Friday, October 22, 2010

A Jack Johnson Moment for the 21st Century: Brock Lesnar vs. Cain Velasquez

Black people had their chance, but have sadly let the moment pass them by without the faintest hint of opposition.

The dramatic rise in the Mestizo population in the United States dooms Black people (in the long run) on the racial totem pole. Immigration reform would have maintained their place as the dominant minority group for as long as the United States existed, but Black people have now been eclipsed.

Losing Compton and turf wars across the nation to ruthless Latino gangs, Black people are witnessing a growing coalition of legal and illegal immigrants forming a La Raza movement that threatens the stability of the United States.

Think back to 2006 and the massive rallies held in cities throughout the country. Millions of legal and illegal immigrants joined in waving Mexican flags and denouncing America for being insufficiently benevolent toward their cause.

Tolerance to this massive criminality in our midst is waning, as is evident when one consults opinion polls on illegal immigration or looks toward Arizona's lead in the matter. Were there more high-profile Mexican athletes, the American public might look the other way as they do toward the disproportionate amount criminality of rampant in the Black community.

Since no one watches baseball anymore, Hispanics lack a hero to rally around that the American people care about. With college football and NFL, white people see positive examples of Black people and remain willfully blind to the more unsavory aspects diversity offers.

It is SBPDL's contention that sports offer the primary positive examples of Black people in this country and that it was athletes who helped pave the way for Black people in other vocations (entertainment, politics, etc) to finally gain acceptance.

Without sports, local nightly news casts would broadcast Black achievements at a most melancholy pace.

The genesis of Black people finding hope and ultimately a hero to cheer for and rally around as cause célèbre can be traced to a sports figure who forever altered the course of the United States: Jack Johnson


Funny, a century later Cain Velasquez will attempt to do for the growing Hispanic population exactly what Johnson did for Black people in the first decade of the 20th century: inspire hope and bring together a community behind a sports figure that can motivate a people to push for societal change and acceptance.

It boils down to this: Johnson winning the the heavyweight title in boxing forever destroyed the notion of white supremacy and caused massive riots in cities throughout the nation as angry whites realized the implications of Great White Hopes going down in defeat to his right hand and Black people became energized by a Black man defiantly standing up in a way that emboldened a new generation of leaders for the Black community:
No, where Johnson faced his fiercest fight was out of the ring, in American society, where racism fueled his payback for being the white world's worst nightmare: a black man who beat white fighters with ease, slept with and married white women with frequency, drove fast cars and flashed cash. In an era when the lynching of blacks averaged about 150 a year, Jack Johnson was audacious in his independence. 

"Johnson in many ways is an embodiment of the African American struggle to be truly free in this country -- economically, socially and politically," says Burns in the film's press material. "He absolutely refused to play by the rules set by the white establishment, or even those of the black community. In that sense, he fought for freedom not just as a black man, but as an individual."


He would have none of the notion that blacks should try to fit in and get by. As he won more and more fights, Jack Johnson decided he would get his. The money came in, the prostitutes piled up, the cars got fancier and white America tried to ignore him. When John L. Sullivan became the first heavyweight champion of the world in the late 19th century, the title captured the imagination of the culture. It was the zenith of the sport, but also a racial marker. 

Sullivan said he would never let a black man fight for the title. This drawing of the color line was adopted by subsequent champions, including Jim Jeffries, the people's favorite, whose ducking of Johnson became an art form. Never one to give up, Johnson pounded Jeffries' brother in a fight and -- yet again -- challenged Jim Jeffries to put the crown on the line. He never did and retired undefeated.
Though it is Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) and the UFC, the Brock Lesnar- Cain Velasquez tomorrow night has the trappings of a 21st century Jack Johnson moment. MMA is a sport that is growing in popularity and the UFC has played up its marketing of the main event of the card as the opportunity for the "First Mexican Heavyweight Champion".

Velasquez is fighting for exactly what is tattooed across his chest - "Brown Pride" - and has hinted at the struggle Latino immigrants face as being an inspiration in the fight against Lesnar:
Velasquez was first asked in Thursday's call to address his views on Arizona's controversial illegal-immigration law.
"I'm against, definitely," Velasquez told the reporter. "Both my parents came into the United States from Mexico."
The reporter then encouraged Velasquez to tell Lesnar about Velasquez's walk-in song at UFC fights. "It's a story about a man crossing the border and all the hardships ... " Velasquez said.
UFC is the new "it" sport, pitting one man against another in a fight where only one will emerge victorious. Just like pugilism, spectators can discern for themselves when members of different races oppose one another.

