“I LOVE BLACK PEOPLE, BUT I HATE NIGGERS”
San Francisco, CA– Before you call me a racist and send members of the Nation of Islam over to firebomb my house, the quote, “I love black people, but I hate niggers” was taken from a monologue put forth by comedian Chris Rock during a Washington DC concert. Upon his being booed, Chris replied, “You know I’m right.” The reason why I used this inflammatory diatribe to kick off this piece is the fact that middle and upper class African-Americans simply don’t like Floyd Mayweather.
Floyd Mayweather
THE REACTION IS 180 DEGREES APART!
As it turns out, convicted dog killer Michael Vick rates higher than Mayweather outside of those living in the hood. I wondered to myself, how could this be true. Then I remember Floyd kicking a guy in the head in a Grand Rapids, MI, pool hall. There was also his cracking a fellow patron over the head with a champagne bottle at a Las Vegas bar. Did I bring up the fact that Floyd has beaten someone, and been arrested a number of times for assault in his hometown of Las Vegas, NV? Or the fact that he is set to face trial for his beating up “his baby’s mama” later this year. If convicted, something I highly doubt, Floyd could be sentenced to State Prison in Nevada, where the Clark County District Attorney took a weak ass case against Orenthal James Simpson, and seeing he’s now in his mid 60s, may have put him jail quite possibly for the rest of his life.
GHETTO URCHINS LOVE HIM, WORKING & UPPER CLASS DO NOT!
I posed this question to a group of African-Americans in Alameda County, a county that encompasses Oakland and Richmond, two of the leading murder capitals in the country, as well as Piedmont, a white rich area and Berkeley, where the community is as diverse as the University of California campus itself and New York City. As it turned out, anybody with fake gold teeth, wearing pants five or six inches lower than their belt line, they thought, “Floyd is the bomb.” When I went to middle of the road Berkeley, the feelings were mixed. But when I interviewed the few Blacks I could find in the affluent Mont Claire coffee houses of Oakland and Piedmont, the opinion was all negative,
“FLOYD SETS THE WORST EXAMPLE FOR YOUNG BLACKS”
That was what one man told me, this after at first ignoring me, but a short time later recognized my radio voice of over 25 years as I was posing the question to others. “Floyd sets the worst example for black youth. It’s not the bling that bothers me, it’s the portrait he plays on TV and in the media as he displays utter disregard fir society and its values. Simply put, he lacks common sense. You might even think he was suffering from some neurological or psychiatric problem as I’ve seen him turn from sane and proper to vulgar and psychotic all in the same interview. I don;t know what his problem is.”
SCHOOL TEACHER CONTINUED WITH PC CONTINUED
“Muhammad Ali was quite the controversial one when I was growing up, but he never got into bar brawls, assaulted people with weapons, or beat up women. I can;t get a grasp on Floyd, and now after all of bull s*it, I don’t care to. Once, twice, you can say wrong place/wrong time. But Floyd has repeatedly got into trouble caused by either he or his minions so often that the term pattern doesn’t apply. It’s more like lifestyle. He is his own worst enemy. I hope he puts away a lot of money, for I think he’ll need it for both lawyers and vending machine food and the protection he’ll in prison, for I can’t see where else his mindset can or will take him. If these current cases that you’ve mentioned don’t put him in jail, his violent and erratic temper will sooner or later.”
Allstate’s Dennis Haysbert
DOES FLOYD CARE WHAT EDUCATED BLACKS THINK?
It was quite evident to me that some aspects of White America, like the one’s who saw him in his brief stint on, “Dancing With The Stars,” and Wrestlemania, hold Floyd in higher regard than the people in the Monte Claire java joints. All I can say is that after spending a couple of hours doing the road work for this story is, you won’t see Floyd replacing African-American actor Dennis Haysbert in his role as lead spokesperson for Allstate Insurance, at least not in this lifetime!