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ESPN’s Howard Bryant: Police Officers Singing The National Anthem Before Games Is Racist…
Fucked up
Just tell us what isn’t racist.
Via Independent Sentinel:
His paranoia and hate-infested bashing has found its way onto the pages of ESPN’s mag in past issues but he and his job at ESPN have not gone the way of Curt Schilling,
Fucked up
Just tell us what isn’t racist.
Via Independent Sentinel:
Howard Bryant, the moral authority columnist for ESPN, has found more systemic racism, something he is ever on the lookout for, even if it isn’t there. His latest article, “The Unspoken Truth” is about the plague now besetting our nation – police officers singing the National Anthem before games. [As an aside, a police officer was shot in the head yesterday trying to protect citizens]
His acrimonious invective is not simply reserved for police – it’s military too – and Republicans.
Police are “authoritarian” racists infecting ballparks with “staged patriotism”. He also brought up Ferguson where the discredited “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” was born of a false narrative.
Nobody seems to care much about this authoritarian shift at the ballpark, yet the media and the public are quick to demand accountability from players they consider insufficiently activist. They blame these black players for not speaking up on behalf of their communities, ignoring the smothering effect that staged patriotism and cops singing the national anthem in a time of Ferguson have on player expression. It’s indirectly stifled, while the increasing police pageantry at games sends another clear message: The sentiments of the poor in Ferguson and Cleveland do not matter….While athletes are routinely criticized for “not doing more,” it is conveniently ignored how deeply their employers have mobilized against the most powerless elements of their fan base.
Policing in a sports arena is the one place it hasn’t been divisive, but there are the Bryants of the world who hope to change that and politicize this all-American venue.
His paranoia and hate-infested bashing has found its way onto the pages of ESPN’s mag in past issues but he and his job at ESPN have not gone the way of Curt Schilling,