Melissa Harris-Perry equates NBA with slavery

Melissa Harris-Perry equates NBA with slavery. Sure, every day the NBA comes up to some poor fellow and says “sink baskets for millions of dollars a year plus millions more in endorsements or else!” Those poor souls would much rather be talking to themselves in front of MSNBC’s cameras next to MH-P, right?

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  • I'd call MH-P an imbecile, but that would be an insult to stupid people. No need to drag them down to her level.

  • Cuban's comment from the video isn't racist. What he is saying is that perceptions matter. How you present yourself matters. Dress like a thug, get treated like a thug, white or black doesn't matter.

    MH-P is an idiot, and I don't say that lightly. While she would accuse NBA team owners of slavery for paying players (on a non-discriminatory basis) millions, her policies of "community children" and "healthcare is a right" are much closer to slavery in that they require forced contributions either through taxes or through actual labor, to enact.

    The stupid is strong with this one. In fact, she might be the Darth Vader of stupid.

  • I am guilty. I have often said that while not slavery, with multimillion dollar contracts,most professional sports teams are major RT ity black and are bought sold traded by predominately white owners.

      • No relationship to slave at all. None. Slaves don't get paid millions, and they don't have the ability to walk away. It wouldn't bother me if stick and ball sports ceased to exist tomorrow, though.

    • Free will. The players know the system when they go in and they can walk away anytime.

  • I don't know who would give any credibility to a twist who wore tampons as earrings.....Anything she says is suspect or straight from the mentally ill...Screw her and the rolling chair she rode in on...

  • Remember when I said that the nitwits on NBC, ABC, CBS, and CNN were vying for the coveted Department of Propaganda title? Well I'll be the first to admit, I seem to be wrong. These prehensile knuckle-draggers are trying to out do each other for a spot on Quagmire's newly created Department of Stupidity. The Chairpersons for this new cabinet post will be Pelosi and Biden.