NFL: Pass or Fail: Bruce Arians tells players to take action, “protesting doesn’t do crap”

[playahaitian]

Bruce Arians tells players to take action, "protesting doesn't do crap"

The Buccaneers were not among the NFL teams to cancel practice today in the wake of Kenosha, Wisconsin police shooting Jacob Blake, and coach Bruce Arians had some eyebrow-raising comments about the protests of the shooting that have reverberated through the sports world.

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Bruce Arians tells players to take action, “protesting doesn’t do crap”
Posted by Michael David Smith on August 27, 2020, 2:15 PM EDT



The Buccaneers were not among the NFL teams to cancel practice today in the wake of Kenosha, Wisconsin police shooting Jacob Blake, and coach Bruce Arians had some eyebrow-raising comments about the protests of the shooting that have reverberated through the sports world.

“Your responsibility is to take action,” Arians said, via the Tampa Bay Times. “I don’t know that protest is an action. I think each guy has a personal thing. I would beg them to take action, find a cause and either support it financially or do something to change the situation, because protesting doesn’t do crap in my opinion. I’ve been seeing it since 1968.”

But protesting is an action, and American history is full of examples of protests that made a difference, from the Boston Tea Party to the March on Washington. Perhaps what Arians meant is that words alone are not enough to effect change.

Arians himself has a strong track record for promoting diversity, and his Buccaneers staff, with two female coaches and African-Americans as the four highest-ranking assistants, is the most diverse coaching staff in NFL history. That doesn’t mean his comments about protests weren’t inaccurate, but it does suggest that Arians means it when he advocates taking action.

 

[bgbtylvr]

I been out since Kaepernick so...

 

[bgbtylvr]

 

[Dr. Truth]

He’s right . Before y’all shit on him Arians is one of the more down for the cause coaches. Just protesting doesn’t do shit . Taking action is what terrifies cacs.

 

[AllUniverse17]

Well one doesn't stop the other.

But I see what he is trying to say.

Alot of black peeps feel the same way anyway.

 

[playahaitian]

He’s right . Before y’all shit on him Arians is one of the more down for the cause coaches. Just protesting doesn’t do shit . Taking action is what terrifies cacs.

Well one doesn't stop the other.

But I see what he is trying to say.

Alot of black peeps feel the same way anyway.

Yeah this was strange

I completely understand what he TRYING to say.

But he wrong and we got decades of proof

And also i hate white guys telling black folk what NOT TO DO and HOW to protest

What about YOU tell your fellow oppressors and racists and Republicans and cops and trump supporters...

To STOP F*CKING killing and oppressing us.

Then we wouldn't have to protest

Lets START THERE THEN.

 

[^SpiderMan^]

In the last 30 years, what protest made a tangible difference?

Btw...
To keep it a buck, we shouldn’t be watching NFL at all anyway.

 

[Keepthapeace]

My fam played for him a couple of years and dated a black girl who was good friends with his son who was in the league for a min. Said he was one of the blackest white coaches he's ever been around. Still a white boy benefiting off the NFL racist ass system of course, but appears to be a real solid dude.

 

[Pworld297]

He right! What actually makes change is riots and violence especially something like war. Dr. King wasn't out here wild'n out, he protested peacefully and was shot dead. Malcolm X, shot dead, Medgar Evers was assassinated. War would be the last straw but maybe what could also work is boycotts but we don't have the unity to do it. Imagine if all the black athletes stop playing pro or college sports especially football and basketball, you would see change then. That money means so much to them that the willing to have these athletes play during a Pandemic....

 

[playahaitian]

He right! What actually makes change is riots and violence especially something like war. Dr. King wasn't out here wild'n out, he protested peacefully and was shot dead. Malcolm X, shot dead, Medgar Evers was assassinated. War would be the last straw but maybe what could also work is boycotts but we don't have the unity to do it. Imagine if all the black athletes stop playing pro or college sports especially football and basketball, you would see change then. That money means so much to them that the willing to have these athletes play during a Pandemic....

Yeah but he aint telling us to riot and burn master's house down is he?

How he been benefiting from black bodies your whole damn career and the best you got is protest don't work?

That's spitting in the face which by the way is far from the worst to happen to the civil rights protesters...

If they so ineffective?

