Random black act of violence
Crazy weekend for me. Friday, played poker with some friends, won both donkaments - lol. Saturday morning I entered into a 3 on 3 basketball tournament in town that lasted all afternoon. The night ended with a drive down to Niagara Falls to celebrate a friends bachelor party. So fuckin tired.
I was excited to play the basketball tournament even though I've never been the best baller around but I usually am at least competitive. I was definitely a bit rusty but I feel that after the third game I finally got some confidence back and was semi-helpful to my team. They put us in the mens age 19-29 height 6'1+ bracket because we happened to have 1 person over 6'1 on our team. Even still the competition was a lot weaker than I thought and we managed to play pretty well, at least making it to the next day for the semi-finals. Most of the games were pretty tame, with some standard "streetball" roughness involved, but nothing serious - except for our last game.
Now I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to interactions with black people. I went to a high school where the population of black people was outnumbered by our school's population of gay Librarians. And it could have easily been just a coincidence that they were black because ass-hole's exist in all shapes and sizes, but damn, these blacks were supreme ass-hole's. I'll try to set the scene. We are 4 average sized white guys and they are 4 large black men. Each was at least 6' with an average weight of at least 250. So right off the bat, we are fairly intimidated, especially in an outdoor, streetball setting. But we came to play, and don't really care too much initially. We couldn't have been less prepared for what would happen as they seemed like fairly mild mannered dudes pre-game. Within the first 20 seconds of play, they've already received 2 fouls, 2 flagrant fouls and a technical foul. For some reason they just want to kick the shit out of us. After every in-game confrontation they would verbally threaten us, basically implying that they will fuck us up if we say or do anything. It was pretty scary and I didn't really know what to do. I mean, they were way way past the line of trash talking. Everything was said in an intense, non-playful manner. I initially thought they could only be joking because, what did they really expect us to do? But after the third elbow to the temple and the fourth blatant shove to the ground, all humor was lost. I could only keep a cool head and just try to play as best as I could. The ref was useless, making the occasional foul call but basically letting them have their way with us. And it wasn't even as if they were good players. They couldn't shoot, couldn't pass or really play defense. Their only strength was their physical advantage, which they "used" to their advantage at every illegal opportunity. One time I was actually toppled onto on the ground during a rebound scuffle, then grabbed directly by the throat. I just tried to get up without reacting, but that strategy was met with an intentional off-play elbow to the face which resulted in yet another technical foul.
I mean it was just about as ridiculous as the size of that last paragraph.
So to make a long story short, we stayed competitive with them despite their ridiculous behavior, eventually losing 16-12. I believe their final words when walking off court was "fuckin punk ass bitches". And I realize this story seems kind of one sided. You are probably sitting there assuming that I'm not telling the other side of the story - that we were equally as aggressive and confrontational. But I'm not joking. Everything they did completely caught us off guard as we never did anything to antagonize them. They were just mean, senseless, black ass-holes.
It was just a ridiculous incident which should have never been allowed. They were clearly in the wrong, at times bordering on criminal physical activity. And we were left with no recourse. We couldn't even say anything, let alone do anything. How they managed to get past one game without getting kicked out is amazing to me. And I'm all for competitive, aggressive play and trash talk. Our team actually enjoys a rough game. But we aren't going to go out there and fear for our fucking lives just to play an essentially meaningless basketball game.
Anyways the point of this post I guess was to say that I've never really been involved in an uninitiated act of violence with anyone before. I mean, if we were being mouthy or physical I would understand retaliation. But for them to just randomly attack us for the entire game, it just, well doesn't make black people look very good, especially with their entourage cheering them on. Like I said though, it may be a sample size thing, as I have very little experience with black people, but I can confidently say that in my many sports altercations I've never ever had to deal with anything like that shit.
I knew I should have brought my gat...
I was excited to play the basketball tournament even though I've never been the best baller around but I usually am at least competitive. I was definitely a bit rusty but I feel that after the third game I finally got some confidence back and was semi-helpful to my team. They put us in the mens age 19-29 height 6'1+ bracket because we happened to have 1 person over 6'1 on our team. Even still the competition was a lot weaker than I thought and we managed to play pretty well, at least making it to the next day for the semi-finals. Most of the games were pretty tame, with some standard "streetball" roughness involved, but nothing serious - except for our last game.
Now I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to interactions with black people. I went to a high school where the population of black people was outnumbered by our school's population of gay Librarians. And it could have easily been just a coincidence that they were black because ass-hole's exist in all shapes and sizes, but damn, these blacks were supreme ass-hole's. I'll try to set the scene. We are 4 average sized white guys and they are 4 large black men. Each was at least 6' with an average weight of at least 250. So right off the bat, we are fairly intimidated, especially in an outdoor, streetball setting. But we came to play, and don't really care too much initially. We couldn't have been less prepared for what would happen as they seemed like fairly mild mannered dudes pre-game. Within the first 20 seconds of play, they've already received 2 fouls, 2 flagrant fouls and a technical foul. For some reason they just want to kick the shit out of us. After every in-game confrontation they would verbally threaten us, basically implying that they will fuck us up if we say or do anything. It was pretty scary and I didn't really know what to do. I mean, they were way way past the line of trash talking. Everything was said in an intense, non-playful manner. I initially thought they could only be joking because, what did they really expect us to do? But after the third elbow to the temple and the fourth blatant shove to the ground, all humor was lost. I could only keep a cool head and just try to play as best as I could. The ref was useless, making the occasional foul call but basically letting them have their way with us. And it wasn't even as if they were good players. They couldn't shoot, couldn't pass or really play defense. Their only strength was their physical advantage, which they "used" to their advantage at every illegal opportunity. One time I was actually toppled onto on the ground during a rebound scuffle, then grabbed directly by the throat. I just tried to get up without reacting, but that strategy was met with an intentional off-play elbow to the face which resulted in yet another technical foul.
I mean it was just about as ridiculous as the size of that last paragraph.
So to make a long story short, we stayed competitive with them despite their ridiculous behavior, eventually losing 16-12. I believe their final words when walking off court was "fuckin punk ass bitches". And I realize this story seems kind of one sided. You are probably sitting there assuming that I'm not telling the other side of the story - that we were equally as aggressive and confrontational. But I'm not joking. Everything they did completely caught us off guard as we never did anything to antagonize them. They were just mean, senseless, black ass-holes.
It was just a ridiculous incident which should have never been allowed. They were clearly in the wrong, at times bordering on criminal physical activity. And we were left with no recourse. We couldn't even say anything, let alone do anything. How they managed to get past one game without getting kicked out is amazing to me. And I'm all for competitive, aggressive play and trash talk. Our team actually enjoys a rough game. But we aren't going to go out there and fear for our fucking lives just to play an essentially meaningless basketball game.
Anyways the point of this post I guess was to say that I've never really been involved in an uninitiated act of violence with anyone before. I mean, if we were being mouthy or physical I would understand retaliation. But for them to just randomly attack us for the entire game, it just, well doesn't make black people look very good, especially with their entourage cheering them on. Like I said though, it may be a sample size thing, as I have very little experience with black people, but I can confidently say that in my many sports altercations I've never ever had to deal with anything like that shit.
I knew I should have brought my gat...
posted by RikkiDee at 10:36 PM
2 Comments:
yo smithers where have u been, i've been hitting the MTT scene hard and need ur support jesus, come back and play, GO ON MSN!
wp
I can attest to Smiths accurate reconstruction of that day. They were straight up gangstas!
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