Michael Vick vs. Peyton Hillis for the Cover of the Madden 2011?

White running backs are getting a lot love in the SportsNation vote for the Madden video game cover

Black Run America (BRA) even dictates rules for professional sports.Any sport without sufficient Black representation is always on the lookout for its version of a Tiger Woods, though Woods isn't really Black and never opened up the game of golf for Black participants. (By the way, look for the rules of sports in Black Run America as an upcoming post.)

We already know that the National Basketball Association (NBA) went all in on the thug game. Short-term monetary success was followed by long-term desertion by the white fan base, putting the league in financial jeopardy.

Michael Vick and Dez Bryant represent the direction the National Football League (NFL) is headed. In an ESPN poll conducted to celebrate Black History Month, a huge disconnect emerged over how Black and white football fans view Vick:

African-American sports fans who took part in the online survey also indicated the media had been biased in its treatment of black athletes. By a margin of 57 percent to 7 percent, the African-Americans surveyed say the media unfairly criticizes black athletes more than white athletes, while the white fans suggest there is no difference in the media's handling of various cases.


Of black sports fans surveyed, 65 percent say they admire Vick, compared with just 25 percent of the white fans.

That same survey showed that sports fans view collegiate and professional athletics as highly progressive, i.e., an opportunity for positive examples of Black people to emerge where every other segment of society fails to produce them.
 
What will be said next is no conspiracy theory: Toby Gerhart showed us in the 2010 NFL Draft that white running backs (and by extension, white athletes who play wide receiver, safety and other positions reserved for Black players) are discriminated against.

Enter Peyton Hillis, a white running back who in 2008 showed he could be a star in the league for the Denver Broncos. Riding the bench in 2009 for that same team, Hillis was traded to Cleveland, where he infuriated Black defenses around the league by running through and around them.


In one season, Hillis showed that the decision by the NFL (and college scouts) to discriminate against white athletes was the wrong one to make. He exposed the caste system for all the world to see.

Though the NFL has gone all-in (like the NBA before them) on the Black athlete -- see the hilarious story of Warren Moon's Black reactionary attack on those who criticize the smug Cam Newton, completely disregarding the vicious assaults on Tim Tebow before last year's draft -- it seems white fans aren't going along with that message.

For some reason, the makers of the immensely popular John Madden NFL video game franchise allowed fans to pick the NFL athlete who would grace the 2011 cover. Before we tell you how the vote came down, a quick word on just how popular the franchise has become:

You can measure the impact of "Madden" through its sales: as many as 2 million copies in a single week, 85 million copies since the game's inception and more than $3 billion in total revenue. You can chart the game's ascent, shoulder to shoulder, alongside the $20 billion-a-year video game industry, which is either co-opting Hollywood (see "Tomb Raider" and "Prince of Persia") or topping it (opening-week gross of "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2": $550 million; "The Dark Knight": $204 million).


You can witness the cultural power of "Madden": grown men lining up outside Walmarts for the game's annual midnight release; rock bands, such as Good Charlotte, going mainstream via inclusion on the "Madden" soundtrack; a pokerlike underground circuit of cash tournaments; the black-cat mojo of the "Madden" cover curse superseding the Sports Illustrated cover jinx; Madden himself being recognized less for his Hall of Fame coaching and broadcasting career than for a game that beat him into Canton.

Care to guess who the final vote is coming down too? Michael Vick and Peyton Hillis. Another white running back, Danny Woodhead of New England, made the final eight. It won't be announced until tomorrow, but Hillis is beating white Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers, making a final vote between the former dog fighting champion Vick and the discriminated against Hillis a likely match-up:

Rodgers was trailing Hillis 56% to 44% in the Madden NFL '12 cover-vote semifinal heading into April 12th, 2011. Rodgers featured decisive victories against Ndamukong Suh(notes) (72% to 28%) and Sam Bradford(notes) (76% to 24%) before a competitive third-round victory against Danny Woodhead(notes) (56% to 44%). Hillis secured victories against Ray Rice(notes) (62% to 38%), Matt Ryan(notes) (51% to 49%), and Jamaal Charles(notes) (60% to 40%).

When I viewed the tournament bracket in March, I thought EA Sports was making a deliberate attempt to make Rodgers's bracket an automatic bid to reach the finals. I'd reckon that EA wasn't anticipating the positive response that the Caucasian tailbacks have received.


