tour events and her mother was a classic abuse victim. Little Jenny was the cautionary tennis girl tale of all cautionary tales. Every time another coach or parent is caught abusing a young, female tennis player the Capriati story should be trotted out. you see, Capriati chose to turn to drugs. One-time Frnech Open champion, Mary Pierce was subjected to similar abuse as was Capriati by her father, Jim Pierce. But Mary didn’t turn to heroin. And neither did Jelena Dokic, the whiz girl junior player who at 16 smacked her way to the Wimbledon semifinals in her first real sniff at the hallowed grounds. Dokic was physically and psychologically abused by her father, Damir. But Jelena didn’t find her way to a seedy htel room with some scum bag and an underage runaway, pot and bags of heroin.
A very lost -and abused - Jennifer Capriati.
That special place of dope and darkness was reserved for “Our Jenny” as famed tennis historian and television color commentator Bud Collins often called Capriati.
But being White darlings, Hingis and Capriati received and continue to receive kid glove treatment when compared with Marion Jones and every other Black female sprinter whose reputations were ruined by the press – and especially by Sports Illustrated and ESPN. And what of female columnists? Did they rush to their male compatriots’ sides and condemn Jones? Of course they felt obliged to chime in.
Nothing like showing your true colors, eh?
More than a week has passed since Bobek’s arrest and no mainstream female sports columnists have felt compelled to dedicate one word to this once great hope of American ice skating and once potential iconic female figure of Western pop culture.
As for Taurasi, her partying has always been glossed over. We know Lady T as a vivacious, hyper-competitive woman whose flair for the game of basketball is unmatched. She is quite literally the best female basketball player on the planet and one of the most charismatic figures in all of sports. Yet no writer of note, male or female other than the Seattle Times’ Jayda Evans – and that was in her “blog” – has thought enough of Taurasi’s DUI charge to place it context with her past behavior. Evans, in the 250 words she dedicated to Taurasi, found the time to also take the WNBA to task for what is an apparent double-standard in its player treatment:
Taurasi, 27, was cited for drunken driving. Phoenix GM Ann Meyers-Drysdale wouldn’t comment to local reporters until more information was made available, yet expects her leading scorer (21.2) to play on Sunday in Los Angeles.
How is this right? Detroit C Kara Braxton was suspended six games this season for her second DUI offense and two for her first. Given that Taurasi (pictured right) is an important face of the league with milk commercials and leading the All-Star game vote, shouldn’t she be punished to show this type of behavior is unacceptable? At the very least, Taurasi should be held out of the game until all information is revealed concerning her DUI citation to show the organization is taking this seriously.
Writing about Taurasi’s DUI is important on many levels. She is the star of stars in her sport. If Kobe Bryant or LeBron James was in this position during the NBA season you can bet some columnist somewhere in America would find the time to discuss Bryant or James in context with the incident at hand. The stunning non-reaction, so far, of the WNBA president Donna Orender is worth comparing to other leagues. Surely some light would be shined on Roger Goodell if an NFL player committed an offense worthy of a suspension yet Goodell said and did nothing.
More revealing is the fact that Orender is but the league president. The commissioner of the WNBA is ——- David Stern, the NBA commissioner. Since the infamous brawl at The Palace in Auburn Hills, Michigan, Stern cracked down on what he has termed as behavior that shows the league in a bad light. with this seeming leagues-wide mandate, there is the question of how race is playing out with Taurasi. Since Kara Braxton, a Black WNBA player, was suspended for two games after her initial DUI, where is Taurasi’s suspension?
It is worth noting that Taurasi is a least receiving star treatment, if not White star treatment. With the WNBA All-Star game looming – July 25 – it is apparent that Orender and Stern are hoping that the Taurasi incident remains off the press’ radar.
And the press, so far, has acted in concert with the WNBA-NBA league offices who want the Taurasi DUI shoved to the back burner. All of this is happening despite the fact that Taurasi is facing serious charges:
Mercury star Diana Taurasi faces three drunk-driving-related charges, including extreme DUI, for a July 2 incident in which she was pulled over on Camelback Road.
Results of a blood draw showed Taurasi was driving her 2006 Land Rover with a blood-alcohol level of 0.17 percent, or more than twice the Arizona legal limit of 0.08 percent, according to a Phoenix police report released Tuesday.
According to the police report, Taurasi told her arresting officer she had “a few” drinks at an unnamed club and was on her way to the Phoenician hotel. She was trailed by friends in other vehicles.
