Nothing gets my blood boiling like when privileged white men, the likes of former NFL quarterback Boomer Esiason or NASCAR driver Tony Stewart and others begin to tell Black people what they can and cannot do. It was that very same sense of authority, that sense of I am better than you, I have the right to dictate to you which created the ignoble blight on mankind called slavery , and Jim Crow which has left a searing scar on the character of America which refuses to heal.
San Francisco Fortyniners quarterback Colin Kaepernick who refused to stand at the signing of the national anthem has drawn a flurry of criticism from privileged whites who have always taken it unto themselves to tell others what they can and cannot do. They created onto themselves a sense that they have the right to determine what other people do and how they do it.
Kaepernick argues he will continue to sit while the anthem is played in protest over the continued killing of unarmed black people by police without consequence.
Stewart ran over a competitor, 20-year-old Kevin Ward Jr., during a confrontation at a sprint car race in 2014 at Canandaigua Motorsports Park in New York.
Ward was killed.
Of course this little murdering runt would support police murdering black people . He committed actual murder and the star struck police refused to investigate the case properly and place him in jail where he belong. Why would he not be in love with criminal cops?
For his part Esiason has the damn gall to say quote “I cannot say it in the strongest, most direct way, that it’s an embarrassment and it’s about as disrespectful as any athlete has ever been,”.
Embarrassment to whom?
Here’s the real embarrassment. That Esiason Stewart and others, scum of the earth, in the year 2016 find it objectionable that someone refused to stand and place their hand over their heart as a song which celebrates slavery is being sung, than deal with the clear and present moral danger inherent in innocent lives being snuffed out without consequence.
But the mental midget wasn’t done he went on …“… if Carmelo Anthony walks on the court in a Knicks uniform and starts in with this, I think it’s going to create a lot of problems,” Esiason said.
Wait just a second there, is this minion threatening Carmelo Anthony? Who died and made him God ?
There is this notion by many that Black people should shut up and sit down, after all, they argue things are better than they once were.
♦Of course Blacks should be happy that massa no longer works him like beasts of burden from sun-up till sundown without pay.
♦Of course Blacks should be thankful to massa for not raping our women in view of their husbands.
♦We should be damn well glad that they no longer feed little black babies to alligators as sport.
♦We must eternally be grateful to these monsters that they no longer sodomize our men as a way of breaking them and emasculating them in front of their wives.
♦Yes we must shut up and be glad that they no longer make a spectacle of us by mass lynching us for sport after Sunday services.
Yes of course we certainly need to be quiet, after all massa Esiason and massa Stewart don neva give us no right to speak no how !!!!
Here’s the problem with the concept of gradualism . Fifty plus years ago when Dr King and others marched for civil rights and social justice the number one problem facing African-Americans was police brutality. Today the single largest problem facing the African-American community is police brutality. There is no tone deafness on the part of Tony Stewart or Boomer Esiason their mega-phone Donald Trump or other privileged whites, they simply do not care to hear. The issue of police aggression and murder within the Black community serves their white supremacist interests. Any segment within the human species which values tradition and secular practices over the morality of human dignity, human life and human existence is indeed the worst and most base of that specie.
In order to fully digest the outrageous nature of the cheeky sense of deity of the self righteous whites it is important to recognize the gall of their self- appointed right over everyone else’s right to self determination.
Over fifty years ago these were the very same arguments coming from the[self-aggrandizing master race]sic. Unfortunately many illiterate blacks gobbled it up as they do today.
King specifically warned not to accept it. In addressing the issue Dr King said Quote .
“This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.”
Yes this is an issue which really gets me riled up . Who the hell are you to determine how others, particularly the oppressed behave?