This being Superbowl Sunday, I thought it interesting to discuss the power of cultural SYMBOLISM in the world of sports.
This is not for the weak-heart. The intention is not to offend but to bring forth what may be considered as controversial, if not overstood in proper cultural and symbolic context.
"Whether symbols are sacred or mundane, they make up a significant part of any cultural fabric. They have the power to transform a concept into a reality, to speak without words and to effect emotional responses from us. Understanding the meaning behind symbolic behaviour and symbols themselves allows us great insight into our world and what we deem important and valuable."
Dr. Welsing once even postulated an amusing theory which explained popular American sports. It was called “The Balls Theory,” which argues that in games which are played with large brown balls—basketball, football—Black players have always dominated, but in golf and tennis, sports played with small white balls, White players have always ruled. At the end of the 20th century of course Tiger Woods, and Arthur Ashe, and other modern players became notable exceptions to that rule, but it still has much currency even today.
The following excerpt from Dr. Frances Cress Welsing’s The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors
In the game of billiards or pool, there are eight colored balls, a white ball and a long dark stick placed on a table. The object of the game is to use the long stick in causing the white ball to knock all of the colored balls under the table. The last colored ball knocked under the table is the black ball. When the game is over, the white ball is the only ball that remains on top of the table with the long dark stick. Then the game starts again.
. . . Interestingly, golf, the most “elite” of all of the ball games in the white supremacy culture, is played with a long dark-colored stick or “iron” held between the legs. This iron is smashed against the side of a very small white ball. The object is to knock this small white ball into a hole in the black earth (black mother earth — the Black female?).
. . . Is it a reflection of white male self-hate and self-rejection and rejection of the inadequacy of the white testicles (“balls”) that the games played with small white balls involve the balls being attacked, hit, struck and knocked far way from the body-in an act of masochism; whereas by contrast, the games played with large brown balls involve holding onto and possessing the balls? No large brown balls are struck with objects in the white supremacy culture’s popular ball games. There is indeed significance in these facts.
. . . Is it not also curious that when white males are young and vigorous, they attempt to master the large brown balls, but as they become older and wiser, they psychologically resign themselves to their inability to master the large brown balls? Their focus then shifts masochistically to hitting the tiny white golf balls in disgust and resignation — in full final realization of white genetic recessiveness. It would be of further interest to ascertain the number of army generals in the white supremacy system who play golf (demean white genetic material) while planning for race war or the destruction of non-white genetic material.
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