BC-FBN-PHILLIPS-COLUMN:NY — sports (800 words)
Last Fall, Damon Young of the popular blog/website “Very Smart Brothas” wrote a controversial piece in which he labeled straight black men as the white people of black America.
It spoke to the privileges that some black men enjoy within our own communities.
“But assessing our privilege (or lack thereof) on these facts considers only our relationship with whiteness and with America. Intra-racially, however, our relationship to and with black women is not unlike whiteness’s relationship to us. In fact, it’s eerily similar,” Young explained. “We’re the ones for whom the first black president created an entire initiative.