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Phonte called to tell me this is the thing I had to read today. As a black North Carolinian. And he was right. Better than every second of that ESPN documentary and what I meant when I said MJ is bama. It is a time, a place, a cultural geography. https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/29180890/michael-jordan-history-flight">https://www.espn.com/nba/story...
I mean, look at this.
You either know about eating clay and creasy greens or you don& #39;t and almost no one knows that kind of black person anymore. MJ being who he is AND being from that? Is something fantastical.
And I love many of you, gently and so I say it with all due affection: there aren& #39;t a lot of people in media anymore who know this kind of culture. So it gets lost in translation.
Felt this in my spirit
My god, I& #39;m going home.
Like I don& #39;t even think but a handful people understood bama in this context https://twitter.com/tressiemcphd/status/1252052045940563968">https://twitter.com/tressiemc...
So I take back my earlier assessment that there isn& #39;t much left to say about MJ beyond a real exploration of his daddy issues. Apparently there was something left to say about MJ, it just wasn& #39;t about MJ.
Shout out to @KieseLaymon in this piece doing this good work. He knows what bama is.
