Posted on 08/10/2018 7:40:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The leftist media is no stranger in attacking President Trump. Often, they will find a big name to interview hoping that the interviewee will verbally attack the president the left hates so much. Usually, the person talking obliges. The media will run the interview for a day or so to create a story.
Last weekend, Don Lemon interviewed basketball star LeBron James about the opening of the I Promise School he started for at-risk and underprivileged children in Akron, Ohio. During the interview, Lemon naturally moved the questioning towards the president. It is no secret that James doesn’t like the president, even though unemployment is the lowest it has ever been for African-Americans since recording the numbers.
Don Lemon asked James what he would say if he was sitting across from Trump. James responded by saying he wouldn’t sit across from Trump, but he would from Barack. James went on to say that he believes the president is using sports to divide the country but didn’t say how.
James had decided to ignore the fact that the left has been working politics into sports well before Trump entered the Oval Office. In December of 2012, Kansas City Chiefs player, Jovan Belcher shot and killed his girlfriend, then himself outside of Arrowhead Stadium in a murder-suicide. After that, Bob Costas gave a father-like lecture on gun control following the incident during halftime.
In 2016, now an unsigned football player, Colin Kaepernick decided he was going to disrespect the American flag and National Anthem by sitting, then kneeling during the ceremony, claiming police brutality was a nationwide issue. Kaepernick’s actions have not unified the country. Instead, he has caused division.
In April of 1947, Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball. Robinson was opposed by the left-wing. Democrats pushed back against the decision, snubbing Jim Crow laws. Of course, nearly all African-Americans were in favor, as well as many whites. However, the political opposition could not stop Robinson from making history. The left tried to keep Robinson from playing in the major league. In fact, Robinson’s family was pushed out of Georgia by the Democratic Party. In 1964, Robinson endorsed Nelson Rockefeller and considered himself a Republican.
The left has consistently placed politics in sports arenas. They have caused division with their efforts, not the right. History shows that the conservatives don't force politics into sports, but the left can’t help but use the platform to advance a political agenda. In the process, they have ruined professional football.
Liberals were outraged that Trump didn’t take a snide remark from a basketball player and a left-wing “journalist.” Perhaps, they were trying to create another fake narrative that he is racist because Trump is known to push back.
The typical response from establishment Republicans is “don’t say anything, take the high road” and so forth. Well, the high road didn’t do any good for George W. Bush. All that did was cause his approval numbers to plummet into the lower 20s. Yet, the more Trump fights back the higher his numbers climb.
Sports venues are a way to escape the insanity of incoherent leftist ramblings.
Politics has no business in sports.
Yet ~40% of the population is so vapid that it seeks moral instruction from celebrities and athletes. America has been dumbed down considerably over the past fifty years.
Without the white man’s money LeBron would be a fry cook, at best.
He should get on his hands and knees and thank the next white person he comes across.
His wealth and the wealth of everyone like him is an artificial construct.
Likewise the black middle class in America is overwhelmingly an artificial construct.
*...Don Lemon interviewed basketball star LeBron James about the opening of the I Promise School he started for at-risk and underprivileged children in Akron, Ohio...*
James may have “started” this school, but 75-80% of the cost goes to the taxpayers....
Who is this “genius that plays “thump Thump” for $400k a game? What a joke!!
Sports has a place in ‘politics’. Sports has managed to display the message that Martin Luther King “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” Sports helped unite a people, helped unify a people, helped to overcome the Jim Crow nonsense and Racism of the Democrats. Now, the Democrats have decided to co-opt sports to begin Racism anew. Make no mistake, Targeting any people against another based upon skin color, is Racism. Racism was wrong when Martin Luther fought against it, and it’s wrong now that some blacks (and Korean editors for the NYT) use it now. Lebron James has been co-opted by the old racists, to begin a new racism, and doesn’t know enough about history to realize it. He is a tool, tool of the very people he believes he is fighting against.
The left uses everything to divide the country.
Well, it worked when the Liberals used ‘Hollywood’, so why not repeat their success with sports.
Bottom line, anyone who looks to Hollywood or to Sports and sports figures to articulate their rights for them, has already lost them.
“at-risk and underprivileged children”
The obviously aren’t talking about children in the womb who’s mothers have decided on infanticide.
The left is sick!
When enough of us boycott the National Felon League, this bs will stop.
Florida restaurant cancels NFL package over national anthem protests!
“Beef O’Brady’s will not be financially supporting the NFL this year due to their lack of compassion and gratitude for our American service members,” the poster read. “Our National Anthem is one of the methods we as American citizens have always used to show our appreciation to all military service members, past or present, alive or dead. This tradition deserves respect and unfortunately, the NFL does not feel that same way. So, for this season, we will not be purchasing the NFL ticket. Perhaps, it will make a difference if it hits their wallets.”
He puts on his glasses, acts all solemn, and he’s still not as smart as my countertop.
Now, the Democrats have decided to co-opt sports to begin Racism anew.
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Yes, the Leftists control Hollywood, the media, and our schools. Now they want to control sports, too.
RATs can’t win at the voting booth or the field of logic or debate, so they intend to co-op the culture of sports in a desperate attempt to influence.
I think it’s desperate that a competitive football league get formed.
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