Salute to these White Folk out here seeking justice for George Floyd and other victims of police & promising to change their ways
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Joe Burrow chimes in: “The black community needs our help”
Posted by Mike Florio on May 29, 2020, 12:40 PM EDT
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The murder of George Floyd apparently has become a tipping point for plenty of NFL players who are choosing not to stick to sports. Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow has addressed the situation in a tweet posted earlier in the hour.
“The black community needs our help,” Burrow said. “They have been unheard for far too long. Open your ears, listen, and speak. This isn’t politics. This is human rights.”
Unfortunately, human rights are politics for those hope to keep human rights in check, or for those politicians who hope to blow a dog whistle (or, as the case may be, a bullhorn) for those who typically keep their racism to themselves — but who definitely carry it with them into privacy of the ballot box.
Treating people with justice and fairness shouldn’t be a political issue. It’s one of the fundamental rights on which this nation was founded, even if those fundamental rights routinely have been and continued to be denied when it comes to African-Americans and other minorities.
This is a simple, binary issue. Either you care about the rights and the well-being of others, or you don’t. Many of those who don’t prefer not to be called out for it or otherwise made to feel uncomfortable about it, prompting them to shout “stick to sports” when confronted with an approach to their fellow men and women that warps the freedoms for which the Founding Fathers fought, and that perverts the teachings of the God they claim to worship.
Posted by Mike Florio on May 29, 2020, 12:40 PM EDT
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The murder of George Floyd apparently has become a tipping point for plenty of NFL players who are choosing not to stick to sports. Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow has addressed the situation in a tweet posted earlier in the hour.
“The black community needs our help,” Burrow said. “They have been unheard for far too long. Open your ears, listen, and speak. This isn’t politics. This is human rights.”
Unfortunately, human rights are politics for those hope to keep human rights in check, or for those politicians who hope to blow a dog whistle (or, as the case may be, a bullhorn) for those who typically keep their racism to themselves — but who definitely carry it with them into privacy of the ballot box.
Treating people with justice and fairness shouldn’t be a political issue. It’s one of the fundamental rights on which this nation was founded, even if those fundamental rights routinely have been and continued to be denied when it comes to African-Americans and other minorities.
This is a simple, binary issue. Either you care about the rights and the well-being of others, or you don’t. Many of those who don’t prefer not to be called out for it or otherwise made to feel uncomfortable about it, prompting them to shout “stick to sports” when confronted with an approach to their fellow men and women that warps the freedoms for which the Founding Fathers fought, and that perverts the teachings of the God they claim to worship.
But if you’re governed first and foremost by politics, therefore corruption, then you are blind to reality and blind to the truth. Look, one more thing about this Minneapolis situation and George Floyd. I mean it. I hope these cops are dealt with good and hard. I’ve seen the video like everybody else, and it makes me so mad I can’t see straight.
I don’t know… I still don’t know what precipitated it. I don’t know why they had George Floyd on the ground. I don’t know, but I don’t care what it was, unless he fired a shot at them, and even then, there is no… What policy? What policy is there anywhere that mandates that kind of treatment of a suspect or prisoner who is totally under control?
(interruption) Okay. All right. So he passed a counterfeit bill in a store.
Fine.
That doesn’t come close to justifying what happened to him, with people watching that cop for five minutes kill the guy! There’s no other way to describe what happened. I understand people are out there calling it murder. It makes me so mad, I can’t see straight. So, I ask, how does something like that happen? There has to be some police manual or handbook.
Look, you people in law enforcement know I’m at the top of the list of people who support you and understand how hard your jobs are and the rigors and the arduous circumstances you have to go through every day. I still, given all of that, do not… I cannot find a way to explain that. I can’t find a way to justify it. I don’t care what the guy did. If it’s all about a counterfeit bill, it’s even… Look, I gotta take a break because I’m up against it on time. Back in a moment.
