the origin of basketball


From: runcible@scsn.net (S. Taylor)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.white-power Subject: Re: Black Impudence
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 00:49:28 -0400
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If you think my last expose was shocking (it sure shut Pyramid down in a hurry), wait until you hear this:

Many people wonder why blacks are as good as White People at basketball when in all other sports their performance is so piss-poor. Now the question many of us hard-core White People ask ourselves when football season ends and we are forced to watch all this silly bouncing and leaping about is: how in hell did anyone think of such an absurd game? Why in the world would it occur to a sane White Man to create a sport where you have to bounce a big, orange rubber ball around and throw it through a suspended hoop?

This question festered in the back of my mind for years until the other day I stumbled upon the answer. I was rummaging around my family's attic looking for my grandfather's copy of Mein Kampf when I found a 1937 issue of American Mercury. I started leafing through it and found out the TRUTH about the origin of basketball.

As everyone knows, basketball was invented in 1908 by a YMCA coach named Michael Nesmith, who hung fruit baskets at opposite ends of a gymnasium and gradually developed it into the sport we know today. What has been left out of the story since the liberals began their crusade against common sense, decency and truth is that the sport was actually tailored to the abilities of a half-dozen juvinile delinquent negro boys which had been dumped into his care when the local reform school became overcrowded. These boys were causing all sorts of commotion, fighting and carrying on, and being resentful because the White kids were whipping their black asses at every sport they tried.

Now Nesmith was getting tired of having to whip them every five minutes and decided it was going to be a mighty long summer if he didn't find some way to distract them. So observing their extra-long arms and their simian knuckle-dragging postures he began to try to figure out a game they would actually be able to do. Noting that monkeys at the zoo would throw coconuts at the ground to break them, he decided that this game should involve a lot of bouncing balls off the floor. There should be a lot of starting and stopping to take advantage of the traction from their extra long feet. And, of course, there should be a lot of arm waving and leaping around. As a final touch he hung the baskets high in the air so they could hang by their arms from them. Naturally, they excelled at the sport and their behavior improved.

When the U.S. Department of the Interior caught wind of this new sport, which so ably domesticated a degenerate crew of darkies, they quickly passed a law requiring basketball teams to be instated at all black public schools. How were they to know that in 1995 White People would be forced to drink out of McDonald's cups with pictures of negroes on them, thanks to this ridiculous new sport.

You might say that basketball was where affirmative action got started.