And all of them mostly because of memes… isn’t it telling that the only white guy on the list in a competitive team sport is from a time before black people were allowed to compete, because it was believed that being black gave you an “unfair advantage”
History really does repeat itself
Now I know there are plenty of white NFL and NBA athletes, but… how often do they show up in movies alongside Bugs Bunny or wind up in fighting games from 80’s and 90’s?
I actually had Danica Patrick on the list, but then I remembered she’s a woman…
and I only know her because of her highly inappropiate and questionable appearance in Sonic And Sega All-Stars Racing Transformed
The only character that had less of a reason to be there was Yogscast, a Minecraft Youtuber who didn’t even know what Sonic was prior to being in the game… You pick your celebrity endorsement deals well Sega
I also almost included Trayvon Marten, but then I remembered he wasn’t an athlete…
Ya know it’s fucked that famous black men in the modern day fall into three categories
Musicians forced to sing about criminality by a label who will drop them the second they stop living up to the stereotype then turn around and have that music used as a condemnation of their own race by bigots like Shaprio
Athletes praised purely for their physical achievements and never their academic ones
Regular people who spark social justice movements they never asked for by getting shot to death by some bigot.
And the one exception is a President who created the divided America we see today not by anything he did wrong, but by simply being a successful skilled black man in a station that bigots were convinced only whitey could have.
The ones I can name?
LeBron James
Shaq
Michael Jordan
OJ Simpson
Magic Johnson
Babe Ruth
Lance Armstong
Tony Hawk
Jeff Gordon
Dale Earnhardt
Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Mike Tyson
And all of them mostly because of memes… isn’t it telling that the only white guy on the list in a competitive team sport is from a time before black people were allowed to compete, because it was believed that being black gave you an “unfair advantage”
History really does repeat itself
Now I know there are plenty of white NFL and NBA athletes, but… how often do they show up in movies alongside Bugs Bunny or wind up in fighting games from 80’s and 90’s?
I actually had Danica Patrick on the list, but then I remembered she’s a woman…
and I only know her because of her highly inappropiate and questionable appearance in Sonic And Sega All-Stars Racing Transformed
The only character that had less of a reason to be there was Yogscast, a Minecraft Youtuber who didn’t even know what Sonic was prior to being in the game… You pick your celebrity endorsement deals well Sega
I also almost included Trayvon Marten, but then I remembered he wasn’t an athlete…
Ya know it’s fucked that famous black men in the modern day fall into three categories
Musicians forced to sing about criminality by a label who will drop them the second they stop living up to the stereotype then turn around and have that music used as a condemnation of their own race by bigots like Shaprio
Athletes praised purely for their physical achievements and never their academic ones
Regular people who spark social justice movements they never asked for by getting shot to death by some bigot.
And the one exception is a President who created the divided America we see today not by anything he did wrong, but by simply being a successful skilled black man in a station that bigots were convinced only whitey could have.