Tuesday, February 27, 2007

All-Star violence and Tommy Davidson

There's a rather hot debate in the NBA blogosphere right now, summed up best by TrueHoop, that doesn't paint a beautiful picture for the Average Joe (or Poor Man Commish) to attend All-Star Weekend. It also reaches into the problems of violence in American society, with which we've previously compared to Iraq.

Interestingly, in this month's issue of Black Enterprise (which has a terrible archive search section where I couldn't find a link to the article), comedian Tommy Davidson was profiled by Kenneth Meeks. Davidson disclosed his very profound beliefs and passion in life to try and fix these very ills...

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2 comments:

- V I N S A N I T Y said...

Wow, this is some profound stuff coming from Tommy Davidson. This is the same guy who got his start in comedy on "In Living Color" right?

dreamleague said...

Same guy! Check out his Wikipedia page, which reminds us of how funny he was with "his impersonation of Sammy Davis, Jr. and being the victim of Homey D. Clown".

Pretty deep stuff coming from a pretty hilarious on-screen guy, huh?

On a side note: In Living Colour, a hotbed of future superstar talent (don't forget J-Lo too). Who woulda thunk at the time?