Cracker Barrel of Bullcrap (on Media Madness)

NinaIllingworth June 17, 2019November 5, 2022 2019 NBA Finals, Alameda County, Alameda County Sherriff's Office, Alan Strickland, America is racist, assault, Barack Obama, Black Lives Matter, Deadspin, Deep Dives, Donald Trump, driving while black, Essays, fascism, Ferguson, Gestapo, Golden State Warriors, Greg Wiener, Gregory Ahern, investigation, investigative analysis, JA5, Justice, Kyle Korver, Masai Ujiri, Mass incarceration, Media Madness, Michael McCann, MP6, NBA, Nina Illingworth, no justice, Oakland, Offsite Writing, Olga Rodriguez, Oracle Arena, Patrick Redford, Player's Tribune, Police, police state, police violence, protests, racial politics, racial profiling, racialized police violence, Racism, racist policing, Ray Kelly, Rob Gillies, Sandra Bland, Sheriff Gregory Ahern, Social Justice, Sports, Toronto Raptors, white supremacy

Editor’s note: as part of a project to turn ninaillingworth.com into a central hub for all of my writing (thanks to ongoing censorship of my work by giant tech companies) I’m spending the next little while cross-posting older material from other platforms.

Please accept my apologies for any potentially unwanted email notifications in advance; we should be finished sometime within the next couple of weeks unless I fall behind schedule again.

Alameda County Burning

As I mentioned in the teaser for my article about the NBA’s feting of Paul Kagame, I’m pretty much always excited to combine my love of professional basketball with political analysis I can share with my readers; it’s sort of a nerdy little treat for me. I say “pretty much” here however, to account for stories like this one from June 17th, 2019 on Media Madness; an investigation into the racist profiling and physical assault of Toronto Raptor’s team president Masai Ujiri by an Alameda County Sheriff’s Deputy, in an incident that made me genuinely ashamed of my country. Using the awesome power of search engine technology and watching a couple of live videos of the event, I was able to conclusively demonstrate that the cracker pig (and his Pepe-loving boss) were lying about who assaulted who, in a way no mainstream media organization, let alone sports media company, would apparently dare. Of course, as I predicted, Alameda County waited for the furor to die down and eventually dropped their absurd assault charges against Ujiri, but to my understanding, nobody has faced any consequences for the incident.

Keep that in mind the next time some pasty rube tells you that white supremacy in America is over; after all, if fascist cracker cops can assault an internationally famous basketball executive, directly in front of 19,000 fans, immediately after the conclusion of the 2019 NBA finals, and effectively get away with it – then what hope does your average African American man have against the cracker carceral machine?

“We all deserved better than this media minion, cop-sucking clown show; not just the NBA and Masai Ujiri, but every single person who tuned in to get the straight dope and instead left with an ear full of reactionary Gestapo lies the (primarily white) talking heads were too afraid to challenge. For one brief but beautiful moment, the 2019 NBA Finals transcended traditions, borders and all of our wildest expectations; then almost as quickly as it came and amid a cacophony of moronic collaborating stenographers – the cracker fascist establishment snuffed it out with a barrel full of old-fashioned, racist American pigshit.”

To check it out over on Media Madness, click on the quotation block above, or the header below:

Cracker Barrel of Bullcrap

nina illingworth

Independent writer, critic and analyst with a left focus. Please help me fight corporate censorship by sharing my articles with your friends online!

You can find my work at ninaillingworth.com, Can’t You Read, Media Madness and my Patreon Blog

Updates available on Instagram, Mastodon and Facebook. Podcast at “No Fugazi” on Soundcloud.

Inquiries and requests to speak to the manager @ASNinaWrites

Chat with fellow readers online at Anarcho Nina Writes on Discord!

“It’s ok Willie; swing heil, swing heil…”