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Cardinals Mascot Called "Racist" for Holding "Police Lives Matter" Sign
Pundit Press ^ | 5/25/15 | Aurelius

Posted on 05/25/2015 11:00:25 AM PDT by rightistight

On Sunday, May 17, the mascot of the St. Louis Cardinals held a sign that read "Police Lives Matter." The person in the mascot outfit said he did not know what was on the sign.

For this action, Fredbird has been labelled a "racist." Again, this is a baseball mascot holding a sign saying that police lives matter.

The website Deadspin learned of the picture below and ran a story titled, "Your Racist Uncle Will Love This Picture Of The Cardinals' Mascot:"

The author of the article, Tom Ley, then rambles for several paragraphs in an expletive-filled tirade.

...The image was then posted to the St. Louis Police Officers Association Facebook's page. When the Cardinals heard about the controversy, they contacted the page and asked them to remove the image, which they did.

(Excerpt) Read more at punditpress.com ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: baseball; cardinals; deadspin; facebook; ferguson; missouri; mlb; stlouis; tomley
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1 posted on 05/25/2015 11:00:25 AM PDT by rightistight
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2 posted on 05/25/2015 11:05:26 AM PDT by South40 (Hillary Clinton was a "great secretary of state". - Texas Governor Rick Perry)
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Who the f@ck are they to tell us what is racist and what isn’t? Who made them the arbiters and deciders?

To hell with them. We have to start rejecting the premises, rejecting their worldview and framing of eerything and accepting that their interpretation is calid. They are starting out with hatred and a warped view of reality.

They ignore everything that refutes their worldview. They care nothing about our objections or differing opinions. they claim tolerance while using evry means to crush and make powerless anyone who isnt 100% with them.


3 posted on 05/25/2015 11:06:30 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Calid == valid.

Sheesh.


4 posted on 05/25/2015 11:07:22 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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It’s a bird....it’s species-ist.

And I think it’s black too. So it’s an uncle Tom bird too!


5 posted on 05/25/2015 11:07:29 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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‘Racist’ has long since lost its meaning. It now is a blanket statement meaning someone didn’t put blacks/browns in a favorable light.

Growing mighty tired of this nonsense. Especially since the true racial bigots like Jamie Foxx, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Jeramiah Wright, Spike Lee, Don Lemon, et. al., have yet to be called out for their vitriol.


6 posted on 05/25/2015 11:08:10 AM PDT by Paulie (America without Christianity is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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Obama didn’t just set race relations back...he poisoned the well.


7 posted on 05/25/2015 11:09:32 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (WSC: The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end...)
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Perhaps st. louis police need to stop providing security to cardinals games since police lives don’t matter to them.


8 posted on 05/25/2015 11:10:47 AM PDT by RginTN
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Pope Francis was holding the sign?


9 posted on 05/25/2015 11:12:02 AM PDT by Paladin2
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I guess caring about any life but a black life is now racist. It’s gone from “black lives matter” to “ONLY black lives matter.”


10 posted on 05/25/2015 11:13:19 AM PDT by Nea Wood
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11 posted on 05/25/2015 11:15:34 AM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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So now simply disagreeing with or contradicting a black person is racist?

-PJ

12 posted on 05/25/2015 11:16:21 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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There you go using logic and common sense in a world where those things do not apply.


13 posted on 05/25/2015 11:16:23 AM PDT by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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nothing racial about that


14 posted on 05/25/2015 11:16:39 AM PDT by GeronL (free short story: http://flscifi.blogspot.com/2015/05/free-short-story-proper-care-feeding-of.html)
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Youd think theyd show the sign to other blacks than anyone else. Since blacks kill the vast majority, over 90%, of other blacks. Everyone else seems to intuitively know all lives matter, except blacks.

Liberals cant comprehend facts that comfront their worldview so its useless talking to sloganistas.


15 posted on 05/25/2015 11:21:25 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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When the Cardinals heard about the controversy, they contacted the page and asked them to remove the image, which they did.

How many police have been murdered?

Apparently, the Cardinals don't think that police lives matter.

16 posted on 05/25/2015 11:21:53 AM PDT by FreeReign
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Now that is just funny, because I thought the same thing.


17 posted on 05/25/2015 11:22:45 AM PDT by easternsky
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I'd like to know why the police association didn't tell the Cardinals to pound sand. I'm tired of major league sports catering to these whiney groups. And the fans should just boycott the games.
18 posted on 05/25/2015 11:24:08 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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Absolutely ridiculous to call it racist.


19 posted on 05/25/2015 11:24:57 AM PDT by expat2
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So what is going to happen to this country when the welfare runs out.


20 posted on 05/25/2015 11:25:41 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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