Wednesday, August 13, 2014

A Tribute to the Sport

Black Entertainment Television (BET)


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2 comments:

  1. What are you saying here? Why did you find a pic where you can't see her face and she's digging out her arse?

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    1. I wondered if someone would ask the obvious.

      I kept noticing today's tendency to focus on what is a scandal in the lives of famous athletes. Coming up in my time was the pursuit of excellence in sports to the exclusion of all else. All though this standard is still present amongst our athletes the attention of the press digs for the ungracious and the undignified. How that plays out in young people is subtle, but no less staggering to their perceptions of the world we are leaving for them!

      I work with young people, and most of the people I write for in this blog are young men developing into men. This subject and image became (on purpose) a subject to delve into...

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