Posted on 10/05/2016 11:50:06 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The issue of Donald Trump's candidacy for the White House has been discussed in NFL locker rooms.
Some players say there have been low-level confrontations while others say friendships have ended.
Here is a straw poll of 43 NFL players on how they plan on voting in the election:
•20 of 22 black NFL players plan to vote for Hillary Clinton.
•2 of 22 black NFL players plan to vote for Donald J. Trump.
•21 of 21 white NFL players plan to vote for Trump.
“A lot of black players believe saying the first black president isn’t really American is racist as (expletive),” one player told B/R Mag.
Recalled another black player: “I was talking Trump and Hillary with a white teammate, and the conversation was fine. Things got a little heated when he said, ‘Trump isn’t racist.’ I don’t know how anyone doesn’t see how that’s just not true. We talked about that statement for two days.
“We were taking a break during practice maybe four days or so after our last conversation about Trump,” the player continued. “He came up to me and said, ‘Here’s why Trump’s not racist and Hillary is.’ Then we argued for another day. It was sort of heated again.”
Rex Ryan is publicly supporting Trump, as is Richie Incognito.
“I think that he can help this nation get back to a world superpower,” Incognito told B/R Mag. “Where I think he could help is putting us first again and having that—it's my mentality, too—having that tough attitude where you put America first and everyone's thinking we're the greatest nation in the world. Don't mess with America. That toughness is where I identify with him.”
Some Journ-O-List is out there polling by race.
And WE’RE the racists!!!
100%, all eight of them?
Too bad it has to be a racial divide. One hopes more black players will (privately) start to wake up to the damage they’re doing to themselves and the game. Protest this country on your own time, while dressed in your own clothing.
Do not mask your biases behind a football uniform.
I just got your joke.
So every white guy in the league is voting Trump...
Asking for the one thing that can certify both presidential requirements is now racist? Obama lived all over the world as a child and his father was a Kenyan national. It was completely possible that he wasn’t really born here. No one would have wondered if it were President Jesse Jackson or Jim Clyburn. GMAFB
What is ‘racist’ and who gets to define it?
20 of 22 black players don’t want to be ostracized.
What REAL man would EVER vote for Hilliary!!!!
NFL Straw Poll: 21 Of 21 White Players Plan To Vote For Trump
The presumption being they are voting this way soley because the are white.
Maybe they are voting that way because the don;t want to vote for a lying crimiminal sack of crap?
Last time I checked, we had a secret ballot in this country. You can say “I’m voting for Smith” and then go vote for Jones.
Truly if you think that Trump is racist but Hillary is not you got something wrong in the head!
his father was a Kenyan national
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That’s all it takes to make him ineligible.
He was born a British subject as a result and is not a natural born citizn regardless of where he was born.
Well gee, was he or was he not adopted in Indonesia? Why all the fake birth certificates? where are his education records proving he went to school as an American not a foreigner? Sorry, not checking my IQ at the door does not make me racist. Especially since I vended for black presidential candidates in primaries in the past.
Skewed poll.
NFL players do NOT reflect the USA demographic.
It is my understanding, also, that the Swahili speaking tribes in the East, were on the Arab side in forcing West Africans into slavery. So the racial identification with Obama is more a matter of pigment than actual kinship or history.
2 of 22? Is that supposed to be bad? 10% not voting Democrat is a little above average for a Republican candidate.
No white players voting Democrat is way above average for a Republican candidate.
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