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Edge of Sports

The Myth and Reality of Black Consumer Power

Edge of Sports

Dave Zirin / The Nation

News, Sports News, Sports, History, Politics

4.8616 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

This week we talk to Jared Ball, professor of Communication Studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore. We talk to him about his new book, The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power, the history of the concept, and its connection to black radical politics.

We also have some ‘Choice Words’ about The Last Dance for its uncritical look at Michael Jordan, and it’s lopsided attack on Jerry Krause. In addition, we have ‘Just Stand Up’ and ‘Just Sit Down’ awards to the 1st draft pick of the 2020 draft, Joe Burrow, for using his platform to talk about poverty, and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and the league for the way they presented the NFL Draft, particularly the self-serving celebration of first responders. All that and more on this week’s Edge of Sports!

Jared Ball
Twitter: @IMIXWHATILIKE

Zirin, The Unfortunate Ugliness of ‘The Last Dance’





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everything secure. In short form, black people don't earn enough to support black businesses

1:00.5

enough to increase those businesses to the size where they would be able to, through hiring

1:06.2

and redistributing even the wealth that they would create if they wanted to, back to the community

1:10.9

in ways that would sustain or actually close gaps in income and wealth. This is why we have the

1:16.7

same amount of black-owned banks today that we had in 1969, and why economically, black

1:21.8

people collectively are relatively the same condition, certainly in terms of the percentage of the

1:26.3

national wealth that was held at the end of enslavement.

1:42.1

Welcome to the Edge of Sports Podcast. I'm Dave Ziron. This week we are talking to Jared Ball, author of the new book, The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power. And yes, this has a lot to do with sports. Dr. Jared Ball is a father and husband. After that, he's a professor of communication studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland,

2:01.3

and is a founder, curator of iMix What I Like.org, which is a multimedia hub of

2:07.7

emancipatory journalism and revolutionary beat reporting. We're going to talk for this

2:12.9

remarkable person. Also, I've got choice words this week about Michael Jordan's Last Dance, the documentary

2:21.1

that everybody's talking about over on ESPN. As of this recording, we've seen two out of 10 episodes,

2:29.3

and I already have a strong impression of what I like and what I definitely do not like about this

2:33.8

doc. I've also

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