Why all his fellow coaches fans and owners get their collective panties in a bunch over a damn knee?

Get the coaches to hire more black coaches like you do and make them head coaches and give them the right to fail.

 

[Quek9]

Yeah this was strange

I completely understand what he TRYING to say.

But he wrong and we got decades of proof

And also i hate white guys telling black folk what NOT TO DO and HOW to protest

What about YOU tell your fellow oppressors and racists and Republicans and cops and trump supporters...

To STOP F*CKING killing and oppressing us.

Then we wouldn't have to protest

Lets START THERE THEN.

This.

 

[bgbtylvr]

The protests is gonna do one thing for sure—win the election for Trump.

 

[Pworld297]

Yeah but he aint telling us to riot and burn master's house down is he?

How he been benefiting from black bodies your whole damn career and the best you got is protest don't work?

That's spitting in the face which by the way is far from the worst to happen to the civil rights protesters...

If they so ineffective?

Why all his fellow coaches fans and owners get their collective panties in a bunch over a damn knee?

Get the coaches to hire more black coaches like you do and make them head coaches and give them the right to fail.

He couldn't say anything about rioting anyway because he would be vilified for saying it whether he was black or white. You and I just see what he said completely differently and that's fine.

 

[a1rimrocka]

Posted this in another thread... He made similar comments back in June, people now are just focusing on the "protesting doesn't do crap" part.


“I love the fact that people are upset and are raising their voices,” Arians said. “But don't stop.”

“There are times when I think we haven’t made any progress since 1968,” he said.

Arians was a teenager when the York race riots took over Pennsylvania in the summers of 1968 and 1969.

“It's one thing to march, protest,” Arians said. “But it's another thing to take action. And when the protesting is over, I would urge everybody to act, do something positive to help the situation. Don't just go back to being silent, because that is going to happen again.”


While a quarterback at Virginia Tech, Arians was the first white player to room with a black teammate in Hokies history. His roommate was James Barber, the father of Bucs Ring of Honor member Ronde Barber. Barber was one of two black players on the team in 1970.

“I didn’t think twice about breaking this segregation barrier; my closest friends in my old neighborhood in York were black,” Arians wrote in his book, The Quarterback Whisperer.

Bruce Arians: 'Do not go back to being silent' after protests

Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Bruce Arians asked the community to take action against racism.

www.wtsp.com

 

[knightmelodic]

Naturally, people are going to try to pick his statement apart from every angle. Anything to avoid admitting the truth. And he told the truth on an elemental level.

Instead of looking for a tiny scratch in the paint, get in and drive the fucking car.

 

[playahaitian]

Posted this in another thread... He made similar comments back in June, people now are just focusing on the "protesting doesn't do crap" part.


“I love the fact that people are upset and are raising their voices,” Arians said. “But don't stop.”

“There are times when I think we haven’t made any progress since 1968,” he said.

Arians was a teenager when the York race riots took over Pennsylvania in the summers of 1968 and 1969.

“It's one thing to march, protest,” Arians said. “But it's another thing to take action. And when the protesting is over, I would urge everybody to act, do something positive to help the situation. Don't just go back to being silent, because that is going to happen again.”


While a quarterback at Virginia Tech, Arians was the first white player to room with a black teammate in Hokies history. His roommate was James Barber, the father of Bucs Ring of Honor member Ronde Barber. Barber was one of two black players on the team in 1970.

“I didn’t think twice about breaking this segregation barrier; my closest friends in my old neighborhood in York were black,” Arians wrote in his book, The Quarterback Whisperer.

Bruce Arians: 'Do not go back to being silent' after protests

Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Bruce Arians asked the community to take action against racism.

www.wtsp.com

Now THIS i like.

And i know his history. Bruce is real

He still should have given a better response and the response he gave undermined what that the players did and planned to do and unintentionally protected the owners

The media took his words and used them to their benefit. But he said them and he aint new to this.

In context i fully understand his point.

But he delivered it wrong.

It happens.

But the timing is awful.

We need "allies" to go at the OPPRESSORS not us.

 

[playahaitian]

He couldn't say anything about rioting anyway because he would be vilified for saying it whether he was black or white. You and I just see what he said completely differently and that's fine.

Respect.

Again i understand amd agree with your take.

I don't want to kill him i knew that man don't mean it like that.

