When Joe the Plumber, white guy, in 2008 criticized President Obama, Laura Ingraham had him on her show and offered to help him if he decided to run for office. No 'stick to pipes.' So it's not employment she wants to preclude participation in democracy; it's skin color.
After Angela Davis was arrested with Nixon branding her a "terrorist," Aretha Franklin offered to post a quarter million dollars in bail. "I have the money. I got it from black people and I want to use it in ways that will help our people."
#BlackLivesMatter
R-E-S-P-E-C-T!
To be clear about this Kansas City
@NFL
team child fan’s get-up, and his parents excusing it by saying his grandfather is a Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indian, I asked the tribe (which is what journalists, not
@FoxNews
, do) and this is the tribe’s response:
Career QB ratings for Championship Sunday:
Tom Brady 97.6
Blake Bortles 80.8
Case Keenum 86
Nick Foles 87.4
(sidenote: Colin Kaepernick 88.9)
#NFLPlayoffs
#NFLChampionship
That white supremacist (alt-right) Milo Yiannopoulos other day said he looked forward to journalists getting gunned down.
@realDonaldTrump
calls us “enemies.” Today I turned in a death threat I got days ago to police. Then
#capitalgazzette
happens
What news photogs do.
@dallasnews
staff photographer
@TomFoxPhoto
captured gunman shortly before dude opened fire on Dallas Fed Building Monday. Someone pictured Fox as it played out. Gunman killed.
Joe Gibbs apologized on
@SiriusXMNASCAR
for his winning team celebrating with Ryan Newman’s car flipped and Newman not extricated. Said they didn’t immediately realize it.
Dear
@MLB
, be the first major sport to pull out of Georgia. Find a new place for your All-Star Game scheduled this summer in Atlanta in this reprobate state.
Here’s part of the video, from
@hannahjoyTV
, showing Democratic Rep. Park Cannon being detained by Georgia State Patrol outside an entrance to the Governor’s office.
#gapol
20 years ago
@dawnstaley
was selected as flag bearer for the US Olympic team, the first basketball player so honored. Dawn Staley has always represented, and epitomized it 👊🏾
That white supremacist (alt-right) Milo Yiannopoulos other day said he looked forward to journalists getting gunned down.
@realDonaldTrump
calls us “enemies.” Today I turned in a death threat I got days ago to police. Then
#CapitolGazette
happens
Guess nobody told Vin Scully, who can’t watch NFL games because of protests during anthem, that Jackie Robinson said: “I cannot stand and sing the anthem...I know that I am a black man in a white world."
Today we honored the great Jackie Robinson, with the first commemorative statue at the
#RoseBowl
, and the only in the world of him in a football uniform! 🏈To top it all off, Vin Scully, celebrated his birthday today as the MC!🌹
#JackieRobinson
#HappyBirthday
#Vin
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar/Lew Alcindor is decisively the undisputed GOAT of college basketball! During his 3 years at UCLA he led the Bruins to an 88-2 record, won 3 National Championships, was 3X National College Player of the Year, AND was 3X NCAA Final Four Most Outstanding Player.
Seems to me West Virginia v. Barnette, when Supreme Court ruled in 1943 that children in public schools can’t be compelled to salute the flag, would mean NFL players in stadium 37% funded by public can ignore employer.
This is the only thing on my mind in the wake of Jon Gruden's resignation, per
@PostSports
July 2, 2021: "The NFL will not release any detailed findings from Wilkinson’s investigation [of Washington] beyond a news release...'due to the sensitivity of the allegations.'"
Thank you to black men dragged into Vietnam who in looking out for each other gave brothas everywhere a way to publicly express our solidarity. 👊🏾
#MemorialDayWeekend
"I would say to some of those players who in previous months in the aftermath of the George Floyd murder and cloaked themselves in slogans of the BLM movement and social justice causes, begin to look at this issue as a social justice cause" -
@ProfBlackistone
w/
@NicolleDWallace
My 10-year-old daughter sitting next to me watching games just asked: “Why does it say
#MarchMadness
on the men’s court but not on the women’s?”
