ESPN Writer Bashes America On July 4 With Woke Rant: "Numb To The Spectacle"

[Ubiquitous]

ESPN columnist Howard Bryant seized the opportunity to trash America on July
4, the nation's Independence Day, in a column for ESPN's website, titled,
"Baseball, barbecue, and losing freedom this Fourth of July."

Outkick's Clay Travis, in a column bashing Bryant's suppositions, described
Bryant as a "man currently being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year
to opine on sports for ESPN, despite having no discernible talent
whatsoever."

Bryant started his diatribe by decrying Major League baseball requiring its
30 teams to wear Independence Day-themed baseball hats. "Next is the USA-
themed socks, the marketing, the freedom-inspired spikes, gloves, wristbands,
the inevitable paeans to the armed forces," he complained.

"By now, we're all numb to the spectacle," he opined, continuing, "Grilling,
baseball and fireworks, first replaced by symbols -- and now by a country
tearing itself completely apart. July 4, 2022, falls in the midst of
devastation. It is Independence Day in America with independence under
current and relentless assault."

"The U.S. Supreme Court has run a chain saw through what two generations of
Americans had known to be the legal baselines of their lives," he
hyperventilated, adding, "Tens of millions of women today do not feel freedom
and certainly are not celebrating independence."

"Ah, yes, just what we needed, a man arrested for assaulting his own wife
standing up for women's rights," Travis commented, referring to Bryant's case
in the past.

Then this woke piece of business from Bryant: "The people who can become
pregnant (italics added) who feel celebratory toward the Court may do so from
the victory of their position, but it nevertheless remains true that the
power of choice -- and the right to privacy -- has been taken from all of
them."

"The spectacle of all-white juries acquitting proud, admittedly guilty white
killers of Black people largely predated your birth," he wrote, then segued
to the events of January 6, 2021: "You tell yourself to not think about the
utter, enraging hypocrisy, to resist the useless and flaccid equivalencies.
(Imagine if Black people did that...)"

After venting about black players who knelt for the national anthem, Bryant
charged, "If the past several years have reinforced anything, it is that
there has always been a separate set of rules, a concierge lane, a front door
exclusively for white America. Jan. 6 crystallized this truth."

Then a bald-face lie: "When the barricades were overrun, and elected
officials of both parties hid under their desks, and the cops were killed
..."

Cops killed?

"A significant percentage of white America believes this country belongs to
them," he stated. "There are two rules in the United States, never directly
articulated but rife with consequence when broken: Beyond what the
mainstream, which is to say white America, determines to be acceptable, it is
forbidden to express humanitarian compassion and concern for the people of
Palestine -- just ask Dwight Howard. And it is unacceptable to unequivocally
advocate for Black people."

Travis picked that apart:

This first "rule," "it is forbidden to express humanitarian
compassion and concern for the people of Palestine," is barely
disguised anti-Semitism. People express support for Palestine all
the time. Huge parts of the Democratic party, in fact, now make it
one of their baseline beliefs. ... As for the second rule, it is
"unacceptable to unequivocally advocate for Black people." Are you
kidding me? We had an entire NBA season played with "Black Lives
Matter" emblazoned on the court.

Bryant concluded:

And that, you know so painfully well after more than a half-century
in this land, is the difference. Black people have known it for
centuries, and the alarm will always ring for the ones who have
forgotten. You participate in the American dream at their pleasure.
This is theirs, not yours, and thus they can trash the Capitol if
they want because the Capitol building is theirs. After all, they
came here to build a better life. The laws enacted in that building,
before your ancestors fought to undo them, were in protection of
them.

You? You were brought here to work.

--
Let's go Brandon!

[BTR1701]

In article <ta1f2i$3n5m4$9...@dont-email.me>,

Ubiquitous <web...@polaris.net> wrote:

> ESPN columnist Howard Bryant seized the opportunity to trash America on July
> 4, the nation's Independence Day, in a column for ESPN's website, titled,
> "Baseball, barbecue, and losing freedom this Fourth of July."
>
> Outkick's Clay Travis, in a column bashing Bryant's suppositions, described
> Bryant as a "man currently being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year
> to opine on sports for ESPN, despite having no discernible talent
> whatsoever."
>
> Bryant started his diatribe by decrying Major League baseball requiring its
> 30 teams to wear Independence Day-themed baseball hats. "Next is the USA-
> themed socks, the marketing, the freedom-inspired spikes, gloves, wristbands,
> the inevitable paeans to the armed forces," he complained.
>
> "By now, we're all numb to the spectacle," he opined, continuing, "Grilling,
> baseball and fireworks, first replaced by symbols -- and now by a country
> tearing itself completely apart. July 4, 2022, falls in the midst of
> devastation. It is Independence Day in America with independence under
> current and relentless assault."
>
> "The U.S. Supreme Court has run a chain saw through what two generations of
> Americans had known to be the legal baselines of their lives," he
> hyperventilated, adding, "Tens of millions of women today do not feel freedom
> and certainly are not celebrating independence."
>
> "Ah, yes, just what we needed, a man arrested for assaulting his own wife
> standing up for women's rights," Travis commented, referring to Bryant's case
> in the past.

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