Look before even starting to read this post understand that the sport industry has a very seedy beginning. This simple entry is going to try to address the game. Why? Well being a professional athlete is the easiest field for black men to access success. Sports use slave
terms just discussing owners trading and statistics. COVID-19 has changed the audience being able to be present in actual physical body form. Today October 16, 2020 is the 51st anniversary of the 1968 Olympics where the black power fist for global humanity was performed as a natural act.
It is crucial to understand this blog is hyper focused examining the variables that cloak meanings masking Berkeley and reverberating outward around the world. (There are 14 place globally). This black lives matters thing has to be dissected because it is something that is happening at the same time as the mask. It wouldn’t be wise to separate the issues. Why? Simply everything is connected. To place
each issue in a vacuum and pretend like it wasn’t exposed to the other elements or variables would produce biased results.
Humans are stimulated basically absorbing information using our entire body’s senses. We see something that invigorates us it strikes a chord like hearing a musical note inside our souls. We have to examine what makes us like something. Why? The progressive thought we are what we eat is a misinterpretation therefore, all other perceptions are slightly off meeting this error valuing consumption.
Just for a mirroring second let’s examine two extreme opposite things that are happening.
Black people in particular are socialized to pursue the sweet life a dream while people who descendants are European are socialized that they already have that locked and fully loaded. These two perceptions of self identity make people like the same thing differently. In fact, the more comfortable positioning of self is going to steer momentum producing anything just because this positioning defines holding the access.
These opposite groups using different socializations forming self identity are suppose to work together congruent. Unfortunately this isn’t happening consistently. People that are in different classes can rally together but the upper class is unwilling to rally for the lower class. And thusly everyone is striving to hold the variables data that the upper class holds.
Sports rally everyone together creating the perfect distraction specifically harnessing male or men’s energies. People of different cultures and classes can drop differences and partner incorporating passion watch two teams play. The City of Berkeley specifically the University of California at Berkeley houses the perfect visual sculpture displaying team.
Douglas Tilden’s “The Football Players” is a bronze sculpture made to commemorate the big thanksgiving game labeled as The Big Thanksgiving Disaster. The game was sold out and several thousand boys had gathered on a glass factory’s roof to watch the game. The roof collapse over fifty fans were injured severely and 22 fans were killed falling into the operational furnace. To this day this event is the most deadliest occurrence that has ever occurred at a US Sporting Event. Douglas Tilden was deaf artist who learned how to write upside down in the City of Berkeley to communicate with hearing people correctly and efficiently.
Pictured here‘s how the opposition Stanford handled embracing the disaster. Tilden’s effective modeling of The Football Players served both campuses well. Any reader can use Google: searching the words the big thanksgiving disaster game Berkeley. The results should inform readers that the game was played until Stanford scored because a sold out game with a nearby disaster no one knew exactly what happened until the game was over.
The entire rational logic of this post is that most people who see this sculpture view two male figure’s players getting ready to engage the game. What isn’t processed by most is the interlocking section of these two figures forms a swastika. This swastika form isn’t something that is seen by most viewers. The sculpture was made way before either World Wars specifically the terror inflicted understanding Hitler. The problem is the base pediment states superiority. These specifics I do think influenced Hitler specifically because he was a landscape artist. He would have been a small boy reading the newspaper. This whole event was on everyone’s radar locally and abroad given the rise of American Football and understanding college sports. The title mentions pre presidential business because Herbert Hoover was an undergraduate at Stanford and was the student manager of both the baseball and football teams he helped organize the inaugural Big Game between both campuses.
Currently the local basketball team has moved their location to San Francisco and the professional football team has left the state relocating nearby in Nevada. The only professional local sports team left unhampered by local finances is the baseball team. Professional sports is lucrative business no matter the game. There are huge issues financially to loose the professional football team despite surrounding area and locally passionate plus obsessive fans.