Detroit Reverend: NBA Should Share Wealth with Black Community

30 black organizations will meet to discuss how to pressure the league for handouts.

Taryn Asher

A lot of men are getting rich by playing professional basketball and Rev. Horace Sheffield thinks the league should share the wealth.  Sheffield calls it “greenlining”–the economic exclusion of people of color beyond the basketball court.  “We don’t feel we get an equal share for what we contribute to the bottom line,” said Sheffield.

Sheffield, the head of the Detroit Association of Black Organizations, is taking on the NBA and the Detroit Pistons. The reverend calls it an economic injustice–the majority of the Pistons basketball players are black. So is the majority of Detroit residents, who he says are most of the team’s viewers and consumers. So Sheffield wants to know why they don’t get to cash in on the financial success.....To Read More...