Statistically and from a career achievements standpoint, Woodhead was one of the weakest candidates. Woodhead is a situational running back for the New England Patriots. He accumulated 547 rushing yards and five touchdowns on 97 attempts in his first season of significant action. Woodhead also had 34 receptions for 379 yards and one touchdown.


As previously mentioned, Rodgers barely beat Woodhead. Hillis poses an even greater obstacle because he has a more established resume and Browns loyalists. Hillis rushed for 1,173 yards and 11 touchdowns on 270 carries in 2011. He also caught 61 passes for 477 yards. Hillis was the first white running back to eclipse 1,000 yards since Craig James of the 1985 New England Patriots. Hillis was the heart of a team that was transitioning into the Colt McCoy(notes) era.

That the NBA faces financial problems and the NFL does not is because the latter has white players that the predominately white fan base can cheer for and relate to. Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Wes Welker, Brian Urlacher, Clay Matthews, Matt Ryan and a host of other white athletes are household names whereas the NBA is unable to provide the same amount of white players for the fan base to cheer for (the NFL is 31 percent white compared to the NBA at 19 percent).

The emergence of white running backs like Hillis and Woodhead has shown that, yes, white guys can run the ball too. It's just that they have been denied that opportunity by a caste system that moves whites to fullback or away from the tailback position. Larrybrownsports.com reports:

What we’re talking about now is the undeniable truth that Peyton Hillis is extremely popular because he is a rarity: a white superstar running back. Being a white back has hurt Hillis in the past because he was discriminated against, but now that he’s received an opportunity to be a featured back, he’s proven he can succeed, and he’s become a national fan favorite as a result.

10 running backs outrushed Hillis last season. Steven Jackson, Michael Turner, and Adrian Peterson all run as hard and with as much of a punishing style as he does. Maurice Jones-Drew, Chris Johnson, and Ray Rice have shown more spectacular moves and shiftiness in their rushing.


All three were eliminated in the first two rounds, all three are black.

If Peyton Hillis defeats Vick to be on the cover of the 2011 Madden game, and if the NFL Lockout ends, one can expect the almost entirely-Black defenses Hillis faces to be gunning for him, trying to deny him a second-straight 1,000 yard rushing season.

That's the burden a white superstar athlete faces (remember what "Pistol" Pete Maravich faced playing in the all-Black NBA of the 1970s). A lot of great white hope athletes exist, but they rarely get recruited by major colleges to play running back or receiver. White guys can't run, right?

Just ask Brock Forsey about that truth.

Michael Vick vs. Peyton Hillis for the cover of the 2011 Madden NFL video game. It's a well-known fact that the Madden NFL game is one of the only video games Black people play, and having a white running back grace the cover could be absolutely hilarious.

The NFL and NCAA have long tried to keep white athletes from running with the football at the tailback position; judging by how white sports fans voted for both Woodhead and Hillis in the Madden contest, that seems to be something they want too see.

Michael Vick or Peyton Hillis. The National Football League has decided it wants to have a sport dominated by players like Vick. Going all-in on Black athletes and the "thug" game doomed the NBA and drove away white sports fans.

The NFL discriminates against white players. If it were a true meritocracy, it would undoubtedly have more players like Hillis.

But because of the caste system, guys like Vick and Dez Bryant are promoted over white athletes.

We hope that Hillis lands the cover of the game. Vote here.

We recommend telling all of your friends on Twitter, FaceBook, Digg, and on forums to vote for Hillis as well.

And be sure to tell them SBPDL sent you.
 
One day soon, the NBA will be looking for its version of a Peyton Hillis. Hockey, Nascar, swimming and tennis will still be looking for its Tiger Woods.

Fareed Zakaria's Mistake: Only Black Run America can explain the Rise of the Rest

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac collapsing would cause a lot of Black people to be unemployed. We have discussed why this is a problem of utmost concern to those in charge of Black Run America (BRA). Another federal agency, the United States Postal Service, is on the verge of running out of cash.

The idea of Forced Busing once prompted people to react

The government –- federal, state, and local – has long been responsible for providing employment for Black people. Take a look at the breakdown of New York City government employees here.  Agencies that have a significant share of white employees have been chastised; agencies with a significant share of Black employment deal primarily with dead-beat Black people:

 Overall, the city workforce is 38 percent white, 36 percent black, 18 percent Latino and 6 percent Asian, according to statistics from the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (which, unlike the Census, considers race and Latino origin to be mutually exclusive). So the municipal workforce is slightly skewed toward whites and significantly skewed toward blacks. Latinos and Asians are substantially under-represented.

