Sunday, August 13, 2023

The Patriarchy Narrative In Hip Hop is a Crucifixion of Agency By William Thorpe

Just as the American Dollar realized quintessential value by shaking off the distortions of the gold standard, Hip Hop in turn qualified humanness by purifying speech. So now in 2023 Hip Hop is marking its jubilee as such we are reminded that Hip Hop as all other organized human inclinations is patriarchal. I don't want to take much of the reader's attention speaking on the patriarchy save to say it's high time we reminded our better halves, our sistahs, these "curves" on this planet with us that subjugation, subservience, is first and foremost a surrender of agency. If my understanding is correct the emergence of Rappers Delight as accepted Hip Hop's first full feature was due to a woman's agency. There is much women can do to assert agency, but the patriarchy critique in Hip Hop as in all our other human realizations is a way out, not only denying agency but mocking it. The consequence of this mockery is we both suffer. As men our value is comparatively compromised relative to woman's unwillingness to firstly define agency. The patriarchy critique is just another expression, another formulation of that last fetid gasp of Southern enslavers of Black people, that Northern abolitionist were the ones inciting the enslaved to resist and pursue Liberty, implying that the enslaved Black man, woman and child had to be roused to assert agency for Liberty. We constantly encounter the compromise of agency as that ring in the oxen's nose serving another's interest. I express my agency with this quote from The Schizophrenic in Chief Thomas Jefferson: "all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed." [unquote The Declaration Of Independence In Congress, July 4,1776,]

By William Thorpe

Saturday, July 29, 2023

ESPN NFL Analyst Herm Edwards Educating Us or Is He Selling Us Slavery by William Thorpe

The Running Back position or Half-Back or Full Back in Football is, football. Its integral to football as pigskin and once upon a time mythical Impis as Barry Sanders, The Great Jim Brown, The Battering Rams of Jerome Bettis, John Riggins and of course the improbable Walter "Sweetness" Payton ruled the 120 yards of battlefield, AKA the Gridiron of football war as Running Backs. Yup Running Backs. Now Herm Edwards has seen the bottoms of many runningback cleats and the resulting torn and ripped turf introduced to his face from those cleats to respect and I stress respect those Impis as runningbacks ruling the gridiron. So what's possessed him to now join in enabling  and further advancing the lie and treachery, yes treachery that is specifically in the employ of the billionaire owners of teams in the NFL, that the runningback isn't valuable and the game has passed them a narrative that only has one purpose which is squeezing as much value from the human being as capital, then casting off the exploited and used husk, human beings which in this specific circumstance are runningbacks, yup human beings who are football players. So I ask again what is Herm Edwards in his role as ESPN NFL analyst selling when he argues that modern football is a passing game and as such the runningback isn't integral to its offensive schemes (and I'm paraphrasing) as such should appreciate the pennies tossed their way. But the reality is even if modern football is a passing game, then it all the more emphasizes the runningback in all aspects of its function and purpose: from the pure function of running the ball, to blocking, being a check down safety valve for the quarterback and being the one and only reason, the passing from play action works. Here is an anecdote that I challenge Herm Edwards to refute, Matthew Stafford as the former Detroit Lions Quarterback was traded to The LA Rams and he promptly won a Superbowl, why? With the LA Rams, Stafford was compelled to use his runningback as opposed to his fetishzing the jump ball pass to Calvin Johnson aka Megatron, that only padded stats but nothing to quote Herm Edwards played to win, so what we see is the runningback is as integral to modern football as the position was back during Jim Thorpe's Dog Soldier days on the Gridiron. There isn't any insight I'm providing that isn't obvious to any perfunctory appreciator of the game of football, so it's incomprehensible to hear and have ESPN and its serfs stridently pushing the runningback isn't valuable narrative when we know it's a lie. The devaluation of the runningback position is due to the treachery of the NFL Players Union selling out the runningback position under the gambit of a rookie salary cap. Regardless of the rationale and logic of the rookie salary cap the NFL Players Union should've carved out an exemption for the runningback position from the top end. On the issue of Sequon Barkley selling out I'll leave that to the barbershop to remind him that the ancestors survived slavery so he wouldn't have to kowtow to the New York football Giants, come on man.

By William Thorpe

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