the lakers have signed a new back up center in the absence of
Andrew
bynum
his name is didier mbenga
he has not had a very successful nba career
he has done very little of note in the nba
the guy is from the congo in africa
the congo is right next to rwanda where they had an insanely violent
bloody upheaval about ten years ago
one ethnic group 'the hutus' wanted to wipe out another ethnic group
'the tutsi's'
there are a lot of complicated reasons for this, going back to
belgian colonization a long time ago
and a long standing beef between these two groups, spurred on by a
corrupt government, anyways it was terrible and about a million
people (tutsis) were killed and the world (the united nations) the
u.s.a. stood by and watched
because there was nothing to gain by stopping the senseless slaughter
of human beings, no oil, no military advantage, no money to be had
anyways, the reason i am going on about all this is
didier mbenga, was mistaken for a criminal in this affair and put in
jail and treated horribly for nine months and was supposed to face
execution he escaped and managed to get out of the country and get to
belgium
where he started playing basketball, around 1999
this led him to the nba, and now he is a laker, with a ten day contract
so i am sitting there watching the game the other night
and thinking...man, this guy was in jail facing execution and now is
on the court in staples center where the most important thing for him
to do is to block some shots and get some rebounds
so he can support himself and his family
on the hardwood in the nba playing hoops for 20 thousand people
now that is a trippy dynamic
i hope he makes it as a laker
it's gotta be hard seeing how he didnt grow up playing the game, to
develop his skills......
he has faced death and been in the midst of a genocide
a genocide is when a million people of one ethnic group are murdered
for the sake of their ethnicity
and now he is throwing outlet passes to kobe bryant in front of jack
nicholson
god bless him
wow
trip out

Jan 23, 2008 6:06 PM EST