Kwame Brown reveals that revenge is a dish best served, as a no look pass?
Have you ever wondered why we love the underdog story and the underdog? Despite wanting to be successful and be ambitious we always identify and resonate with the underdog’s struggles. Celebrity worship being normalized today is almost completely anti-underdog. Men are complaining about women not dating them while they work their way to the top. We hear references about not shooting in the gym inferring the practice and daily hard work that goes unnoticed. Furthermore, we hear about women waiting at the finish line for guys to be successful to date them rather than take a chance during their struggle days. Yet for some reason we still, all love the underdog story no matter how materialistic and vain our society has become. The underdog story of the year so far is former NBA “bust” Kwame Brown, who vehemently exposes black hypocritical culture and its superficial misaligned priorities.
To say Brown had humble beginnings would be an understatement. Brown grew up in the projects of South Carolina and managed to become the first pick in the draft. Also, Brown received a 3.2 GPA and a full ride to Florida university but turned it down to go pro. And Brown was able to buy his mother a house, acres of land for himself, and love driving his tractor. What more could a man ask for? Yet Kwame Brown is known to the world as a bust, a failure, a waste of size, and someone who never masters his talent. If the majority of Americans are unable to buy their mother a house and acres of land, does that make them failures, or are the standards of the black community immoral and impractical?
We informed resonators that being a celebrity is the closest thing to God in the black community, that many aspire to be. Many would rather be broke and famous with no real talent, rather than below-average talent-wise and being rich. Kwame Brown was draft 20 years ago, and no one has ever come to his defense. ESPN analyst Stephan A. Smith is Brown’s harshest critic and is famous in the sports circles for his critique and was of talent. Brown was only 18 years old and dealt with being scrutinized in the media on almost a daily basis, is before social media. No one in the sports world or political intellectuals said anything to his defense. Why?
24/7 Sports has Kwame Brown ranked as the number one first pick bust in NBA history.
If the black community is so oppressed and victims of systematic racist, why can’t people just accept the fact that a lesser talent sports figure is “rich”?. Perhaps this narrative may be an instance of putting others down to make ourselves feel good. Recent sports talk shows on cable t.v. have spoken on politics relating to the black community more than ever before. This is to build loyalty with their black audiences. Sports analysts will have segments on the injustice being done to black people and tell viewers about how hard it is to be black. At the same time, throwing Kwame under the bus without ever mention him making it from the projects to providing for his family.
In conclusion, These sports analysts receive tens of millions of viewers giving them wide influence on society, especially the youth. Indirectly the message being sent is being accepted and popular is better than providing for your family. In fact, the NBA was known for its black players becoming broke and losing their money on gambling. Yet someone who invested in land, buying their mother a house is painted as a failure. There are plenty of talented basketball players who will never make the NBA. So is the goal to produce our way out of poverty or to fake it till we make it to celebrity status? Before we can blame others for our problems we need to reexamine the vanity of our priorities. Attention and recognition will not give us anything of practice value until we escape from that illusion presented by celebrity culture, we will always play the victim.
Is being an average player a bust or providing for your family a success? Let us know in the comment section below.