RESPECT the GAME

Scenes from ResPect the Game Linden Edition

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Don't miss this one this Friday the 7th August 2015 MSC Hardcourt

‘Respect the Game’ Charity Basketball … Team Bond, Team Toney ready to ignite Linden RESPECT the Game Inc., the only ‘Sportainment’ charitable company in Guyana, is taking their Charity Basketball to Linden on Friday with a triple-header at the Mackenzie Sports Club Hard Cou...

ANCESTRY: Today marks an event in the timeline of millions of Africans living in the diaspora- Emancipation. The word in itself suggests the conclusion of multiple forms of bo***ge that the African slave came under from his Colonial oppressors. Bo***ge at that time was legal, religious, social and political and it was expected that the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 which received Royal Assent on the 28 day of August 1833 would be the instrument to remove these bo***ges from about the body and psyche of the African slave. The Long Title of the Act stated thus:

An Act for the Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Colonies; for promoting the Industry of the manumitted Slaves; and for compensating the Persons hitherto entitled to the Services of such Slaves.

Two key attributes of this Act I wish to mention and remind the descendants of African men and women who were kings and made slaves. First, the Act recognizes that INDUSTRY (not Reparation) would have been the liberating balm for the African whilst COMPENSATION (more like Reparation) for the White oppressors (I use this phrase in this context to underscore the wretchedness of the paradox. Secondly, the Act never was a symbol that what the Colonial did to Africans and the African Continent was wrong. These two attributes to my mind have had a debilitating effect on the African psyche.

ASIDE: It is small wonder to my mind that years after this Act Africans are ready to shun characters (character as in symbols) of their African-NESS and embrace hastily characters of their former White oppressors.

I for my own part wish to return to the Act and its call for promoting INDUSTRY as a mechanism whereby the African may achieve parity and freedom. Africans aren't seen as contributors to the world economy, the molders of the minds of this planet, the generational healers of the universe's infirm. These are our historical industries. It is not coincidental that every precious metal every resource that God has given to man could be found on a single Continent- Africa. To my mind this is evidence that our first God given instincts were to be industrious. This proclivity to be fed by the hand of "Massa" is alien to the descendants of kings.

LANDS must be reclaimed COOPERATIVES must be established ENTERPRISE must be taught and pursued with unimagined zeal this is the challenge I issue to the 21st Century Negro.

To be truly free we must break our dependency on the State (the new "Massas") who feed, clothe and educate us according to their own perceptions of what the descendants of kings should be fed, wear and learn.

To be truly free we must deliberately disengage from practices that promote the perception that the descendants of kings are lazy, criminally inclined, promiscuous and unenterprising.

To be truly free we must embrace this one modicum of truth that all men were created equal!

J. Anthony Bond

RESPECT THE GAME INC is the only Sportainment Charitable Company in the Caribbean. We have made substantial donations to the Mahaica Girls Home the Guyana Sickle Cell Association the Shaeed Boys Orphanage. Also we have made donations to 4 premier Basketball Clubs in Georgetown and Linden (Ravens Jets Royals Pacesetters) in order for them to develop a core youth program. Currently we are doing a Schools Supplies Drive for the month of August to assist 200 children when school reopens in September. We are only 7 months old and growing. Thanks to my co-founders Rawle Toney Edison Jefford Compton Babb Hermon Liverpool. We have extended our family to include Surika Danraj who is a Director and formally our brand Ambassador is none other than Ms Cardella Hamilton. Thanks also to Dee Grenville who worked in the Secretariat Drusilla DeSouza Barbie Slim Katheleena Rose Nisha Miller Deabreu who are our original ResPect Girls. Our Sponsors also Faizal Khan of Sambora Inc Dax V. C. Kissoon of Elete Crete Clairmont Cummings of Gravity Exclusive Styles and Footsteps Jamie Mc Donald of Fitness Express Ryan Shivraj of Buddies Pool Hall Azruddin Mohamed of Mohamed Enterprise Neil Kumar former Director of Sports MYSC Wartsilla who all made our first event a reality. Special mention must be made to the Celebs like Bobby Adelson who supports this charity as his own Nuriyyih Gerrard our favorite Celeb Roger Yearwood Javed Ally Joel Browne. We also owe so much to the players like Ryan Stephney Ryan Gullen Dominic Vincente Akeem Kanhai Jermaine L Slater Stephan Gillis Royston Siland. One fan I will always remember Niande Mckenzie Nuff ResPect!!!

RESPECT THE GAME August 7th Linden MSC Hard Court. TEAM BOND Ravens Pacesetters and Colts will be repping for Georgetown. TEAM TONEY Royals Jets and Bulls. Jump ball 6pm. Thanks to the Basketball Federation the Georgetown Association for making everything happen. Big thanks to Michael Singh

Here we go!!!!!

On the 7th of August 2015 MSC Hardcourt, ResPect The Game will be back with its long over due Linden Edition. Four top tier Basketball Clubs one night and an after party the likes you have never seen. Team Bond (Ravens and Pacesetters) vs. Team Toney (Jets and Royals) goes to the stratosphere in this one

This guy JR Smith is on some kind of roll