INDIANAPOLIS, IN — America’s most polarizing white supremacist of 2016 just received a very public show of support from another well-known suspected white supremacist.
For those who don’t follow sports, Bob “Bobby” Knight is a man who made his name in the sport of basketball, coaching major college programs such as Indiana University (where he cemented his legacy as a coach by winning three national championships), and Texas Tech where he coached in the twilight of his coaching career.
While the list of Knight’s on-the-court accomplishments appear to be plentiful, the opposite can be said about Bob Knight as a person off the court. In a 1988 interview with famed media personality Connie Chung, Knight appeared to celebrate the raping of women, stating that “if rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it”. In spite of making such an atrocious remark, white society’s reverence for Knight remained as strong as ever. However, his star power would lose some of its luster in 2000 when the news broke that Knight was physically assaulting students. White supremacists and suspected white supremacists alike often dismiss accounts of Knight’s bigotry towards Black players–simply dismissing the coach’s shenanigans as a ‘competitive fire’ used to galvanize the players on his team. In 2000, a Black NBA coach by the name of Butch Carter (who played for Knight at Indiana U) wrote a book which claimed that Knight called his players “niggers”, including his soon-to-be NBA bound star player, Isiah Thomas.
It was written in Carter’s book that the coach “does not like educated, strong-willed Blacks”. This would probably explain why Knight has openly criticized the current climate surrounding the game of basketball, in which Black players are making unlimited amounts of money while taking the trajectory of their careers into their own hands.
Fast forward to last night’s primary in the state of Indiana, and Bob Knight steps forward to announce his endorsement of Donald Trump. “There has never been a presidential candidate prepared to the length that this man is. You will be helping our government take the first step toward what all of us want our government to be like”, the former basketball coach told the crowd of Trump supporters on hand.
While many people would overlook Bob Knight’s endorsement of Donald Trump as happenstance, it should be noted that suspected white supremacists of Knight’s ilk oftentimes have open access to Black youths–namely young Black males–where they become revered as “father figures” and mentors to these unsuspecting Melanoid youth…only for them to expose their suppressed white supremacist tendencies and hatred (for Black people) years after countless young Black men have been groomed and influenced by them. Bob Knight and his role in the lives of young Black men over the years highlights the desperate need for strong Black male leadership for the next generation of Black males.
B. Clark
This jerk has been living off of his legacy too damn long.he always came off as an arrogant bully when he was coaching back in the day but hailed as an innovator. Fuck this piece of redneck shit and his punk ass friend,donald chump.birds of a feather,flock together.
bobby knight always conducted himself like an animal, so no surprise.
Bobby Knight was never sufficiently punished for his wrong doing. Abuse chronicled over his entire tenure at Indiana and probably longer, but perhaps unreported. Knight made a career out of coaching young meloanoid talents but at their expense as he is what is known in sports as a “yeller” a coaching style that uses intimidation and often berates its players. PJ Carlesimo, who once coached the Golden State Warriors and the Portland Trailblazers, was often described as a coach that used that particular style. Latrell Sprewell can certainy attest to that. Unlike the Bobby Knight choking incident, Sprewell back in ’97 wasn’t hearing any of it one day in practice and had to have his fingers peeled from around Calesimo’s neck. Sprewell has gone on record about the racism that he experienced while playing for Golden State back then, including Carlesimo allegedly calling players “niggers”.
The idea that these sports teams, college and professional, operate as a sort of glamorized plantation is not new and explains everything that we may hear past and present about melanoid athletes’ adversities.
Which brings us back to Bobby Knight and his endorsement of Donald Trump as a presidential candidate. It stands to reason that since White supremacists openly endorse Trump’s candidacy, the green light has been given to all of the fringe and part-time suspected supremacists like Bobby Knight.
Understand, the support that you see is not for the candidate Trump. Instead it’s for the seemingly supremacist ideals that he espouses. The supremacists have been wringing their hands together in hopes of supporting a candidate like Trump. Bobby Knight is no different from the rest.
This title should say famous racist confirmed basket ball coach…….!
I don’t think know one is surprised by this