Speaking about Jackson.........Apparently Lebron implied something to the effect that Jackson used a racist term to describe a player or players having a "POSSE". Don't know the particulars of it but I do not get the correlation between the word POSSE and racism.
Yeah..the media coverage of that little spat was poor. Lol whenever Lebron tries to be an intellectual. First of all...Lebron had every right to call out Jackson about using the term "posse" to refer to his empire team. These are empowered and successful individuals, not enabled and not hangers on. They are elite business men running his empire and he had to stick up for them in that way.
Given the possibliy systematic, but certainly imbalanced persecution of black communities around America by a dysfunctional legal system, and now "for-profit" system exploitive of the poor, Lebron was right to stick his nose in that discussion too.
Where Lebron lost me was when he implied Jackson was "dead to him" over using the term posse. I realize how sensitive we all are getting, and I recognize Lebrons right to object to that term for the criminal intonations, but I believe blacklisting someone for a minor mistake is a bigger crime than the original.
Don't limit my language. We should be allowed to speak and make mistakes. There are other weighted thoughts in the metaphor of posse, like strong brotherhood, team, and cooperative energy. Posse can refer to a group that has your back.
If you start making the white man feel he can't speak without making a mistake than you will get the racist backlash that emerged. If Lebron wants to be a leader he needs to address the situation form the high ground, with grace, forgiveness, and patience.
We should remember the Standford prison experiments. One lesson from them was the ability to control a population is enhanced when you create faction or groups, and are able to direct the negative energies and anger against each other. All of a sudden the guards job is easy.
When you see the racist undertones from the left, about how these racist white uneducated honkies are out for you and the police will shoot you, and from the right that these worthless leeching violent beggars of society.
When you understand that the 1% socioeconomic elite control the media, and the prisons, and congress it is intersting to see this pattern of dissention coming down from both sides and infusing a race war into america.
Poor whites and poor blacks face many of the same battles but are divided. Because this factioning is expected we should not trust it, and its up to us to end racism at the base level and overthrow and out of control elite financial class to create a fairer world for all.
But they won't make it easy guys, they are infusing our minds with racist hatred everyday. We can't buy in. We can call attention to the use of the word posse, but to say a man is dead to us for it is out of magnitude.
