Remember when the NFL refused the Dallas Cowboys’ request to honor murdered police officers? We do
NFL, in July of 2016, five of our brothers were killed in Dallas. You remember that, don’t you?
Five Dallas police officers were shot during of all things a Black Lives Matter protest, where the Dallas police were sent to help provide security for the event. Unfortunately, there was an uninvited guest at that protest, an anti-police sniper who massacred those five officers in cold blood.......he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers.”
During the pre-season, the Cowboys wore “Arm in Arm” helmet decals, worn by the players to show a “display of unity” with the Dallas Police Department following the July 7 carnage.
All the Dallas Cowboys organization asked for was to be able to wear the decal on their helmets for pre-season games.
However the NFL blocked the tribute. We probably should have taken that as a sign of things to come, but we didn’t
This was only four years ago.
Conservative radio talk show host Mark Levin, who must have been a prophet, said at the time that the decision was “embarrassing” and “disgraceful.”
“Let me tell you why the NFL won’t do this. Anybody have a guess? I have a big guess: Because they don’t want any trouble from the leftists. From the Black Lives Matter crowd,” Levin said on his radio show.
“And the NFL top brass, like the NBA top brass, like baseball top brass, all liberal Democrats. [Every] damn one of them pretty much.”
Of course, NFL you had already shown cracks in your stance on political statements in NFL games. Remember the St. Louis Rams in 2014 doing their “hands up, don’t shoot” schtick? We do.
Do you remember the halftime show at Super Bowl 50 with Beyonce’s anti-police “tribute?” We do.
The hypocrisy was noted back then by conservative media, with Dylan Gwinn, a sports-talk radio host saying, “That’s the platform the NFL gives to anti-police activists. What do police officers get from the NFL? Not even a sticker in a preseason game.”
Imagine our surprise then when it was announced that you plan to play something called the “Black national anthem” before games on Week 1 of the NFL season. We thought the NFL didn’t like to use the game to “make political statements?”
Stickers honoring dead police officers were not allowed. But the playing of an alternative national anthem is? Oh, and yes NFL, it gets much, much worse.
I also read that players will be allowed to “recognized victims of systemic racism throughout the season.” By “systemic racism,” I know this is code for people killed by police officers, whether justified or not.
Names will be allowed on helmet decals[emphasis added], jersey patches, as well as programs such as educational programs and storytelling (to include PSA’s about “victims” and their families).
The anthem, called “Lift Every Voice and Sing” was ironically performed at a segregated school in Jacksonville, Florida, where the song’s author, initially written as a poem, served as principal—as part of a celebration of former President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday [emphasis added]—yes, the same Abraham Lincoln whose statues and monuments that Black Lives Matter is systematically trying to remove and/or destroy.
Where do we go with all of this? How do we not recognize the hypocrisy and the racism at the core of this ludicrous attempt to call out racism?
The “Black National Anthem”? If someone suggested a song called The White National Anthem… they’d be labeled extremists and supremacists – and arguably rightly so. So how is creating this divide acceptable? What’s next – should we push for separate water fountains? Sections on buses?
The inmates (both literally and figuratively) are definitely running the asylum. And your commissioner, Roger Goodell will cement his legacy as the man who brought down the National Football League.
Meanwhile NFL, it’s been real… it’s been good… but it hasn’t been real good in a long time.
NFL, in July of 2016, five of our brothers were killed in Dallas. You remember that, don’t you?
Five Dallas police officers were shot during of all things a Black Lives Matter protest, where the Dallas police were sent to help provide security for the event. Unfortunately, there was an uninvited guest at that protest, an anti-police sniper who massacred those five officers in cold blood.......he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers.”
During the pre-season, the Cowboys wore “Arm in Arm” helmet decals, worn by the players to show a “display of unity” with the Dallas Police Department following the July 7 carnage.
All the Dallas Cowboys organization asked for was to be able to wear the decal on their helmets for pre-season games.
However the NFL blocked the tribute. We probably should have taken that as a sign of things to come, but we didn’t
This was only four years ago.
Conservative radio talk show host Mark Levin, who must have been a prophet, said at the time that the decision was “embarrassing” and “disgraceful.”
“Let me tell you why the NFL won’t do this. Anybody have a guess? I have a big guess: Because they don’t want any trouble from the leftists. From the Black Lives Matter crowd,” Levin said on his radio show.
“And the NFL top brass, like the NBA top brass, like baseball top brass, all liberal Democrats. [Every] damn one of them pretty much.”
Of course, NFL you had already shown cracks in your stance on political statements in NFL games. Remember the St. Louis Rams in 2014 doing their “hands up, don’t shoot” schtick? We do.
Do you remember the halftime show at Super Bowl 50 with Beyonce’s anti-police “tribute?” We do.
The hypocrisy was noted back then by conservative media, with Dylan Gwinn, a sports-talk radio host saying, “That’s the platform the NFL gives to anti-police activists. What do police officers get from the NFL? Not even a sticker in a preseason game.”
Imagine our surprise then when it was announced that you plan to play something called the “Black national anthem” before games on Week 1 of the NFL season. We thought the NFL didn’t like to use the game to “make political statements?”
Stickers honoring dead police officers were not allowed. But the playing of an alternative national anthem is? Oh, and yes NFL, it gets much, much worse.
I also read that players will be allowed to “recognized victims of systemic racism throughout the season.” By “systemic racism,” I know this is code for people killed by police officers, whether justified or not.
Names will be allowed on helmet decals[emphasis added], jersey patches, as well as programs such as educational programs and storytelling (to include PSA’s about “victims” and their families).
The anthem, called “Lift Every Voice and Sing” was ironically performed at a segregated school in Jacksonville, Florida, where the song’s author, initially written as a poem, served as principal—as part of a celebration of former President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday [emphasis added]—yes, the same Abraham Lincoln whose statues and monuments that Black Lives Matter is systematically trying to remove and/or destroy.
Where do we go with all of this? How do we not recognize the hypocrisy and the racism at the core of this ludicrous attempt to call out racism?
The “Black National Anthem”? If someone suggested a song called The White National Anthem… they’d be labeled extremists and supremacists – and arguably rightly so. So how is creating this divide acceptable? What’s next – should we push for separate water fountains? Sections on buses?
The inmates (both literally and figuratively) are definitely running the asylum. And your commissioner, Roger Goodell will cement his legacy as the man who brought down the National Football League.
Meanwhile NFL, it’s been real… it’s been good… but it hasn’t been real good in a long time.
