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Kwame Brown Dishes Out the Unadulterated Truth - The Washington Informer

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Underlying the debate over Kwame Brown’s 12-year-career in the NBA is a far more substantive meditation on the racial storytelling that is at the heart of the corporate news media and the role that African-American journalists and pundits play in a white settler project that shapes the narrative to qualify its exploitation of Black athletes.

Punctuated by a fusillade of racial epithets, sexual innuendo and enough profanity to make a rapper blush, the eruption on social media last week of a feud between three African-American, ex-professional basketball players could easily be dismissed as a banal — albeit entertaining — barroom brawl between retired jocks with too much time on their hands, yet nothing to say. But underlying the debate over Kwame Brown’s 12-year-career in the NBA is a far more substantive meditation on the racial storytelling that is at the heart of the corporate news media and the role that African-American journa

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