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I just think Fisher saw something special in Goff. Ya know. Like with Brian Quick
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-- Dr SeussFrankly, if you look closely at the highlight vid — the one where Keenum is getting buried by pass rushers — way off to the side, almost out of the screen…if you look close…you can see a green monkey. Glaring. And laughing.
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-- Dr SeussGood stuff, Zooey. I appreciate you putting that kind of effort into expanding on your initial thoughts in this thread. You make some good points that I’d be foolish to debate, because I don’t have a need to pick apart minutiae in my quest to be ‘right’. This is just, to me, good dialogue. And I do apologize for straying from the topic at hand to communicate some of the other defenses I listed. Regarding slavery and the expectation for white guilt, that was due to a few different things I had read and heard on the radio where certain groups have decided that reparations aren’t good enough and may never BE good enough. And there are a number of people who think the United States will never atone for that era. That said, I do agree about systemic racism in this Country as you laid it out. The only reason I brought up the need for more vocal opposition to “black on black” crime is because the coverage of it is alarmingly disproportionate to the vocal opposition to police on blacks crime. Which, if statistics are right, isn’t as high as it’s being portrayed. But like you, I digress.
I agree with you that Kaepernick has a right to do what he’s doing. I don’t think I even weighed in on that other than to say that all the people who are joining him are only doing so for reasons of vanity. IMO. If they were that strongly opposed to whatever it is he’s opposed to, they would have protested sooner. But maybe it’s just a need for a leader in that regard before someone can summon the courage to join. That said, wearing socks with pigs portrayed as cops is over the line and has no place in the National Football League. It’s hellaciously disrespectful to the thousands of good cops who would sacrifice their own lives to save his. So while he does have a Constitutional right to protest (and I support that), it doesn’t give him carte blache.
Finally, I very much appreciate how you illustrated that race-on-race crime can be boiled down to, I guess, class-on-class crime. It makes sense, and I haven’t looked at it like that before. You’re right. You and Dabo Swinney gave me a few things to think about today. If you haven’t heard Dabo’s presser about Kaepernick (and a few other topics), he also gave another way for America to veer way from their angry racism-centric view of our Country’s problems. While I don’t agree with everything he said, because I don’t share his particular religious beliefs, he does make a good point. To wit:
“There’s a lot of good police officers. There’s thousands of perfect traffic stops. Lot of good men. Lot of good women. But those don’t get the stories. There’s some criminals that wear badges. Guess what? There’s some criminals that work in the media. There’s some criminals that are football coaches. There’s some criminals that are politicians. There are criminals that work in churches. It’s so easy to say we have a race problem, but we got a sin problem. It’s just my opinion. That’s Dabo’s opinion.”
“Now, does that mean that there’s not still problems? Yes. Where there’s people, whether they’re black, green, yellow, orange or white, there is going to be sin, greed, hate, jealousy, deceitfulness. There’s going to be that. That’s always going to be there. But attitude, work ethic, love, respect for others, that doesn’t know any color.”
You can substitute the word ‘sin’ in his speech with any number of words that would adequately describe our problems. Hate, Economic, mental illness, leadership, education, etc. So all-in-all, it’s a good sign that there are people who don’t take such a narrow view on things. Because, clearly, not everybody in the world is racist and not all of their actions or thoughts can be drilled down to racism.
Again, thanks for responding. You’re clearly a good teacher.
You have to be odd, to be number one.
-- Dr Seuss