A Phoenix officer stopped Taurasi around 2:30 a.m. near Camelback Road and Seventh Street after the officer observed the Land Rover drift outside a traffic lane. The officer claimed Taurasi was speeding nearly 20 mph over the 35 mph limit as she drove eastbound on Camelback.
In addition to the DUI charges, Taurasi also was cited for speeding, which she pleaded not responsible to, according to court records.
Taurasi’s DUI occurred on July 2, long enough ago to safely assume that, barring a media-manufactured miracle, Taurasi’s DUI court case will remain within the confines of the local Phoenix sports pages and will not leak out and be reported or commented on by national news sources. This despite Taurasi’s acknowledging the seriousness of the incident:
“As part of the Phoenix community and the Mercury, it’s just something that’s embarrassing and unfortunate for my family and the organization. We’ll have some more stuff to say later. But personally I’m going to have to do some things to make it straight.”
Capriati and Hingis are viewed as tragic figures. Words dedicated to them have been tinged with a wistful sadness instead of the self-righteous anger displayed by columnists who acted betrayed by Jones and the other female Olympic track stars.
What negative act must a White, female athlete commit in order to get her mug, or mug shot, plastered across the front of sports pages or Internet home pages? Vehicular manslaughter? No, that won’t do it, unless she’s accompanied by her male head coach or a well-known male athlete. Armed Robbery? Hmmm, the mainstream would probably turn their eye toward the discrepancy in salaries or prize money in the case of tennis, and blame that for what they would term a woman’s final desperate, albeit misguided, act to fight for the money she felt was hers all along. Murder? Depends on the victim. Hell, the press would set it up so that by the time the case got to trial a temporary insanity plea would be viable.
There isn’t much a White female athlete can do to receive the Marion Jones treatment. Nobody uttered a negative peep when tennis great Chris Evert admitted she went through an adult phase where she smoked pot and snorted cocaine. No one screamed out, ‘what about the kiiiiids!’ No one questioned Evert’s ability to be a role model to young girls. And no one ever will.
So the next time you look at your milk carton and see Diana Taurasi, Nicole Bobek, Martina Hingis, and Jennifer Capriati on the side with, ”Missing from Negative Editorial Portrayals” as a heading and ”Have you seen them?” under their photos, remember there is little a White female athlete can do to earn the wrath and anger columnists exhibited when they wrote about Black female sprinters who juiced up on HGH and designer steroids to continue to earn a living. And there is nothing at all White, female athletes can do to get a columnist to summon the acrimony and the resentment they unleash verbally when a Black male athlete runs afoul of the law.
And what comes to mind is the beginning of an anthem. It begins with the question, “Oh say can you see?…”
No, I can’t.
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Addendum: Commenter “Origin” informed me that since the posting of this article, Diana Taurasi was suspended by the WNBA for the next two Phoenix Mercury games.
Edit alert: check the info on Stefano Capriati. I don’t believe he’s ever been suspended from tour events. You’re CLOSE, though.
DWil Interjecting:
Phil-
I did not write that Stefano Capriati had been banned from WTA events. I wrote:
Her infamous father, Stefano, was all but banned from WTA Tour events and her mother was a classic abuse victim.
Please make sure you carefully read what I write. It allows other people, without reading the piece, to hop on a train that should have never hit the tracks.
…and now, back to the rest of your, otherwise, excellent comment.
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The guy that was in trouble with the WTA back in the day was Mary Pierce’s father, Jim. He was accused of being abusive to Mary back in USTA juniors. I believe he was abusive to Mary’s mother as well, and it was this treatment that got him banned. Jim was such a nut-case that, rather than have his daughter be second banana to Jen Jen, he used his wife’s dual-citizenship with France to put Mary in place there as the #1 age-group player in the country. Because she damn sure wasn’t beating Jennifer Capriati back then. Jennifer was just too good. And, since we’re on the topic: if that asshole Whitlock wants to talk about an underachiever? Capriati is at the head of the class. I give her all the credit in the world for coming back and winning Slams after getting all crackish, but with her talent? She could’ve been much better. Witness her rivalry with Serena Williams—Capriati could slug it out. Then again….Serena’s got 10 more wins against Venus lifetime than Capriati does. Jen Jen retired never having beat Venus.