Brock vs. Cain is white vs. brown, American vs. Mexican. Though it won't have the same fire of Jack Johnson's destruction of white supremacy in the early 1900s and the clarion call for a "white fighter to avenge the white race" that emerged in the wake of his victories, a Velasquez win would fuel the Hispanic community across the nation, causing spontaneous celebrations at a time they have little to celebrate about. 

If Lesnar wins, well, he'll enjoy a Corona and a burrito in honor of Velasquez's Hispanic heritage.

MMA followers are notoriously and egregiously white, prompting many Black fighters to complain of harassment on the part of enthusiastic fans demeaning their accomplishments.

Brock Lesnar got his start in Vince McMahon's WWF/WWE, headlining Wrestlemania 19. During one Lesnar promo, he wore a Mexican sombrero and had a Mariachi band play to poke fun at the late Eddie Guerrero.

Sports. The Black power movement took off with Jack Johnson. The Brown power movement will take off tomorrow with a Velasquez victory.

A Lesnar victory, who once claimed he was built like a "Black man", would ensure that the popularity of the sport of MMA continues to take off. White people will have a Great White Hope to continue to cheer for, though they will vehemently deny it.

Professional wrestling was once the outlet for this type of energy, but with Lesnar emerging as the dominant heavyweight in the world, the Caste System in sports is starting to look ever the more obvious.

It was Black pride in the 20th century. Will Brown pride prevail now? 











38 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm Hispanic and I hope Cain gets his ass handed to him.Mexicans praise a country that abandon them.Let's pretend they do conquest America.Where are they going to run to next.And they the shitty thing about is their just going to blame racist whitey.

Their was a time when Hispanics were treated like shit.The zoot suit riots and walkouts during the 60's.I don't care because It didn't happen to me and It wasn't done by any of my white friends.Quit living in the past and just shut the fuck up.Stop the invasion or learn to speak spanish.I may be hispanic but I'm an American first.And if the goddamn Mexica movement doesn't like it they can kiss my American ass.

Anonymous said...

This reminds me of that speech in American History X.Let the Mexicans and blacks kill each other than when their both dead we'll take our country back.Way to go Arizona.

Anonymous said...

Every night thousands of these parasites stream across the border like some fucking pinata exploded.Maybe this website should be changed to StuffMinoritiesDontLike .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_A96zd-hps&feature=more_related

Anonymous said...

SBPDL, I think your analysis is a little bit off this time. In my experience, MMA fans don't give a hoot about a fighter's race or national origin. Fans don't like Evans because he's arrogant, and they don't like Jackson because he's a dick. Many fan favorites are not Americans (e.g., Bas, Fedor, GSP), and many are not white (e.g., Nogueira, Rua, Machida, Penn, Anderson Silva, etc, etc).

Phalluster said...

Ehh, gotta qualify Brock's "start" at the hands of Vince McMahon. He was already a collegiate champion, and not really able to fill out from any steroid menu that might have been slipped under his table-top.

I'll be watching this race-war at Brooklyn's own controversial 'Buffalo Wild Wings'. But there is one "real" fight I want to see - Brock vs. Kurt Angle. Urban legend says Brock tapped pretty quickly IRL once upon a time... well, Kurt can't tilt his head upwards these days, so we'll call it even.

Anonymous said...

"SBPDL, I think your analysis is a little bit off this time. In my experience, MMA fans don't give a hoot about a fighter's race or national origin."

This is largely true, but Cain's tattoo is a blatantly racist double-standard, and the UFC's promotion of him as Mexican (not Mexican-American) even though he was born in Los Angeles is fucking sickening.
To be fair to Cain, he seems like a humble guy, and he's a great fighter.

Anonymous said...

Shouldn't Velasquez' tattoo be "Orgullo Cafe"? If he was authentically Mexican (as the UFC is marketing him) his tat would be written in Spanish? It would be hilarious if Lesnar entered the Octagon sporting a faux tattoo, in Spanish, either reading "White Pride", "Corona Beer is Piss" or "Arizona: My Kind of Place".

Anonymous said...

What's up guys, didn't know SBPDL was an MMA fan. I see a forthcoming post on the proper diction and sportsmanship of Jon Jones as being an SBPDL post, the guy sounds like a weather man and didn't humbly accepted his disqualification in the Matt Hammil fight.

As a sidenote, if you train in MMA you'd know this, the irony of such a violent sport is that inside the gym, at least the one's that I've trained, it's a color blind meritocracy. I train with blacks, hispanics, Asians, whites, etc., and everyone trains hard and tries to make each other better. If only the rest of the world could fight it out on the mats, get up and shake hands, and respect one another like we do there would be a lot less misery.

