Posted on 05/11/2019 5:19:45 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
Longstanding U.S. tradition sees champions in many sports visit the White House as a celebratory honor. But in this bitterly polarized era, meeting the president is no longer a routine practice. Many star athletes have opted out of the experience based on their political and philosophical perspectives. Yamiche Alcindor talks to Kevin Blackistone of The Washington Post and ESPN about the divide.
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Yeah. Meh.
Who cares if these spoiled millionaires show up? And to he!! with Colin Kaepernick. He is lower than dirt in my eyes.
Sure sounds like the blacks are the racists. They were invited just like everybody else.
Yeh Trump’s a racist, blah blah. Effin lie from the pits of hell. Not a shred of evidence to that effect but Rats love their feel good lies.
What were the numbers? How many showed and how many no-showed?
And he gave the Queen tapes of his speeches.
He lit up the WH with the rainbow too.
Thank God he is gone.
It used to be an honor to be invited by the President. If I’m the President, I would probably no longer invite professional teams to the White House. If I do end up inviting them, I would probably demand media to be banned from the event.
The media is successfully keeping many blacks from assimilating; remember this the next time a partially-black person is in the White House.
Whites have never been more estranged from blacks since the end of the Civil War, and this is why - the media successfully keeps us in separate worlds.
This is impossible because of the won.
What, exactly, does this mean: I will compel you to produce what I ask you to produce?
(rhetorical question)
I hope someday that wall-to-wall racial demagoguery and identity politics will get the huge backlash they are due.
You are so right. He spent decades with friends and business associates who are black and no one ever complained he was allegedly racist. He has numerous pictures of African American business leaders,politicians, boxers, wrestlers, council members, musicians, actors, athletes and more who were not coerced into smiling next to Trump. Funny no one accused him of that racist canard for all that time.
Aw, who gives a damn....
David Price is right that much of his team is racist. He just has the wrong part. It’s not the players who went to teh White House who are racists, but the ones who didn’t.
J.D. Martinez was there, wrote his own statement admiring President Trump and honored all players who were instrumental in their championship.
Martinez is a leader.
Our “bread-and-circuses” types have no more credibility - or knowledge - than the paid political whores on late-night TV.
Aspiring rappers and professional athletes are not indications of successful assimilation...
If only he was really gone.
If it weren’t for music videos and cable TV they probably all would have visited the White House. But unfortunately the entertainment industry has reached out and grabbed all the athletes and pulled them into their world. So now they just aligned themselves with the wackos and Hollywood can the Northeast liberals of New York City and so forth.
It’s racist to have a four or 5% black unemployment rate. We need to go back to the Equal justice for all wonderful Obama 13% black unemployment rate when things were more fair. Starcasm off
How many of those that didn’t attend talk about “white people” or “whitey”?
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