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WNBA, NFL PLAYERS SHOW BLM STANDS FOR BIGOTED LYNCH MOB
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JASON WHITLOCK6 days agoupdated 5 days ago28Comments
Georgia senator Kelly Loeffler, a co-owner of the WNBA’s Atlanta Dream, wrote a letter to the league’s commissioner spelling out her concerns with the WNBA’s embrace of Black Lives Matter.
Loeffler labeled BLM a political movement that advocates for the defunding of police, the removal of Jesus from churches and the disruption of the nuclear family. She also alleged that BLM has promoted the violence and destruction that has swept this nation the past month.
We can nitpick the details but there is some merit to Loeffler’s concerns and allegations. Her letter to commissioner Cathy Engelbert is worthy of a thoughtful response.
Instead, the WNBA issued a terse statement stating its commitment to advocating for social justice and concluded by distancing the league from the U.S. senator.
“Sen. Kelly Loeffler has not served as a Governor (owner) of the Atlanta Dream since October 2019 and is no longer involved in the day-to-day business of the team.”
The WNBA Players Association was even less thoughtful, tweeting:
“E-N-O-U-G-H! O-U-T!”
Loeffler is a pariah now on the level of the NBA’s disgraced owner Donald Sterling. All because she has the audacity to question the agenda, goals, methods and results of Black Lives Matter. Loeffler’s crime is knowledge and information. She’s looked beyond the slogan, examined BLM’s stated agenda on its website and wondered if it’s wise for a wannabe mainstream sports league to embrace BLM.
She committed a thought crime. The mob now wants to cancel her.
This is classic mob-rule bigotry. It’s pervasive throughout the NFL, NBA and the WNBA, leagues dependent on black players.
If you publicly question Black Lives Matter, you’re smeared as racist and judged as unfit to participate in their exclusive fraternity. This is the kind of logic and behavior that fueled slavery, Jim Crow, the Holocaust and most human tragedies.
The majority impose their values on the minority and anyone who dares to complain or fails to enthusiastically express support is eliminated.
Last week, my old co-host at Speak For Yourself, Marcellus Wiley, expressed concerns about BLM because of its stated desire to disrupt the nuclear family. Marcellus believes in the nuclear family. He was raised in one and he’s created his own.
BLM’s grounding in Marxist/communist values concerns me as a Christian. Marxism, communism and socialism are anti-religion. That’s one of the reasons BLM is anti-nuclear family.
BLM is a great slogan. That’s about it. Defunding the police is a stupid idea that will cause violence in inner-city black communities to escalate. Plus, the focus on police brutality takes attention away from the real violence damaging black communities on a daily basis.
BLM is a political marketing ploy that callously exploits tragic deaths to advance a political agenda that does not serve black people.
But we can’t have that discussion because celebrity influencers and wannabe celebrity influencers in the sports world are having too much fun building their activist brands and bullying white people.
Take Dontari Poe. He’s a journeyman NFL defensive tackle. Solid player. No real public profile. This offseason he joined the Cowboys. He’s now trolling Cowboys owner Jerry Jones because Jones has made no public statement in support of Black Lives Matter.
“His silence definitely means a lot because in any other situation (he) will have something to say about most things,” Poe told Bleacher Report. “…. Personally, I would hope that he comes out and says, ‘OK, I am willing to help, I am willing to fight, and I’m willing to be with y’all.”
Well, what if Jerry Jones disagrees with Poe and all the chaos, violence, looting and protesting that has transpired this summer? What if his silence is because social media has empowered thought-police mobs that will try to destroy Jones if he says what he really thinks?
Some very smart people who are legitimately concerned about the plight of black America think Black Lives Matter has prioritized the wrong agenda.
Black people need more nuclear families. Our communities need less hostility toward police. Some of us believe organizations that oppose religious faith shouldn’t be trusted to lead us. There are black, white and brown people who are more outraged and bothered when a young child is gunned down by gang members than when a drunken, paroled felon is killed in a fast-food drive-thru after fighting with police.
I don’t know what is driving Jerry Jones’ silence. I do know that bullying him to adopt the point of view of immature, emotional and brand-building athletes is a dangerous form of mob rule. I do know that most people whose worldview isn’t driven by Twitter think Black Lives Matter is a clever slogan disguised as a righteous, substantive movement.
I also know the staunchest defenders of BLM have zero interest in answering legitimate questions about the movement. They dismiss all inquiries as racist affronts to their fragile sensibilities.
They’re fascist cowardly sheep, no different from all the other bigoted bullies responsible for the world’s greatest human tragedies.