Anonymous said...

I don't care about MMA but I saw the commercial for this fight and noticed the huge "brown pride" tat on the Mexican. This sort of Raza nationalism is encouraged by the US government in public schools and promoted by DWL's the country over.

Los Angeles has been annexed by Mexico, so I guess Velasquez is Mexican. LA county now has a 33.3% illiteracy rate thanks to the invasion and the Golden State, which was the epitome of the American Dream, is effectively dead as part of the Western World.

Jack Dempsey said...

UFC is a homoerotic form of Greco-Roman meat-gazing designed for douche bags who like Affliction t-shirt, Axe body spray, and being gay. Sure, mixed-martial artists can cherrypick boxing has-beens like James Toney, but even this plan backfires on occassion, as when journeyman boxer Ray Mercer crushed that UFC former champion with one well-placed punch. UFC wins some battles, enough for Dana White to get cocky, but boxing has and always will win the war. No UFC event has come close to touching the numbers of De La Hoya-Mayweather, and worldwide UFC generates about a tenth of the interest as boxing.

Anonymous said...

Brock Lesnar is going to tear that fellow apart.

Anonymous said...

Here we go again.A sack of shit mexican whose race has nothing to be proud of.Has one good thing come out of mexico?Besides tequila and the Virgin Mary they ain't got shit.

Anonymous said...

Someday America is going to be taking control — from liberals, from the establishment, from elitist , from political correctness , from white guilt, from cheating politicians and sack-of-shit non whites.

Anonymous said...

I hope Brock Lesnar shows that bitch who's boss.

Anonymous said...

Lesnar got man-raped!

Anonymous said...

Did you guys hear Brock got the shit beat out of him.We'll never hear the end of this.

Anonymous said...

Well... the Aryan lost. Now what?

Phalluster said...

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Desiree said...

LOL! Whitey loses again... not that any of these human bloodsports are my cup of tea but it's not surprising.

I agree with "Jack Dempsey": at least boxing is a little more decent. But I think it's equally 'gay'. Interestingly enough, many a gay porn video has MMA and boxing themes.

By the way, SBPDL. I'm glad you admittted that there is a racial totem pole. Also, in an effort of 'equal time', you should mention that pedophilia is disproportionate in the White community.

Why do you keep ignoring that?! I honestly rather be a thief or a murderer than a diaper swiper...

Silent Running said...

Well... the Aryan lost. Now what?

Now nothing. The brown man beat the white man in the ring. The sun rose just as it did yesterday, Mestizos are still flowing across the border, and they're still killing, raping, and brutalizing Americans.

Nothing has changed.

The UFC is a sporting organization. Blacks and browns regularly best whites in sports. But sports do not change the direction of nations. War does. And when it comes to war, Caucasians bow to no one.

Anonymous said...

Desiree, you dumb fucking whore, blacks love to rape children.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/south-africas-shame-the-rise-of-child-rape-1974578.html

Anonymous said...

"LOL! Whitey loses again..."

Mixed-martial arts is dominated by white fighters, you dumb fucking whore.

Anonymous said...

Desiree cry me a river bitch

What is it with you and whiteys pedophilia.Pedophilia is disproportionate in the Black community.There has always been a racial totem pole you silly girl.

Desiree is a funny critter

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/444213

Anonymous said...

Desiree your full of shit.Pedophilia isn't disproportionate in the White community.And even if it was crime is disproportionate in the nigger commumity.Why do you keep ignoring that?!

SBPDL if my comment doesn't get approved because of the n word.When is it okay to say it.

Miss Ann said...

"Interestingly enough, many a gay porn video has MMA and boxing themes."

So, Desiree knows her gay porn. Is anyone surprised?

LMAO!

Anonymous said...

"Desiree cry me a river bitch"

This might as well be your slogan for when you decide to be president. I'm sure your fan boys will cheer you on to the office!
Get some new material white anon (whose secretly all the white anon posters or just that idiotic one.)

Oops! Sorry, did I just spill the beans?

Anonymous said...

"This might as well be your slogan for when you decide to be president. I'm sure your fan boys will cheer you on to the office!
Get some new material white anon (whose secretly all the white anon posters or just that idiotic one.)

Oops! Sorry, did I just spill the beans?"

Cry me a river bitch

I say that to anyone who whine's like a bitch.I'm not even white.You posted under anon and your saying "Get some new material white anon".Do you notice the contradiction.

Oops!Sorry, did I let the cat of the bag?