#NCAAWomen
With the comicbookish new name
@Commanders
, high-schoolish new logo, easily lampooned Sean Taylor “Memorial installation” and now a cartoonish Porky Pig mascot, it is as if the people running/ruining Washington’s
@nfl
franchise are just mocking what fans the club has left.
Jackie Robinson was revered for what he took; Frank Robinson was respected for what he didn't take. He was post-Jackie, post-Jesse, post-Joe. He was the beginning of the representation of the remasculated black athlete.
But Haskins got pulled after passing for 314, running for a TD, no turnovers and generating 343 total yards v. league’s stingiest defense 😂That didn’t provide an opportunity.
The
#NCAA
should respect the 54% of its teams that are women's teams by canceling any upcoming championships in Alabama, Missouri and other states that disregard women
Brandon Staley, 38, his resume on the left just got him the
@NFL
head coaching job for the
@Chargers
. Eric Bieniemy, 51, drafted by the Chargers, his coaching resume is on the right.
Police have charged Anthony Brennan III, age 60 of Kensington, Maryland, with three counts of second-degree assault for the incident on the Capital Crescent Trail.
Maybe that’s because she’s a 35th generation Native of this land who respects it, whereas your people rolled into her ancestral home just in the 18th, 19th centuries and continue to violate all manner of Native sovereignty
You’d think this never happened before, but it did: 1984, Mavericks' Derek Harper dribbled out the clock in tied playoff game against the Lakers. Lakers went on to win in overtime.
Mr. Hubbard, you had nothing for which to apologize. Your
@CoachGundy
supporting a TV network trafficking in conspiracies including
#BlackLivesMatter
protests of
#GeorgeFloyd
’s killing had everything to atone for, but didn’t.
Almost forgot: It was five years ago today that
@BreeNewsome
scaled this flag pole (now that’s some athletic activism!) to yank down this symbol of hate, a precursor to the folk yankin’ down and topplin’ same bs today. ✊🏽
#BlackGirlMagic
19-year-old Hank Aaron integrated the Sally League in Florida, which led the country in lynchings per capita of black folks. Nonetheless, one writer noted, “Aaron led the league in everything, except hotel accommodations.”
While Nike extending Kaepernick seems a cool poke in NFL’s eye, there is danger in commercializing, commodifying protest with a global corporation still wrestling with sweatshop charges (
@USAS
) and new
#metoo
problems. Kaep betta be careful not to have his stance disfigured
A day ago,
@AndrewGillum
was up 7 points in some polls. Tonight, the Bradley Effect proved true. White voters told pollsters they were going to vote for a black candidate but in reality never intended to
Brett Favre says Colin Kaepernick's willingness to leave his NFL career to fight for social justice reminds him of Pat Tillman's ultimate sacrifice ... and now, he's telling TMZ Sports he thinks both will be remembered as heroes.
It can’t be said enough how great is
@BrendaFrese
. Lost her top 2 scorers including highest recruit ever to portal plus top reserve causing much concern and no matter
@TerpsWBB
is ranked 10 and just dropped
#13
Michigan
#fearthe
🐢
Such a juxtaposition: New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Arden said, “[Immigrants] have chosen to make New Zealand their home, and it is their home. They are us.” Then vows to change gun laws. No demonization. No willful ignorance.
Henry Kissinger’s Documented Legacy | National Security Archive: “…his role in the overthrow of democracy and the rise of dictatorship in Chile; disdain for human rights and support for dirty, and even genocidal, wars abroad; secret bombing campaigns…”
1st black Canadians settled in Nova Scotia - few thousand Africans, slaves and freed, who British gave safe passage for joining their war v. George Washington’s Continental Army. One was a Washington slave, Harry, fighting for his freedom.
#FourthofJuly
ain’t what you were taught
If ever you wondered why black studies matter you need only look at the depth and breadth of ignorance being shown today about the history of enslaved Africans in the Western Hemisphere.
And your new Gov. of the State of Virginia will be Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, second black man elected statewide in the state. DeMatha High School to Duke to Columbia Law. More progressive than not.
#NorthamMustResign