At the VFDs I was familiar with, he still wouldn't have been paid -- nobody was -- but obviously they're not required to be the same way, so maybe it's different with this one and their chief or senior officers are paid.
Oakleys and a graying goatee have to be the official facewear of far-right conservatives. 90% of the time in stories like this it's the same mug. Anyway, with Jerry freakin Jones joining in the kneeling, some things need to be cleared up. Dave Zirin (easily the best sports writer out there) explains brilliantly here: Taking a Knee Is Not About Abstract Unity but Racial Justice As NFL owners join these protests, it’s critical to not let Colin Kaepernick’s message get lost. https://www.thenation.com/article/taking-a-knee-is-not-about-abstract-unity-but-racial-justice/
Wha? Hold up, now... I said last night when this came across my fb feed that it amounted to nothing but appropriation. This is why I said people need to be moving and doing things while that music is playing. Standing in place is sort of like standing at attention. Movement and activity says "I won't acknowledge you people's customs until you people start caring about my survival".
Surely, isn't the point about these sorts of protests that they're just a start to the conversation, not the end. They raise an issue but people need to be explaining precisely why they're doing it and on what basis. IIRC Kapernick has explained, in broad terms, why he started doing it but, obviously, as more people do it they may have their own reasons. Overall they can do a great deal of good but they're just part of the process.
Gotta give the right its due. There ain't nobody that can cry and whine and complain and mew like the American right. And sure enough, this time too, it co-opts somebody else's problem, so that per its telling of the story, this protest is how people don't love America like the right does. Trump is the perfect President for a group that can't look away from the mirror, while shedding tears of self-pity.
So....yeah...this happened ....again...in less than a year. 912889336655380481 is not a valid tweet id Ten Confederate flag posters with cotton attached to them were discovered on the campus of American University https://t.co/QaolQHKnID— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 27, 2017
I telling true every racist American need 1 Sports rest are ruttel of interest. Selfy I like ice hockey and soccer almost across world's Sports.
That rhetorical question is kind of stupid. Racists are everywhere. If you think you're safe, watch School Daze.
2 black TX football players thrown off a Christian HS football team for silent protests during the anthem: Two high school football players in Texas were kicked off their team for protesting during the national anthem Friday. Cedric Ingram-Lewis raised a fist while his cousin, Larry McCullough, kneeled during the national anthem. The cousins, both students at Victory & Praise Christian Academy, said that after the anthem ended, their coach, Ronnie Mitchem, told them to remove their uniforms because they were being kicked off the team, the Houston Chroniclereported. “He told us that disrespect will not be tolerated,” Ingram-Lewis told the Chronicle, adding that right after the anthem ended, Mitchem “told us to take off our uniform and leave it there.” http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...otball-team-kneeling-anthem-article-1.3533085
It's bad enough they have an ex-Marine coach who probably makes them iron their jock straps and stand at attention on the sidelines. But they've got Southern Christian indoctrination to boot. They'll need some massive deprogramming down the line.
I almost attended. The only reason I did not was because of a housing question I did not get answered.
Why School Daze? It's been years since I saw it, but I don't recall anything specific. Are you sure you aren't talking about Jungle Fever (which took place in New York or some other Northeastern city)?
One of the themes of School Daze was racism within the black community. Light-skinned vs. dark-skinned.
Well, yeah, I knew thaaaat... It IS racism-based, and it is everywhere. But recommending a film where Black people internalize racist standards of beauty they had no hand in creating and use them against one another isn't the best call. In SD, the creator of those standards is nowhere to be found, so it's possible that a naive watcher might mistakenly blame the students themselves. Jungle Fever is about racism, period, and the culprits are clearly identified.
I don't know. I still haven't seen anything but School Daze, Malcolm X, Four Little Girls and Jungle Fever
You never saw She's Gotta Have It? I'm so cool I saw that before he made DTRT. IIRC, the girl in that movie is the same girl from Tone Loc's Wild Thing video. The movie with Edward Norton (25 Hours?) is fantastic.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000490/ Features, a lot more documentaries and shorts than I thought. And .... She's Got To Have It is soon to be a series premiering (somewhere) in November. I haven't seen anything since When The Levees Broke, which is ********ing great.