Jeremiah Wright made racial comments just like Richard spencer has.
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Jeremiah Wright made racial comments just like Richard spencer has.
Jaw
It's OVER 5,000!
I'm saying I wasn't into any kind of illegal drugs in my younger days, but I still ended up at parties where I saw them used. I left when I saw it, but I was there. Maybe some will say I am guilty by association, but to me there is a big difference.
sturg33
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There's no question in my mind that Wright is a racist. Do you disagree?
sturg33
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Speaking of re-hashing done-to-death psuedocontroversies...
This is the real truth on the left now. If you're white you are inherently evil.
Jaw
It's OVER 5,000!
http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/new...ll-kaepernick-trump/kyfaiyz0x9rm19cxtn994edwr
NFL's TV numbers still sliding; 2017 figures down big from same period in '15
The NFL's once-golden network TV numbers continue to drop.
NFL games averaged 15.1 million viewers through Week 7, according to Nielsen data obtained by Sporting News. That's down 5.1 percent from 15.87 million viewers during the same period last season and off 18.7 percent from 18.35 million viewers during the same period in 2015.
Viewership numbers are lagging for a variety of reasons, not least the ongoing protests during the national anthem that former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began in 2016. Fans are still angry about Kaepernick’s continued unemployment as well as what's seen as the growing politicization of the NFL.
NFL's TV numbers still sliding; 2017 figures down big from same period in '15
The NFL's once-golden network TV numbers continue to drop.
NFL games averaged 15.1 million viewers through Week 7, according to Nielsen data obtained by Sporting News. That's down 5.1 percent from 15.87 million viewers during the same period last season and off 18.7 percent from 18.35 million viewers during the same period in 2015.
Viewership numbers are lagging for a variety of reasons, not least the ongoing protests during the national anthem that former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began in 2016. Fans are still angry about Kaepernick’s continued unemployment as well as what's seen as the growing politicization of the NFL.
Jaw
It's OVER 5,000!
Waiter: MLB catcher Bruce Maxwell made up story about service refusal over anthem protest
Oakland A’s catcher Bruce Maxwell, 26, claimed this week that a waiter in his Alabama hometown of Huntsville refused him service after identifying him as the MLB player who took the knee during “The Star Spangled Banner” last month — only the waiter has a very different version of events and he told Fox News that was far from what went down.
“He is outright lying. This is really upsetting as he was given full service, I didn’t even know who Bruce Maxwell was,” Matt Henry, a 42-year-old waiter at Keegan’s Public House, told Fox News. “This all started because I carded his friend who wanted to order a beer.”
“I didn’t know anything about him or the kneeling. All I know is a friend of mine 15 years ago lost his job for serving someone a drink who happened to be underage, so if anyone looks under 30, I’m going to card them.”
The waiter said that the councilman then complained to the restaurant’s manager about Maxwell being uncomfortable, and the manager simply swapped me to another table, and that it was “no big deal.”
The restaurant manager on duty that day, Anne Whalen — who requested the restaurant name not be used without permission from the owner — also told Fox News that Maxwell’s story being portrayed in the media could not be further from the truth.
“Matt came to me and told me that a guy wanted a beer but his ID was not valid and I told him he absolutely could not give it to him, we can go to jail for that in the state of Alabama," the manager said.
"It was his friend causing all the fuss, none of us even knew who this baseball player was. I told him I had no idea who he was going on about,” she said. “Eventually Matt just asked if we could put another server on the table so I did. … I can’t believe the story.”
Whalen said that of the three men, Maxwell was the only one who produced a valid ID and thus was the only one they served a beer to.
However, Maxwell told TMZ Sports this week — and headlines since have spanned the globe — that the waiter said to him, “You’re the guy who took the knee?” After confirming he was, Maxwell alleged that the waiter then responded, “I voted for Trump, and I stand for everything he stands for,” and then refused to serve him.
This allegedly prompted the councilman, who is a high school friend and is African-American, to approach the restaurant’s manager who then mitigated the situation by putting another waiter on their table.
Julio3000
<B>A Chip Off the Old Rock</B>
Ok.
Jaw, thethe, krgrecw, sturg:
You guys find me the worst things that Jeremiah Wright said from the pulpit. I'll spend 30 minutes perusing only the websites of featured speakers at the Unite the Right march. Then we'll compare notes and play the moral equivalence game. Anyone?
Jaw, thethe, krgrecw, sturg:
You guys find me the worst things that Jeremiah Wright said from the pulpit. I'll spend 30 minutes perusing only the websites of featured speakers at the Unite the Right march. Then we'll compare notes and play the moral equivalence game. Anyone?
Julio3000
<B>A Chip Off the Old Rock</B>
Julio3000
<B>A Chip Off the Old Rock</B>
The rich irony here is that a lot of what Obama got clobbered with w/r/t Wright was the idea that many of America's woes, notably 9/11, were largely chickens coming home to roost . . . which is pretty much an article of faith for white nationalists (albeit with an anti-Semitic spin) and Paulites.
When a white nationalist says it: Free speech!
When a Paulite says it: Facts don't care about your feelings.
When a black liberation preacher says it: Burn the witch!
When a white nationalist says it: Free speech!
When a Paulite says it: Facts don't care about your feelings.
When a black liberation preacher says it: Burn the witch!
Jaw
It's OVER 5,000!
Maybe. I wasn't really the kinda guy that read a lot of fliers. More of a word of mouth type that just skims headlines until I see something that looks interesting.
We will see how much the players care when they start getting paid less.
goldfly
<B>if my thought dreams could be seen</B>
yeah
Jaw
It's OVER 5,000!
That's business. People get mad, ratings go down, ad returns go down, ad revenue goes down, profit goes down, salary goes down. There isn't much mystery to how this plays out except for wondering how the NFL proceeds. This could even be good for the long term health of the league if it forces them to reduce TV content while being able to blame it on something besides overconsumption.
jpx7
Very Flirtatious, but Doubts What Love Is.
None of the above—but Papa John's is the worst of the four. If the anthem protests bring that monster down, it'd be a boon for all pizza-eating humanity.