But thats the talk he can have with US.

PRIVATELY.

and again he aint "wrong"

But in my opinion to the national press right now?

Its not the message to be sending especially RNC time and the fact its being used to divide instead of unity?

I'm very sure was NOT his intent.

 

[Pworld297]

Respect.

Again i understand amd agree with your take.

I don't want to kill him i knew that man don't mean it like that.

But thats the talk he can have with US.

PRIVATELY.

and again he aint "wrong"

But in my opinion to the national press right now?

Its not the message to be sending especially RNC time and the fact its being used to divide instead of unity?

I'm very sure was NOT his intent.

I can agree with that bruh! So much shit going on, I'm a Bears fan and I'm fuming right now over the shit Urlacher has said and done.

 

[2 ONE 3]

You faggit ass niggas still watch football


Fuck the nfl

Fuck you if you support them

 

[Lou_Kayge]

The protests is gonna do one thing for sure—win the election for Trump.

Not the protests per se, the riots.

 

[Lou_Kayge]

Respect.

Again i understand amd agree with your take.

I don't want to kill him i knew that man don't mean it like that.

But thats the talk he can have with US.

PRIVATELY.

and again he aint "wrong"

But in my opinion to the national press right now?

Its not the message to be sending especially RNC time and the fact its being used to divide instead of unity?

I'm very sure was NOT his intent.

I think that was his clumsy way of saying,"Too many of my fellow white people ain't shit."

 

[Lou_Kayge]

You faggit ass niggas still watch football


Fuck the nfl

Fuck you if you support them

You can still support Kaep and watch football. If folks can grasp that black folks can be of the "support black business" sentiment, yet believe that black businesses damaged or destoyed in riots are "collateral damage", there's no difference.

 

[playahaitian]

I can agree with that bruh! So much shit going on, I'm a Bears fan and I'm fuming right now over the shit Urlacher has said and done.

Sorry about Urlachar fam i UNDERSTAND

But see to me what he did should have galvanized the nfl players to show how they got enemies everywhere that locker room paradise is bullsh*t

Again why i was disappointed bruce said THAT NOW TO THEM.

Say that to YOUR players!!!

Amd dont have your quotes ALIGNED IN ANY WAY with Brian.

hell use urlacher as an EXAMPLE! Cause dudes like HIM should be held to task as traitors and snakes.

Bruce real as hell i know that.

But we WOULD KILL A YOUNG BLACK PLAYER for saying the same damn thing.

 

[playahaitian]

I think that was his clumsy way of saying,"Too many of my fellow white people ain't shit."

I wholeheartedly agree

 

[Lou_Kayge]

I wholeheartedly agree

Same when Bernie Sanders said a woman can't or won't be President. I take that to mean not that there aren't qualified women, but that Americans ain't shit. I thought that was obvious.

 

[playahaitian]

Same when Bernie Sanders said a woman can't or won't be President. I take that to mean not that there aren't qualified women, but that Americans ain't shit. I thought that was obvious.

Never ever assume the obvious in this modern social media sheep driven troll filled society we now live in.

 

[Lou_Kayge]

Never ever assume the obvious in this modern social media sheep driven troll filled society we now live in.

True. It should have been obvious as fuck that Black Lives Matter means matters "too" or "also". Not "more." Unfortunately the founders of the movement underestimated the ignorance and fuckery(same as Kaep did) and should have included "too" in the title.

 

[durham]

Fuck him. He is basically say fuck the Civil Rights Movement.

Protest matters and moves the energy of the Nation and the people.

The NFL just breeds ignorance.

 

[Complex]

Fuck him. He is basically say fuck the Civil Rights.

I think he's saying do something besides marching up and down the street

 

[Complex]

He’s right . Before y’all shit on him Arians is one of the more down for the cause coaches. Just protesting doesn’t do shit . Taking action is what terrifies cacs.

He wears a kangol

 

[Lou_Kayge]

A bunch of these phony liberal Karens that attended BLM marches still called cops on black people living every day lives. As I said before, this may be a clumsy way of him saying,"You can't really get through to white people via marching."

 

[KoffeeHobson]

He has always been a coach to to give black coaches a chance. His NFL Life that NFL Network did was really good and talks about him recruiting black players in the south when he was coach at Temple. Wish he could have made things work with Jameis.