(speechless...) "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: bombcherryju...@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:34:34 -0800 Subject: [scifinoir2] ‘Whites only' basketball league announced http://www.ajc.com/news/whites-only-basketball-league-279688.html ‘Whites only' basketball league announced ShareThis Print E-mail By Mike Morris The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Is a new professional basketball league announced this week for real, or is it all just some sort of joke or publicity stunt by former pro wrestling promoter Don "Moose" Lewis? Your thoughts Do you think this is a legitimate venture or a publicity stunt? Legitimate venture Publicity stunt Vote More Atlanta area news » Reed: Atlanta must do better Two Douglass High students arrested for suspicious activity Lilburn road re-opens after gas leak Toyota's problems hit home Top news around the Web The Augusta Chronicle reported on Tuesday that the All-American Basketball Alliance plans to kick off its inaugural season in June and hopes that Augusta will be one of 12 cities to host teams. But here's the kicker: According to a press release the newspaper and other Augusta media outlets received from the new league, "only players that are natural-born United State citizens with both parents of Caucasian race are eligible to play in the league." That's right. Lewis, who calls himself the commissioner of the AABA, will exclude blacks and all foreigners from his new league, which the newspaper said will be based in Atlanta. According to the Chronicle, Lewis said he wants to emphasize "fundamental basketball" instead of "street ball" played by "people of color." "There's nothing hatred about what we're doing," Lewis told the paper. "I don't hate anyone of color." Lewis pointed out recent incidents in the NBA, including Gilbert Arenas' suspension for bringing a gun into the Washington Wizards locker room, and said, "Would you want to go to the game and worry about a player flipping you off or attacking you in the stands or grabbing their crotch?" But is Lewis, a former promoter of the International Wrestling Union, serious about his plans for such an exclusionary league, which he hopes will have teams in a dozen southeastern cities such as Augusta, Albany and Chattanooga, Tenn.? The AABA apparently has no Web site, and efforts early Thursday to reach Lewis through the telephone number listed on the league's press release were unsuccessful. "I am a sports enthusiast myself, but I just don't think that idea's going to fly in Augusta, Ga.," Augusta Mayor Deke Copenhaver told WJBF-TV. >From Mr.Worf: I found this link to a website for it. http://www.abalive.com/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390707/direct/01/
