Nobody is as blind as those who refuse to see.
NBA commissioner Adam Silver gave players the green light to wear “social messages” on their uniforms when the league resumes. “Black Lives Matter” will be painted on the field, as if NBA fans had been identified as needing a reminder as they would most likely be racist oppressors.
But there are options. Reader Bob Wilson suggests that players could wear “Free Hong Kong” jerseys, but that would only upset the NBA and its players who cannot afford to mess with the money from the sneaker and clothing sewn and glued by the slave. who lives in a red Chinese wager cabin.
“Freeing slaves in Nigeria and Congo” would be good. Both African countries still enslave blacks, but the BLM movement and its affiliates are not affected. They are working to free American slaves, although that freedom was won in a war that cost 650,000 mostly white lives 157 years ago.
OK. So how about this: “Stop the Slaughter! – BH “
BH would be Brandon Hendricks, the seventeen-year-old Monroe High Grad who planned to attend college on a basketball scholarship. The neighborhood where children are killed and stabbed without surprise died for late Sunday evening, killed in the Bronx.
And the cops were considered unconditionally not allowed. It is Nazi Germany. Anyone who is even suspected of helping solve a murder puts themselves and their families in danger of mortal retaliation.
Only now is it much worse. Last week 86 people were killed in New York. It is an open season, since black on black crime has exploded.
And what did Mayor Bill de Blasio do about it? He cut $ 1 billion from the police budget.
Hendricks’ mother, Eva, through her grief, cut through all political pandering and radical BLM canards, the destruction of the statue, the looting and vandalism to focus on life and death:
“We have always talked about armed violence, especially in our community. And as far as we talk about black power and unity, but it’s as if we were killing each other and there was no one who could take a step forward and say, “Here it is.” It just has to end one way or another. “
But such an indisputable truth is never spoken – not by Rev. Al Sharpton, LeBron James, Silver, de Blasio, BLM, Nike, Colin Kaepernick, Jay-Z, Roger Goodell. Where are all the protesters, those demanding justice?
This is what the reasonable and right-minded Americans of each race simply cannot understand. So much young black blood flows through the streets of every American city and has had it for generations, but there is no need to treat it, let alone eliminate it. Asking why is asking the usual, easy accusation of being a racist. Run for your life!
Knock down a statue, move Woodrow Wilson away from Princeton, allow NBA players to wear uniforms with social messages. How much is it worth? Nothing. Such cosmetics have no intrinsic value. They don’t save a child’s life in Harlem, Bed-Stuy or Newark.
Nigel Thompson was Brandon Hendricks’ basketball coach and geometry teacher: “All his mom kept telling me,” We have to take him out of this neighborhood, we have to take him to college. “… He was really a wonderful child.”
Yes it was, many other children tense to come. “Stop the Slaughter! – BH “, as worn by the Knicks and / or the nets, would serve better to keep reality. But the massacre proceeds. Not all black lives matter; thousands don’t count every year.
Only TV likes ‘flex’
Only the sports commissioners speak more baloney than the television executives.
Announcing that Fox is dropping the US Open of golf – which will be collected by NBC – sports CEO Eric Shanks said: “While we are proud of the success we have built for golf enthusiasts over the years, this is a victory for golf fans from all over the world, a win for USGA, Fox and NBC. “
This reminded us of former NBC Sports boss Dick Ebersol. In late 2007, the Patriots were undefeated and planned to play a 13:00 game in Buffalo. Ebersol “flexed” the game at an early Sunday evening at 8:15 am, an absolute pain for ticket holders.
But Ebersol, an authoritative selfish storyteller, said the move was a gift from NBC for big Buffalo fans:
“The third and magical factor in all of this is the enthusiasm Buffalo has shown towards the Bills during my long association with AFC when we first had it.”
Among those who did not see this “gift” as one was the chief of the local Orchard Park police, Samuel M. McCune, who was now faced with reduced and drunken road conditions drinking in the heat.
McCune said, “Can we ask NBC if we can refuse the privilege?”
I can’t be ashamed of the shameful: MLB’s Extra Innings package via DirecTV is now on sale – like “Great news!” – mid-season in a baseball season reduced by almost two thirds. Rob Manfred loves you, babe.
Occasionally, reader John O’Connell tries ESPN. This week was in time to hear Stephen A. Smith conduct a long and lively debate over whether the Washington Wizards – a “hot” topic because NBA and ESPN are business partners – deserve a playoff spot. Maybe he’ll try again in a few months.
Jermiah Braswell, the receiver of cardinals from the cut, after driving his car into a lake on Saturday, was arrested by the police for the DUI – not kidding – in Put-in-Bay, Ohio.
Boomer suggests a dangerous viral gameplan
This week, WFAN’s Weekday Boomer Esiason strongly suggested that soccer players from Clemson, Alabama and LSU are intentionally getting infected with COVID-19 – a serious deadly disease – in order to end up getting ready for their games. opening.
Who would oversee such a plan? If carried out under the guidance and / or under medical supervision, those coaches and doctors would be arrested, perhaps for attempted murder or second-degree murder.
But if you don’t know what the hell Esiason was talking about, you and he have this in common.
Matt Barnes, among the most antisocial and vulgar acts in NBA history – one reason he was expendable; he played for 10 teams – and now co-starred in a Showtime show that allows him his vulgar freedom of expression – part of the event – recently spoke to the Bleacher Report on racism.
Barnes said his father had told him to fight anyone who called him the word N. He said he fought so many people that his mother had to find a job in her school to keep him out of trouble.
Charming.
In 2013 Barnes tweeted: “I love my teammates as a family, but I DO SUPPORT FOR these n-like!” Did not spell the word N.
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