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Total Members Voted: 11

Voting closed: February 15, 2022, 10:51:36 AM

[LarryBnDC]

Protesting by athletes at sporting events is oh so "yesterday".

Another one who prefers his Blacks invisible and silent.

Speaking of yesterday... Australia destroyed Peter Norman who won the Silver Medal in the 200  at Mexico City for being anti racist and standing on the podium with Tommie Smith and John Carlos.


https://www.cnn.com/2012/04/24/sport/olympics-norman-black-power/index.html

[bambu.]

Protesting by athletes at sporting events is oh so "yesterday".

Another one who prefers his Blacks invisible and silent.

Speaking of yesterday... Australia destroyed Peter Norman who won the Silver Medal in the 200  at Mexico City for being anti racist and standing on the podium with Tommie Smith and John Carlos.


https://www.cnn.com/2012/04/24/sport/olympics-norman-black-power/index.html

Yes, the cost of being a protesting athlete at the olympics.
The cost of bucking the system.
The cost of being a rebel.
The cost of embarrassing the powers that be.
The cost of embarrassing the ruling elite.
Ok if one is independently wealthy...then one can breeze thru life doing exactly as one pleases, as long as it's legal.

[bambu.]

Protesting by athletes at sporting events is oh so "yesterday".

Another one who prefers his Blacks invisible and silent.

Speaking of yesterday... Australia destroyed Peter Norman who won the Silver Medal in the 200  at Mexico City for being anti racist and standing on the podium with Tommie Smith and John Carlos.


https://www.cnn.com/2012/04/24/sport/olympics-norman-black-power/index.html

He didn't look after himself first in life.
He bought a ticket to ride someone else's war express...and paid the price.
Maybe he knew what he was doing, and was prepared to pay that price.
...maybe not.
Maybe he got caught up in the moment...with no idea of the consequences.

[josh]

Protesting by athletes at sporting events is oh so "yesterday".

Another one who prefers his Blacks invisible and silent.

Speaking of yesterday... Australia destroyed Peter Norman who won the Silver Medal in the 200  at Mexico City for being anti racist and standing on the podium with Tommie Smith and John Carlos.


https://www.cnn.com/2012/04/24/sport/olympics-norman-black-power/index.html

Yes, the cost of being a protesting athlete at the olympics.
The cost of bucking the system.
The cost of being a rebel.
The cost of embarrassing the powers that be.
The cost of embarrassing the ruling elite.
Ok if one is independently wealthy...then one can breeze thru life doing exactly as one pleases, as long as it's legal.

The cost of standing for something.

Which you have been clear will not be you, ever.

[josh]

Protesting by athletes at sporting events is oh so "yesterday".

Another one who prefers his Blacks invisible and silent.

Speaking of yesterday... Australia destroyed Peter Norman who won the Silver Medal in the 200  at Mexico City for being anti racist and standing on the podium with Tommie Smith and John Carlos.


https://www.cnn.com/2012/04/24/sport/olympics-norman-black-power/index.html

He didn't look after himself first in life.
He bought a ticket to ride someone else's war express...and paid the price.
Maybe he knew what he was doing, and was prepared to pay that price.
...maybe not.
Maybe he got caught up in the moment...with no idea of the consequences.

Consequences you endorse.

[bambu.]

Protesting by athletes at sporting events is oh so "yesterday".

Another one who prefers his Blacks invisible and silent.

Sporting events should be protest free.
We go to sporting events to escape politics.
...not to be confronted by race, flag, anthem etc protests.

[bambu.]

Protesting by athletes at sporting events is oh so "yesterday".

Another one who prefers his Blacks invisible and silent.

Speaking of yesterday... Australia destroyed Peter Norman who won the Silver Medal in the 200  at Mexico City for being anti racist and standing on the podium with Tommie Smith and John Carlos.


https://www.cnn.com/2012/04/24/sport/olympics-norman-black-power/index.html

He didn't look after himself first in life.
He bought a ticket to ride someone else's war express...and paid the price.
Maybe he knew what he was doing, and was prepared to pay that price.
...maybe not.
Maybe he got caught up in the moment...with no idea of the consequences.

Consequences you endorse.

You assume too much.

[josh]

Protesting by athletes at sporting events is oh so "yesterday".

Another one who prefers his Blacks invisible and silent.

Sporting events should be protest free.
We go to sporting events to escape politics.
...not to be confronted by race, flag, anthem etc protests.

...We go to public buildings to conduct our civic affairs, not to be confronted by...

...We use the highways and roads to get where we are going, not to be confronted by...

