INTRODUCTION Today I will make the argument explicitly and I shall not refrain, even at the expense of hurting our feelings. Duty demands my strident tone, and I must ‘work the works of Him that sent me,’ like I mean it. I going to tell Black people the truth, and then hopefully we can build from there. Nigratude, it turns out that we have grossly overestimated our abilities. This is not so much due to race itself, or any intrinsic factors proceeding therefrom, as perhaps Charles Murray might suggest. Oh no, it is the result of deliberate and accidental forces…
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Let the reader not worry, I was shocked too when I was inspired with the title, pre-composition. That is a sign of genius, you know. My initial reaction was ‘that is preposterous’. There is no obvious qualitative or quantitative measure by which today’s Black post-modern athlete could be compared negatively to ‘professional’ Black athletes during segregation and pre-integration days. But then my mind started fulminating, creating its own hypothesis and methods of analysis and comparison in order to get the desired result; starting from the premise and proposition that ‘Professional’ Black Athletes and the Communities and schools that produced them,…