However, several departments deviate substantially from these overall numbers. The Fire Department is 77 percent white. Several smaller departments (the Landmarks Commission, Office of Emergency Management, Civilian Complaint Review Board and Office of the Mayor) are also more than 50 percent white.

On the other end of the spectrum, the Department of Juvenile Justice is 78 percent black. The Equal Employment Practices Commission is 63 percent black and the larger agencies of Human Resources, Correction and Children's Services are all more than 60 percent black.

Firefighter prospects that are Black have difficulty passing a test that has been tailored to their specific educational needs. That is the reason for the paucity of Black firefighters. 

The Postal Service is an organization that Blacks lean on heavily to provide steady employment, as figures from 1996 indicate that out of 800,000 workers, 21.1 percent were Black (the same number as the TSA now).  The numbers for 2002 (last that we could find) were roughly the same. It should be noted that two of the top 10 jobs with the highest Black representation in America are with the post office. 

Richard Spencer’s words on the post office and the overrepresentation of Black people employed in public jobs ring true here:

In 2007, the advocacy group Adversity.net examined the racial hiring practices of Washington’s Executive Departments and Independent Agencies, from the Department of Education to NASA. The group discovered that with a very few exceptions, federal entities dramatically overfulfill their “Diversity” quotas. Indeed, the best agencies at hiring Blacks put the Post Office of lore to shame: the Controlled Substance Ordering System, the Government Printing Office, and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, for instance, overhire Blacks at 800, 500, and 400 percent, respectively.  Even the “worst” agency for employing African-Americans, über-nerdy NASA, overhires Blacks at a clip of 50 percent.

In this line, government entities have increasingly dropped their mission of, well, governing in favor of the greater cause of minority outreach and empowerment. In America, one could lament, the Black man is either dead or in jail—or enjoying guaranteed benefits working at the State Department.

Austerity measures to the federal government are coming, just as state governments and local governments will be forced to make budget cuts. What does this mean? In a nation governed by sound economic principles that would translate to using tax dollars efficiently and staying within budget and the scrapping of unproductive agencies and employees, right? 

This nation is governed by Black Run America, so throw those thoughts out the window:

"It's really especially poignant that this year during Black History Month, the Republican leadership has proposed a budget for fiscal year 2011 that will fall most heavily, mind you, on the backs of the most vulnerable in our society: African Americans, Latinos, and poor, those who have been shut of the American dream," said Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), who described the cuts as ill-timed and destructive. 

"At a time when we should be remembering and uplifting the accomplishments and contributions of African Americans, to the history, culture, civil rights and economy of America, we are literally during this month debating steps that will severely undercut and undermine that legacy," she said.

Lee also criticized Republicans for saying "so be it" when asked their reaction to the idea that cuts to government spending might hurt U.S. job growth. "So be it," she repeated. "That's not what the Civil Rights movement was about."

Assistant Minority Leader James Clyburn (D-S.C.) also connected the spending cuts to civil rights, and said improving the GOP spending bill is imperative. "I do believe that if we focus on these continuing resolutions that we've been debating, we can have a much better future than the history has been for African Americans in this country," Clyburn said.

"This is not befitting of the final day of African American History [Month]," added Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of the spending cut plans.

H.R. 1 would cut more than $61 billion from current funding levels, but is not expected to move forward in the Democratic Senate. However, the House on Tuesday is expected to approve a two-week spending bill that cuts $4 billion from current spending levels. The $4 billion in spending reductions would include hundreds of millions of cuts in education, health, housing, energy and water programs.

Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) made a point of saying that spending cuts could hurt all Americans, including African Americans, and said he would fight to maintain funding for certain programs. "We will fight to protect the Department of Education," he said as an example, adding that it "means something" to have that department.

My allegiances are with Pre-Obama America, a nation long gone. Watch Turner Classic Movies (TCM) to get a taste of what that means or, better yet, understand why the Honor Code at Brigham Young University is such a contentious issue. 

The code there once reflected life on all campuses, if not all of America. OneSTDV is right when he writes about Disingenuous White Liberals trying to normalize Black dysfunction. It’s just that that dysfunction is reaching the point where it is crippling this nation’s ability to compete in the global marketplace. 

That’s why I laugh when reading this Time piece by Fareed Zakaria:

Despite the hyped talk of China's rise, most Americans operate on the assumption that the U.S. is still No. 1.

But is it? Yes, the U.S. remains the world's largest economy, and we have the largest military by far, the most dynamic technology companies and a highly entrepreneurial climate. But these are snapshots of where we are right now. The decisions that created today's growth — decisions about education, infrastructure and the like — were made decades ago. What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies. Look at some underlying measures today, and you will wonder about the future. (Watch TIME's video "Why Cities Are Key to American Success in the 21st Century.")

