There’s a new league forming in professional basketball, at least if a southern white fundamentalist group has anything to do with it. The All-American Basketball Alliance is reaching out to white — only — basketball players in southern cities such as Augusta (Ga.), Chattanooga (Tenn.), and Albany (Ga.) to start a professional league that is “fundamentally sound,” a press release from the group read.
According to the lead commissioner of the group, Don Moose Lewis, the game is being tainted by blacks that are carrying guns, attacking fans, and are “street” trained. “Fundamentally sound white players are a vanishing species,” Lewis said.
Don’t go scrambling for those “whites only” signs too fast, though … Augusta officials are not pleased.
“I am a sports enthusiast myself and I just don’t think that idea is gonna fly in Augusta, Georgia. We’ve done so much to foster a sense of inclusiveness in this city,” said Augusta’s mayor, Deke Copenhaver. “You still see lots of players that are fundamentally sound. Basketball is played in a lot of different fashions, you have five different positions, so I think basketball is basketball.”
Basic requirements for joining the team include being a white male — with two white parents — and you must be a natural born American citizen.
I can already hear the counter punches: “You people have all-black schools, all-black networks, and all-black awards shows, so why can’t we …” Is that a valid point? –gerald radford
