Black Jesus is searched for online thousands of times per day. Is Jesus Black if you apply the 1% drop of Black blood rule? Why does Jesus continue to be portrayed as white, blond and blue eyed, when there is scientific and biblical proof that he was a man of color with wooly hair? Why do so many people refuse to acknowledge this truth? What does this cover up have to do with the problems of race throughout the world? Let us talk honestly. "Black Jesus" is searched for over 550,000 times a month, so clearly others are seeking the truth. Help spread this conversation world wide, by telling others about this site. If you seek and are not afraid of the truth, lets also share info affecting people of African decent globally, on a daily basis. We welcome intelligent observations and opinions from all races. The internet is the modern day drum, that can send out unfiltered messages globally, but you must be willing and ready to hear. Click on the 'Proof BlackJesus" link at the upper right to discover the Black Jesus facts and find out what motivated me to launch this blog. Thanks and peace to all of God's people.
Lets look at the real numbers. In college division one football there are only 5 Black head coaches despite many of the starting players being African American. This is even more true for division one basketball. Many of these coaches are making well over $2 million a year.
The University of Texas, accoording to CNBC, made over $63 million off of its football program this year. Its coach makes over $3 million a year. If you extended this over all the division one foot ball teams, then these colleges are making millions off of these Black student athletics. But they don't want to hire any of their former players as head coaches or assistants, once or if they graduate.
The college boosters concede that you need these young black bucks to be competitive, but they have told the schools, just make sure that this doesn't bleed over to the coaching ranks, because we are the one who write the checks.
The NFL is a little better better. 68% of the players are African American and they finally do have a handful of Black head coaches. But when they had 9 vacancies this season, most owners decided to hire all white first years coaches who never had NFL coaching experience before. The message seems to be clear.....Black man, you can perform on the field, but when your playing days are over, we have no more use for you...What do you think?
Maya Angelou was thinking of you Shani Davis, when she wrote the historic poem "And Still I Rise". Despite few commercial endorsements and support from some of your USA team mates, you are now in the history books as a gold metal winner from the South Side of Chicago. While most of the recent posts of Shani's great accomplishment are supportative, here is just one example of what he had to deal with as he kept his eyes focused on the prize.
BREAK A LEG NIGGER SELFISH BASTARD LOOKS OUT ONLY FOR HIS SELFISH PERSONAL GOALS AND COULD GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THE TEAM, LET HIM BREAK A LEG, FAIL TO MEDAL AND DRAG HIS NIGGER ASS HOME. Posted by snowhound on 14 February 2006.
Born May 12, 1914, in LaFayette, Alabama, Joseph Louis Barrow - who became known as the "Brown Bomber" - was America's first true crossover athlete. As the first black sports star worshipped by both black and white fans, he was respected not only for his boxing talents, but also for showing the world what a person of color could do if given the opportunity. When he fought, the world stood still.
The film underscores his importance during a critical time in America's history. From the Great Depression through World War II and into the 1950s, Joe Louis was the poster boy for the American way of life. In 1938, when Louis defeated Germany's Max Schmeling, his victory was interpreted as democracy's defeat of Nazism, boosting public morale and transforming him into a true American hero.
Have you noticed the difference in the media coverage and criticism or lack there of between Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds. Before all of the media attention was focused on Barry Bonds, I heard white sportscasters and commentators talk about how much of a disgrace Bonds was to the game. Many repeatedly called Bonds a cheat who should be band from the game. Funny I don't hear the same criticism of Clemens. Could the difference be as clear as black and white. What do you think?
I had the privledge of eating breakfast with Muhammed Ali one January morning in 1993. I was attending a meeting where he was the celebrity draw. By coincidence, I came down early for breakfast and he was standing in the buffet line. Ali's Parkinsons disease was apparent by his shaking, but he was still able to string together a sentence. As we sat down at the same table, I had a chance to ask my childhood hero a few questions. Although his answers were slow, he responded with a smile on his face. One question I asked was how is he treated outside of the US? He said, when he was in China, people would line the streets shouting his name. For those of you who only know of him as the Greatest Boxer To Ever Live, he was also very smart. Listen to a prophetic question asked of how he would like to be remembered.
There is a great deal of criticism aimed at Lebron James for allowing himself to be used to fulfill the same old sterotype of the angry, aggressive, over sexed black male and at Vogue Magazine for using this negative image to sell magazines. Vogue defends itself from this, by saying that Lebron is the first black man it has ever chosen to be on its cover. The critics say that Lebron looks like King Kong. Others, including Lebron, say people are over reacting. Compare the pictures and tell us what you think.
