BLACKS IN SPORTS: Can you spell boycott
By Andre Austin
Attention, Attention Sports Cadet
Have you read the contract fine print
Did U read the Wall Street Journal to understand how much your Master Nets
No U were in the dorm room eating Hot Dogs and drinking a pint
Of the liquor: “Captain Morgan”
Be careful now because they profit off of healthy organs
Your arms, legs, feet but not the head of your pain
You’re nothing but an asset, a profit and a gain
You are their ace, their Jack of Spades
But admiring the Black beauty , Black love between Union & Wade
Stop a minute, Hey your life, your future is at stake
And you didn’t read all that was put on the plate
Running around like a horse track stallion on their Ranch
Please go google the Atlantic Monthly article by Taylor Branch (2012)
Catch an injury and u loose the 4-year ride
You signed all the papers without your eyes being wide
Now you on the bench and soon to be kicked to the side
Then you contemplating drinking a cocktail of cyanide
Now you just under a school daze
The boosters and the alumni got you in a have
Head turwling off of concussions and couldn’t learn a lesson
Do I take the poison pill or do I take a Smith & Wesson
Now you can’t fight or play no more in their sports ring; U were just a passing fling
Because the quarterback can’t throw again with his arm in a sling
Nevertheless, the “Student-Athlete” should still hear school bells ring
Edit the contract towards lifetime education; with one accord we all should sing
Education for all the players and their offspring
The university wants a Sports Messiah’s son who comes to seek and save
The college from its red financial grave
The dealers in the bodies; wake up tasked and plundered slave
While the fans inside the Bread & circus do the mindless wave
Crooks in the sky-box have no love for you and you are not their friend
Watch the documentary of the Fab five produced by ESPN
Did Chris Weber take that time out or did he take a dive
We love our black men who boats, showboat and trash talk some jive
We can watch a B-Ball or football game eating Captain Crunch
Factories can roll Cadillac’s from assembly lines but can’t duplicate Ali’s punch
Or Magic Johnson spells of casting off a supper bad pass
Dick Gregory accused of point shaving; somebody kick the ancient Mummy’s assss
You do the tango while we do the touchdown Dance & trash talk we say
Our effectiveness is diminished if we suppress a flamboyant style of play
Just ask Ali with his voodoo doll of Frazier as a Gorilla
Reached his climax peek with the thriller in Manila
A spiritual man gives all he can for not
A politician takes all he can from what you got
When the black Athlete becomes aware his temper will surely get hot
The **** will hit the fan when he learns how to spell B.O.Y.C.O.T.T
By Andre Austin
Attention, Attention Sports Cadet
Have you read the contract fine print
Did U read the Wall Street Journal to understand how much your Master Nets
No U were in the dorm room eating Hot Dogs and drinking a pint
Of the liquor: “Captain Morgan”
Be careful now because they profit off of healthy organs
Your arms, legs, feet but not the head of your pain
You’re nothing but an asset, a profit and a gain
You are their ace, their Jack of Spades
But admiring the Black beauty , Black love between Union & Wade
Stop a minute, Hey your life, your future is at stake
And you didn’t read all that was put on the plate
Running around like a horse track stallion on their Ranch
Please go google the Atlantic Monthly article by Taylor Branch (2012)
Catch an injury and u loose the 4-year ride
You signed all the papers without your eyes being wide
Now you on the bench and soon to be kicked to the side
Then you contemplating drinking a cocktail of cyanide
Now you just under a school daze
The boosters and the alumni got you in a have
Head turwling off of concussions and couldn’t learn a lesson
Do I take the poison pill or do I take a Smith & Wesson
Now you can’t fight or play no more in their sports ring; U were just a passing fling
Because the quarterback can’t throw again with his arm in a sling
Nevertheless, the “Student-Athlete” should still hear school bells ring
Edit the contract towards lifetime education; with one accord we all should sing
Education for all the players and their offspring
The university wants a Sports Messiah’s son who comes to seek and save
The college from its red financial grave
The dealers in the bodies; wake up tasked and plundered slave
While the fans inside the Bread & circus do the mindless wave
Crooks in the sky-box have no love for you and you are not their friend
Watch the documentary of the Fab five produced by ESPN
Did Chris Weber take that time out or did he take a dive
We love our black men who boats, showboat and trash talk some jive
We can watch a B-Ball or football game eating Captain Crunch
Factories can roll Cadillac’s from assembly lines but can’t duplicate Ali’s punch
Or Magic Johnson spells of casting off a supper bad pass
Dick Gregory accused of point shaving; somebody kick the ancient Mummy’s assss
You do the tango while we do the touchdown Dance & trash talk we say
Our effectiveness is diminished if we suppress a flamboyant style of play
Just ask Ali with his voodoo doll of Frazier as a Gorilla
Reached his climax peek with the thriller in Manila
A spiritual man gives all he can for not
A politician takes all he can from what you got
When the black Athlete becomes aware his temper will surely get hot
The **** will hit the fan when he learns how to spell B.O.Y.C.O.T.T