Richard Williams, by the way, is quoted as having great admiration for Stefano Capriati and said he did right by his daughter. Also, part of the reason that Richard took Venus and Serena out of USTA juniors wasn’t solely because of the racism they faced from time to time, it was how some of the white affluent parents treated their girls after losses. After a tough three-setter in the sun, these supposedly good parents would make their girls take a LOT of extra training or go for a run after matches. Or they’d cuss them out, in public, after losses to Venus or Serena. But, of course, Richard Williams is the evil villain, according to Chris Evert.
An aside on Evert: looks like her tennis academy has found themselves a little black girl named Madison Keys and she looks like a player. I hope to God that the girl’s parents realize what Evert is going to do as far as marketing their daughter. Evert has LONG been a critic of Venus and Serena Williams. Madison had better be careful she’s not being used as a pawn by Chrissy to further her agenda.
Great post brotha D.
Also great comments Phil and very imformative……….its amazing how those parents reacted when those williams would beat their kids.
Oh D Diana taurasi just got suspended today for 2 games.
Man it took the WNBA all most as long to suspend taurasi, as it took the NFL to suspend matty jones for them white lines.
O-
Thanks… and thank you for letting me know that after two weeks the WNBA finally got around to suspending Taurasi….
DWIL great article as usual. Only folks like you and MODI will tackle issues like these.
Hey D, you forgot about Anna Kournikova brawlin in Vegas! LOL
Miranda-
If it was Serena the headline reads: “Serena Goes Tyson on a Fool” and she’s splashed everywhere all the time for at least 72 hours….
But on the real, from all reports the other woman was very drunk and started the fight by throwing a drink on Kournikova after she had bumped Kournikova a few minutes earlier.
Now, if reports said Anna’s nose was rimmed with a mysterious white substance….
If I recall, Capriati’s mugshot was EVERYWHERE when that story broke back in the day. I’m pretty sure there was a huge SI article on it back when people read SI.
(By the way, I’m utterly amazed that I am just 35 and a magazine that was a weekly rite for me is now all but irrelevant in the world of sports).
Also, it goes to show you how into tennis I am…I had no idea that Hingis tested positive for coke. I knew there was something I liked about her.
Myron,
I’m shocked that Martina Hingis would EVER touch the powder, but part of the problem is that sometimes the commentators used to harp on how smart a player she was, so maybe I got taken in by that. The way Hingis played on the court constructing her points, counterattacking to negate the powerful groundstrokes, etc., you’d THINK she wouldn’t use drugs. Then listen to Chris Evert spit out things like “well, Richard Williams said that there’d be bullets whizzing by near the court where Serena and Venus would practice and then (sigh) you just have to believe Richard……”
One thing about Capriati’s handling by the media: she was allowed to speak about what took her off the tour’s highest level and issue s statement that she wouldn’t speak about the incidents again, she shed some tears and no tennis writer ever asked her about it again. I don’t know if that’s respect, but we ALL know how Arthur Ashe was “handled” by the media when he had his hand forced to disclose his HIV status. I don’t dislike Capriati at all. She’s a nice girl, but she did nothing for tennis compared to Ashe and got a lot of respect by the media that she didn’t deserve in this situation. Ashe? He had long since been retired and was an activist at that point, had nowhere near the Q-rating that Capriati did, but he was treated like dirt.
Thanks for the scoop, fellas.
D — Milk Carton Women. ROTFLMBAO!!
Phil — As a child, I never liked Evert — always rooted against her ass. Martina used to beat her like a conga.
Phil-
Cosign on the feelings about Capriati (illustrated by the lack of snark under her photo as compared with the other two captions). I have nothing against her.
But….. to Myron’s point…. as I wrote, Myron,, the Capriati story should be the all-time cautionary tale for parents and children. It is also illustrative how far, short of suicide, a child will go to tell their parents they hurt – badly, and are hurt badly by the actions of the parents.
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So you like that, eh T?
I never disliked Evert until Venus came along. And then the nastiness she would dish out went up when Serena came on the scene. Venus was actually nice. Serena, flat-out, doesn’t give a fuck. But then, of course, some folks want to put them in the same box, but they are entirely different. Richard Williams said it himself: when Serena loses, she’s pissed off. Venus loses a match? She forgets it and moves on. And both of them have been their own woman and won Slams without being forced into a box.
Dwil,
I think what we saw with the media’s handling of Capriati’s trials and tribulations when she was stealing and smoking drugs was empathy. I don’t know if it’s just a race thing only but now, with the economy being the way it is, when an athlete screws up, there’s some base negativity being hurled at folks via the internet. It’s an interesting spin on it when Capriati comes back, an air of “Shawshank Redemption” or a messianic lilt to it. And I noticed it. Good for JenJen. I ain’t mad at her, as I said and you have said.
