Was doing a little reading of Chuck Klosterman (Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs) today and he had a chapter about the Celtics/Lakers rivalry and within that was something interesting that I believe David Halberstam came up with about Magic Johnson and Larry Bird.This is taken out of context and is in no way, shape or form intended to be a commentary on race, just something I found interesting. It is in fact discussing race but Halberstam points out that Magic and Larry sort of lived a paradox of pathologies according to Klosterman.
Magic who is African-American had a middle class upbringing, that of which a was a more traditional "white" experience while Larry who is white, lived an impoverished, screwed up childhood which was more stereotypically black.
Once again, not a commentary on race at all in the slightest, yet something that I found interesting and just wanted to throw into my blog.
Great blog topic! People are afraid to touch race; it's a touchy subject. Magic's parents were hard workers, discipline, all about doing the right thing and Magic's father took time to be with his kids. Magic loved the game, worked hard at it. Read his material, great stuff.
ReplyDeleteYeah race most definitely is a touchy subject. I honestly don't have many opinions on it, but I did think that observation about the way Magic and Larry grew up was pretty interesting.
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