compren wrote:
GoodIntentions;-) wrote:
+1
Amen
Yeah so agree with all of this, in fact in no way at all is the statement made by Brees close to racist on any level or definition of racism. Buuuuut, and it's a huge but, the lack of awareness and judgement driven by a clearly inflated sense of rich white guy privilege is just really, really unfortunate.
The epicenter of his comments, in his world, stem from the movement Kaepernick started which was in direct protest to, drumroll, police brutality against African Americans. Which, coincidentally, is what a vast majority of Americans are protesting right now.
So people aren't stupid (apparently like Drew Brees is) and this heightened sense of emotion connects the dots. Even if he doesn't say it word for word, he might as well be saying "none of you should be doing this - police brutality against African Americans isn't more important than protecting the aura of "the flag", (which is supposed to uphold the rights yet conversely has become responsible for a lot of pain and suffering for a hugely important group of people in our society).
So Brees figuratively raises his hands in this "wha-did-I-do" act and issues a pointless apology. Honestly, I hope Brees never recovers from this purely because he's had more than enough slaps on the hand regarding his comments in the past (including his support of the christian radical anti-choice and anti-gay "Focus on the Family" group). Worst of all, he doesn't deserve to recover based on just being a total idiot and thinking that this of all times was a good time to exercise some raging privilege and scold all these "naughty" people for being pissed off at a government that has neglected them for over a century and doing what they can to at least feel heard (because not everyone is so fortunate to have earned 250 million dollars in their careers for playing a sport in a league that basically embodies institutionalized racism and can be interviewed on a national forum when they have an itch to scratch).
So I'm done with Drew Brees, play out the rest of your current 50 million dollar contract and hopefully the next and last time we will ever see you will be when they stick you in the HoF.
What a complete tosser.