Posted on 11/19/2017 7:20:35 PM PST by GuavaCheesePuff
This NFL season has blazed new political trails as players have used their platform to stand up to racism in the face of a ferocious backlash. It has truly been a season of firsts. But there is another “first” on the immediate horizon that speaks to the league’s baldly reactionary history in regards to race.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenation.com ...
We will boycott for the Colin reason, not for the Indian reason.
Mind your own business, D*ve!
Cool. The libtards are back to attacking the NFL.
“We will boycott for the Colin reason, not for the Indian reason.
Mind your own business, D*ve!”
Exactly. This Dave guy is an idiot.
The NFL racists accusing the rest of the USA have lost me as a viewer. They can FOAD as far as I am concerned.
They just want to claim victory that they’re political cause is the reason the NFL died.
I bet they don’t even notice the hypocrisy that Colin never took a knee to complain about the Redskins and actively wants to work for an organization that supports the name Redskins.
The Nation ^ | November 17, 2017 | Dave Zirin
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Re: Dave Zirin
International Socialist Organization
The International Socialist Organization (ISO) is a revolutionary socialist organization in the United States that identifies with Trotskyism, Leninism, and the Marxist political tradition of “socialism from below.”[1]
Socialism conference:
The ISO is the co-sponsor, along with the Center for Economic Research and Social Change, of an annual conference titled Socialism.[30] Speakers at past Socialism conferences include filmmaker and author Tariq Ali, actor Wallace Shawn, The Nation sportswriter Dave Zirin, writer Glenn Greenwald, journalist Amy Goodman, professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, environmental writer John Bellamy Foster, The Nation contributor Jeremy Scahill, Iraq Veterans Against the War member Camilo Mejía, Palestinian rights activists Omar Barghouti and Ali Abunimah, and actor John Cusack.[31][32]
Notable members
Paul Le Blanc, activist and historian
Brian Jones, schoolteacher, activist, actor and 2014 Green Party of New York nominee for Lieutenant Governor
Sharon Smith, journalist, author and women’s rights activist
Dave Zirin, sportswriter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Socialist_Organization
BS!
Most American Indians are proud of their red skin and don’t mind a sports team appropriating their fearsome fighting disposition and skills to represent their team. It’s an honor to them, not deprecating. But you can always find a few bellyaching ne’er-do-wells who take offense.
The ones who are most upset about the name REDSKINS are lilly-white rich liberals, often employed in academia.
The Nation must feel so superior over their silly little * virtue signal.
Or the media.
“'History!' Kaepernick wrote on Instagram Oct. 15 [2015], when he marked 50 years since the Black Panther Party was founded.
Kaepernick has posted 170 photos or videos on his Instagram account in the four years since he created it. Most of his first 128 posts were pics of him in football gear, publicity photos or shots taken with friends.
But 31 of his last 42 posts have strong social justice connotations, often featuring quotes from radical Nation of Islam leader [communist] Malcolm X, Black Panthers founder Huey Newton and cop killer Assata Shakur [aka, communist-revolutionary JoAnne Chesimard]
During a Sunday news conference about the flag flap, Kaepernick dressed in a black hat with a large, white “X” and a T-shirt that featured photos of Cuban despot Fidel Castro and Malcolm X.”
http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2016/08/30/kaepernick-social-media-posts-laud-black-lives-matter-black-panthers-since-dating-activist-dj.html
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From the Maoist Internationist Movement:
[1960s/original] Black Panther Party [BPP] Archives
From the article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROES
"On May 1st, May Day [1969], the day of the gigantic Free Huey rally, two of Alioto's top executioners vamped on the brothers from the Brown Community who were attending to their own affairs. These brothers, who are endowed with the revolutionary spirit of the Black Panther Party defended themselves from the racist pig gestapo [the police].
Pig Joseph Brodnik received his just reward with a big hole in the chest. Pig Paul McGoran got his in the mouth which was not quite enough to off him.
The revolutionary brothers escaped the huge swarm of pigs with dogs, mace, tanks and helicopters, proving once again that "the spirit of the people is greater than the man's technology."
To these brothers the revolutionary people of racist America want to say, by your revolutionary deed you are heroes, and that you are always welcome to our camp."