WNBA, NFL PLAYERS SHOW BLM STANDS FOR BIGOTED LYNCH MOB
by
JASON WHITLOCK6 days agoupdated 5 days ago28Comments
Georgia senator Kelly Loeffler, a co-owner of the WNBA’s Atlanta Dream, wrote a letter to the league’s commissioner spelling out her concerns with the WNBA’s embrace of Black Lives Matter.
Loeffler labeled BLM a political movement that advocates for the defunding of police, the removal of Jesus from churches and the disruption of the nuclear family. She also alleged that BLM has promoted the violence and destruction that has swept this nation the past month.
We can nitpick the details but there is some merit to Loeffler’s concerns and allegations. Her letter to commissioner Cathy Engelbert is worthy of a thoughtful response.
Instead, the WNBA issued a terse statement stating its commitment to advocating for social justice and concluded by distancing the league from the U.S. senator.
“Sen. Kelly Loeffler has not served as a Governor (owner) of the Atlanta Dream since October 2019 and is no longer involved in the day-to-day business of the team.”
The WNBA Players Association was even less thoughtful, tweeting:
“E-N-O-U-G-H! O-U-T!”
Loeffler is a pariah now on the level of the NBA’s disgraced owner Donald Sterling. All because she has the audacity to question the agenda, goals, methods and results of Black Lives Matter. Loeffler’s crime is knowledge and information. She’s looked beyond the slogan, examined BLM’s stated agenda on its website and wondered if it’s wise for a wannabe mainstream sports league to embrace BLM.
She committed a thought crime. The mob now wants to cancel her.
This is classic mob-rule bigotry. It’s pervasive throughout the NFL, NBA and the WNBA, leagues dependent on black players.
If you publicly question Black Lives Matter, you’re smeared as racist and judged as unfit to participate in their exclusive fraternity. This is the kind of logic and behavior that fueled slavery, Jim Crow, the Holocaust and most human tragedies.
The majority impose their values on the minority and anyone who dares to complain or fails to enthusiastically express support is eliminated.
Last week, my old co-host at Speak For Yourself, Marcellus Wiley, expressed concerns about BLM because of its stated desire to disrupt the nuclear family. Marcellus believes in the nuclear family. He was raised in one and he’s created his own.
BLM’s grounding in Marxist/communist values concerns me as a Christian. Marxism, communism and socialism are anti-religion. That’s one of the reasons BLM is anti-nuclear family.
BLM is a great slogan. That’s about it. Defunding the police is a stupid idea that will cause violence in inner-city black communities to escalate. Plus, the focus on police brutality takes attention away from the real violence damaging black communities on a daily basis.
BLM is a political marketing ploy that callously exploits tragic deaths to advance a political agenda that does not serve black people.
But we can’t have that discussion because celebrity influencers and wannabe celebrity influencers in the sports world are having too much fun building their activist brands and bullying white people.
Take Dontari Poe. He’s a journeyman NFL defensive tackle. Solid player. No real public profile. This offseason he joined the Cowboys. He’s now trolling Cowboys owner Jerry Jones because Jones has made no public statement in support of Black Lives Matter.
“His silence definitely means a lot because in any other situation (he) will have something to say about most things,” Poe told Bleacher Report. “…. Personally, I would hope that he comes out and says, ‘OK, I am willing to help, I am willing to fight, and I’m willing to be with y’all.”
Well, what if Jerry Jones disagrees with Poe and all the chaos, violence, looting and protesting that has transpired this summer? What if his silence is because social media has empowered thought-police mobs that will try to destroy Jones if he says what he really thinks?
Some very smart people who are legitimately concerned about the plight of black America think Black Lives Matter has prioritized the wrong agenda.
Black people need more nuclear families. Our communities need less hostility toward police. Some of us believe organizations that oppose religious faith shouldn’t be trusted to lead us. There are black, white and brown people who are more outraged and bothered when a young child is gunned down by gang members than when a drunken, paroled felon is killed in a fast-food drive-thru after fighting with police.
I don’t know what is driving Jerry Jones’ silence. I do know that bullying him to adopt the point of view of immature, emotional and brand-building athletes is a dangerous form of mob rule. I do know that most people whose worldview isn’t driven by Twitter think Black Lives Matter is a clever slogan disguised as a righteous, substantive movement.
I also know the staunchest defenders of BLM have zero interest in answering legitimate questions about the movement. They dismiss all inquiries as racist affronts to their fragile sensibilities.
They’re fascist cowardly sheep, no different from all the other bigoted bullies responsible for the world’s greatest human tragedies.
