The Moonball Blog

Thursday, March 22, 2007

Where is the sadness?

Zach Randolph lost a relative. A young man who died when he tried to intervene in fight. Another young black man dead.

We hear about the deaths associated with stars. The rest go with hardly any notice. We are three decades deep in culture where black on black murder happens with regularity. Assumed.

An issue bigger than this blog, perhaps. So I will bring in back to the NBA.

What kills me is that this story gets filed under 'Zach hangs around the wrong crowd.' Guarenteed. The JailBlazers aura still entices media, and they have long laid the back story on this one.

But even if it is true that he hangs out with the wrong crowd, it is also true that Zach's partner loses a cousin, some one she grew up with. Something very sad and very senseless happened. And that was reflected nowhere in the media. Or the NBA.

Sadness.

2 Comments:

  • Mike you have a good point. But Z-Bo is also making it very hard for that point to be heard and very easy for the media to keep the "Jail Blazers" story afloat. I don't care what he does in his free time. Yet, he shows a complete lack of judgment. If he's on leave then get on a plane. The story of his whereabouts while the Blazers were playing on Tuesday night is ridiculous.

    By Blogger Knick33, at 10:10 PM  

  • Sure. I am not defending Zach, per se. Though people often have f*cked up and destructive ways of dealing with grief.

    My sadness is for culture where Zach's story does not exist in isolation.

    By Blogger The Green, at 3:17 AM  

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