tani b

…some Black parents are loving their Black children to death by being this deliberately oblivious to America’s system of racism. This kind of unreal, unconsciousness does your babies no good. You’re preparing them to be unaware, vulnerable … to be unprepared.

This is not how we should be raising our children.

(allegedly) In this particular climate in our country, unfortunately, there maybe more cases like this. And it’s not coincidental or allegedly accidental. I don’t know how much more to express this but some in the ruling/dominant racist white controlling power (whether elite or not) is in a state of chaos. [allegedly] They are at a stage of no return from that same supernatural occurrence that Thomas Jefferson wrote about centuries ago—and because they are there, they will be doing heinous things to Black people as their way to cope with their existence. I keep telling yall this. Befriending Black people with nefarious intentions, getting in relationship with you, inviting you and you’re the singular Black person there is not just some happenstance.

Get out the mythological, comatose bubble and stay in reality.

This league and those at the top have enabled, encouraged and condoned the racism since she got drafted and they refuse to make any real moves to be aggressive about what is the required intolerance for racism.

The 30th year and not one Black woman is head coach of any team. They still got retirees speaking ill on current players on behalf of 1 singular player who has barely played three business days for their entire career — and atp, it’s tired and ancient to keep this up. That commissioner is still employed. A member of congress is getting involved w/ faux “outrage” and using time on sports & entertainment and not state politics.

She let herself get in her own way — again.

There were so many people who went above and beyond to get her and I fr thought she found her forever home with Vegas. I truly thought she had longevity with the Aces. Or at least being there for maybe 3 seasons or more.

They chose her. It wasn’t a despite of or regardless of any prior history. They wanted her with the team. And she had whole legends and vets (former player/ coach) championing on her behalf to get her. All this alignment happened for her!

I wish she would’ve just been a student under this organization and learned from so much of the guidance that’s there. From her teammates and coach and all this winning history in their resume. At some point, she would’ve absolutely gotten a chip with them. She’s so good and this franchise really felt like a perfect match.

It’s disappointing that she didn’t get a chance to see the potential with this team. It’s disappointing that she fell back into old, detrimental habits and lost her opportunity. It’s disappointing she squandered this. It’s disappointing that she didn’t prove her past self wrong.

And we don’t know if this is definite for her. There could be another team that picks her up. She’s not an anomaly in being a vocal player against your own team (we’ve seen this in all leagues and from so many players. She ain’t the first to make slick comments about their own coach or peers or teammates). But it comes to a point of evolving from those old habits and maturing and recognizing the value within self to push past the very things that hemmed you up before. Otherwise, she’ll repeat this.