The following rankings come from various lists, but they all tell the same story. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), our 15-year-olds rank 17th in the world in science and 25th in math. We rank 12th among developed countries in college graduation (down from No. 1 for decades). We come in 79th in elementary-school enrollment. Our infrastructure is ranked 23rd in the world, well behind that of every other major advanced economy. American health numbers are stunning for a rich country: based on studies by the OECD and the World Health Organization, we're 27th in life expectancy, 18th in diabetes and first in obesity. Only a few decades ago, the U.S. stood tall in such rankings. No more. There are some areas in which we are still clearly No. 1, but they're not ones we usually brag about. We have the most guns. We have the most crime among rich countries. And, of course, we have by far the largest amount of debt in the world.

The Rise of the Rest

Many of these changes have taken place not because of America's missteps but because other countries are now playing the same game we are — and playing to win. There is a familiar refrain offered when these concerns are raised: "We heard all this in the 1980s. Japan was going to dominate the globe. It didn't happen, and America ended up back on top." It's a fair point as far as it goes. Japan did not manage to become the world's richest country — though for three decades it had the second largest economy and even now has the third largest. It is also a relatively small country. To become the largest economy in the world, it would have to have a per capita GDP twice that of the U.S. China would need to have an average income only one-fourth that of the U.S. to develop an economy that would surpass ours.

But this misses the broader point. The Harvard historian Niall Ferguson, who has just written a book, Civilization: The West and the Rest, puts things in historical context: "For 500 years the West patented six killer applications that set it apart. The first to download them was Japan. Over the last century, one Asian country after another has downloaded these killer apps — competition, modern science, the rule of law and private property rights, modern medicine, the consumer society and the work ethic. Those six things are the secret sauce of Western civilization."

It’s funny: everything that Mr. Zakarian delineates as reasons for America’s loss of status coincides with the drop in overall white percentage of population. Those rising problems he cites are problematic because of a seventh KILLER application that is indigenous in the West.

And guess what the secret sauce -- the seventh KILLER application that sets the West apart -- of undoing that 500 years of creation the West (okay, we do mean white people here) is responsible for?

The belief in absolute equality coupled with a maddening devotion to egalitarianism.  As Steve Sailer has shown, Mr. Zakaria, white students do just fine on aptitude tests. It is that rising tide of color in the United States that drags down the overall academic success rate of teenagers in the United States.

Those students are largely Black (and Brown).

And for some reason, Black people have the belief that the future is so bright, they’ll have to wear shades. Still can’t explain that one.

Our infrastructure spending is poor because we have been busy trying to improve the family structure and overall health of the Black community. That has been a monumental failure. Obesity rates? In 30 years, all Black women will be considered morbidly obese in America, stressing an already overburdened medical field to the breaking point.

We have the most crime of the rich countries because we have the highest percentage of Black people. It might be a Hate Fact, but Black people commit a disproportionate amount of the crime (violent or petty) in this nation.

Other Western nations that have allowed Black people to settle in their lands have seen a spike in crime (looking at you England, France and Sweden).

It is our intense, almost perverse, devotion to uplifting every Black person so that they no longer have to practice Waiting for “Superman” that threatens the economic stability of this nation.

Unemployable in the private sector, the public sector has been saturated with Black people. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should have fallen already, but the force of BRA is much too strong to allow companies that have more than 50 percent minority employees to fail.

The USPS would have gone out of business years ago if it had stockholders to answer to; in our world, it is a commodity that is just too big to fail for reasons that only an understanding of BRA can explain.

Here’s the ultimate question to every conservative, Tea Party activist, libertarian, and Ayn Rand worshipper who can only produce moments of levity by reading Atlas Shrugged:

Do you understand that saving what is left of America means completely dismantling every last vestige of Black Run America? It means rejecting equality and egalitarianism, ideas that rule over the hearts and minds of those in power. In essence, do you really want Atlas to shrug?

That seventh killer application from the West, which enabled Black Run America to form in the process, has fueled the so-called Rise of the Rest because it enabled the funding of a dream that nurture could supplant nature. 

It is SBPDL’s opinion that that dream is going to come to a sudden, dramatic end.

For those wondering, I’ll be on Angry White Dude’s radio show tonight at around 8:20. And this Saturday, I’ll be on the Political Cesspool. I recommend listening.