On 9/24/2017 2:39 PM, suzeeq wrote:
> Obveeus wrote:
>>
>> On 9/24/2017 1:29 PM, suzeeq wrote:
>>> RichA wrote:
>>>> On Tuesday, 5 September 2017 17:00:12 UTC-4, mog...@hotmail.comÂ
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> NYPD Officers Take A Knee To Support Colin Kaepernick
>>>>> Yahoo Sports - August 19, 2017
>>>>>
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>>>>>
https://sports.yahoo.com/nypd-officers-take-knee-support-colin-kaepernick-still-looking-nfl-job-215636166.html
>>>>>
>>>> Not NYPD, or the military. BLACKS.
>>> I saw a lot of white NFL players kneeling before the first game
>>> today. And their coaches.
>>
>> The kneeling in the NFL just turned from a 'Black Lives Matter'
>> protest into an anti-Trump protest. Likely, it will never go back to
>> the original message now.
>>
>> Meanwhile, the Pittburgh Penguins (a team with no black players and
>> mostly filled with foreigners) has accepted their invitation to the
>> White House while the Golden State Warriors (a team of mostly black
>> American players) was uninvited for being uppity towards Trump.
>
>
> No, 1 player was uninvited and the rest of the team declined.
No. One player declined, the rest of the team was undecided. Trump
recinded the invitation to the team as near as I can tell from his
remark. The team has not made a group decision on anything yet, since
they have not met as planned to do so.
>> Sports personalities are quickly overtaking 'entertainment
>> personalities' as those most vocal about politics.
>
> Good. That'll send a message to Trump supporters where they wouldn't
> listen to entertainment personalities.
A bunch of rich black guys are not going to send a message that would be
heard by Trump supporters. While there might be some trump supporters
watching professional basketball, they certainly aren't the ones doing
it while looking up to the black players in the game.
Meanwhile, over in the NFL, the intended message has now become buried
in a pro-Trump / anti-trump divide that had nothing to do with the
original act of 'protest'. We can thank the TV media for much of that
(they certainly haven't worked to keep the two issues separate)...and
Trump himself for the rest of that (he isn't supposed to be making any
statements at all about which American companies the citizens should be
patronizing) because he managed to get the press to make this story
about him instead of about perceived police violence patterns.