Eric Reid Press Conference

[LinvilleGorge]

6 minutes ago, wud35 said:

But chuck got the stick so we have that.

He's been banned repeatedly. He'll be back... and he'll get banned again. This cycle has repeatedly itself ad nauseum.

[WarHeel]

1 minute ago, ImaginaryKev said:

That's not what he did at all. You're missing the point purposely and revealing how little you think of black people. We see you out here speaking in euphemism bc youre too puss to be outright racist. But you are a racist. 

You obviously know nothing of racism. I have black and brown brothers that I hold in higher regard than my family. 3 of them stood by my side when I took my vows.

 

You know I’m right so you resort to the only thing you have left to cling to and that’s throwing out the term “racist.”

[WarHeel]

4 minutes ago, LegioX said:

I have learned long ago, the huddle is basically 99% left leaning. What makes it even worse is that the majority of them will call you every liberal name in their playbook for disagreeing with anything they collectively agree with. 

So it’s a waste of time and effort to have any meaningful discussion on any issue on the forum. 

Look no further than two comments down. Apparently I’m a racist now for bringing to light that minorities have educational rights that Caucasians don’t. Even if those said minorities grow up in upper class homes.

[Matthias]

2 minutes ago, rodeo said:

that's step 1 but on its own won't fix much. we'd still live under an exploitative system. give reparations and it would be a game of who can steal the money back the fastest. policing also wouldn't be fixed and would still target black people who reparations would pull out of poverty into the working class, but the police aren't here to protect the working class. they're here to protect the wealthy. the fix has to include 1) abolish capitalism 2) reparations and 3) complete overhaul of the police system, with community policing by social work specialists and not combat specialists

I don't fully agree with that.  I recognize capitalism was founded on having a cheap labor class. (Which in our case, a free labor class)  Yet if you take things back to the New Deal, you can have a regulated capitalistic system that looks after everyone.  Again I applaud Eric Reid speaking on these things when it comes to black Americans.

[ImaginaryKev]

10 minutes ago, WarHeel said:

Didn’t realize one inequality was greater than the other. How ironic.

You're trying to change the subject because inequality here isn't an issue to you. Some people actually care about racism and want to help. If you don't, step aside and get out of the way of progress. as it stands you're being critical of people who are trying to affect change because the status quo works for you and slyly throwing out dog whistles like we haven't heard them all before. You're not slick. Your perspective adds nothing here. 

[OneBadCat]

The whole kneeling disrespects veterans thing is just a load of crap and is cover for ignorance.

Soldiers fought for their right to kneel and secondly they shouldn’t be forced to participate in an national anthem in the first place. That itself is unamerican. Especially when it is perfectly clear that the NFL uses it for military propaganda. Not to mention the millions of fans around the country who bitch about this yet sit on their ass during the anthem.

[rodeo]

Just now, Matthias said:

I don't fully agree with that.  I recognize capitalism was founded on having a cheap labor class. (Which in our case, a free labor class)  Yet if you take things back to the New Deal, you can have a regulated capitalistic system that looks after everyone.  Again I applaud Eric Reid speaking on these things when it comes to black Americans.

it would have to be very very very regulated, and people breaking regulations would have to actually be held accountable. i mean that factory in texas that exploded in (i think) 2014 and killed 15 workers was regulated, but it still exploded, and nobody was held accountable.

[Matthias]

1 minute ago, WarHeel said:

Look no further than two comments down. Apparently I’m a racist now for bringing to light that minorities have educational rights that Caucasians don’t. Even if those said minorities grow up in upper class homes.

Definitely wrong.  All we have to do is look at Affirmative Action, and we see white women take the lion's share, not to mention other groups benefit from it as well.  So if white women benefit from it the most, and they marry white men, all the benefits remain in the white family.  So how do they have educational rights black Americans don't have?  Do you want to switch, since you envy black American life so much?

[RumHam]

Well this was bound to happen.

[PantherOnTheProwl1523]

4 minutes ago, OneBadCat said:

The whole kneeling disrespects veterans thing is just a load of crap and is cover for ignorance.

Soldiers fought for their right to kneel and secondly they shouldn’t be forced to participate in an national anthem in the first place. That itself is unamerican. Especially when it is perfectly clear that the NFL uses it for military propaganda. Not to mention the millions of fans around the country who bitch about this yet sit on their ass during the anthem.

Have you ever served in military? Most of what you said is inaccurate because I did  in the Army 12 1/2 years and that assumption is not correct.

[WarHeel]

1 minute ago, ImaginaryKev said:

You're trying to change the subject because inequality here isn't an issue to you. Some people actually care about racism and want to help. If you don't, step aside and get out of the way of progress. as it stands you're being critical of people who are trying to affect change because the status quo works for you and slyly throwing out dog whistles like we haven't heard them all before. You're not slick. Your perspective adds nothing here. 

Oh, racism is alive and well. I just don’t agree with the sentiments that people don’t have access to the same success that some have based on their ethnicity. I would argue that based on ones ethnic background they have MORE opportunity than some that are born into nonminority families. 

 

Thats not racist and it doesn’t mean I am not an advocate for abolishing racism altogether. I’m just throwing out what should be obvious and that is you can’t tout inequality in one facet without recognizing it at the other end.

[rodeo]

5 minutes ago, WarHeel said:

Look no further than two comments down. Apparently I’m a racist now for bringing to light that minorities have educational rights that Caucasians don’t. Even if those said minorities grow up in upper class homes.

white students have affirmative action too, far more prevalently, in the form of legacy students. just look at a dude like jared kushner. piss poor high school gpa, colleges were laughing him out of the building based on his essays, then his father got 2 senators to basically threaten the school to get him in.

[WarHeel]

3 minutes ago, Matthias said:

Definitely wrong.  All we have to do is look at Affirmative Action, and we see white women take the lion's share, not to mention other groups benefit from it as well.  So if white women benefit from it the most, and they marry white men, all the benefits remain in the white family.  So how do they have educational rights black Americans don't have?  Do you want to switch, since you envy black American life so much?

Women in general clearly pursue furthering their education more than men. As someone who spent an additional 7 years behind a desk of a lecturing professor and a simple google search to a legitimate source can tell you that women are the vast majority of college campuses across the nation so your statistics don’t really hold water.

[OneBadCat]

1 minute ago, rbsponsel52 said:

Have you ever served in military?

No but my dad served in Vietnam.