W hy do white folks bother watching the NBA? The obvious reason, is that the league features the world’s best basketball players. And yet, the NBA is also the most public example of institutionalized racism in America. Black folks wouldn’t watch the NBA, if the contemporary roles of black and white players were reversed. To get in the right mind-set, consider a Stepanfetchit Film Festival – all the movies Stepanfetchit ever appeared in, playing his stupid, servile black stereotype. Why, black folks would have the festival shut down, before the first movie was shown! (Stepanfetchit was the performing name of...