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The Z Man
Apr 18, 2024
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I would imagine very few people in our thing pay much attention to basketball because you people are terrible racists! I am kidding, of course, but of all the sports, I bet basketball is the one our side likes the least. The racializing of basketball was one of the first salvos in the cultural race war. You can probably argue that it was the gateway drug for what became the civil rights movement.

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