While my dad and I were fishing in AK last year he told me how upset he was about BLM etc etc. he decided he wasn’t going to watch the NBA or NFL as a result.
I told him that was ridicules. He’s 80 and that’s what he lives for at this point. He watches sports morning noon and night. Told him why would you give up your passion and something you love because you don’t like a marking on a court or you’ve let petty politics creep in to your life in a way they only can if you let them. Without the screaming heads telling you it’s bad you’d likely not give a ****. Pay attention to who and what you listen too that drives these thoughts. What would happen if you shut them out. Would you be so constantly outraged or pissed off? Nope.
Oddly he listened to me. He’s a huge Suns fan and as we were watching the game together last night he randomly turned to me and said I’m sure glad I didn’t stop watching (he’s missed very few games).
Life is short and fun. How some folks get so jacked up over things that have so little impact in them is beyond me.
It’s only political if you name it such. Reread the first part of this thread. It really wasn’t political. The reactions both ways became so.
I had pizza for lunch.
teedubbya wrote:
Part of it for me is it is tearing the country apart. I dedicate five minutes total each day for local and national news.
During that five minutes this morning. One of the stories was the first African American ever to win the Scrpps? Spelling Bee.
Why is that relevant? If anything, it’s insulting.
What are they trying to get at?
See, black people can spell too?…….
Are we to celebrate in the streets?
Are we supposed to hold a parade?
Why wasn’t Vanilla Ice celebrated for being the first european American for becoming the first rapper to hit the top 40?
Where’s the story about the first Pacific Islander to dunk a basketball in Tennessee?
People are people. It’s about equality. Not one group over another.
Seems the country spent a couple hundred years making decisions based on skin color. How’d that work out?
It’s going to end badly for this country. Conservatives who were generally in the middle of their party’s spectrum are being radicalized.
If you thought the right wingers were were crazed before. Wait until they get the presidency and congress back. And if Trumps wins- look out.
I had a steak and cheese burrito on the way home. The chef was unknown. Perhaps I should have asked more questions.
Can I get a breakdown of there race, gender, sexual preference, political ideology, citizen non citizen, eye color, and whether of not they have an appendix please?
If it checks the in-Vogue boxes we have a news story.
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