RUNITBACK FRIDAY – 4/12/2024

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There is still violence in Gaza, Dawn Staley is a mood, Raven Johnson is the next level of pressure, OJ Simpson getting 6 feet deep, Tax Day is Monday, and my birthday is in 6 weeks!

Let’s get it!

#the4:44Album #TheJuice #OJSimpson #ThereHeGo

I was 13, almost 14, when OJ Simpson was in that white Bronco in LA. I remember watching this low speed car chase at my grandmother’s house, and I remember when OJ got acquitted when I was 15.

I also grew up in a house that my father was huge football fan, and had nothing but praise for his talent. I remember many a little Black boy who wanted to be a Running Back because of him and Bo Jackson.

I also remember watching sips of this trial and just AMAZED! As a DV survivor, as a woman who was married to a duplicitous man— I can completely believe he was abusive to Nicole. I can also believe the LAPD is a racist and crooked as Klan Meeting! There are things I believe, things I know, and things I see that make eulogizing this Black man complicated.

What I will say is Icarus has many sons.

Note: Watch for the FIRESTARTER HOTSHEET over the weekend for this. I got big feelings.

#NCAA #SouthCarolina #DawnStaley #SouthCarolinaGamecocks

This is the most I have ever heard about Iowa in my entire life. I do not care about that chick from Iowa—I cannot care! And no, I don’t hate her. What is the most annoying about that chick from Iowa can be competitive and when Black female athletes do the same thing, it’s disrespectful!

Nall.

And the fact that the narrative for this 2023-2024 season focused solely SOLELY on her?! And not Dawn Staley and the GAMECOCK! I got a whole issue, observation and a problem! CNN had to be checked about this! Stop playing in our faces.

We see you.

#Beyoncè #CowboyCarter #AsaBlanton #StayMad

This album is really making people pressed like an Easter suit.

Asa Blanton, whom the Internet found is a nursing student in Indiana, tells how Black people aren’t country, and neither is Beyoncé— and how we were “pickin” and not being paid.

And now the internet found out this chick’s everything and called the Indiana State Board of Nursing! Racism should be considered a COD for many a Black person! If she feels like this about an album, how would she treat a Black patient?

Mmph.

Before I leave y’all this week: