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HuffPost - White Players who stood for anthem stand for white supremecy
Posted on 9/27/17 at 10:36 am
Posted on 9/27/17 at 10:36 am
HuffPost article
Well that's just ignorant. What does this "journalist" hope to prove by writing crap like this? And they call Trump the divisive one.
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The absence of white athletes kneeling for the anthem Sunday was a particularly illustrative moment in white privilege. See, for white athletes the anthem and American flag do represent freedom, liberty and whatever other amorphous American values one might ascribe these symbols. So, from their view, kneeling would be disrespectful to the privileges a white supremacist nation affords them. We’ve all heard the typical argument against kneeling. “Kneeling during the anthem disrespects the flag and the soldiers who fought for your right to protest and blah blah blah patriotism!” Now, I’m not going to spend much time with the most obvious counter, but it’s worth stating. In the fairytale we Americans tell ourselves where soldiers fight wars for freedom and not imperial conquests, the story says they’re fighting for someone’s right to protest, not the opposite. So using the troops as a cudgel against protest wholly misunderstands even our own national fairytale.
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So, that’s obvious enough, but what I’m talking about is this. If white athletes can’t fathom kneeling because they feel soldiers fought for their rights and blah blah blah patriotism, it’s because they are treated as full citizens and afforded those rights they imagine soldiers fought for. Interpreting their own experience as something more universal, they struggle to understand why anyone should kneel. Indeed, for them, the anthem and American flag represent promises fulfilled. This is the problem of privilege. It skews our ability to grasp what the world looks like outside our view. But even in the terms of American values, Kaepernick’s point is quite straightforward — the promises that underlie those values remain unfulfilled for black Americans.
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This isn’t a matter of opinion. Statistics reveal disparities along racial lines regarding wealth, education, healthy food, employment, health care, housing, wages, criminal charges/sentences and practically every other imaginable measure of quality of life. This isn’t a mistake of history or attributable to individual or cultural traits of the oppressed. These are the results of centuries of systemic white supremacy, plain and simple. Anyone who professes to care about America’s alleged values should be fighting to extend them to those they’re deprived. If they aren’t full of shite, that is.
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And while the protest at the heart of all of this isn’t about the anthem or the flag, it is about calling on America to live up to its self-professed values. As long as black people are killed by cops in the streets or left to wither away in the state’s cages without recourse, that anthem and flag represent promises unfulfilled for millions of Americans. Understand this. White supremacy — as in the structures of opportunity, the legacy of/ongoing oppression of non-whites, and the asymmetrical hoarding of resources by whites — is what affords us the privileges that limit our view, making a peaceful act of protest seem offensive in spite of the broader context of what’s being protested. And the ignorant result of that privilege was on full display Sunday as white players stood next to their black teammates. So let’s at least be clear that what those players stood for on Sunday was white supremacy. Full stop.
Well that's just ignorant. What does this "journalist" hope to prove by writing crap like this? And they call Trump the divisive one.
Posted on 9/27/17 at 10:37 am to indianswim
They stood for the American flag.
Nice try though. If your protest needs that much explaination, it's clearly predicated on bullshite.
Maybe those NFL players should question the wisdom of protesting the American flag on national television when their audience is largely made up off middle class, working Americans.
Nice try though. If your protest needs that much explaination, it's clearly predicated on bullshite.
Maybe those NFL players should question the wisdom of protesting the American flag on national television when their audience is largely made up off middle class, working Americans.
This post was edited on 9/27/17 at 10:38 am
Posted on 9/27/17 at 10:37 am to indianswim
White power!
I wanted to say "murica, frick yeah" but I just read it's the same thing so admins don't ban me
I wanted to say "murica, frick yeah" but I just read it's the same thing so admins don't ban me
Posted on 9/27/17 at 10:37 am to indianswim
At this point they're simply chirping to other birds of the same feather.
Posted on 9/27/17 at 10:38 am to indianswim
lemme guess, the black athletes that stood are uncle tom's?
Posted on 9/27/17 at 10:38 am to indianswim
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HuffPost
Did you expect something different?
Their line of thinking is what got Trump elected in the first place.
