"7" = Professional Sports Protest, Will it Impact RNC Convention Memes, or Thread themes, here?

"7" = Professional Sports Protest, Will it Impact RNC Convention Memes, or Thread themes, here?

(Apologies... did not assemble the poll questions within the 5 minute time limit.)

In essence, are events rapidly overtaking the Trump campaign and convention messaging and the synchronized "turn a deaf ear to peaceful protest", thread themes so familiar to recent forum readers?

As I write this, a variety of blacks in professional sports, including a former NBA player and current TNT sports announcer
and LA Kings Coach Doc Rivers, as well as Lebron James and players of all NBA teams are speaking out in protest over 7 bullets.

Teams have arranged as playoff games resume, to place the ball on the floor at the 7 minute market, for 24 seconds, drawing technical
fouls, each opposing team in sequence to avoid advantage, vs. only one team receiving a foul penalty.

These athletes, coaches, and at least on sportscaster are demanding change.The NFL Commissioner recently admitted making a mistake,
misinterpreting the "taking a knee" protest as a conflict with the National Anthem, pre-game protocol.

Will Mr. Trump continue to attack, or is he backed into a position in which a pivot to contrition will be communicated while attempting to salvage his
campaign tactic of demonizing protestors of police shootings, fully supporting police at every opportunity while claiming his democratic party opponents
will defund police into unresponsiveness if he is not reelected?

Will forum members here continue to create thread after thread in defense of police and Trump, themed to equate all protestors with rioters and looters?

Will reality finally begin to dominate debate, or will denial and projection of police excessive force continue to be heaped on non-violent protestors and 2020 democratic candidates?

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It’s funny, lefties demand the police be “defunded” than get pissy when people believe they’re for defunding the police.

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All those healthy community minded men...I think its time to put their muscle behind their hustle and go out RIGHT NOW and join a police force in an area where they have to deal witha majority minority community.

Lead the way, gents.

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I hope you didn't expect to get thoughtful answers from the right, it ain't gonna' happen.

The right wants a police state. They've been taught for so long to be afraid, they are, so they always side with trump and the cops. After all it's not white guys getting shot. Look at the dude who killed a few and wounded a few, walking down the street with his rifle and no cops do anything. But a black guy with his back to the cop, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom boom. Why?

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bongsaway said:

I hope you didn't expect to get thoughtful answers from the right, it ain't gonna' happen.

The right wants a police state. They've been taught for so long to be afraid, they are, so they always side with trump and the cops. After all it's not white guys getting shot. Look at the dude who killed a few and wounded a few, walking down the street with his rifle and no cops do anything. But a black guy with his back to the cop, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom boom. Why?

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(I misspoke in the OP, calling the Clippers the LA Kings) Doc Rivers father was a police officer. His objection is Trump message of RW fear, "while we're the ones being killed.."

https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1298786988833857537



Versus V.P. Mike Pence!

Pence vows support for police as Trump makes surprise trip to Fort McHenry; guests crowd together to greet candidates - Baltimore Sun
Pence vows support for police as Trump makes surprise trip to Fort McHenry; guests crowd together to greet candidates
By Jeff Barker
Baltimore Sun |
Aug 27, 2020 at 12:27 AM
....
“Under President Trump, we will always stand with those who stand on the ‘Thin Blue Line,’ and we’re not going to defund the police — not now, not ever,” he said. “The hard truth is, you won’t be safe in Joe Biden’s America.”
.......
“Let me be clear, the violence must stop — whether in Minnesota, Portland or Kenosha,” Pence said. “We will have law and order on the streets of America.”

Pence said America is being tested but — in nod to Fort McHenry’s history — said “our flag is still there today.”
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Biden condemns police shooting of Jacob Blake; Harris says Pence '''nothing but lies''' at RNC
Biden condemns police shooting of Jacob Blake; Harris says Pence 'nothing but lies' at RNC
The Democratic nominee called on protesters in the police shooting in Kenosha, Wis., not to engage in violence.

Aug. 26, 2020, 6:11 PM EDT / Updated Aug. 26, 2020, 6:28 PM EDT
By Sahil Kapur

WASHINGTON — Joe Biden on Wednesday denounced the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin and urged protesters not to respond by engaging in violence.