Jackie's biggest accomplishment in 1947 was paving the way for so many other Black players to follow in major league baseball. But in 2008 Blacks drop to just 8.2% of major leaguers and falling each year. There are a lot of reasons for this drop, but the biggest is a lack of Black male support and role models in the inner cities.
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Campanis represents the attitude of many white men in authority who make it very diffucult for many Black men to provide for their families.
Congradulations Gold Metal Winner, Cullen Jones, You Give Us All Hope For The Future! Yes We Can!
Black sterotypes allow those who have them to feel a false sense of superiority. We still hear them today. Included in that list is " Black People Can't Swim." Meet olympian and world record holder Cullen Jones.
Study Finds Stark Gap In Minority Participation
Nearly 60 percent of African American children can't swim, almost twice the figure for white children, according to a first-of-its-kind survey that USA Swimming hopes will strengthen its efforts to lower minority drowning rates and draw more African Americans into the sport. Stark statistics underlie the initiative. Black children drown at a rate almost three times the overall rate. And less than 2 percent of USA Swimming's nearly 252,000 members who swim competitively year-round are black. To alter the numbers, USA Swimming is teaming with an array of partners -- local governments, corporations, youth and ethnic organizations-- to expand learn-to-swim programs nationwide, many of them targeted at inner-city minorities. One of the key participants is African American freestyle star Cullen Jones, who hopes to boost his role-model status by winning a medal at the Beijing Olympics. USA Swimming's motives are twofold, Executive Director Chuck Wielgus said. "It's just the right thing to do -- making an effort so every kid can be water-safe," he said. "And quite frankly it's about performance. We're something of a niche sport and for us to remain relevant, considering the changing demographics of the population, it's important we get more kids involved at the mouth of the pipeline." USA Swimming commissioned an ambitious study recently completed by five experts at the Department of Health and Sports Sciences at the University of Memphis. They surveyed 1,772 children age 6 to 16 in six cities -- two-thirds of them black or Hispanic -- to gauge what factors contributed most to the minority swimming gap. The study found that 31 percent of the white respondents could not swim safely, compared with 58 percent of the blacks. The non-swimming rate for Hispanic children was almost as high -- 56 percent -- although more than twice as many Hispanics as African Americans are USA Swimming members. Among black children, the study found that girls overall had weaker swimming skills than boys and were less comfortable at pools. Irwin said this might justify experimenting with single-sex swim programs, comparable to single-sex academic programs now spreading through some schools. The minority swimming gap has deep roots in the United States' racial history. For decades, many pools were segregated, and relatively few were built to serve black communities. The findings will be used by USA Swimming to fine-tune its steadily expanding Make a Splash program, in which it teams up with local partners to offer lessons and water-safety classes. -- From Washington Post News Services
Cullen Now Joins The History Books With Other Great Black Olympians Who Succeeded Despite The Odds!
I believe Black parents hold the key to increasing the number of Black coaches in the NCAA. When these white coaches or their recruiters come to court your Black sons about playing for their college or university, along with the important questions about academic support and graduation rates, Black parents should ask how many Black assistant coaches a program has. If they have to few or none, you need to tell that school that this is not acceptable and you prefer that your sons or daughters choose another school that demonstrates diversity.
Black parents must understand the economics of college football. These schools make hundreds of millions of dollars in tickets sales, advertising, concessions and souvenir revenue. All of this revenue comes from fielding a competitive team. These schools and their boosters reluctantly know they must have Black players to be competitive. If your Black sons and daughters are good enough to play collegiate sports, then they are eventually good enough to coach or be the athletic director. Fredrick Douglas said "Power concedes nothing without demand. It never did and it never will." I assure you that if enough Black parents take a stand for equality, in just 2 football seasons, we will see this shameful situation change.
Why So Few Black Coaches?Numbers And Facts, Rather Than Calling Racism, Speak Louder Than Words. Of The 119 Schools In The NCAA Foot Ball Bowl Subdivision Only 4 have Black Foot Ball Coaches.
That's the lowest since 1993. Yet almost 60% of NCAA football players are Black. Floyd Keith, executive director of the Black Coaches Association (BCA), has said that if his organization needs to apply Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which makes it illegal for employers to discriminate on the basis of race, then he's willing. Perhaps that's what it will take.
Maybe the process needs a jump start that a court could give it. Keith says he would like to have 10 black coaches in the FBS, and even such a low number as that will take years under the current process.
