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in the country, was committed to playing college football at the University of Florida before his scholarship offer was revoked in the wake of a manufactured social media scandal.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 Within a week, that offer was revoked too, and now Albany State’s head football coach, Quinn Gray, is groveling to the outrage mob and issuing a public apology for offering Stokes a spot on the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.”
So ONLY WHITES lose their scholarships for doing what blacks do all the time.
Scholarships now. Jobs and benefits soon.
Coach got caught trying to be too cool for his school!
Thought that his small school (6,122- fall’19....4,461 were female) could pick up a ranked QB once he heard that U of FL had pulled Stokes’ free ride offer.
Oooops
LOL!! I had to stop listening I was laughing so hard (at work). OMG that is... something.
People are losing jobs and benefits now because of this cancel culture woke crap.................Eventually it will get people killed........................
Who said lynching was a thing of the past?
The comments below are the best part.
Ugh…that’s rough.
I only went through that a few times during school. The Navy tended to let us stay put somewhere for two to three years in most cases. There was a five-month posting at Norfolk, VA while my dad attended a staff college. I started third grade there and finished it elsewhere.
We usually moved during the summers so at least we were the “new kids” on the first day of school. When we were stationed in Italy, we arrived about two weeks after school started, but this was a NATO posting and kids rotated in and out of school there all the time. We got to stay three years. (And loved it.)
You kinda get used to not having ‘friends’ because you know you won’t be there for long....................
liberals aint happy unless they are making everyone miserable- they have to spoil things for everyone-
Some white males have yet to figure out that they are the targets.
Anything can, and will, be used against them in the court of public opinion.
With us, just as we were comfortable with friends and our surroundings, just as we really felt like we were settled and and belonged, it was time to move. LOL And never just to the next county or something, no. It was always somewhere thousands of miles away.
Fortunately, the majority of our friends were military brats too and it was just the life. We ended up having lots of pen pals, staying in touch with friends we’d made.
I’m still very close with two besties from that past. One is like a sister.
I sincerely hope you’ve been able to establish something at least resembling roots somewhere now. Moving as much as you did must have been a difficult road.
Straight to the NFL if someone wants him bad enough.
Until these idiots stop putting their every move on social media, this will happen. I hope someday soon the young kids and adults will get this. So many screwed their lives by placing inappropriate junk on their social media pages. This was a self induced problem he created. Learn from it.
I always thought Whispering Bill Anderson was the first rapper.
Yes, we have lived in this same Florida Panhandle town for 41+ years!.......................
Nice! My mother was a fifth generation Florida panhandle denizen.
She met my dad in Pensacola while he was doing his flight training.
“You are good enough to play college football. All you have to do is not say the N word”
“Nah, can’t do it. I gotta say it”
We go to Pensacola a lot. That’s where my VA Clinic is.................
I would have personally turned it off and made a scene. Asking those Target employees...
Oh I have to go back and check that out.
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