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Donald Trump's latest spat isn't about sport or patriotism, it's about race
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation ^ | September 26, 2017 | John Barron

Posted on 09/25/2017 2:08:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Make no mistake . . . it is about race.
OK, it’s about race. Well, it’s about politics, and the predominance among a particular race of obsession with being wrong about politics.
the culture of sports is fundamentally celebratory and unifying, not divisive. - Holman W. Jenkins
But that is the exact opposite of the description of antisocial (“liberal”) politics, which is fundamentally divisive, and neither celebratory nor unifying.

41 posted on 09/25/2017 3:36:15 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Presses can be 'associated,' or presses can be independent. Demand independent presses.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oz remains upside down.


42 posted on 09/25/2017 3:47:27 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Cowardly Leftard media sites that don’t allow comments don’t get my readership.


43 posted on 09/25/2017 3:54:02 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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I’m not going to read this article. Because the conclusion is idiotic, the premises must be also.


44 posted on 09/25/2017 4:16:17 PM PDT by Crucial
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From the left-wing rag the New Yorker

NUFF SAID

I won't even bother to read it.

45 posted on 09/25/2017 4:21:50 PM PDT by Kaslin (Politicians are not born; they are excreted -Civilibus nati sunt; sunt excernitur. (Cicero))
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...American football is essentially a game played by black men for the entertainment of white men...

So, what? It earns these black men $Millions from [all races of] men and women wanting to appreciate athletic excellence. Racism has nothing to do with it. But leave it to racist panderers to concoct false motivations.

More and more misguided NFL players are not showing "team [USA] loyalty". We are sick of this crap and refuse to pay for it. We will see how long before this starts impacting the bottom line.

46 posted on 09/25/2017 4:56:47 PM PDT by nonsporting
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“American football is essentially a game played by black men for the entertainment of white men: 70 per cent of the top tier NFL players are African-American, 83 per cent of NFL fans are white and two-thirds of them are men.

None of the multi-millionaires and billionaires who own NFL franchises are black.”

HELP FREE THE SLAVES FROM THE WHITE SLAVE MASTERS OF THE NFL!!! BOYCOTT THE NFL!!!!


47 posted on 09/26/2017 4:00:53 AM PDT by MagnoliaB (You can't always get what you want but if you try sometime you might find, you get what you need.)
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Funny. Husband went to lunch with a black friend yesterday. Husband and this friend regularly talk about sports, but friend has been away for weeks. Husband wasn’t sure if they would broach the subject of the NFL or not. The friend brought it up. He was visiting family over the weekend and could not wait to get back to his home because the black women in his family refused to allow the NFL on in their homes. They are boycotting! These black women in Alabama are Trump supporters. And they do not appreciate anybody kneeling for the Natiinal Anthem. They are all college graduates.


48 posted on 09/26/2017 4:10:43 AM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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All politics is racial.


49 posted on 09/26/2017 4:16:39 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: MagnoliaB

They need to free the slaves and integrate them into a modern economy; blacks too often are relegated to the “bread-and-circuses” economy (sports, music, etc.) because Dems have continued the antebellum tradition of forbidding blacks to get an education.


50 posted on 10/05/2017 4:05:09 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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I haven’t seen where they forbid them to get an education but their policies create an environment where I think it’s difficult to attend and learn and simply grow up without going feral.


51 posted on 10/05/2017 4:49:49 AM PDT by MagnoliaB (You can't always get what you want but if you try sometime you might find, you get what you need.)
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The teachers’ unions guarantee they can’t get an education; look at the opposition to charter schools (where they can learn).


52 posted on 10/06/2017 3:31:55 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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