Fwd: What the NFL protests are about

[don bryant]

From and by Genevieve Mitchell, whom many of you met in Cleveland

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From: Black Board <the_bla...@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: What the NFL protests are about
To: Gaylene Sloane <gpsl...@hotmail.com>, Nina McLellan <mclell...@gmail.com>, Valerie Robinson <vcrob...@yahoo.com>, Stewart Robinson <stewart...@sbcglobal.net>, Don Bryant <email.d...@gmail.com>, William Clarence Marshall <williamclar...@yahoo.com>, Khalid Samad <peacein...@yahoo.com>, Marva And Dave Patterson <marv...@aol.com>, Rhoda Cantrell <cantre...@yahoo.com>, "Ms. Donnie Pastard" <donnie...@gmail.com>, "CSB Amy J. Hurd" <amyj...@yahoo.com>

He is absolutely right. All of this is about white  European arrogance, born out of shame of being the 

primary race on the planet that has consistently worked to accrue and maintain political, 

economic, social, cultural, academic, and scientific dominance and control over the planet, it's 

people, land, and natural resources to develop, fortify and maintain imperialist hegemony in perpetuity. 

Racism, imperialism and colonialism have been consistently used as political tools to invade, and

forcibly control every continent on the planet. People have historically resisted, with ploys being devised

utilizing dictatorship, overseers, slavery and derisive economic systems, military actions, lynching and other

forms of foreign and domestic terrorism have been used to maintain control.

With the advent of the first visibly "black" president, some foolishly attributed this to a "post-racial" society.

Now, with under President Donald Trump, we are witnessing a white male backlash, come to put "da nigga 

back in his rightful place". The prisons, poor houses and graveyards of America. Lynched.....literally,  figuratively, 

or metaphorically. "45 says...."They"disrespect "our flag"! Our flag? As if blacks never volunteered or were conscripted to fight under it? AS if blacks, having fought under it, were not summarily lynched, in uniform upon their return from fighting to protect the rights of white Americans who committed homicide of black soldiers with full impunity? Our flag, under which black GI's were denied use of Veteran's Hospitals back in the day, had to deal with segregated units and barracks, but still served with honor, valor and integrity. (troops and regiments, all black Tuskeegee Airman, Buffalo Soldiers, Civil War Units). Our flag, though black soldiers were consistently denied access to their own benefits: GI Bill Housing, Education, Jobs; led to homes in segregated neighborhoods, segregated schools, sitting' in the back of the bus, can't use a public restroom, register to vote, subject to redlining, etc. ? And...if that be the lot of those who served.....what was happening to those"at the bottom of the well"? Those coming off plantations, subject to lease convict systems, for peonage (unemployment), vagrancy (homelessness), denied the Constitutional Right to Vote (Voting). 

What of the millions, upon millions of black families torn assunder as a result of slavery? Never compensated, No recompense, no reparations. What of them and their children? The black women used as wet nurses to breastfeed white and black children? Our breastmilk! Tuskeegee syphyllis experiments (our bodies used in non-consensual clinical trials)  Black women sterilized without consent. Our flag?  Slave medical experiments with no anesthetic, (to watch the clinical pathogenesis of disease, as it traversed through the body).  Black children and black prisoners (held, interned without due process and equal protection under the law), unable to be tried by a jury of our peers, in all white Kangaroo Courts, given lengthy sentences, convicted of crimes they did not do, and committing crimes , the result of having to live a life under such "fucked up" circumstances.  Our flag?  Be glad they are not lying down supine! Those sent to labor in the fields as free, uncompensated labor, in perpetuity.....denied the right to read and learn, can't vote, beaten, used for sex by white men (our wombs used as means to procreate wealth for whites), denied the right to their progeny, used as economic collateral like a trading card to be brought and sold at will. What about those women. And this didn't go on for days, or months, or years.......this went on for centuries.

White men, possessing the ability to OWN BLACK MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN! Ownership with title, like a car or a deed to a house....that shit is heavy!

WHITE MEN with the ability to restrain, and keep black MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN and dispose of them at will. To murder, lynch, mate, confine, and use as they saw fit.

And hear, white America has hired, "ELECTED" a rhetorician who has enabled and emboldened, white supremacist, the

KU KLUX KLAN (a known terrorist organization), Neo-NAZI factions to march through a college campus with torches, yelling horrific, bone chilling racial chants against blacks and Jews! OUR FLAG?

We are living under the yoke of NEO NAZISM. All sanctioned and condoned by a white supremacist government

hell bent on taking the nation back to the NIGHTMARE. Nothing is more patriotic than what Kaepernick and these sports 

folk and entertainers have done here. We all need to kneel everything 45 represents. 

A sad day for America, A sad narrative for the nation, and its people.

Genevieve Mitchell

On Thursday, September 28, 2017 4:13 AM, Gaylene Sloane <gpsl...@hotmail.com> wrote:

From: Jeff Robinsion, ACLU Action <ac...@aclu.org>

Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 6:29 PM
To: gpsl...@hotmail.com
Subject: What the NFL protests are about

 

We can't remain silent on the epidemic of police violence against Black and Brown people.

Bring Accountability Back to the Department of Justice ms.clicks.actions.aclu.org Athletes aren't the only ones who can #TakeAKnee against the epidemic of police killing Black and Brown people. Join me.

Hi Gaylene,

If Donald Trump is not a white supremacist, his actions and words show a great deal of comfort with the values of white supremacy. We saw this most recently in his response to the NFL protests that included standing against racial injustice and police brutality. This started with Colin Kaepernick last season and shows no signs of stopping.

This past weekend over 200 football players – and performers and athletes in other sports – exercised their right to protest after our president resorted to time-tested racial code words to marginalize protestors as unpatriotic. He asked his overwhelmingly white audience in Alabama to get angry because "people like yourselves turn on the television and you see those people taking the knee." Those people – before Saturday, almost all of them Black. The sons of bitches.

Trump has dominated the conversation, and in doing so, from the beginning, he has misled people into thinking the protests are just about the flag, or the national anthem. So let’s turn to what this protest was about at the beginning: the epidemic of police in this country killing Black and Brown people with no accountability.

Prosecutors and law enforcement should be accountable to the communities they serve. Join us in making five clear demands to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the Department of Justice.

What we’re talking about is structural racism. Our justice system has suffered this plague long before Trump and Sessions came into power. But this administration is doing all it can to dismantle what little progress we have won.

Programs to build trust between police and communities are gone. Prosecutors have expanded power to dole out the harshest charges possible. Police departments have new access to weapons of war – and new leeway to use them.

We will not accept this. We must take action to ensure real accountability and community safety. Join us in making five clear demands to Attorney General Jeff Sessions today.

If you are a person of color in America and you remain silent, what you risk is the future of your children and grandchildren. Athletes in the past – Muhammad Ali, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, Wilma Rudolph – risked their careers and reputations to speak out about racism. Today’s athlete-protesters like Colin Kaepernick and the brave women of the WNBA did not risk what earlier athletes did, but their courage stands out.

On Sunday these athletes showed real courage taking a stand – or a knee – against racism. That’s what we all must do to make the change this country so desperately needs.

Thanks for rising up,



Jeff Robinson
Deputy Legal Director, ACLU DONATE NOW >>

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