"I haven't seen this many cowboys kneeling since 'Brokeback Mountain.'"
Posted on 09/26/2017 8:01:10 AM PDT by ForYourChildren
What a shock it truly wasn't that one of the most warped recent examples of Trump Derangement Syndrome would be heard on a cable show hosted by Al Sharpton.
Former Chicago Bulls player Craig Hodges, author of "Long Shot: The Struggles and Triumphs of an NBA Freedom Fighter," appeared on Sharpton's PoliticsNation yesterday to talk about President Trump's criticism of NFL athletes for kneeling during the national anthem to protest perceived racial injustices.
What Hodges said about the president was over the top even by the inelegant standards of MSNBC's weekend programming:
SHARPTON: "Let me show you this tweet he just recently put up encouraging people to, he put it up a few minutes ago today, telling people don't go to the game. It says (quoting from the tweet), "If NFL fans refuse to go to games until players stop disrespecting our Flag & Country, you will see change take place fast. Fire or suspend!"
"So is he trying to kind of front-end or interfere with those that are boycotting on behalf of (NFL quarterback/free agent Colin) Kaepernick?"
HODGES: "Well, first of all, Rev. Al, I want to thank God for giving us the opportunity to wake up this morning and speak on behalf of our people, you know, and honestly speaking when I look at where we are right now, it's beyond us getting justice in America. It's absolutely time for the Congressional Black Caucus to call for human rights violations that have occurred, past and previously, you know, and I think right now it's a civil rights issue within the context of what President Trump said the other night and as far as hampering athletes to be able to employ or get employment or gain employment."
"And, you know, when I think about his whole thing is when was Amer-, make America great again. Now we see that 1817 is more likely when he's thinking about America being great as opposed to us kneeling on behalf of righteousness and justice, he wants us to be kneeling in the cotton fields again."
Lest anyone think he wasn't serious, Hodges then accused Trump of fomenting race war --
"But it's a different day in that we who are mindful we have to stand up and battle this thing and it can't be us in a war of words, of back and forth. No, it's about making moves, like I'm talking about, go to the World Court, reach outside of the nation for help from Brazil, Russia and China, India, South Africa, the BRICS nations who've made, invest in black people, because right now it's a standard that he has set where he's trying to set up race, a basic race war, and it's ugly, man. And then to hear him just to go off on black women and women should be outraged all over the planet earth."
Oh it's ugly all right, but we've come to expect no less on MSNBC. What made Hodge's remarks even shabbier was his invocation of the Almighty just before accusing Trump of wanting to enslave tens of millions of people across America. His years in the NBA presumably enabled Hodges to make that prodigious leap from righteous to unhinged.
This civil rights test should be taught in all public schools!
http://blackrepublican.blogspot.com/2015/05/civil-rights-history-test.html
Hey, just an FYI: white men invented machines that work the cotton fields now.
Your black brothers no longer have to work the fields...thank a white man.
>>>>>>>>>>
Nice try.
Here is the leftists interpretation of that.
Hey, just an FYI: white men invented machines that work the cotton fields now.
Your black brothers no longer have to work the fields...”blame the white man for stealing your jobs.”
... while the black players kneeling on the ground -- often with patronizing white players standing next to them with a hand on their teammates' shoulders -- are the ones who we should be defending here?
LMAO.
This is what happens when you have professional athletes and media commentators from a culture that has been openly hostile to the basic ideas of education and self-improvement for decades.
"I haven't seen this many cowboys kneeling since 'Brokeback Mountain.'"
Just playing the game: when people picked cotton by hand, they bent over. They did not kneel.
So, this guy knows so much about picking cotton, huh?
I’d pick cotton way before I would take welfare. It probably pays very good these days using those combine picking machines doing the work.
Can’t help but think of that Nine Inch Nails song...
Bow down before the one you serve
You’re going to get what you deserve
I’m confused what are the Cowgirls protesting about there?
LOL! It is time to outlaw cotton balls completely.
My teenaged daughter who likes makeup won't be happy, but we need to look at the big picture here. LOL!!! 1
We should’a picked our own freakin’ cotton!
The 7-11 store and the neighborhood Stop’N Rob will be required to stock cotton balls behind the cash register next to the Playboy magazines.
That form of kneeling in solidarity (whatever that happens to mean this week) before the anthem is much preferable to disrespecting the flag and the anthem. Want to start a controversy? Tell the libs they were kneeling and PRAYING!
Carl Brashear MCPO his dad sharecropped, so his kids could go to school, he didn’t let them in the fields he sent them to school. Both are HEROES. Not these pussy over paid ball players.
MCPO Carl Brashear broke the color barrier, to become the FIRST Deep Sea Naval Rescue Diver, in a freak accident that cost him the use of a leg, he had it amputated, learned to walk again, and resume his duties as a Deep Sea Rescue Diver, leaving the Navy as A MCPO Master Diver MCPO CARL BRASHEAR
https://www.usni.org/heritage/brashear
The 200 year plan, of course.
Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th President of the United States: “I’ll have those niggers voting Democratic for 200 years.”
Cotton triggering, LOL.
Had a friend who’s father picked cotton in the South, a sharecropper who raised a handful of kids who turned out fine. My friend was a wonderful woman, raised two excellent sons, had her own business making pretty headscarves for women who’d lost their hair due to chemotherapy, employed several other nice black ladies.. And then, all the fabric mills closed, moved to China. As a result, she couldn’t buy small quantities at wholesale anymore, nothing less than truckloads—or full retail. Drove her out of business.
So. Picking cotton helped her, but globalism hurt.
(Ping to #55 !!)
That’s OK, they can still use slaves to run the cotton picking machines.
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