Honestly. It was a RACIAL INCIDENT. A RACIST INCIDENT.
A black football player tossed a souvenir football to a nice-looking WHITE GIRL. He pointed to her, he tossed the ball up to her. And sitting next to her? Ol' black Tony Williams, glowering, pissed off, and outraged that a white girl was getting a souvenir.
Do you blame the old bastard? I don't. It's 2014, but the man is 70. There's a good chance he's been called "nigger." If not, he's gotten the skunk eye from whites, which says "nigger." Either because of pure racism, or just not trusting him to do something illegal. Miles Davis once said that every black over 50 "should get a medal for putting up with that shit."
The incident was part of the NFL broadcast, and it's very clear that a black football player goes over to the front row, tosses the ball to the girl, and TONY WILLIAMS steals it away. Like any black shoplifter, the answer would be, "I'm just gettin' even with THE MAN." In this case, with THE BLONDE WHITE BITCH.
He smothered the ball so she couldn't get it from him, and was very glad to see her beg, and beg and plead for the ball back. Ha ha, white bitch! Bet he loved watching her cry.
If he bothered to say anything to her at the time, it would've probably been, "I got my rights." Or "Fuck you, white bitch."
A frame-by-frame blow-up shows that he nearly knocked her over.
Nearly breaking her arm is about the only thing he's apologized for. His attitude is very simple: he's been called a nigger at some point or other, so he's entitled to a football and a white girl isn't. THUMBS DOWN to the white girl.
Who really believes his shit about he wanted to give it to his "baby." A baby girl who doesn't even know what a football is??
The white girl was wearing a Cincinatti Bengals jersey. The football player was with the Bengals, too. So why is Tony Williams, the NEW ORLEANS SAINTS FAN, so eager to get a football thrown by a Bengals player? Because it was aimed for a white girl.
That's his attitude. Naturally he couldn't quite get away with becoming the symbol for AARP Meets Black Power, so he toned it down slightly, but his arrogance is palpable. Never mind the ball wasn't thrown to him and wasn't for him, he took it anyway. Entitlement.
If it was a black teenager seated next to Williams, you bet it would've been different. Ol' Grandpa Tony would've never muscled the ball away in the first place.
This is America, and the black man's been downtrodden enough. And if a black man wants to toss a football to a white girl...NO. It belongs to Tony Williams. And, frankly, let's add that if some redneck asshole was sitting next to that girl, it's very possible the redneck would've grabbed the ball, too, and for the same reason. How DARE a black football player toss a ball to a white girl? The redneck would not have given it back either. He would've made up some shit about giving it to an 8 year-old girl who would've preferred a Barbie doll.
The use of "nigger" here is the truth. Nigger nigger nigger. Go talk to Paul Mooney. He shouts it on stage all the time, supposedly so people wake up to the truth. Yep, there ARE prejudices, there are resentments, and there is pain, and none of it will change if people hide from the truth. The truth is this Tony Williams had a moment where he wasn't just an old nigger, he was a freedom fighter. That football was the symbol of civil rights. Or something like that.
He's no different than the father of the Williams sisters, who spent the better part of the last 20 years screaming and hollering that his girls, millionaires treated like royalty, are always victims of bad calls and discrimination. He was such an embarrassment the girl apologized for him, and his ex-wife would pointedly sit as far away from him as possible. But the press kept letting him run his mouth out of white guilt. Who knew how much "nigger" stuff this old guy endured while pushing his kids to become tennis players?
At best, the media's mumbled "Chivalry is Dead." Tony's response to that? "I love my wife!" Well, yeah, and yo' grand daughter. And no white bitch.
Telling the truth would not have been wise. It would've made Tony seem like just a paranoid asshole and a crotchety, surly old racist son of a bitch. And he wasn't quite ready to say out loud, "I've been the victim of racism, so I'll be racist, too."
Look at his posture. There he sits, damn well rooted to the chair by his asshole. No apologies. No doubts at all. At best, a grumpy line about how he didn't mean to hurt the white bitch, and if she got a bruise or something...too bad.
This is daily life. Go to a football stadium to escape your troubles, and watch uniformed people bash each other around within the rules of the game...and you've got to deal with the jerks sitting all around you, each with their own warped agenda, strange resentments, and fiendish need to see the home team win so that there's some justice and pride in their stupid lives.
Tony's grand daughter is only 8. She's still playing with dolls and may very likely grow up with absolutely no interest in football. She might grow up in a more integrated and sane world, read about how grandpa got that football for her, and toss it in the garbage.
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