The NCAA began an initiative last year to address its problematic approach to minority hiring, but then again, the NCAA is a weak organization with little ability to effect any real change. It can create all the initiatives it wants, but it has no power to penalize programs for passing over qualified black candidates.
The NFL has instituted what it calls the "Rooney Rule," which requires teams with a head coach opening to interview at least one black, except in select circumstances.
Even so, only seven of the 32 NFL teams have black coaches, even though about 66 percent of the league's players are black. It would help if more FBS schools would hire black coaches as their offensive and defensive coordinators.
At the beginning of the season, there were 32, including 12 on offense and 20 on defense. That's an increase from 11, which is how many there were four years ago.
From Diverse Online Current News Group Hires Lawyer To Address Dearth of Black College Football Coaches By Lois Elfman
The number of Black college football coaches is going in the wrong direction, according to the latest hiring report card issued Wednesday by the Black Coaches and Administrators (BCA).
Hiring committees are more diverse and coaches of color are being interviewed for football head coaching positions, but the number of hires is still dismal, the report card shows. “Interviewing is not the measure of true success.
Interviewing is not hiring. The true measure of progress and success will be when athletic directors stop merely interviewing candidates of color, and when athletic directors actually hire head football coaches of color,” said Charlotte Westerhaus, vice president of diversity and inclusion of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) .
For the 2007-08 season examined in the fifth BCA hiring report card, there were only four head football coaches of color hired to fill 31 job openings. The 2008 season in both the Football Bowl Subdivision and Football Championship Division, began with eight coaches of color, six of whom were African-American.
When compared with the representation of head coaches of men’s Division I college basketball the statistics are striking. In basketball 58 percent of the players are African American and 25 percent of the head coaches are African American.
In college football, African Americans make up 50 percent of the players but only 6.7 percent of the head coaches. “The statistics reveal a cold truth: it is easier to become a head football coach in the NFL, a head basketball coach in the NCAA and a general or commissioned officer in the United States Army than it is to become a head football coach on the (college) level of the NCAA,” wrote BCA executive director Floyd Keith in the report.
The BCA, which held a teleconference Wednesday morning to coincide with the release of its report card, is working in conjunction with attorney Everette L. Scott Jr. of the law firm Spector Gadon and Rosen in Philadelphia to set up a means of understanding the problem and addressing it more effectively.
The BCA says its partnership with the law firm will serve as a “communication vehicle” that will allow administrators, coaches, coordinators, assistant coaches and potential coaches to contact the BCA through a toll free number.
The hotline will allow individuals to confidentially discuss questionable hiring practices, said Scott, a former football player at Howard University. Information received via the hotline will be monitored closely, he added.
A transcript of each call will be prepared, evaluated and recommendations can be formulated, Scott said. “We believe, collectively and cooperatively, with the institutions we should be able to achieve and close this final gap,” he added. The report card, which is available for download at www.bcasports.org, describes this year’s study and offers comparisons to previous studies.
When asked what it is about the culture of college basketball that provides greater opportunities, the NCAA's Westerhaus suggested such a question should be directed to college athletic directors. “They know the cultures of all their sports and the hiring cards are in their hands,” she said.
A simplistic answer may be results. African-American basketball coaches have had great successes, thus paving the way for more hires. The NCAA and BCA both maintain lists of suitable candidates that they will make readily available to any institutions with job openings.
But it is the institutions that make the hiring decisions. “Right now,” said Westerhaus, “we are keen on improving the hiring.” Email the editor: editor@diverseeducation.com
Miami's Shannon will be only black BCS coach, says things haven't changed
ESPN.com news services
CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- Of the 65 coaches leading programs affiliated with the Bowl Championship Series, Miami's Randy Shannon is about to stand alone.
A week from now, he'll be the only black man in the group.
After Sylvester Croom resigned Saturday from Mississippi State, along with the recent firings of Kansas State's Ron Prince and Washington's Tyrone Willingham -- who'll coach his final game with the Huskies on Saturday -- Shannon is one of three black coaches left in major college football, and the only one at a BCS school.
The last time there were only three black coaches at the Division I-A level was 1993, and Shannon, who waited many years before getting his first legitimate chance at becoming a head coach, simply can't understand the lack of progress in bridging the sideline race gap.
"It's sad that we keep talking about the same things," Shannon told The Associated Press on Sunday. "Maybe Sylvester was tired. I know a year or two ago he had surgery on his hip or back. But after a while, you say to yourself, how much longer can we keep going just talking about this? We can't keep talking about the same issues every year."