Serena’s tour rankings dropped quite a bit to the point where she went into “Bolivia” and she brought it all the way back and is not only winning Slams again, she’s looking downright dominant, nasty and fiesty. With brown skin, big ol’ titties and a matching ass. (With the fly-ass boots or her open toes.) Serena is droppin’ ‘bows on ‘em again. Really, Serena has had four rises in her career: her first leap forward to win a Slam in 1999 at the U.S. Open (Hingis won one Slam after that and she was done–never quite the same after beating Venus in a classic US Open semi and then losing to Serena in the finals in the second-set tie break.) Serena’s second uprising was wedged between Venus’ first Slam titles and culminated in the Serena Slam. Then she went away for awhile. Came back again out of nowhere to take Sharapova over her knee and snap her like balsawood in about as bad a thrashing as you’ll see in a Grand Slam final at the Aussie. Remember that one, Whitlock if you’re out there, the one where everyone was looking at the size of her donk when they should’ve tried to return a groundie? And then she hit a lull, Venus won Wimby a coupla times in there. And now Serena’s back AGAIN with the Aussie and then Wimbledon.
I don’t consider Serena an underachiever. An underachiever would’ve given up after leap forward #2. But to come out of nowhere four times to win Slams? I don’t care if Martina Hingis or Martina Navratilova is running thangs—your game goes from ground zero back to the top like that and you do it multiple times? You’re a fighter. Whitlock and Chris Evert need to recognize the skills.
I’ve viewed Serena’s “Comeback” the same way I viewed Michael Jordan’s comeback. She went away for a while based on her own choices, tried some new things, restoked her fires, etc. And then came back and worked her back into being the same force she always was. She’s really remarkable.
The Capriati story could have ended in such tragedy. I think people figured she would be in and out of jail. But then she ended up winning majors and Olympic titles.
I’ve never fully understood the relationship with her father. I was under the impression that he was the bad guy in her collapse. But when she rose back to prominence, he was always at courtside. Has she ever written a book? That’s something I would read, I think.
The relationship between Stefano and Jennifer Capriati was, at first, that they were a team, but HE was the Svengali, the straw that stirred the drink, the mastermind. All fine and well. But as he pushed JCap, everyone around them, even the experts asked “Is Stefano pushing the girl too hard? Sure she’s got the goods to win Slams, but is his relationship with his daughter worth pushing her so hard?” Stefano’s reply was, paraphrased, “She might hate me, but she’ll never have to work a day in her life while she does.” That might be fucked up logic on his part, but there’s a lot more Marv Marinovich type of stage parents that screw up their kids pretty badly. Jennifer’s actually well-adjusted at this point because she’s been to the crackish side of this messed-up world and come back to reality and fulfilled a portion of her tennis destiny. Made herself a LOT of money, and I wish her well in semi-retirement (there were rumblings last year or so of a possible comeback.) And if a book came out, I’d read it, too.
She and Venus’ relationship with their father isn’t an act. They actually understand and love the guy. And there are worse fathers out there who have kids that love them anyway. See, earlier in their careers, everyone that played Venus and Serena was pissed at Richard—and you can’t beat someone consistently if you’re pissed off at someone other than your opponent or yourself for making a mistake out there. 
Everyone wanted to beat Richard, but he never set foot on a court. He’d piss off the country club set and the USTA because he built him a better mousetrap and he was hated for it. Still is. That’s what most of the “hate” you read about The Sisters stems from.
I’ve seen Serena act before, and she’s a step below even Janet Jackson.
SI is still the highest selling mag today. Capriati made “Faces in the crowd” at 10 years old and landed an SI cover at 13. Her mug shot was everywhere, but there WAS tremendous empathy for her from media — as there should have been. …But how many people know that there were multiple witnesses that say she was smoking crack and doing heroin? (while blasting Ice Cube when not channeling Kurt Cobain’s Teen Spirit) Most people think it was just some pot thing to this day… Does anyone believe that if Serena or venus smoked crack at any point that this would not be reprinted 1000 times? C’mon.
Why can’t black women get the “empathy” from white male sports writers that white female athletes regularly do? Of course, these journalists were all born completely “objective”. Its in the DNA! Now back to the regularly scheduled Sotomayor hearings…
oh yeah, great job breaking it all down DWil.
