Discussing Race

American Thinker

"Slavery found its way to the Western hemisphere because agriculture needed labor and the supply was insufficient. Slaves were for sale in West Africa and farmers bought them. Europeans did not enslave Africans. They bought slaves -- human beings who had been enslaved by Arabs, and by other Africans." A rather fine point, eh?

 . . . "One last comment on race. There were black slave owners in the South. If a free black had a farm too big to work with his family, he would purchase a slave.  Slavery was not strictly a black/white matter. The Jim Crow laws were. Those laws were the result of hardening political attitudes during Reconstruction.  We don’t need to be doing anything to harden those attitudes again.

"And a final political statement. Is it in anyone’s political interest to keep the racial cauldron bubbling? If one seeks political advantage by convincing people that they are victims, would it ever be to that person’s advantage to lift the “victims” out of their victimhood?" . . .

Perhaps the children of the rioters who beat Reginald Denny nearly to death during the Rodney King riots should be made to pay reparations to Mr. Denny's descendants, if any? TD

NFL may lose bigly with social justice antics  . . . "Trump is forcing already unpopular NFL commissioner Roger Goodell into zone defense, whining about Trump's "divisive comments."

"Divisive?  Really?  Most Americans already disapprove of the NFL's posturing and preening.  Instead, the NFL is doubling down on its losing formula, hastening its self-destruction.

"The media, the left, and #NeverTrumps are predictably and perpetually outraged.  Here is Trump the rube, once again venturing into something he knows nothing about.  Is that so?  They likely don't remember that Donald Trump owned a USFL football team, the New Jersey Generals, for a few years in the 1980s.  Did anyone else running for president in 2016 own a professional football team?  Hillary Clinton's only professional football experience was pushing the Washington Redskins to change their name." . . .

"New England Patriots Owner Supports Unpatriotic National Anthem Protests"  . . . Signs that President Donald Trump really struck a nerve with his epic condemnation of NFL players protesting the national anthem are continuing to manifest themselves within the league’s ownership class.

"Following a day of scorn, Trump upped the ante with yet another Tweet on Sunday morning imploring fans to stay away from the games until the NFL does something about the growing anti-Americanism that has become so pervasive, that Commissioner Roger Goodell put his seal of approval on it during a chaotic day." . . .

Just when liberal media was gearing up to destroy football over all the brain damage, Trump calls for a boycott of football over the National Anthem protests.
. . . "So, watch the liberal media endeavor to save football from bad old President Trump. He's a racist. This is his racism once again, stirring up the stupid people who voted for him." . . .
"Let the brain damage continue. We've got a culture war to fight."