Posted on 9/27/17 at 10:38 am to indianswim
i love how this so called journalist just used the phrase "blah blah blah"
That alone will make this article credible
That alone will make this article credible
Posted on 9/27/17 at 10:38 am to indianswim
I would like to thank HuffPost for their continued unintentional contributions to MAGA.
Posted on 9/27/17 at 10:39 am to indianswim
I wish these tards would just cut to the chase and say what they mean:
"If you do not criticize every aspect of the United States and white people, you're racist."
"If you do not criticize every aspect of the United States and white people, you're racist."
Posted on 9/27/17 at 10:39 am to indianswim
I'd actually be shocked if Huff Po did NOT write this story.
Posted on 9/27/17 at 10:39 am to indianswim
If you disagree with me you are a racist/ sexist/ homophobic, xenophobic Nazi.
---said every Prog ever
---said every Prog ever
Posted on 9/27/17 at 10:40 am to CAD703X
Yep. They are completely in touch with middle America. Clearly in a position to judge their opinions and logic.
Posted on 9/27/17 at 10:40 am to indianswim
That's pretty much in line with the Huffington Post ideology. Not sure why anyone would be surprised by it. Liberal rag through and through.
Posted on 9/27/17 at 10:40 am to indianswim
There is a reason the HuffPost doesn't have a comment section.
Posted on 9/27/17 at 10:40 am to indianswim
Good God, these imbeciles never stop.
Posted on 9/27/17 at 10:41 am to TheXman
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I'd actually be shocked if Huff Po did NOT write this story.
Exactly. A friend on mine predicted it was coming.
Posted on 9/27/17 at 10:42 am to indianswim
this is one of those "lose lose" scenarios the way the progs have framed the arguments
if white players participate, they're under threat for using their privilege to make the protest about them and/or stealing spotlight from minorities who are trying to voice minority issues. also there is the "while we need your support, this protest isn't for you" arguments that run parallel to the above
if white players don't participate and respect the protesters, then they're using white privilege to show how they don't have to protest
amazing what a bad argument can do to help a side "win"
if white players participate, they're under threat for using their privilege to make the protest about them and/or stealing spotlight from minorities who are trying to voice minority issues. also there is the "while we need your support, this protest isn't for you" arguments that run parallel to the above
if white players don't participate and respect the protesters, then they're using white privilege to show how they don't have to protest
amazing what a bad argument can do to help a side "win"
Posted on 9/27/17 at 10:42 am to indianswim
Let's look at the author:
Jesse Benn
Dad, partner, engaged citizen, opinionated writer, leftist, PhD student.
Jesse Benn is a dad, a partner, an engaged citizen, an opinionated writer, a leftist, and as often as possible, a world traveler. He has written about everything from presidential politics to a dusty old pair of shoes, and had either his writing, video, and/or photography published or shared in The Huffington Post, AlterNet, Revolution News, Backpacker Magazine, The Rocky Mountain Collegian, and various local outlets. He is the 2012 winner of the Society of Professional Journalists’ Region Nine “Mark of Excellence” award for general column writing at a large university. He also won “Mr. Hustle” at basketball camp when he was seven. A nonconformist by nature, Jesse moved out of his parents’ house at 16, left high school at 17, and sacrificed part of his soul to the corporate world before taking a non-traditional path through his undergraduate degree. He’s currently working on his Ph.D and as a teaching assistant in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
Jesse Benn
Dad, partner, engaged citizen, opinionated writer, leftist, PhD student.
Jesse Benn is a dad, a partner, an engaged citizen, an opinionated writer, a leftist, and as often as possible, a world traveler. He has written about everything from presidential politics to a dusty old pair of shoes, and had either his writing, video, and/or photography published or shared in The Huffington Post, AlterNet, Revolution News, Backpacker Magazine, The Rocky Mountain Collegian, and various local outlets. He is the 2012 winner of the Society of Professional Journalists’ Region Nine “Mark of Excellence” award for general column writing at a large university. He also won “Mr. Hustle” at basketball camp when he was seven. A nonconformist by nature, Jesse moved out of his parents’ house at 16, left high school at 17, and sacrificed part of his soul to the corporate world before taking a non-traditional path through his undergraduate degree. He’s currently working on his Ph.D and as a teaching assistant in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
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