"What I saw on that video makes me sick. Once again a Black man, Jacob Blake, has been shot by the police in broad daylight with the whole world watching," Biden said in a video posted Wednesday, adding that he had spoken to Blake's family and assured them that "justice must and will be done."

"Protesting brutality is a right and absolutely necessary. But burning down communities is not protest, it's needless violence. Violence that endangers lives," the Democratic presidential nominee continued. "That's wrong.".....

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It would be great if all those athletes made their boycott of the games permanent.

Then the teams could hire people of ALL ethnicities who just want to play the game and do what they are paid for: to entertain the masses.

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post said:

(I misspoke in the OP, calling the Clippers the LA Kings) Doc Rivers father was a police officer. His objection is Trump message of RW fear, "while we're the ones being killed.."

https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1298786988833857537



Versus V.P. Mike Pence!

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Gosh, Biden is such a ****ing coward.

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bongsaway said:

I hope you didn't expect to get thoughtful answers from the right, it ain't gonna' happen.

The right wants a police state. They've been taught for so long to be afraid, they are, so they always side with trump and the cops. After all it's not white guys getting shot. Look at the dude who killed a few and wounded a few, walking down the street with his rifle and no cops do anything. But a black guy with his back to the cop, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom boom. Why?

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More white dudes get shot by police than black people.

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TheParser said:

It would be great if all those athletes made their boycott of the games permanent.

Then the teams could hire people of ALL ethnicities who just want to play the game and do what they are paid for: to entertain the masses.

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Amen, brother! And... while they're at it, replace the leaders of the NFL and NIKE, too!

Colin Kaepernick'''s Nike Deal is Humiliating for the NFL
Opinion
[h=1]Colin Kaepernick's Nike Deal is Humiliating for the NFL[/h]

As the new face of Nike, Colin Kaepernick will be on every field, every Sunday.
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by Sean Newell



September 5, 2018, 10:27am

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[h=2]Roger Goodell has a chance to prove his recent reversal on Colin Kaepernick and player protests isn't just words[/h]

YAHOO!|12 hours ago

If players settle on a protest similar to the NBA, Goodell had better have their backs, regardless of whether his 32 team-owning bosses agree.
[h=2]Roger Goodell wishes the NFL 'had listened earlier' to Colin Kaepernick, supports players who kneel[/h]

Washington Post|2 days ago

Led by star players such as Patrick Mahomes, the commissioner has continued to send a different message since the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others.

Kaepernick's Deal With Disney Includes a Jemele Hill ...
[Search domain www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/sports/football/colin-kaepernick-disney-jemele-hill-espn.html] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/sports/football/colin-kaepernick-disney-jemele-hill-espn.html
Jul 7, 2020A first-look deal between Colin Kaepernick and Disney includes a documentary series at ESPN that will be produced by Jemele Hill, who left the network two years ago.

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Or, perhaps replace Trump, Pence, and eight Trump party senators running for reelection?

https://www.nydailynews.com/nationa...0200803-2z4rr4g4ovchjknb7yjcvdglou-story.html
Aug. 3, 2020

The U.S. Navy is investigating an incident in which dogs attacked a “Colin Kaepernick stand-in” during a K-9 demonstration during a 2019 fundraiser at the Navy SEAL Museum in Florida.


The Navy said in a statement posted on Twitter that officials became aware of the video on Sunday....
...“The inherent message of this video is completely inconsistent with the values and ethos of Naval Special Warfare and the U.S. Navy,” the statement said.

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X Factor said:

More white dudes get shot by police than black people.

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I think we need a thread listing and linking to all of the "white grievance" and the racist flavored comments posted in these threads...

You did not complete your Trump parroting... and neither did Trump. Blacks are much more likely to be stopped by police compared to their
population percentage, and to be unarmed when shot dead by police.

Trump says "more whites" are killed by police than black ...

https://www.fr24news.com/a/2020/07/...d-by-police-than-black-americans-us-news.html

the The american president was interviewed Tuesday by CBS reporter Catherine Herridge when asked why black people are still dying at the hands of law enforcement. "The whites too." White people too. What a terrible question to ask. White people too, "replied Trump. "No more whites, by the way." More whites.

