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The Japanese player isn't even white. She's mulatto, half Japanese, half Haitian.
The comic sucks, as does welfare. Nike faced no backlash, stock back (even though it didn't even matter in the first place, stocks move up and down constantly), I hear nothing but chirps in here.
Ughh I'm so tired of arguing over all these "team" based issues, it's exhausting.
I want to have a conversation about this hat. It's over 13 years old. I don't remember when I bought it exactly, I don't remember where I bought it. But what I do remember is why I wore it.
On August 10, 2005, I was a newlywed with two young sons. My husband Tim and I had toasted our one month anniversary the night before, and I was enjoying a rare evening to myself, catching up on reading and relishing the quiet. Until there was a knock on my door. I had no way of knowing that the small act of turning a knob was about to shatter my life into a million pieces. I sat numb and in sheer disbelief as I was told that my husband, while in a foot pursuit and subsequent struggle with a suspect that ended up in the road, had been struck and killed by an oncoming vehicle. He took his last breath lying in the middle of the street. What I lost in that moment is indescribable. I had to watch his mother be dealt the most agonizing blow a parent can face, and I couldn't comfort her because I was in my own hell. I had to find a way to gut my own children in the gentlest way possible, and tell them that this man they had come to love, who they looked up to, who cared for them as his own, would never walk through our door again.
I don't know if you've ever attended a police funeral, but watching grown men who've seen the absolute worst things a civilian can imagine, break down and sob over the casket of their brother is an image that never leaves you. The bagpipes haunt my dreams to this day, but it was the faces of my children, the innocence that abandoned them at such a tender age that brought me to my knees.
I had no choice but to move on. We trudged zombie-like through our days for weeks and weeks on end. I never left the house except to drive the boys to school, or buy food we barely touched. I realized that I had to do something. I had to move my body or I was going to crawl out of my own skin. So I put on the only cap I had and I went for a run. It was short, it hurt and it was ugly. But I felt, just for those few moments on that road, like a normal person. So I kept doing it. I put that hat on and I ran every day. Sometimes I had to stop and sit down because I was sobbing so hard. Sometimes I was so angry I ran until I thought I my heart would stop, sometimes I would just scream over and over again, but it still felt better than doing nothing.
That black cap became a symbol to me, it is sweat stained and it's shape is gone, the buckle in the back barely closes; but that hat represents my family's rise from the ashes. It stands for the strength and the sacrifice we made loving a man who had a job that we all knew could end his life, every time he walked out that door. And it did. And I accept that.
I still wear this hat, I wore it on my run this morning.
And then I heard about your new ad campaign.
Colin Kapernick has the absolute right to protest anything he damn well pleases. I don't dispute that for one second. My father, my husband and many, many friends have all served this country and were willing to fight for his right to kneel.
But that right goes both ways. I also have a right to express my disgust at your decision to portray him as some kind of hero. What, exactly has Colin Kapernick sacrificed? His multi million dollar paycheck...? Nope, you already gave him one of those. His reputation? No, he's been fawned over by celebrities and media alike. Funny, Tim Tebow was never called courageous when he knelt.
This man, whose contempt for law enforcement fits him like a...sock, has promoted an agenda that has been proven false time and time again, in study after study. But facts don't seem to matter anymore. This man has thrown his support behind divisive anti-police groups, and donated money directly to a fugitive from justice who escaped prison after killing a police officer. I question the judgement of anyone who would put someone this controversial and divisive at the head of an advertising campaign, but it isn't my company to run.
I don't know if I'll have he heart to ever get rid of this cap, but I will tell you this, I'll never purchase another Nike product as long as I live. You got this one wrong Nike, terribly, terribly wrong.
Sherry Graham-Potter, surviving spouse of Deputy Tim Graham"
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I wonder if cnn would have covered that apparently accidental shooting if the victim were white
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I wonder if cnn would have covered that apparently accidental shooting if the victim were white
She didn't pull the trigger by accident. Just imagine if he had shot her. The right wing media would make her out to be an angle and called him a black thug. If he would have accidentally entered her apartment and get shot. They would make him out to be a black thug and she would be on the cover of the NRA magazine as a proud white woman who stood her ground.
