In this 25th episode of The MAPP, we discuss the coming boxing match between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor through the lens of race and symbolism. Sports and race are inextricable elements of the U.S. social soup being served to the world.
Black athletes overwhelmingly dominate almost every sport imaginable, and the status-quo and bourgeoisie global populous are always chomping at the bit for a new, so-called “great white hope”, to come strolling in from off of the horizon, like John Wayne or Chuck Liddell, and tell some dirty-faced rascal to get out of town or die. That archetypal figure today is Conor McGregor, and he has been summoned by the global minority, collective psyche to stand in front of the master of the Black martial arts, and to try to slay him–to KO Floyd Mayweather, a la Dr. Cress Welsing’s ancient Moorish bull, or Osiris the “Lord of the Perfect Black”. We’ve reached a crossroads, again.
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