Posted on 08/27/2020 11:41:19 AM PDT by conservative98
“It’s amazing why we keep loving this country,” Clippers coach Doc Rivers said Tuesday, “and this country does not love us back.”
When police shoot or kill a black criminal suspect it explains how America feels about black people? When police kill a white criminal suspect does it explain how America feels about white people?
We have to break from thought bubbles, the social media silos that confirm our worst biases about the opposite race.
The NBA Bubble is toxic. It was bound to burst, bound to foment racial animus. The Bubble is a museum dedicated to defining America as inherently racist and demonizing anyone who questions the sanity of analyzing a nation through the lens of police engagement with resisting suspects.
This is the consequence of injecting politics into sports. Politics is inherently partisan, divisive, dishonest, racially exploitive and destructive. Politics blinds. The fight for political power erases the humanity of the opposition. Politics uses fear to inspire voters.
“Black men, black women, black kids, we are terrified,” LeBron James, who is leading a Democractic voter-registration drive, said a day after watching the Jacob Blake video.
James, Rivers and Webber are all good men. They are trapped in the bubble of hate that has captured a large swath of black and white Americans during this election cycle. The mainstream media and social media financially capitalize on the hate bubbles they promote and exploit.
NBA players have reportedly agreed to resume play in the coming days.The cancellation of the NBA season might have been best for sports and America. The isolation of the NBA Bubble accentuates the racial divide and encourages the irresponsible Just Do It mentality.
Chris Webber and other athletes need to engage with people who don’t share their worldview, people who reject the Just Do It mantra.
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My column today addresses short-lived NBA boycott and Nike's role in promoting shortsighted behavior. Read this column and come join me on periscope as I discuss it in 20 minutes. https://t.co/49OvyXNwVG— Jason Whitlock (@WhitlockJason) August 27, 2020
if you are not a damned criminal scumbag, what are you terrified of exactly. Proof please, would be nice for a change?
Lying bastard.
The country supports them and many of them are thugs. The coaches can’t even manage them in a team anymore.
Doc is the worst kind of charlatan.
THis country in its current residents’ lifetimes has poured trillions into reparations funding and put blacks to the front of the line for college entry, jobs, etc.rob,
Blacks rob, injure, rape and kill whites are much higher rates than the reverse.
Yet he wants to play into the worst, “they hate us”, victim trap.
the black people they are holding up as reasons why they are ‘terrified’ are almost exclusively criminal thugs
if they are identifying with that, thats their personal hangup
and percentagewise whites are killed way more often by cops than whites, in terms of actual people shot and killed
we dont get to hide behind race and fake outrage
IF they really cared they’d all quit. TODAY! And go do community service.
Look at black America first, Doc. Jesse Jackson had it right when he said (paraphrasing) that if he heard footsteps behind him at night, we would hope the person was white. None of that has changed. It’s just being ignored by the so-called black “leaders”.
N-o B-igger A=**holes
Because nothing says “oppressed minority” like a multi-millionaire BB player. We should all be so “oppressed”. Just like we should listen to Hollyweird actors that are PAID to be something they are not and spew their rehearsed lines.
Put a sock in it.
I’ve seen enough ugly from all sides, just stop.
White people eating dinner and being made to raise a fist...not even on your birthday, _____ _____.
I’ve had enough and I’m not playing the game anymore.
I love this board. Seriously. It has gotten me through some of the toughest times in my life. And I find like-minded people here and have made good friends.
But I seriously and honestly cannot come here lately without getting ****** nauseated to my stomach and my core and having to sign off as soon as I sign on lately.
my rage at these articles is incredible and I come from an area that is not as open-minded as perhaps some of you.
TO EVERY BLACK PERSON... AND FREEPERS DON’T COME BACK AT ME ANY OF YOU WITH GARBAGE ABOUT HOW THEY ARE NOT ALL BAD.
SINCE WHEN HAS THAT BEEN GOOD ENOUGH?
...GO TO SCHOOL. GET A JOB. MEET A WOMAN OR MAN. GET ENGAGED. GET MARRIED. THEN HAVE A KID. THEN GET A HOUSE. THE LAST TWO YOU CAN DO IN DIFFERENT ORDERS, NONE OF THE OTHERS
BUT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD AND MY SANITY STOP COMPLAINING LIKE LITTLE ***** B**** GIRLS!!!! YOU SICKEN ME TO NO END! TAKE SOME RESPONSIBILITY FOR GOD’S SAKE!!
I’m out of here.
I can’t wait to be on this board during elections when we sweep everything.
Ciao
Hey, “coach”. If you hate this country so much, quit whining and LEAVE you POS.
KFK: "As not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for ....why are you interrupting me, I'm in the middle of a speech to the Clippers coach here
Staffer: I'm sorry sir but did you know he's black and a BLM supporter?
JFK: Oh. Er uh thanks for telling me. Ahem. As I was saying... Ask not what you can do for your country, ask how you much your country will give you. Then ask for more.
Right dumbass... the "terrified" 11% of the population are so scared they will be shot by the police, that they continue to commit 70% of the violent crime in the country. Probably fair to say they have no one to blame but themselves for their continuous run-ins with law enforcement, wouldn't you say, moron.
Right dumbass... the "terrified" 11% of the population are so scared they will be shot by the police, that they continue to commit 70% of the violent crime in the country. Probably fair to say they have no one to blame but themselves for their continuous run-ins with law enforcement, wouldn't you say, moron.
Well Doc, police do shoot more unarmed whites then unarmed blacks so what does that say about your opinion?
“Black men, black women, black kids, we are terrified,” LeBron James
I thought Doc Rivers was smarter and had more class than this.
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