There's no healing going on in post-America. This place is as sick as it's ever been.Artifacts from former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick's national anthem protests will reportedly soon be on display at the Black Lives Matter collection at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History."The National Museum of African American History and Culture has nearly 40,000 items in our collection," said Damion Thomas, the museum's sports curator, to USA Today. "The Colin Kaepernick collection is in line with the museum's larger collecting efforts to document the varied areas of society that have been impacted by the Black Lives Matter movement."
Saturday, August 19, 2017
In post-America, anything that has the remotest possibility of being something noble immediately turns into something spiritually rotten
And so it is with this institution:
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Except for you and yours, right? Why don't we all just try to live and let live? It's basically in the Constitution. You're just not gonna get everyone on the same page about anything, actually.
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I wonder if they have something on Tommy Smith and John Carlos' black power salute at the 68 Olympics? Hey, it happened. And it's still happening. But it's still not museum-worthy? In a museum of black history & culture? There's still somethin' happenin' here, what it is ain't exactly clear...
ReplyDeletewhat's spiritually rotten is how much money these pro players make and therefore the reason for the attention they get. Take Tony Stewart for instance. If he had not made the bucks, then become some sort of advertising icon, why would anyone listen to a word he said about anything but auto racing?
ReplyDeleteNo, it's not museum-worthy. It's shit-can worthy.
ReplyDelete"Live and let live" is a pretty insipid and lazy response to the accelerating destruction of this nation.
Smith and Carlos did indeed set the pattern, and hopefully history in the long run will judge them accordingly.
Why is there anything rotten about how much an NFL player makes? IT's obviously what the market will bear. At present, anyway. If NFL ticket sales and TV viewership continue to decline, which they will if the snot-nosed America-hatred of the likes of Kapernick is not resolutely addressed, the market will only bear a notable smaller salary for these guys.
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ReplyDeleteA museum that puts up an exhibit like this before it makes any mention of Clarence Thomas clearly has an agenda.
ReplyDeleteI, like you purport to do, support intellectual freedom for schools, universities, libraries, museums, and the like. The theory is that we'd all ban something we found offensive, but one man's poison is another man's you know what. Don't go to the exhibit then. I likely won't.
ReplyDeleteOf course it is none of my business what anyone's salary is, but our culture's emphasis on winning through the bucks and the attention garnered by the bucks winners, regardless of their true mettle (their heart and soul) is indeed a loser. No turning back though, it's Mammon through and through and those who are deceived thereby are not wise. Yes, we were a model for the world with our words and principles which we're still keeping up with. What is happiness but money in our society? You're always so big on Western culture, tiptoe through some Marcus Aurelius, although our road diverged from that a long long time ago, if it was ever on it. This is why I don't get all hung up and hyped up about Western culture, because, at the end of the day it became so materialistically based.
ReplyDelete“Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.”
ReplyDelete― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Football is going to concuss on its own within 10 years. Boomer Esiason, add him to the list of CTE victims, along with Jim McMahon. Are you ready for some football? This Bud's for you...
ReplyDeleteMillennials are shunning football, golf, napkins, staid former retail giants, home ownership, maybe even a bit of the ole keepin' up with the Joneses. Maybe there's just a new day dawning, though late in the day for the above. Oh well, I won't be around to see it. I actually agree with them on a lot.
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