The Speculative Geopolitical Implications of LeBron James and Dwight Howard

NBA Speculative Theory: If Dwight Howard and LeBron James had existed (as they are now) in ancient times, when the Roman Empire imported people from across the globe to participate in gladiator battles inside the Coliseum--and Dwight Howard and LeBron James were thrown into the Coliseum, the fate of the African continent and its people would have been drastically different.

• Powerful black military leaders and warriors would gain respect and rise thru the rank and file of the Holy Roman Empire.International respect and revere for the black phenotype spreads through the world, infiltrating and destroying notions of black inferiority in Western Europe.
• Pockets of West African people spread throughout the whole of Europe and Central Asia exist after the Roman Empire dissolves.Europeans integrate into African civilizations in Africa during the Middle Ages.Worldview of blacks as inferior never gains popular sentiment in the world.
• Othello is never written.
• The trans-Atlantic slave trade barely happens.The industrial revolution trickles into Africa.Africa takes part, as much as it becomes a victim of the age of emperialism.The geopolitical landscape of the 20th and 21st Century is very different. Governmental corruption in Africa is no greater than it is in other nations of the industrialized world. Nations left relativley unscathed in the aftermath of WWII rise to economic prominence comprable to economies from Switzerland to China.
• Jazz never dies.Hip hop becomes a very different music--centered around strong, traditional Afro-Centric beats.
• African nations win the World Cup routinely.