Great points Phil.
I actually think that was Mr. William’s intent to have the heat on him. He wanted the hate and heat to be directed at him bit not at his girls.
You can tell that Richard pushed his daughters. But at the sametime you can tell that he let them be girls and enjoy their lives.
The most important part about all of this is that Richard taught his daughters to be strong black women and to love themselves. Thats the only thing to that can explain how these young ladies have been able to handle themselves under so much hate from the media and players.
From calling them ugly, to commenting on the sizes of their asses. To people claiming that they fix matches and the rest.
Oh and Phil I totally remember that Arthur Ash mess. It goes hand and hand to how Magic was handled compared to Rock Hudson and the diamond wearing performer.
Origin,
It reminds me of an old quote about Willie Mays: “Everyone’s trying to play (against) Willie, and Willie’s playing baseball.”
As for the injuries, one thing that makes Richard Williams different as a tennis parent at the level was that his motto is “if she’s hurt, and doesn’t want to play, I won’t make them play” and the idea of the black athlete as an indestructible one-dimensional omnipotent cash-cow goes back to the days of Jim Brown. He was right about it then, and he’s right about it now.
Also on the injuries, aren’t certain medical procedures not considered holy by the Williams’ religion. I think that also limits their treatment options and can increase their time away from the court.
It hurt me to see how Arthur Ashe was treated. Not Magic so much because, sadly, he perpetuated that unbridled virility thing that gets black athletes in trouble at home and in the media. And, yes, Rock Hudson and Liberace were embraced when they died. I believe Errol Flynn also led a wild, wild life.
And with Capriati, I believe she was smoking heroin, crack, stealing AND wasn’t she shacking up with a black dude? How’d THAT guy not get interviewed, then?
Good points about the Williams religion Phil. Richard was a genuis and them white folks couldn’t stand it. He sacrificed himself for his girls. He made sure that he took the blunt of the hate.
Oh and yes Magic did perpetuate the stereotype…………..but the fact that he and Walter Payton were forced to come out with their illness was a shame. And that folks like Rock Hudson and Liberace were able to die in peace and no mention of their illness when they were on the death bed was a joke.
Just tells you how fucking racist the media is. Not to mention how the above black athletes were so kind to the MSM, but were treated like shit when they were ill.
Screw the MSM…..I hope those bastards choke on a hot dog.
Capriati with a black man?????………WHAT????
Reminds me of the story of Britney Spears seeing her black back up dancer (this was before she got married). Her mom stepped in paid that brotha off and sent him packing. She made sure that there was no way the media or the fans would ever find out about that. I mean how can Britney play the role of the innocent young white girl if she taking pipe from some black dude.
Like they say in the adult movie industry…………………a black man and a white woman = No Money!!!
I guess Ms. Spears Mommy got that Memo too.
Anyway Phil what exactly did Jim Brown say about black athletes being indestructible and the rest?
If you wanna see some messed up parents go watch Bruno. See it and you’ll know what I’m talking about.
Per usual, good article off the beaten path but I’m just sitting here enjoying the fact that Housecat Woods missed the cut at the British Open. Yeah, I don’t like that mook.
Origin,
In “Jim Brown All-American,” he talked about the fact that in the old days of football, if a black player ever had an injury, he would be considered a malingerer. Then the myth was that if you hit a black player in his knee, he’d fall down. As if you couldn’t hit ANY man in his knees and not injure him. It’s right up there with black folks having bad night vision or that in war situations, they’d run like cowards. Of course, we’re also thought to be more violent than any other race when white folks tell the story. But they never CAN quite marry up why blacks weren’t allowed to fight in many American wars and “earn” their right to be a part of the body politic. A body politic, I might add, they were forced to build the infrastructure for at the beck and call of the whip. If black folks are ultra-violent, why NOT let them go to war? If black folks are cowards, why are white people so afraid to pass one on an urban street?
Magic Johnson and Wilt Chamberlain lived the life of the ultra-virile black superstar. The sex machine. King Ding-a-Ling. Sure, it gets you a lot of the poonanny but sometimes that can be a curse and not a blessing. When a black man allows himself to be broken down to essentially a penis that stays hard forever and can’t be satisfied, it takes me to a place that we, as black men REALLY don’t wanna go: back to when every black man was considered a sex-starved incubus with cock at the ready to sully the womb of the white woman who was placed on a pedestal. Many black men have been killed for the myth of the hypersexualized black men.
True on all points Phil.