felony abuse and aggravated assault warrants; concealing a knife Put yourself in a life making split second decision; stop or be killed; agree 7 slugs is extreme; NBA / NFL - do different- bust up a female, stab, shoot, felony list goes on. They find a way to stay employed and supported by ownership. Name one african american owner in the NBA or NFL who would or will tolerate this behavior.
Your post is all over the place. You said it was ironic that the NFL and NBA are protesting the behavior that they themselves partake in, but they are protesting police misconduct, which I don't believe those leagues are engaged in.
Since you asked, if me and two of my coworkers can't subdue that guy without shooting him in the back 7 times then I am not fit to be a police officer.
pony on up wrote:
Your post is all over the place. You said it was ironic that the NFL and NBA are protesting the behavior that they themselves partake in, but they are protesting police misconduct, which I don't believe those leagues are engaged in.
Since you asked, if me and two of my coworkers can't subdue that guy without shooting him in the back 7 times then I am not fit to be a police officer.
Totally agree the police response was excessive, but at what point do these black men stop resisting? Hard to get shot when you don’t get into trouble to begin with and don’t start disrespecting our laws and law enforcement. Hispanic culture, Asian culture, any other minority cultures don’t commit genocide against their own people like African-Americans do. They celebrate their nuclear family, work extremely hard, and encourage their young to achieve success. They don’t throw their best under the bus as Uncle Toms. They don’t glorify gang culture. When will the black community start loving the black community?
As far as the NBA, I wish they would boycott the rest of the season. I wish they would go an entire season without playing so they can see how little they really matter in the grand scheme of things. I want to see these primadonnas go suit up in the inner city as cops and try that for a year before they go on emoting their whiny bull$hit.
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A lot of reason it has grown in value is because it is spreading through the the world, there are more foreign players than ever. Also gambling has become much more involved in basketball. You used to just have fantasy football, now you can play draftkings every day. But that doesn’t mean they are not killing their product now. Imagine if I said I’m boycotting work because I don’t feel like it.....and they just said, that’s ok come back tomorrow. These are grown men that complain about these five star resorts they’re staying in and talking about how they can’t play because a criminal resisted arrest. And they say whites are the privileged and entitled ones. Again, they guy in the video sums it all up.
How do you reconcile your statement on them growing throughout the world with your statement of them killing their product?
You said the nba has had a lot of growth in the past, I gave reasons for that. And now I’ve said they are destroying the product. It’s like building up a big house room by room and then getting a bulldozer and leveling it. They’ve built it up, now they are destroying it.
It's all about money. As soon as the players realized they wouldn't be paid for the rest of the season if they didn't play, they gave up. Pretty weak protest. Why don't they protest the slave labor that makes the shoes they are paid to wear and promote, and all the money the big shoe companies make off of the slave labor? Because if they did, they wouldn't be rich either. Nice to be able to pick and choose so easily who matters and who doesn't.
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It's all about money. As soon as the players realized they wouldn't be paid for the rest of the season if they didn't play, they gave up. Pretty weak protest. Why don't they protest the slave labor that makes the shoes they are paid to wear and promote, and all the money the big shoe companies make off of the slave labor? Because if they did, they wouldn't be rich either. Nice to be able to pick and choose so easily who matters and who doesn't.
Why don’t they give up there contracts and endorsements for a year, move to the inner cities (yes, I mean actually live there), invest in the communities, invest in libraries, read to children, mentor troubled youth etc in said cities? They CAN make a difference but they won’t. It’s all faux outrage, just like the faux sport they play. Can’t believe people actually watch the “product” that is the NBA. Sadly, I was a fan of the Lakers in my youth, but, hey, most of us have to grow up and get real jobs. No time to protest or riot.
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Excellent point. By contrast, NASCAR's Bubba Wallace is still racing and "explaining" himself to the MSM and ESPN by saying "racing isn't racist". Betcha that his contract says, "you get paid only if you drive." Sitting out of races (as a protest) would hurt him in the wallet. The NBAers get paid whether they play or sit; the NBA owners lose out though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U0N7tVcy5s&t=1m20sFake, choreographed pro sport wrote:
Hispanic culture, Asian culture, any other minority cultures don’t commit genocide against their own people like African-Americans do. They celebrate their nuclear family, work extremely hard, and encourage their young to achieve success. They don’t throw their best under the bus as Uncle Toms. They don’t glorify gang culture. When will the black community start loving the black community?
These are suicide nets at an Apple factory in China. Do you want these workers to have healthcare, overtime pay, and vacation time? If you want employee benefits only for you and your co-workers but not for people in other countries who make your iphone, then you may be a leftist hypocrite.
https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/23/asia/china-organ-harvesting/index.htmlChina has harvested organs. If you talk about "human rights" but won't say anything about the abuses in China, then you may be a leftist hypocrite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh1jkChzd20Do you want "social justice" but won't say anything about the Uighur minority in China? If so, then you may be a leftist hypocrite.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/16/asia/china-india-border-clash-intl-hnk/index.htmlIf you want illegals to cross America's southern border but won't say anything about China's border disputes, then you may be a leftist hypocrite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctX8cuTNhb0&t=16sLeftists in the NBA are hypocrites. They will kneel in front of the flag during the national anthem, but they are silent about the country where their merchandise is being made.
Tv ratings forthe NBA twere all ready at record lows. So they needed something to put them back in the spotlight.
What basketball season? I had no idea the season was underway. And, who cares?
That's shocking.
Also recall in 1945 the Allies roadblocked the Holocaust survivors from recovering their stolen assets, possessions and live.
Truman, Stalin, Churchill, DeGaulle, and Eisenhower banned us from residing in Russia and Europe.
My family was kicked out of Lithuania which is still called the "Jerusalem of Eastern Europe".
What planet's he living on where supporting Donald Trump is justifiable after being lied to tens of thousands of times in four years, after having the economy destroyed by his failure to take decisive action against COVID, after that failure resulted in 185,000 deaths, and counting, after using the power of the presidency to enrich himself and his own family, after using the levers of government to extort a foreign nation (Ukraine) to start a fake investigation of his likely (and actual) political opponent, after publicly and privately entreating the help of foreign nations (China and Russia) to aid his election and re-election by hacking into American email accounts, and after violating the Constitutional separation of powers on many occasions?
Arresting him is fine and no one has a problem with it. Shooting him in the back 7 times was totally unwarranted. But the NBA protests are not about one case. They are about a history of violence that is slanted sharply against black men. Police violence is a general problem in this country. Police kill more here than anywhere, even China. That is part of the reason policing practices need to be changed. But, relative to population, African American men get killed by police far more often than other races, and that is a fact. They are profiled and stopped for pretextual reasons far more often. The players want healthy change in this country and they want actions that will make society safer, wealthier, and less unequal. How safer? They want society to take meaningful actions to curb inequality, to provide more opportunity, and thus, to reduce crime within the African American community, as well as violence against African American men by police.
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Arresting him is fine and no one has a problem with it.
He had a knife and was wrestling with the cops. Then he reached downward into his car.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_family_structure"the out-of-wedlock birth rate was 25% among blacks. In 1991, 68% of black children were born outside of marriage. In 2011, 72% of black babies were born to unmarried mothers. In 2015, 77% of black babies were born to unmarried mothers."
This is an epidemic, and the black community needs to address it.
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These nba players care first and foremost about their salaries. Millions of dollars per year ain't even enough for their greedy selves. That is their top priority. I actually respect a guy like Colin kapernick who risked making a lot less money to battle human rights issues. But these nba players would not risk making less money for themselves.