Bennett on Front Cover of The New Yorker

[AROS]

Pretty poignant.

 

[WmHBonney]

I would rather see him on the front cover of SI or ESPN the Magazine after a SB win......

 

[Hawk Finn]

I remember Demi Moore getting the cover of Vanity Fair when she was poignant. We’ve come a long way. But have we?

 

[SixSeahawk]

I would rather see him on the front cover of SI or ESPN the Magazine after a SB win......

Because one benefits you and the other doesn't, right?

Because certain issues effect you and others don't, right?

This means more.

 

[renofox]

I would rather see him on the front cover of SI or ESPN the Magazine after a SB win......

Because one benefits you and the other doesn't, right?

Because certain issues effect you and others don't, right?

This means more.

Some of us enjoy the Seahawks for football, not politics.

 

[WmHBonney]

I would rather see him on the front cover of SI or ESPN the Magazine after a SB win......

Because one benefits you and the other doesn't, right?

Because certain issues effect you and others don't, right?

This means more.

This means NOTHING. Whatever happened to the final report of the Las Vegas incident? Why has there been no more news about how Bennett was mistreated? Answer: Because he wasn't.

 

[XxXdragonXxX]

I would rather see him on the front cover of SI or ESPN the Magazine after a SB win......

Because one benefits you and the other doesn't, right?

Because certain issues effect you and others don't, right?

This means more.

This means NOTHING. Whatever happened to the final report of the Las Vegas incident? Why has there been no more news about how Bennett was mistreated? Answer: Because he wasn't.

Or because a police investigation of...themselves...is bound to turn up no wrongdoing?

There's 2 sides to every story. Some people automtically believe one side whilr others believe the other side, even when there is little to no evidence either way. Conveniently for the police, the officer who detained Bennett had his body cam turned off (this is a common theme in police brutality cases.)

The only real evidence Ive seen supports Bennnett's story....an image of a gun to his head.

 

[Mindsink]

Does that image appear to you as a man pointing a gun at someone's head? :lol:

 

[Mindsink]

If MLK were alive today, he would never be caught kneeling together with these two race baiting SJWs.

 

[Zebulon Dak]

If MLK were alive today, he would never be caught kneeling together with these two race baiting SJWs.

Sure he would.

 

[Mindsink]

If MLK were alive today, he would never be caught kneeling together with these two race baiting SJWs.

Sure he would.

You revived a week-old thread with that thought-compelling gem? Wow, I guess we can end the discussion now. :lol:

 

[Zebulon Dak]

If MLK were alive today, he would never be caught kneeling together with these two race baiting SJWs.

Sure he would.

You revived a week-old thread with that thought-compelling gem? Wow, I guess we can end the discussion now. :lol:

If you want to argue in-depth hypothetically about who a man that's been dead for 50 years would or would not associate with be my guest. I'm gonna go a head and stick with sure he would, final answer.

 

[Zebulon Dak]

I would rather see him on the front cover of SI or ESPN the Magazine after a SB win......

Because one benefits you and the other doesn't, right?

Because certain issues effect you and others don't, right?

This means more.

This means NOTHING. Whatever happened to the final report of the Las Vegas incident? Why has there been no more news about how Bennett was mistreated? Answer: Because he wasn't.

You'd think differently about what it means to be "mistreated" by the police if you were in his or millions of other black men's positions. Shit they deal with on a regular basis, shit that guys like you and I don't even have to spare a moment's thought about literally ever.

 

[Osprey]

If MLK were alive today, he would never be caught kneeling together with these two race baiting SJWs.

Sure he would.

You revived a week-old thread with that thought-compelling gem? Wow, I guess we can end the discussion now. :lol:

If you want to argue in-depth hypothetically about who a man that's been dead for 50 years would or would not associate with be my guest. I'm gonna go a head and stick with sure he would, final answer.

Given that BLM's roots are a lot closer to Malcolm X, I'd say he (Mindsink) has a point.