And yet, at this time every year, the issue keeps coming back.
Bowl season hasn't even started, but already, some marquee jobs have come open -- and, in some cases, apparently been filled.
Tennessee will name Lane Kiffin as Phillip Fulmer's replacement on Monday, and ESPN.com's Ivan Maisel is reporting that sources say Clemson will announce it has hired interim coach Dabo Sweeney as soon as contract details are worked out.
One of the few black candidates believed to have legitimate interest from a BCS school that's changing coaches is Illinois offensive coordinator Mike Locksley, who has been mentioned as a replacement for Greg Robinson at Syracuse. Buffalo's Turner Gill -- who, along with Shannon and Houston's Kevin Sumlin, is one of the three black coaches who have jobs for '09 -- is also thought to be a Syracuse candidate.
The only other prominent black assistant to be mentioned so far is Notre Dame offensive coordinator Michael Haywood, who reportedly was interviewed by Washington to replace Willingham.
Floyd Keith, executive director of the Black Coaches and Administrators, has said many times he'd like to see the number of black college football coaches get to at least 10 -- but now the total is headed the other way, even though nearly half of the players at the level formerly known as Division I-A are black.
Shannon, though, knows there's no easy solution. But he likes one idea.
"If they want to give minority coaches more of a chance, they should let there be three graduate assistants and one of them has to be a minority," Shannon said. "At least then, you'd be giving a minority coach a chance to develop. If you want to address the issue, allow a third spot to be a minority position and if you can't fill it, then you can't fill it. But give them a chance."
Gill told The Buffalo News for a story published Sunday that he always heard the same thing when he interviewed for various jobs before moving to western New York.
"Not the right fit," Gill told the newspaper. "The words 'not the right fit' can be looked at in several ways. Not to say that you weren't qualified but maybe they want a guy who's going to be there for four [or] five years or has a different offensive or defensive philosophy. There's so many different dynamics to the word 'fit."
In South Florida, diversity seems to fit.
Not only does Miami have a black football coach, it has a woman -- Donna Shalala, who served as secretary of health and human services under President Bill Clinton -- as university president. And, a black men's basketball coach in Frank Haith.
A few miles away at Florida International, Cuban-Americans serve as university president (Mitch Maidique), athletic director (Pete Garcia) and football coach (Mario Cristobal).
"It's a diverse community," Shannon said. "You can see every ethnic group in Miami. Coach Cristobal, he does a good job, and white, black, Hispanic, we've been this way for years in Miami. It's a melting pot more than anything."
It's hardly that way everywhere. According to a recent BCA hiring report card, only 12 of 199 vacancies between 1996 and 2006 went to blacks.
But the need to label -- and track the number of -- minority coaches is still puzzling to Shannon.
"I think we all should be treated as coaches equally," Shannon said. "But it's just how society is. The minority deal is always going to be there."
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report..
Ever wonder why you don't see any Black Nascar drivers or members of the cockpit crews, let alone Black NASCAR officials. NASCAR relies on corporate sponsors more than any other sport. The responsibility of corporate sponsors like Ford, Walmart, and Home Depot who Black consumers spend their dollars with is to let it be known to the Nascar teams that they sponsor, that they want to see diversity and racism won't be tolerated. With the changing demographics of America, you would think that it would be in NASCAR's long term economic interest to increase its Black and minority fan base through employment diversity, but as usual, racism tends to cloud good judgement.
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NASCAR reaches deal to settle $225 million suit filed by former employeeTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: December 19, 2008 CHARLOTTE -- NASCAR has settled a $225 million lawsuit filed by a former official who said she was subjected to racial discrimination and sexual harassment during her two-plus years working for the stock-car organization, The Associated Press has learned. The suit was settled during a Dec. 3 mediation held in New York between Mauricia Grant and NASCAR.
Settlement terms were confidential. Grant, who is black, worked as a technical inspector responsible for certifying cars in NASCAR's second-tier Nationwide Series from January 2005 until her October 2007 termination. In the lawsuit filed in June in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Grant reported 23 specific incidents of alleged sexual harassment and 34 specific incidents of alleged racial and gender discrimination during her employment.
Among Grant's claims, she said she was referred to as "Nappy Headed Mo" and "Queen Sheba," by co-workers, was often told she worked on "colored people time," and was frightened by one official who routinely made Ku Klux Klan references. Grant also said she was subjected to sexual advances from male co-workers, two of whom allegedly exposed themselves to her, and graphic and lewd jokes.
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