A’s Mark Canha speaks out on social injustice

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | September 25, 2017 | John Shea

[GuavaCheesePuff]

A’s outfielder Mark Canha grew up in San Jose and attended Bellarmine High School and Cal. Saturday night, he put his left hand on the right shoulder of teammate Bruce Maxwell, who was the first big-league baseball player to take a knee during the national anthem. Maxwell, who grew up in a military family, cited his experiences with racism in Huntsville, Ala., where President Trump said this week NFL players should be fired for kneeling during the anthem. The A’s catcher took a knee again before Sunday’s game, again with his hand on his heart, again with Canha at his side.

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From Dodgers manager Dave Roberts:

Before the game, Roberts was asked if he would have a problem if a player chose to kneel during the anthem.

“Personally, yeah, I’d have a problem,” he said, “because my father served this country for 30 years and I understand – I can appreciate any player’s individual, however they act, and that’s personal. But I would just ask every person to really be educated. When you make a point, something like that – and it’s been in baseball. It’s been in sports. But the thing is, really think long and hard, and really be educated on why you’re doing what you’re doing. After that it’s each individual player’s decision.”

[GuavaCheesePuff]

Dave Roberts is black. Roberts will be seen as a Uncle Tom.

Watch as the black LA residents force Magic to fire him.

Just watch.

[GuavaCheesePuff]

He’ll be seen as a Uncle Tom.

[BuddhaBrown]

“...billionaires complaining...”

Agreed.

Apparently gratuitous attention seeking is no longer a flaw, but rather is a 1st class ticket to guilt-free hypocrisy.

After all, this is the two-wrongs-make-me-right generation.

[where's_the_Outrage?]

There was reference to racism in the Huntsville AL area. He actually could have experienced real racism.

1. In Arab Alabama in the early 90s blacks would get out of town before dark in fear of the KKK. Note sure if this is still true.

2. In 2009 in New Hope Al I had to help a white lady that had a black BF and was receiving death threats, even had her car brake lines cut.

But those cities are within 20 min of Huntsville, and heavily Dem.

[left that other site]

“but rather is a 1st class ticket to guilt-free hypocrisy.”

I like that! :-)

[left that other site]

I hope MY taxes aren’t paying for it!

[Redmen4ever]

Barack Obama’s not president. Therefore, back to not being proud of my country. Black pride. Not American pride. Black lives matters. Other lives don’t. Justice for black male youth living the thug life selling dope like that man in St. Louis. Not for the policeman who have protect the community from that element.

This is a minority view within the minority, but it’s the vocal view. Trump will win the black vote in 2020 because he puts America first, he puts Americans first, and he puts jobs for Americans first. The American Dream should be, first, for Americans, not for illegal “Dreamers” brought or sent here to qualify for welfare benefits.

Black unemployment is the lowest since it has been measured in the Current Population Survey, and it’s only going to get lower. If the worthless Congress sits around and does nothing, Donald Trump through executive actions will Make American Great Again.

[silverleaf]

Because the national anthem and the US flag represent what happened in some military brats past life in Huntsville Alabama and disrespecting both is gonna fix things...
Uh huh

[FreedomPoster]

Heath MacDonald says the numbers overall prove otherwise. Which doesn’t mean there aren’t some bad cops out there.

How Trump Can Help the Cops
The administration must change the Obama narrative that policing is the problem.
https://www.city-journal.org/html/how-trump-can-help-cops-15121.html

“A frontal assault on the dominant narrative about a racist criminal-justice system will require laying out the stark racial disparities in criminal offending and victimization. The public has been kept in the dark for decades about how vast those disparities are: blacks commit homicide at eight times the rate of whites and Hispanics combined, for example, and die of homicide at six times the rate of whites and Hispanics combined. Lifting that veil of ignorance is necessary to explain why officers operate more actively in minority neighborhoods—in order to save lives. The public must also understand that it is law-abiding members of high-crime communities themselves who beg the police to maintain order, and that such public-order policing was central to the now-jeopardized 20-year crime decline.”