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I don’t know… I still don’t know what precipitated it. I don’t know why they had George Floyd on the ground. I don’t know, but I don’t care what it was, unless he fired a shot at them, and even then, there is no… What policy? What policy is there anywhere that mandates that kind of treatment of a suspect or prisoner who is totally under control?
(interruption) Okay. All right. So he passed a counterfeit bill in a store.
Fine.
That doesn’t come close to justifying what happened to him, with people watching that cop for five minutes kill the guy! There’s no other way to describe what happened. I understand people are out there calling it murder. It makes me so mad, I can’t see straight. So, I ask, how does something like that happen? There has to be some police manual or handbook.
Look, you people in law enforcement know I’m at the top of the list of people who support you and understand how hard your jobs are and the rigors and the arduous circumstances you have to go through every day. I still, given all of that, do not… I cannot find a way to explain that. I can’t find a way to justify it. I don’t care what the guy did. If it’s all about a counterfeit bill, it’s even… Look, I gotta take a break because I’m up against it on time. Back in a moment.
There’s No Justification for George Floyd’s Blue State Death
RUSH: I hope these cops are dealt with good and hard. I've seen the video like everybody else, and it makes me so mad I can't see straight.
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Salute to them, yes...but its not enough. I hope you can continue to add to this thread OP. There should be a helluva lot more joining in. It is up to them to right the wrongs of their ancestors and to discontinue the current systemic racism that exists today. It is up to us to make sure that they do it. This situation is beyond disgusting!
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Definitely overdue
I hope this is a trend that continues beyond this case.
I hope this is a trend that continues beyond this case.
100%
but we need to start SOMEWHERE
cause we NEED these White folk to do this.
and it also EXPOSES those Black and White and Asian and etc etc who aint saying sh*t
You know what?
this is different
Cause all of sudden all these Kap haters copping pleas
I have heard ALL DAY white folk calling into sports radio saying they AFRAID
SERIOUSLY AFRAID
So I wonder if the FEAR is why we getting this response?
Maybe I'm angry but fuck them. If they were not riding with Kap or showed this same outrage when this happened over the past 10 years. Then I don't want to hear from them. They are just trying to get sympathy likes. Heard Brady say something about it, fuck you too, you didn't stick up for Kap or have words then with your MAGA hat when questioned.
Watched Undisputed and the white lady started fake crying when she mentioned their own Stephen Jackson was friends with Floyd. Please Shannon had to check you last time you stuck up for the cops, saying they have family too. Fuck out of here.
Sorry not trying to derail your thread.
Can't Trust Em right now.
Watched Undisputed and the white lady started fake crying when she mentioned their own Stephen Jackson was friends with Floyd. Please Shannon had to check you last time you stuck up for the cops, saying they have family too. Fuck out of here.
Sorry not trying to derail your thread.
Can't Trust Em right now.
I KNOW they aint ALL gonna support but its the ones like THIS?
that make me agree with you
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Afraid of what?
That black people will finally retaliate
Let's not pat White people on the back for rejecting racism and being human. That's what they are supposed to do!!!
I think @tallblacknyc hit it on the head
they NEVER really vocalized it but just a few days ago?
There were DOZENS and dozens of calls I mean to the point where one show had to STOP taking calls they were so damn racist
but today?
Plea copping, tears and I'm ashamed to be American talk back to back to back.
these Trump demographic white men.
I was shocked as f*ck
maybe its their code word?
but they KEPT saying FEAR and AFRAID and they hear us now etc etc
I don't buy it for a minute
but they AFRAID of SOMETHING
Maybe its the quarantine?
cause WHOLE lot colored folk getting hit the HARDEST
and these white folk stupid (willfully ignorant more accurate)
but they ain't DUMB
they KNOW how its becoming MORE than RACE
its about CLASS!
and rightly or wrongly?
WHITE folk always portrayed and FEELS like they BETTER and got money
and it aint COOL right now to be rich or seen as privileged for the first time in a LONG time.