Aight Aight Aight Bra Sub ... Celtics Beat The Lakers. Congratulations. But Why Does It Feel Like Jerry Quarry Just Beat Muhammad Ali?

Submariner said ...You're inadvertently showing your plantation negro side by confusing nomenclature with substance. With some of the most upright brothers currently playing basketball and a black head coach, the Celtics are an example of what you casually refer to as "black supremacy". Sure they have houligans cheering them on, but so what? Most fans forget that Bird, Parish, and McHale were coached by K.C. Jones, a black man who, unlike Detroit's Chuck Daly, is willfully ignored. And Bill Russell was the showed his genius as both player and coach.
Denmark Vesey said ... Yeah that's true Sub. I failed to give it up properly to the young brothas in the green and white. Doc Rivers is a tremendous coach who deserves all the respect in the world. If they played for a team called the Alabama Ku Klux Klan - it wouldn't make a difference. I stand corrected.

However, peep an example of the origins of my anti-Boston bias:

"It is perhaps somewhat ironic that I came back for my postgraduate work to Boston, a city my father once described as the most racist in America. My father is Bill Russell, center for the Boston Celtics dynasty that won 11 championships in 13 years. Recently, I asked him if it was difficult to send me to school here. When he first went to Boston in 1956, the Celtics' only black player, fans and sportswriters subjected him to the worst kind of unbridled bigotry. When he retired from the National Basketball Association in 1969, he moved to the West Coast, where he has remained.

One night we came home from a three-day weekend and found we had been robbed. Our house was in a shambles, and ''NIGGA'' was spray-painted on the walls. The burglars had poured beer on the pool table and ripped up the felt. They had broken into my father's trophy case and smashed most of the trophies. I was petrified and shocked at the mess; everyone was very upset. The police came, and after a while, they left. It was then that my parents pulled pack their bedcovers to discover that the burglars had defecated in their bed." By KAREN RUSSELL; KAREN K. RUSSELL IS A 1987 GRADUATE OF THE HARVARD LAW SCHOOL.