all over, there would be some athletes i wouldn t call. kobe would be one of them. now kobe bryant responded. he tweeted, and i will quote here, a global african-american is an inferior shade of american african-americans. that doesn t sound very mandela or dr. king to me, terrence. what do you think jim brown meant when he said kobe is confuse bed culture? lossesa, first you have to understand that jim brown is the greatest running back that ever livered. but he always preferred to talk about social issues instead of stuff that took place on the field or on the court or on the ice or what have you. i know jim brown. and some of the deepest conversations i ve ever had with anybody in the 35 plus years i ve been a professional journalist have been with jim brown. just earlier this year we talked for over an hour about his displeasure about black athletes who don t fully understand what