#TheLynchPen
#Me: I guess last week former #NYKnick legend #CharlesOakley has been banned from #MadisonSquareGarden for one year. This comes after his incident at the Garden last year watching a #Knicks game where he got into it with security, and was forced out. Oak had been verbally and publicly critical of the Knicks organization, and of the team’s owner #JamesDolan. The do do Knicks resemble the do do #BuffaloBills, and long time fans have also been critical of the team. Dolan also owns the Garden.
#WillieLynch: That N**@$ banned from the Garden for a year? Good!! Get your monkey ass outta here Charles Oakley!! The day we let some 6'9, crime stopper looking, low IQ test scoring ass gorilla tell us how to run our business, will be same day whitey hell warms over. Dolan is one of our associates, he is a friend of ours. Don’t let that blues playing, Bill Clinton Saxophone, sorry for Travonn Martin act he’s pulling fool you. At the end of the day, he is one of us.
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As I have said before about the Knicks, the fans can cry all they want to. Just like #Manhattan, #Harlem, the #Bronx, and #Brooklyn is gentrifying, the reflection can be seen with the Knicks team. If the team reflected tough, blue collar, family oriented, hard working values of everyday New Yorkers, that’s starting to change. If New York City was #lit before, its really lit now. Everybody and their momma wants to live there, and this is driving up the values of rents and properties. This affects the team, because you now have an influx of many people who don’t have a connection to the team’s past, who are just going to games to be trendy, and are clogging up the waiting lists. It’s good business for Dolan, because he really doesn’t have to do anything but keep the Garden’s doors open, and keep five bodies on the floor every night. As long as the city stays lit with gentrification, pushing the “tough, hard working, blue collar” New Yorkers further out to Jersey and #Buffalo, he’s going to make money regardless if the team wins or not. And, we don’t blame him from getting them chickens. If Oakley or fans are really so bothered by this, they should pool all their broke pockets together and make an offer for the team.
Me: But, do you think Oakley who put in a lot of work for that team, and who is well respected by fans across the league was disrespected?
#Willie: Yes, but that’s what we do. We are the leaders of the extractive economy, so what do ya’ll expect? We use people, and then we throw them away. This has been our way for at least the last 2,000 years.