Anonymous said...

Don't forget Fedor Emilienenko the toughest man on the planet. He has faced both black and asian giant sized foes in the ring and has beaten the crap out of them. There are also several champion Russian boxers around. As for strength, just watch the worlds' strongest man competitions to see the real top strength athletes, mostly all white modern day viking blood lines.

Anonymous said...

"Cry me a river bitch"

"bitch"

Are you emotionally disturbed and now use the word b**** to express your tauma which must have involved that word? Or are you just at a lost of words and must use your immature words? Will you ever learn how much you degrade yourself by using those words? It shows that you've lost the argument and now must go elementary style: Name Calling.

Now go on and tell me your famous line. I find it more amusing than what you're hoping for.

Anonymous said...

"Are you emotionally disturbed"

If you are interested in the emotionally disturbed, check out these negro murderers whom you've probably never heard of because their victims were white.

http://www.wichita-massacre.com/
http://www.amren.com/ar/2007/07/index.html

Anonymous said...

"Now go on and tell me your famous line. I find it more amusing than what you're hoping for."

Cry me a river bitch
There happy.I didn't lose the argument just because I call names.Can you prove any of my comments wrong.Yeah I call names but I also use facts.

I only started saying that because It was a drag for me to put my name and Url.IF I lost the argument, how about proving me wrong.Please take my comments apart.IF you can.

Anonymous said...

"Cry me a river bitch"

"You posted under anon and your saying "Get some new material white anon."

Let me clear this up for you. What I meant by "get some new material", was get a new saying. "Cry me a river bitch" is old and immature. You are at a lost of words and have nothing else to say. You're intellectuality in having formal conversations is limited like that of a 12 yr. old.

P.S (If you want to seem more intelligent than me, how about spacing after sentences. I believe we were all taught that in first grade.)

Anonymous said...

(cont.)

"Yeah I call names but I also use facts."

What facts have you used in our arguments? Your poor choice of words and behavior reflects over any valid information you've had to offer. Now go on and share more with me of how immature and insecure you really are. Name calling always shows the insecure side of others. That side seems to play a big part in your life.

Now enlighten me on how I'm wrong. I can't wait to hear what more amusing insults and invalid points you have to offer.

Anonymous said...

"What I meant by "get some new material", was get a new saying."

Oh, thanks for clarifying.

Now fuck off.

Anonymous said...

"P.S (If you want to seem more intelligent than me, how about spacing after sentences. I believe we were all taught that in first grade.)"

Cry me a river bitch
Why would I get a new saying when you say It's "famous".You can still understand me even IF I don't "space after sentences".Besides you misspelled trauma genius.Isn't there a spell check before you approve comments?IF there Is I don't know how you misspelled that.

Fact:I only said bitch once.

Fact:You called me a "white anon".What makes you think I'm white?Huh.Can you tell someone's race over the internet without meeting me at all.That sounds like name calling to me.

Anonymous said...

"Now enlighten me on how I'm wrong."

It would take hours.

But if you're ever right, I'll let you know.

Anonymous said...

"IF there Is I don't know how you misspelled that"

Cry me a river b****

This line isn't famous. And if you were really smart, you'd know that I was being sarcastic about that. I guess from now on I'm going to have to explain everything to you so there's no misunderstanding. Anyway, I have no spell check on this blog or any sites on the web.

"I only said bitch once."

And this makes you not immature? In every reply you use this word once or more. In my book that makes you immature since you're horizon is only so long.

"Fact:You called me a "white anon".What makes you think I'm white?Huh.Can you tell someone's race over the internet without meeting me at all.That sounds like name calling to me."

Fact: "That sounds like name calling to me" is an OPINION first of all. Second of all, most people who are white on this blog are the only ones who I ever encounter in an argument with. So it was reasonable of me to assume that you were black because of that and the fact that the dominant race on this blog is white.

"Can you tell someone's race over the internet without meeting me at all."

P.S (How about using the proper punctuation mark at the end of your sentences and then start getting on me about spelling?)

Anonymous said...

"Cry me a river b****"

Why did you censore bitch when you said, "Cry me a river bitch" is old and immature".I already said I only put that because It's a drag for me to put the url and name.Would It be old IF I actually did that.IF you were really smart you wouldn't have misspelled trauma.Well your book is your own opinion.

"So it was reasonable of me to assume that you were black because of that and the fact that the dominant race on this blog is white."

This Is what I was talking about.Now your assuming I'm black.I'm not black or white.

Post Script (Doesn't It have 2 periods.You really can't tell someone's race over the internet.You're prove of that."