Boxing
This person became the first Black Heavy Weight boxing champion ever in 1908.
Who is Jack Johnson?
Because Kobe Bryant and his immediate family held THIS religious belief, there was more peace with his family due to the idea of an afterlife.
What is Catholicism?
The preponderant influence or authority over others: domination
What is hegemony?
SuperBowl LVII was a historic mark as these two positions were held by African Americans for the first time in NFL history.
What is Quarterback?
Who is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar?
Many of Jack Johnson's fights took place here, as many American cities would not host a Black fighter.
What is Sydney Australia?
According to THIS philosopher, after one dies, they are simply dead...though in a documentary examining his own looming death, he toyed with the idea of transcendence.
Who is Fingarette?
The action of attacking or assertively rejecting cherished beliefs and institutions or established values and practices
What is Iconoclasm?
This superstar, continued history as he is now the ONLY Black quarterback with two (2) Super Bowl Championships.
Who is Patrick Mahomes?
Kareem has three NCAA titles at UCLA, six titles and six MVP awards in the NBA. Arguably, the greatest center of all time. But he, unlike MJ, Lebron and Kobe, will never have THIS trophy as he boycotted the 1968 event.
What is an Olympic trophy?
This fighter paid his boxing proceeds to the Navy and served in the military in segregated units. He was praised by all, and he even fought boxing matches for the military around the world for his ordinary segregated soldiers pay. Known for beating a German during WWII
Who is Joe Louis?
This branch of Islam was founded in Detroit by W.F Muhammad in 1930. Geared toward racial uplift for African Americans and demonized Christianity and White people. One of the leading members was Muhammad Ali.
What is the Nation of Islam?
This is a reminder of mortality
What is Memento Mori?
This action by Tim Tebow to display his religious beliefs was welcomed while the same action by Colin Kaepernick to display his disdain for police brutality was demonized.
What is kneeling?
Because of Kareem's size, the NCAA banned THIS basketball the following year.
What is dunking?
This fighter came from the slums like Mike Tyson and reared by Cus D'Amato like Tyson. Unlike Tyson, we was inoffensive, frugal and churchgoing. He even bought a house in a white neighborhood, married a white woman and became the symbol of the integrationist ideal
Who is Floyd Patterson?
Before converting to THIS religion from Catholicism in the summer of 1968, he went by the name of Lew Alcindor.
What is Sunni Islam?
THIS is to reject all religious and moral principles in the belief that life is meaningless and lacks any hope
What is nihilism?
The NFL has a strong connection to the US government and US "values". The Pentagon spent nearly $5.5 million dollars to nearly have teams to "salute troops," in an attempt to raise THIS sense of pride.
What is American or National pride?
Kobe Bryant, also known as the Black Mamba, passed alongside his daughter and seven others on their way to THIS event
What is a basketball game?
A very disliked sports star, he was introduced to boxing in prison and turned professional after his release. He was poor, a street fighter, illiterate and not the "ideal athlete" for many.
Who is Sonny Liston?
THIS Buddhist teaching allows us to peek into the world of rituals and play-in-the-zone in basketball and sports in general.
What is sunyata?
The state or experience of being isolated from a group or an activity to which one should belong or in which one should be involved--not an extraterrestrial colony.
What is alienation?
What year were Black people officially allowed to participate in the NFL? It wouldn't be until 30 years later when there were more than 3 starting Black QBs in 1997.
What is 1968?
Who are the LAL and MIL Bucks?