The C. O. W. S. Bill Russell's Second Wind Part 5 #LetsGoCeltics #SweetGeorgiaBrown

The Katherine Massey Book Club @ The C.O.W.S. hosts the 5th study session on the late Bill Russell's 1979 publication, Second Wind: The Memoirs of an Opinionated Man. Russell passed away on July 31st of this year at the age of 88. The NBA titan won eleven championships for the revered Boston Celtics and an Olympic gold medal, and was the first black head coach in any professional sport in US history. This week, the new NBA season begins with all thirty teams sporting a logo in honor of Russell for the entire season, and Russell's number six is slated to be retired by every franchise next season. Boston opens their season with the first of two tribute games to honor their legendary center. Last week, Russell detailed the business of sports and the extraordinary amount of money Whites invest to attend and watch sporting events as well the billion-dollar industry of sports betting. Russell was writing half a century before fantasy sports existed and when sports gambling was illegal in most jurisdictions. In fact, Russell's memoir was published days before ESPN debuted. Like Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, Russell noted the many similarities between war and white ball games. The Louisiana native also made a striking point about the famed Harlem Globetrotters, a traveling group of black male basketball players whose peak popularity was during the mid 20th century when black males were mostly excluded from professional basketball leagues. Russell branded the troupe a minstrel show owned by a Racist White Man, Abraham Saperstein, who promoted stale, White Supremacist depictions of goofy, clowning black guys. The Globetrotters theme song is "Sweet Georgia Brown," which is about a black prostitute. #CounterViolence #BlackSelfRespect #COINTELPRO INVEST in The COWS – http://paypal.me/TheCOWS Cash App: https://cash.app/$TheCOWS CALL IN NUMBER: 720.716.7300 CODE 564943#