[h=2]Rage and Promises Followed Ferguson ... - The New York Times[/h]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/13/us/unrest-ferguson-police-reform.html

Jun 13, 2020Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times. ... stepped in to place the department under a state consent decree instead, Jeff Sessions, then Mr. Trump's attorney general, unsuccessfully opposed the ...




....Experts say the demographic makeup of the general population is not a good benchmark because most people do not interact with the police. One study of fatal police shootings that took criminal activity into account found no overall racial disparity, but said that black victims were more likely to be unarmed and pose no immediate threat, while white victims were far more likely to have provoked the police to harm them, commonly referred to as “suicide by cop.”
Traffic stops are another way to measure department performance that is not driven by calls for service. Four years after a New York Times investigation found that the police in Greensboro, N.C., were disproportionately pulling over black motorists, the percentage had barely changed, though the total number of stops declined, according to the Open Data Policing project. The department was more than four times more likely to search a black driver than a white driver in 2019 — a greater disparity than four years before. In both groups the police reported finding contraband a third of the time.

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bongsaway said:

I hope you didn't expect to get thoughtful answers from the right, it ain't gonna' happen.

The right wants a police state. They've been taught for so long to be afraid, they are, so they always side with trump and the cops. After all it's not white guys getting shot. Look at the dude who killed a few and wounded a few, walking down the street with his rifle and no cops do anything. But a black guy with his back to the cop, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom boom. Why?

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Its possible you would come off less stupid if you actually had a clue what the **** you were talking about.

Its not even a theoretical question. Its demonstrable provable that more white people are shot by cops than black people. Unfortunately the media and activists spoon feed you mindless drivel that you gobble down and swallow. IF you bothered reading the facts you would learn a lot of things. For example, you would learn that 55% of all people fatally shot in America by the police are white — more than double the number of black (27%) or Hispanic (19%) individuals. You would also learn that in the vast majority of police shootings, of all citizens shot by police, 90% are armed with a weapon and between 90 and 95% are attacking the police or another citizen. You would also learn that of the remaining 5-10% only a handful are actually unarmed AND not attempt to attack police officers. You would learn that in ALL of 2019 only THREE black American individuals were shot, unarmed, and not attacking police officers. You would also learn that contrary to the lie you have swallowed, often when police officers kill someone in the line of duty and it is found to be unjustified and negligent they are charged.

Hell...if you bothered actually reading and learning about any of this you would realize how stupid your comments where. Thats not a guarantee you wouldnt still make them...but at least then you would know you were spewing lies.

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post said:

I think we need a thread listing and linking to all of the "white grievance" and the racist flavored comments posted in these threads...

You did not complete your Trump parroting... and neither did Trump. Blacks are much more likely to be stopped by police compared to their
population percentage, and to be unarmed when shot dead by police.

Trump says "more whites" are killed by police than black ...

https://www.fr24news.com/a/2020/07/...d-by-police-than-black-americans-us-news.html

the The american president was interviewed Tuesday by CBS reporter Catherine Herridge when asked why black people are still dying at the hands of law enforcement. "The whites too." White people too. What a terrible question to ask. White people too, "replied Trump. "No more whites, by the way." More whites.

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Black Americans are more likely to be shot by police because simply by FACTUAL review of the FBI crime statitics black Americans, espeically young men...commit the majority of violent crime in this country while representing only a handful of even the black American population. Black Americans are also more likely to fight with law enforcement and resist arrest which results in their death.

Seriously...you people should really actually try reading facts instead of regurgitating mindless. leftist rhetoric.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings-2017/

In 2017, 22 unarmed black men were shot and killed by police. If you bothered to take the time to learn about each instance you will find in order
2 burglary suspects where the driver (who was shot) attempted to run over the responding police officer. The 2nd suspect fled and was arrested without incident. A man who was so violent his family couldnt contorl him and called the police and when the police responded he attacked 2 officers while being tased without effect. You will find a a man shot while carjacking a vehicle and attempting to run from the police. You will find a man shot (by a black police officer) who when pulled over got out of his pickup, approached the officer and then reached into his pocket for what turned out to be a cell phone. You will find a child abuser that fought with the police, through being tased, and ultimately was shot when he reached for the cops weapon. You will find a latino cop that shot a man that decided to fight with the cop rather than be cited for driving with expired insurance. You will find 22 cases just like those.

