(07-06-2020, 02:15 PM)jagibelieve Wrote:

(07-06-2020, 01:42 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: Do you think Lenny Curry removed the confederate statue from the front of City Hall because he wanted to do that, or because he felt pressured to do it due to current events/protests? 

hint: he was pressured and placating

Marty's implication is no different. 

I'm sure there were a few local government individuals and entities that chose to honor MLK from a place of honesty and integrity. I'm sure there were others that did so because they felt they needed to placate a portion of their citizenship. 

Insulting and divisive as the truth behind such empty gestures may be, it's undoubtedly true. It's an indelible part of politics. Politicians seek to please disparate segments of their constituency all the time. 

Hell of a lot easier for a mayor to rename a street or move a monument than it is to actually implement reform of his police department. And it's the people who want that reform he's placating. 

Goodell is the mayor in this particular scenario, and "Lift Every Voice" is the renamed street.

So we are going to further divide by playing "their" national anthem and throwing "them" a bone.  Got it.

You making it an "us" and "they" thing is precisely where you are [BLEEP] this up. 

It's a song.  And again - the only people calling it the "black national anthem" or portraying this musical tribute to civil rights to serve as a separate "anthem" at all are the media and a few posters here. 

The NFL has not deemed it such and they haven't even confirmed the report as far as I can tell. 

If YOU personally want to make this into a "THEY" get their own "anthem" now thing, well, that's all on you. 100%. 

Because - as far as I can tell - there's merely a report that, for one week, a song is going to be performed before games.

No one is raising a flag during this song. 
No one is asking you to take your hat off and place a hand over your heart.
No one is saying this is the anthem for one group of people in place of the Star Spangled Banner. 
No one is making you get offended by it but you.

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