Source: Maoist Internationist Movement
Article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROS (May 11, 1969)
http://web.archive.org/web/20060717050055/http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/bpp/index.html
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“'History!' Kaepernick wrote on Instagram Oct. 15 [2015], when he marked 50 years since the Black Panther Party was founded.
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Here's a close up of the jerk's shirt. It reads "Great Minds Think Alike" (Fidel Castro and black radical/communist Malcolm X)
Not many Black Lives Matter morons would have the initiative to get a poster printed. But it's no mystery where they get the signs that they jab in the air as they chant "What do we want? Dead cops!" The supplier is printed right across the bottom: revcom.us .
'Rev' is for revolutionary.
'Com' is for communist.
Revcom.us bills itself as "the voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA." The explicit objective is to overthrow our constitutional republic and replace it with an oligarchical collectivist dictatorship along the lines of North Korea and the Soviet Union.
Why would advocates of a communist police state agitate against the police? Because as leftists used to admit openly, the issue is never the issue. This isn't about the police, any more than it is about blacks. It is about destabilizing the system so as to create opportunities to weaken it and eventually overthrow it.
That's what community organizing boils down to. These people have taken over the executive branch of the federal government; why would they stop there?
The next hill they take will be federal control of local police. After that, things will start to get scary.
http://moonbattery.com/?p=54033
Backup link
https://web.archive.org/web/20170820210427/http://moonbattery.com/?p=54033
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From the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party (revcom.us):
"Create Public Opinion, Seize Power: We are preparing minds and organizing forces for the time when there is a major crack in the system, whenever it comes and wherever it comes from: an opening that makes it possible to bring the future Revolutionary Army of the Proletariat (R.A.P.) into the field and wage a revolutionary armed struggle that actually has a chance of winning.
And we have said that building our party itself is the most important part of organizing forces for revolution. This is true now, and it is true looking forward to the creation of that future R.A.P. and the waging of that armed struggle.":
http://revcom.us/a/v20/1000-1009/1000/barw.htm
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The 1992 LA/Rodney King riots were instigated by the Revolutionary Communist Party...
From David Horowitz's FrontpageMag.com /DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
"Throughout its history, one of RCP's [Revolutionary Communist Party] principal objectives has been to foment civil unrest in the United States. The most notable example of such efforts occurred on April 29, 1992, when RCP members looted and trashed the downtown and government districts of Los Angeles, triggering the infamous Rodney King riots. During the days immediately preceding the violence, RCP -- which maintained close ties to the L.A. gangs known as the Crips and the Bloods -- had circulated throughout South Central Los Angeles a leaflet featuring a statement by RCP National Spokesman Carl Dix, titled 'It's Right To Rebel' -- a quote popularized by Mao Zedong.
Encouraged by Dix, RCP activists helped lead the riots that would leave 58 people dead, more than 2,300 people injured, some 5,300 buildings burned, and $1 billion in property damaged or destroyed. On the ten-year anniversary of the rioting, RCP member Joseph Veale fondly recalled the violence as 'the most beautiful, the most heroic civil action in the history of the United States.'"
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6197
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"The RCP upheld the 1992 sometimes-violent unrest in Los Angeles and nationally as a "rebellion" in the aftermath of the Rodney King verdicts.
Then-LAPD chief Daryl Gates alleged that the RCP was involved in the "riots".
Los Angeles has long been one of the RCP's larger and more active branches.
William "Mobile" Shaw was a local leader who recently passed and received public commendation from the party."
https://web.archive.org/web/20080528005530/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Communist_Party%2C_USA
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The use of a mosquito repellant by the east coast Indians is a racial slur? Good thing they did not use Banana Boat sunscreen on their nose.
You listening, Goodell? I’m only gonna say this once more. I have the solution to your Redskin dilemma:
Keep the name.
Change the mascot to a potato.
You’re welcome.
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Beyonce and JZ in Communist Cuba...
Excuse me, but Indians don't have "red skin" unless they have painted it red.
Some sportscasters don’t call them Redskins.
I believe Jerry Howarth of Blue Jays Radio refuses to say “Indians” and calls them simply Cleveland
My son-in-law is 1/2 Mohawk. He doesn’t lose any sleep over this. Also, my wife and I visited both the Zuni and Navajo reservations this past summer. There are definitely problems in the Indian nations, but having a football team named Redskins sure isn’t high on the list.
5th picture down, far right, Link, from the Mod Squad, cool.
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