Posted on 01/30/2023 6:57:26 AM PST by Red Badger
Last Updated on January 30, 2023
The left-wing outrage mob that’s moved America’s Overton window further to the left than it’s been at any point in history has forced yet another NCAA football program to pull a scholarship offer from one of the best high school quarterbacks in the country after he sang along with rap lyrics in a social media video.
Late last year, Marcus Stokes, the 24th-ranked high school quarterback in the country, was committed to playing college football at the University of Florida before his scholarship offer was revoked in the wake of a manufactured social media scandal. This was after Stokes sang along with rap lyrics in a now-deleted 2-second video, quoting the phrase “welcome back, n—-.”
As National File reported at the time:
Stokes later issued an apology after the clip caused outrage. “I was in my car listening to rap music, rapping along to the words and posted video of it to social media,” Stokes wrote in a statement. “I deeply apologize for the words in the song which I chose to say.”
Though he had numerous outstanding offers from other Division 1 programs, those were revoked as well, and Stokes found himself without a college football destination, despite his status as one of the country’s top quarterback recruits.
Notably, Tim Tebow quarterbacked the Nease High School football team, where Stokes currently plays, earning All-American honors in his 2005-2006 senior season.
On January 24th of this year, Stokes announced that he’d received an offer to play ball at Albany State University, a historically black school (HBCU), located in Albany, Georgia. Within a week, that offer was revoked too, and now Albany State’s head football coach, Quinn Gray, is groveling to the outrage mob and issuing a public apology for offering Stokes a spot on the team, to begin with.
“Let me start with a humble apology,” Gray wrote. “An apology for not honoring the tradition and history of ASU and for letting many of you down,” adding that his “decision to speak with a student that did not meet your expectations was unacceptable.”
After repeatedly apologizing for the “impact” his offer to Stokes apparently had on the school, Gray wrote that Albany State’s “president has made it clear that my actions did not meet [the school’s] standards.”
“My action caused you to question my commitment to our institute and our ancestors. As the consequences go, I hope to find a way back into the ‘Ramily,'” Gray wrote in conclusion.
“Without a doubt, I will be all in. Go Rams.”
In one calendar year, 1968-69, I attended 5 separate schools.
Even after I was an adult and in the Marines, I had nightmares about being in a school hallway somewhere and not knowing anybody or where my next class was...............
The woke control most of the country. Military, churches, schools, big business, entertainment, sports, news media, politics ...
Very well could be. But there was “rap” way back in the smoky beatnik coffee houses that were absurdly white.
The song generally accepted (but not necessarily correctly) as the first “rock rap” is Bob Dylan’s “ Subterranean Homesick Blues” in 1965.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MGxjIBEZvx0
At lest according to the Rolling Stone magazine back around 1990.
Since the MSM has decided to erase white people (and especially Jews like Dylan) from popular culture, they now claim rap was virgin born in 1979 by the Sugar Hill Gang.
Exactly. Jagger had the right response, and was big enough a star that he didn’t care what the woke mob thoguht.
But then the Stones dropped “Brown Sugar” from their live shows.
True. The right has nothing g to fight back with- the left own or control every major entity like msm, courts, cops, judges, antifa, blm, social media, big tech etc. Our side doesn’t have the legal tools to fight them, and we are getting crushed
Spoken word music is ancient, Gil Scott-Heron is the granddaddy of rap.
I fully agree. It’s a very ancient Anglo Saxon tradition.
Much of Shakespeare could fall under the category.
Huh. Didn’t know that. Guess they went woke too then.
One of the most popular tunes ever is “black betty”. Tons of videos of black folks listening to it for the first time and totally digging it.
Meh. The Stones have caved too. They no longer play Brown Sugar cuz of racism. So by there own reasoning must also not play Under my Thumb, Paint it Black and some others.
Singing? In a cRap "song"? This case is sure to be tossed for lack of evidence.
Classic!
Simple lesson...
Don’t emulate what is being passed off as black “culture” in the the United States in the media, it is self destructive.
Rap was invented for the benefit of people who can’t sing. There is nothing music about rap. The only talent that rap exposes it the ability to create rhymes.
The song in its entirety
No Tears - Scarface
(Language Warning)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eya4qoc8jPI
Black Betty, until recently was the introduction or theme song a college women’s basketball team played over the loudspeakers when they took the court at the beginning games. The girls loved it. Then someone got offended (probably a cracker) so they stopped using it.
If I’m gonna get caught doing a rap song, this is the one I would do...
The Ultimate Rap Song....
(Language)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0itOCgJtNVU
Cool man.
I am old enough to remember when rap lyrics were relatively clean. Nobody would get into trouble going along with the lyics from RUN-DMC or Tone Loc.
A similar thing happened to my friend who was a high school football coach for years. He was immersed in coaching and hung with the kids he coached so he felt comfortable saying the N word when they did (he’s white). It was all good until one person was offended and reported him for it.
So he was fired immediately but that’s not where it ended. My friend got a coaching job at a smaller school far from where he was living and coaching but NAACP found out where he was and got him fired from that school too. Basically the NAACP followed him around for years making his life miserable getting him fired repeatedly. Not sure where he is now.
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