Reverend King considered himself to be in a contest for the soul of the Black community against the radical philosophy that Malcolm X represented. In that era he won, but sadly that same radical movement has re-written his legacy to fit their creed. Case in point: he's now ubiquitously referred to as Doctor King. And before you go the 'pay the man the respect his PhD deserves route'...the doctorate is in Theology.

*edited for clarity

 

[Zebulon Dak]

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/060.html

"First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season."

Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."

...

"In spite of my shattered dreams of the past, I came to Birmingham with the hope that the white religious leadership of this community would see the justice of our cause, and with deep moral concern, serve as the channel through which our just grievances would get to the power structure. I had hoped that each of you would understand. But again I have been disappointed. I have heard numerous religious leaders of the South call upon their worshippers to comply with a desegregation decision because it is the law, but I have longed to hear white ministers say, "follow this decree because integration is morally right and the Negro is your brother." In the midst of blatant injustices inflicted upon the Negro, I have watched white churches stand on the sideline and merely mouth pious irrelevancies and sanctimonious trivialities. In the midst of a mighty struggle to rid our nation of racial and economic injustice, I have heard so many ministers say, "those are social issues with which the gospel has no real concern.", and I have watched so many churches commit themselves to a completely other-worldly religion which made a strange distinction between body and soul, the sacred and the secular.

So here we are moving toward the exit of the twentieth century with a religious community largely adjusted to the status quo, standing as a tail-light behind other community agencies rather than a headlight leading men to higher levels of justice."

http://www.crmvet.org/docs/otheram.htm

But at the same time, it is as necessary for me to be as vigorous in condemning the conditions which cause persons to feel that they must engage in riotous activities as it is for me to condemn riots. I think America must see that riots do not develop out of thin air. Certain conditions continue to exist in our society which must be condemned as vigorously as we condemn riots. But in the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice, equality, and humanity. And so in a real sense our nation's summers of riots are caused by our nation's winters of delay. And as long as America postpones justice, we stand in the position of having these recurrences of violence and riots over and over again. Social justice and progress are the absolute guarantors of riot prevention.

 

[Osprey]

I think that first block of quotes supports my argument, King is seeing the issue through a theological lens.

In the latter...note that he is condemning both equally. Today's definition of Social Justice ranges from excusing criminality to celebrating it, King is examining root cause and solutions.

 

[hawk45]

I would rather see him on the front cover of SI or ESPN the Magazine after a SB win......

Because one benefits you and the other doesn't, right?

Because certain issues effect you and others don't, right?

This means more.

This means NOTHING. Whatever happened to the final report of the Las Vegas incident? Why has there been no more news about how Bennett was mistreated? Answer: Because he wasn't.

You'd think differently about what it means to be "mistreated" by the police if you were in his or millions of other black men's positions. Shit they deal with on a regular basis, shit that guys like you and I don't even have to spare a moment's thought about literally ever.

The most important thing that can happen to change opinions and thoughts about police mistreatment is for the majority of highly-publicized incidents to turn out actually to involve police mistreatment. Bennett is part of the problem, not the solution, because his perfidy makes it all too easy for the public to become mistrustful or unsure as to just how much of a problem we have. And I believe we do have one.

Of course, he doesn't believe that exaggeration or lying undermines his cause. I'm sure he believes that any undermining that occurs is outweighed by "raising awareness." That's sloppy thinking. When you aren't firmly rooted in truth, and you don't have concrete goals in mind, it's too easy for the world at large to just throw a few bucks at it, establish some loosely-directed social justice initiative, and go back to ignoring it. Which is exactly where we are.

 

[Zebulon Dak]

I don't think anybody every accused Bennett of not being a sloppy thinker.

 

[hawk45]

I don't think anybody every accused Bennett of not being a sloppy thinker.

:irishdrinkers:

 

[hawxfreak]

All political crap aside , I'd love another SB win just becuz I'd love another SB win.
Wow somebody must be wearing their thermal undies cuz y'all seem a little heated lol


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