Send Feedback
 

OPINION: Arenas Did NOT Have Bomb In His Underwear

Written by RK Byers on January 11, 2010 2:53 pm

GilsGuns

Anybody that knows me knows that I’m totally in favor of arming all the Blacks, but in my mind, we might need those weapons to make our Grand Escape. Imagine if Moses and the Israelites had all had AKs. It’d have been like:

“Pharaoh, you REALLY need to let my people go!”

But one thing I cannot get behind is random acts of foolishness by Black people with guns. When we turn them on each other, for real at least, it’s like we’re shooting down family members that we’re eventually, ultimately gonna need.

And I know that Gilbert Arenas was clowning because I know his character without actually knowing the man. The boy’s a fool. He wears the number ‘0’ because that’s how many minutes his high school friends predicted that he’d get in playing time when he decided to attend the University of Arizona. Rescued and raised by his single father after his mother went off the drug deep end, it’s easy to imagine that Gilbert is and has been working with some issues that—despite the fact that we all have issues—were probably heavier than the average man’s share. Then this NBA season starts, Gilbert’s really, finally, ready to play a complete season after coming back for a career threatening injury in 2007 and the first news we hear about the guy is that Shaq is shagging his fiancé.

Now, fess up fellahs, Shaq on top of your lady is not the image that anybody wants. And you gotta go out nightly and play basketball with everybody (friend and foe) knowing that?

I don’t want anybody to think that I wrote this blog to solicit charitable contributions to the Gilbert Arenas Defense Fund, but I’m also troubled by the major media making it seem as if the guy choked his coach or punched a fan or got somebody paralyzed in a strip club shooting or something. By pulling guns on each other in a locker room, even though they were only playing—well, Gilbert was playing, Javaris Crittenton might have been dead-ass— was stupid; but just that. Of course, Gilbert being Gilbert, he compounded his stupidity by drawing mock, finger pistols on his teammates during a team huddle. This earned him an indefinite suspension from the league.

But as far as Gilbert Arenas being made out to be such a major criminal; to borrow from Ed Lover, C’mon Son! Gilbert’s ‘crime’, if we even wanna consider it a crime, was, like the man himself, just not that serious.

Tags: Gilbert Arenas, Shaquille O'Neal
Recommend to friends!
  • BlackPlanet
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • email

News One Links

 
  • http://www.blackplanet.com/lakerdude19/ lakerdude19

    Starting out your article with being “in favor of arming all the blacks” isn’t a good way to establish credibility. If we did “arm all the blacks” they would most likely take themselves out before any other race.

    And what is this “Great Escape” nonsense? lol did maatra get a job at Newsone?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/KNOW-LEJ/ KNOW-LEJ

    Always a different opinion but not the right one. He is a fool and he knows it. There is know reason for what he did. You don’t pull a gun on somebody and then say, “I’m just playin with you”. There is know excuse for that type of stupidity, I don’t care if your wife was bangin David Stern. He needs to take responsibility and the author of this article needs to stop finding excuses for grown ass men.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/RayAlonzo/ RayAlonzo

    This is a poor article but designed to generate responses so I will play along. Gilbert Arenas broker the rules of NBA. There aren’t many jobs that allow people to bring guns to work. The league has an image and has to protect that. Good image puts more money in the player’s pockets. Don’t support or try to justify his actions. He was wrong, we should over come this and play again. I hope for him and his family’s sake, he will not do this again. “Arm all the black folks” I support gun ownership but lets not make this a race war. Enough with that already.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/maatra/ maatra

    I don’t know who RK byers is, he sound like a agent but I feel him on armin all africans. We will be just like the brothas in denver who cliked up and started KRUSHIN KRACKAS

    Terrorism has a new face and its AFRICAN

    Notice how they use PLANE FLIGHT GUN BLOW UP wit Arenas they are programmin the viewres to put a black face on terrorism

    Yes we need to make a exodus to mother land Africa and kill KKKRACKAS they have no business in Africa but to ReColonize (AFRICOM/OBAMA)

    Bloods and crypts are clickin up. Many gangs are clickn up cuz now that money has lost its value we see who the real enemy iz. The goddamn peckawood.

    Notice all the movies with africa and niger at the center. Avatar, X Men, 2012. Niger has OIL and the pecka wood wants it.

    The brotha from Niger who tried to blow up the plane was raised in europe but they keep throwin out is ethnicity.

    Yall self hatin negros betta open ya eyes before ya find yo self on box cars headed to concentration camps

    Look at the georgia guidestone in elberton georgia

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/JazzyCreations/ JazzyCreations

    Well I found the TIMING of the suspension to be suspect. Right before the game between Cleveland and Washington. Obviously with the rumors of Shaq sleeping with Gilberts fiancee, this is the game I definitely wanted to see. Obviously David Stern wanted no part of this possibly “ugly” confrontation. And he suspended Gilbert accordingly. I just wish he wouldve waited at least one more game. If it was all about the possible police investigation of him bringin the guns to the arena, then the suspension should have happened weeks ago. But the other “theory” is, was Gilbert gearing up to shoot Shaq? hmmmmm….Makes you wonder.

  • http://phoenixescortsnews.com/phoenix-strip-clubs-opinion-arenas-did-not-have-bomb-in-his-underwear.html Phoenix Strip Clubs: OPINION: Arenas Did NOT Have Bomb In His Underwear | Who’s News In Phoenix Escorts.

    [...] See the full article from “News One” [...]

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/felicebois/ felicebois

    Lovely game! http://www.moderndayblackmomma.com
    Gen Eyes Wide.

  • http://www.blackinfo.net/?p=10722 Gilbert Arenas Charged With Felony For Locker Room Guns Incident | Black Info.Net

    [...] OPINION: Arenas Did NOT Have Bomb In His Underwear [...]

  • http://newsone.com/nation/newsonestaff4/obama-seeks-reimprisonment-for-1988-lockerbie-bomber/ Obama Seeks Reimprisonment For Lockerbie bomber | News One

    [...] bombing killed 259 people onboard – mostly Americans – and 11 on the ground. RELATED: OPINION: Arenas Did NOT Have Bomb In His Underwear Obama: Al Qaeda Links To Christmas Terror Attack UPDATE: NYC Car Bomb Suspect Charged With [...]

blog comments powered by Disqus
?>