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I've been channel flipping for college games today as well.
Was beginning to think that college football was doing ok by not going full on woke, but I hit the exact same spot you did in the ND vs Duke game.
I bailed out. Go woke, go nope.
I'm a liberal and I'm tired of the wokeness. Yes, racial injustice is a real problem in America and police reform is needed. However, shoving wokeness down people's throats will not help matters.
Note to my fellow liberals out there: America is not Twitter. Being obnoxiously woke will only alienate moderate White voters and will drive them into the Trump camp come election time. All the empty gestures in the world will not save one Black life. If you make the election a referendum on race, rather than coronavirus or the economy or saving democracy, Trump will win.
Well, it's a good barometer of the general population.
I know you're trying to downplay it, but lots of people are dropping sports viewing from their lives. And they're not coming back.
Well if your a barometer for most of the sports fans, I would then have to say it is pretty ironic that those who watch sports have a total different view then those who are talented enough to play sports.
So I will take it as; if the fans were athletes and part of the "melting pot" that sports is composed of, they would see things differently.
Well if your a barometer for most of the sports fans, I would then have to say it is pretty ironic that those who watch sports have a total different view then those who are talented enough to play sports.
So I will take it as; if the fans were athletes and part of the "melting pot" that sports is composed of, they would see things differently.
I work in a 'melting pot' and race is never an issue. Most of my minority coworkers are good family people, some are friends, but I'm not going to bow down to a false narrative for them.
Apparently, there are a lot of cowards in professional sports because there's no way they're so uneducated that they don't know what blm is really about. I believe most of the white players are submitting out of fear. Hell ... there's probably a lot of black players who secretly know the narrative is bs.
BTW, they may be talented, but that doesn't make them intellectually superior.
I work in a 'melting pot' and race is never an issue. Most of my minority coworkers are good family people, some are friends, but I'm not going to bow down to a false narrative for them.
Apparently, there are a lot of cowards in professional sports because there's no way they're so uneducated that they don't know what blm is really about.
BTW, they may be talented, but that doesn't make them intellectually superior.
Have you ever asked any of those minority co-workers about being racially profiled? I myself never really thought about it a lot until a few months ago. Now I ask and I listen.
Just today I was talking to a black man who lives in the neighborhood I just moved too. He is a Vietnam Vet, retired Chemist that likes to drive high-end cars. He owns 2 of them. Tells me he is often pulled over by suburban police officers. They are cordial to him, usually make up some BS story for pulling him over, then let him go. The point of the story, if it was myself, a clean cut white guy I would not be getting stopped. He laughs it off, but could tell it bothers him.
I hear the stories of the blacks that play in the NHL. Growing up they were often harassed by fans. Banana peels thrown onto the ice, chants of "stick to basketball". Racism is still very alive.
The BLM slogan may of been a mistake to be brought into sports, but it's the general racism that fuels the problem, and the recent headlines just ignites the fire even more.
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