At the same time you will find 31 cases of white people getting shot by cops...for the same reasons. You will find 13 Hispanics getting shot by cops...for the same reasons. What you wont find is an epidemic of innocent people getting killed by cops.

But then...those would be actual facts and not just the rhetorical **** you prefer to promote your cause.

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Covid and politics have killed sports. The NBA is about to cancel the playoffs and the NFL is fooling itself if it thinks it will have a season this year.

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This will be powerful.


It will totally anger the folks that think the South is rising again.

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VanceMack said:

Black Americans are more likely to be shot by police because simply by FACTUAL review of the FBI crime statitics black Americans, espeically young men...commit the majority of violent crime in this country while representing only a handful of even the black American population. Black Americans are also more likely to fight with law enforcement and resist arrest which results in their death.

Seriously...you people should really actually try reading facts instead of regurgitating mindless. leftist rhetoric.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings-2017/

In 2017, 22 unarmed black men were shot and killed by police. If you bothered to take the time to learn about each instance you will find in order
2 burglary suspects where the driver (who was shot) attempted to run over the responding police officer. ..(abbreviated to permit respondent, "post" to reply within forum's post limit)... You will find 22 cases just like those.

At the same time you will find 31 cases of white people getting shot by cops...for the same reasons. You will find 13 Hispanics getting shot by cops...for the same reasons. What you wont find is an epidemic of innocent people getting killed by cops.

But then...those would be actual facts and not just the rhetorical **** you prefer to promote your cause.

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Mike Pence At RNC: The Hard Truth Is, You Won’t Be Safe In Joe Biden’s America | Video | RealClearPolitics

"The hard truth is.... you won't be safe in Joe Biden's Amerika!" - Trump's cuckold, Mike Pence, Aug. 26, 2020

And I've been putting out the fire with gasoline
- David Bowie

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How Trump's DOJ undid Obama's Ferguson reforms.

How Trump’s DOJ undid Obama’s Ferguson reforms.

After the state of Illinois took the Obama DOJ's report and enacted its own consent decree with Chicago, Sessions' department took the unprecedented step of filing with the court in opposition ...

'Supreme Inequality' Argues That America's Top Court Has Become Right-Wing : NPR
Feb. 24, 2020
. for five decades, the court has, with striking regularity, sided with the rich and powerful against the poor and weak in virtually every area of the law...

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Urban Dictionary: strapping young buck
Urban Dictionary, August 19: enby › define › term=strapping young buck
From a 1976 speech by Ronald Reagan, who complained of "strapping young bucks" using public assistance to buy T-Bone steaks, the phrase is shorthand for ...

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If "they" just be seen and not heard, and are willing to wait patiently.....

Alpha Kappa Alpha - Wikipedia
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority

The sorority was founded on January 15, 1908, at the historically black Howard University i. ...consisting of college-educated women of many diverse backgrounds from around the world, the sorority serves through a membership of more than 300,000 women in 1,024 chapters in the United States and several other countries.[3] ...

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Why Do Boards Have So Few Black Directors?
Why Do Boards Have So Few Black Directors?

by J. Yo-Jud Cheng , Boris Groysberg and Paul M. Healy

Aug 13, 2020

....The underrepresentation of Black professionals is especially bleak in the highest echelon of corporate America: boards of directors.

Interviews with 59 Black Female Executives Explore Intersectional Invisibility and Strategies to Overcome It
Interviews with 59 Black Female Executives Explore Intersectional Invisibility and Strategies to Overcome It

....Black women continue to be sorely underrepresented in leadership roles in corporate America. ..

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The Fed - Distribution: Distribution of Household Wealth in the U.S. since 1989

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post said:

Mike Pence At RNC: The Hard Truth Is, You Won’t Be Safe In Joe Biden’s America | Video | RealClearPolitics

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So lets clarify...you acknowledge your mindless bull**** rhetoric regarding police shootings was all just mindless rhetorical bull**** and so you defaulted to another set of mindless leftist talking points?