Virtual "Black Family"
I will watch the Super-Bowl, this year! I look forward to watching it every year! I almost NEVER watch Football, College, or Pro, at any other time of year. Why? "Uncle Bud" the God-Father for my children, taught me to watch the Super-Bowl!!. You see, Uncle Bud was a Decorated, Retired, Full Colonel of the United States Army, who was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant, in the U.S. Cavalry, at Fort Huachuca, AZ (where the USA "hid" its Black Military), in 1941. We met Bud and his family, in 1962, when we were neighbors in Military Housing at Fort Meade, Maryland. He was an Army Major, and I was an Air Force 2nd Lieutenant. Bud and his wife, have "passed on"; for almost twenty years, now. Bud was, as a member of a Black Calvary Unit, a genuine "Buffalo Soldier".
For every visit, well into his Retirement, and mine,, we gathered in his handsome, fully stocked "Den" to watch Football.
Bud, knew just about EVERYTHING about every Black Player -- his life story, his family details, his college history, and, of course, every detail of his playing career. They were all, his "family".
We all know stories about Jackie Robinson, because White Media deigns to broadcast a story about him, from time to time. As Black Media (magazines, newspapers, radio broadcasts, etc.) was destroyed over the years, by White Media; the sycophancy of younger Non-White Generations increased; under the onslaught of "Integration"! The phenomenon of "devoted backers", like Bud; and the existence of the "virtual families" of Black players in Professional Basketball and Football, also died!! Bud was especially excited by the story of the "First" Black Starting Quarterback in a Super-bowl, in 1988! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Williams_(quarterback)
I was in College, in the late 1950s, when the Laws that kept Black and White athletic competitions segregated; were no longer enforced. It took many years for Professional Football and Basketball Owners to "trickle" Black Players into Integrated Teams. Bud, formed his "virtual family" of all those players as they were permitted to play, and admitted to all-white teams.
The fate of the non-white player is obviously different from that of white players, as evidenced by Public Reaction to Black Quarterbacks. The appearance of the Black Quarterback took more than twenty-five years. The public reaction to the fact that Manning was defeated by the brilliant play of Russell Wilson in 2014 (the 2nd Starting Superbowl, after Doug Williams in 1988). I was in Denver at the time, and in a "wake" climate, there was virtually no public notice of Wilson. The silence was "deafening"!!
Stay Vigilant! It is also true that White Quarterbacks have PR Teams to "Promote" their Public Image in a virtually all-White Press!. The Non-White Press does NOT, or cannot play this role, given its condition, in 2016?
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