Michael Jordan: I Was Racist ‘Against All White People’ Growing Up

Basketball Hall-of-Famer Michael Jordan reveals he was racist toward white people when he was growing up.

In a new book entitled “Michael Jordan: The Life,” the six-time NBA champion told author Ronald Lazenby his hatred for white people when he was younger stemmed from the North Carolina community he grew up in having a huge Ku Klux Klan influence.

....“As I started looking at newspapers back in this era when I was putting together Dawson Jordan’s [Michael’s great-grandfather] life, the Klan was like a chamber of commerce. It bought the uniforms for ball teams, it put Bibles in all the schools.

You make some very interesting points. Being a white person from Oakland, I find it very perculiar how white liberal suburbians view the black plight in this country. They seem to think of black people as trapped in a pit with the lid held down by corpotate America and racists white people. Many black politicians propetuate that myth as well. It coulkd not be farther from the truth, though.

The stairs to success are indeed available in the inner city. I walked up them myself. It was not easy!!! But, I always believed down deep that if I gave it my best effort, at some point something would work out. Many black people (not all, but many) simply believe that the hard work I was willing to do, would simply not pay off for them. My parents taught me what I believed. Jessee Jackson, Al Sharpton, and the Race Hustlers taught them what they believed. It’s just that simple. We both went with our belief system and I went on to be happy and many liberal blacks went on to be angry (I’m generalizing, but you get my point).

The only person who can hold you down is yourself. I constantly preach this to my liberal friends. Blacks will not get off the mat in this country until they stop believing in crooked politicians and start believing in themselves. They should ask the Asian communities for advice on this matter!!

Another footnote: I love Oakland and will drive anywhere and everywhere. It was my home and I visit there often and (I have season tickets to the Raiders....Uhggg-why did I bring that up?). Anyway, I have friends who voted for Obama, preach the liberal lines, and all of that stuff, but when I say I’m heading to Oakland they are like.....”Is it safe there?” It’s so funny because the City of Oakland is the Democrat Party. Sure it can be a rough town, but that’s what happens when the Democrat philosphy is put to practice in my opinion. It sucks, doesn’t it? Detroit is even worse. I ask them why they vote for it if down deep they are scared of it?

Bottom line is that suburban whites have an inner guilt I just can’t relate to.

Oh well.....

Whatever. I was born in Rockford IL in 1954.

Okay, I think I know where you are at. Yes, I think we had a miscommunication. Neither of us are racists. Both of us are sick of race being used as a trump card, or worse, as a cover for new cultural norms that will make life worse for all of us.

My wife and I moved to Rockford in 1998, and only moved from the region last year due to lack of employment in the area. We lived in the city on Broadway (near Five Points). You know what I am talking about. We moved to Ogle County in 2006 when the little old ladies next door moved to the nursing home and were replaced with three generations of women who didn't appear to believe in marriage (white) and who I suspected would be a bad influence on my growing children (adopted and of various races). A used prophylactic found on my front lawn clinched it for me. We had to go.

I am also aware of the east/west divide in Rockford; and I wasn't in an urban center during the late '60s early '70s when things came to a head, and the period immediately after when affirmative action meant lost jobs for the children whose parents worked in the formerly solid manufacturing sector.

We still go to Rockford every week, as our church is St. Mary Oratory (formerly St. Mary's Church) next door to the old jail and the Wattles Center, and across the street from the new jail. They have the traditional Latin Mass there, and we know many, many fine people there.

Unfortunately, the sub-culture of the underclass (black and white) in Rockford has spread as the working class jobs went away, and those who could move mostly did (Loves Park, Belvidere, Pecatonica, etc.) The law suit just enriched the lawyers and made everybody mad at everybody. So what you describe is also happening (especially) at East High.

While I don't see Dr. Carson as a likely Presidential contender, he'd be great as a cabinet member in a Cruz administration. At this point, I am afraid that Obama has poisoned the well for future black candidates, as it is unhealthy to be led by someone who cannot be honestly criticized without being accused of sinister ulterior motives.

Hey—thank you for that. I graduated from Rockford East High when it was in the top 5% academically on a national level. That was in 1972.

I left in 1973 and never returned other than to visit family and friends.

One friend told me a couple of years ago that “niner” tee-shirts were a hot item. Something about Rockford being the 9th most violent city in the country?

It broke my heart. Rockford was a great city to grow up in.

Safe, clean, prosperous, many of the Chicago mafia dons had their families there, attending school etc. I think they had a hand or a role in keeping it safe for their families. I don’t know, could be an urban legend.

I do remember Jan Capone (Al’s great-nephew) was a really good-looking, very popular kid and was Class president at Jefferson Jr High School. Jan is still alive, still playing drums in a rock band. I think he is and has been based out of Detroit.

We all had it good and no one’s parent’s were divorced, no one was unemployed, kids all had jobs after school and in the summers, we all had our own pocket money, no one got allowances.

We all had cars in high school, and we all drove to Beloit WI every weekend (drinking age was 18).

And if you got sideways with the law, they usually just brought you home to your parents and they would beat the hell out of you and save the city time and money.

Best regards

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