...We use the parks for recreation, not to be confronted by...

Bambu, the purpose of protests is to make you be confronted by other people's realities, because THEY CAN'T ESCAPE THEIR LIVES, even if you can escape needing to be aware of them.

So sorry if your delicate sensibilities have to notice little things like racism, sexism, bigotry,,,

Do you think somehow the athletes are not impacted by those? That their families are insulated from racism by virtue of the sport their relative plays?!

[josh]

Protesting by athletes at sporting events is oh so "yesterday".

Another one who prefers his Blacks invisible and silent.

Speaking of yesterday... Australia destroyed Peter Norman who won the Silver Medal in the 200  at Mexico City for being anti racist and standing on the podium with Tommie Smith and John Carlos.


https://www.cnn.com/2012/04/24/sport/olympics-norman-black-power/index.html

He didn't look after himself first in life.
He bought a ticket to ride someone else's war express...and paid the price.
Maybe he knew what he was doing, and was prepared to pay that price.
...maybe not.
Maybe he got caught up in the moment...with no idea of the consequences.

Consequences you endorse.

You assume too much.

It's not an assumption, Bambu.

It is on display here, when you talk about it without condemnation of the folks who made his life miserable, instead of pointing out how he should have expected it.

[josh]

People on the right wing (fiscally/socially) argue that the government should not be in the business of helping the poor - it should be the private sector and the non-profits doing that important work.

Perhaps it should be, but it doesn't work in Canada and it won't work here.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/church-residential-school-compensation-1.6082935?fbclid=IwAR2K2JirCMl9c67m1SZfVM90ycMr1bH-XMC1ekyAZSmAtq9tLolNXja30-8

[bambu.]

People on the right wing (fiscally/socially) argue that the government should not be in the business of helping the poor - it should be the private sector and the non-profits doing that important work.

Perhaps it should be, but it doesn't work in Canada and it won't work here.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/church-residential-school-compensation-1.6082935?fbclid=IwAR2K2JirCMl9c67m1SZfVM90ycMr1bH-XMC1ekyAZSmAtq9tLolNXja30-8

Oh no they don't...well not in my world anyway.
bambu-ilk demand that our federal, and state govts help the poor, homeless, elderly and unemployed....which they do.
Before the pandemic struck, Scomo and Josh had the federal budget on track for a surplus...from which cash would be available to the struggling.
Now that surplus has disappeared and won't return for a very long time.

[bambu.]

Protesting by athletes at sporting events is oh so "yesterday".

Another one who prefers his Blacks invisible and silent.

Sporting events should be protest free.
We go to sporting events to escape politics.
...not to be confronted by race, flag, anthem etc protests.

...We go to public buildings to conduct our civic affairs, not to be confronted by...

...We use the highways and roads to get where we are going, not to be confronted by...

...We use the parks for recreation, not to be confronted by...

Bambu, the purpose of protests is to make you be confronted by other people's realities, because THEY CAN'T ESCAPE THEIR LIVES, even if you can escape needing to be aware of them.

So sorry if your delicate sensibilities have to notice little things like racism, sexism, bigotry,,,

Do you think somehow the athletes are not impacted by those? That their families are insulated from racism by virtue of the sport their relative plays?!

Where are the White male quotas in the NBA?

[josh]

Protesting by athletes at sporting events is oh so "yesterday".

Another one who prefers his Blacks invisible and silent.

Sporting events should be protest free.
We go to sporting events to escape politics.
...not to be confronted by race, flag, anthem etc protests.

...We go to public buildings to conduct our civic affairs, not to be confronted by...

...We use the highways and roads to get where we are going, not to be confronted by...

...We use the parks for recreation, not to be confronted by...

Bambu, the purpose of protests is to make you be confronted by other people's realities, because THEY CAN'T ESCAPE THEIR LIVES, even if you can escape needing to be aware of them.

So sorry if your delicate sensibilities have to notice little things like racism, sexism, bigotry,,,

Do you think somehow the athletes are not impacted by those? That their families are insulated from racism by virtue of the sport their relative plays?!

Where are the White male quotas in the NBA?

Thank you for proving, yet again, your racism.

Didn't really need the proof, but you keep providing.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/look-out-nba-the-all-white-basketball-league-is-coming-to-town

[facilitatorn]

The mice have finally gotten to poor bambu. Silly mice, you won’t find any nourishment there. His vitality has dried up and leached away long ago.

[josh]

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/29/politics/supreme-court-eviction-moratorium-cdc/index.html

SCOTUS has allowed the eviction moratorium to stand.