There is a problem with the police in the US. They don't get paid that much so no one wants to be a cop. The recruits they do get many times are kids that barley passed high school. The Memphis PD was in Settle last week trying to get new recruits. Think about that. They had to travel all that distance just to find someone will to be a cop.
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She didn't pull the trigger by accident. Just imagine if he had shot her. The right wing media would make her out to be an angle and called him a black thug. If he would have accidentally entered her apartment and get shot. They would make him out to be a black thug and she would be on the cover of the NRA magazine as a proud white woman who stood her ground.
There is a problem with the police in the US. They don't get paid that much so no one wants to be a cop. The recruits they do get many times are kids that barley passed high school. The Memphis PD was in Settle last week trying to get new recruits. Think about that. They had to travel all that distance just to find someone will to be a cop.
And maybe nobody wants to be a cop because of the recent views of police.
Why would anybody want to risk their lives, thankless, everyday for $50k/year when race baiting cnn and the like fan the flames every chance they get?
It used to be an admirable job. Now they can't even do their job,all the while getting spit on.
The pay hasn't changed. The climate has.
It was an accident until proven otherwise in a court of law.
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Gold is the money of kings;
Silver is the money of gentlemen;
Barter is the money of peasants;
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-Norm Franz
And maybe nobody wants to be a cop because of the recent views of police.
Why would anybody want to risk their lives, thankless, everyday for $50k/year when race baiting cnn and the like fan the flames every chance they get?
It used to be an admirable job. Now they can't even do their job,all the while getting spit on.
The pay hasn't changed. The climate has.
It was an accident until proven otherwise in a court of law.
That's only because she is white if she was black civilian republicans would be already asking for the death penalty.
__________________ Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
What year was that?
Anecdotal "evidence" for a hypothetical situation that you have no way of "proving".
When was the last time cnn broke a story of a white person killed by police?
Approximately twice as many, so no shortage.
Or how about the last time they covered a police officer killed in the line of duty?
Plenty of those too.
Doesn't fit their agenda huh
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Gold is the money of kings;
Silver is the money of gentlemen;
Barter is the money of peasants;
But debt is the money of slaves.
-Norm Franz
What year was that?
Anecdotal "evidence" for a hypothetical situation that you have no way of "proving".
When was the last time cnn broke a story of a white person killed by police?
Approximately twice as many, so no shortage.
Or how about the last time they covered a police officer killed in the line of duty?
Plenty of those too.
Doesn't fit their agenda huh
The year was 89 and trump wanted the death penalty brought back for them.
with trump I guess its guilty even after proved Innocent.
Someone makes a drawing of Serena Williams looking like a sambo you laugh. Kap wears police pig socks for one game the right wants to lynch him. Rich republicans got you worrying about the stupidest shit. I have seen more outrage against Nike and Kap then the roman catholic church and they raped hundreds of thousands of kids.
__________________ Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
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Silver is the money of gentlemen;
Barter is the money of peasants;
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-Norm Franz
The city of New York released thousands of documents from the 1989 Central Park rape case last week, provoking more weeping and gnashing of teeth over Donald Trump's full-page ads in four New York newspapers taken out soon after that attack with the headline:
"BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY.
"BRING BACK OUR POLICE!"
His ad never mentioned the Central Park rape, but talked about New York families -- "White, Black, Hispanic and Asian" -- unable to enjoy walks through the park at dusk. Of muggers and murderers, he said, "I no longer want to understand their anger. I want them to understand our anger. ... They should be forced to suffer and, when they kill, they should be executed for their crimes."
According to the media, the five convicted boys were INNOCENT — and Trump would have executed the poor lads! Apart from the "innocent" moniker, the rape victim miraculously survived, there was no murder, so this is nonsense.
But let's look at how "innocent" they were.
On April 19, 1989, investment banker Trisha Meili went for a run through Central Park around 9 p.m., whereupon she was attacked by a wolf pack looking for a "white girl," dragged 100 yards into the woods, stripped, beaten with a pipe and a brick, raped and left for dead.
By the time the police found Meili, she'd lost three-quarters of her blood. Her case was initially assigned to the homicide unit of the D.A.'s office because none of her doctors thought she would make it through the night.
Of the 37 youths brought in for questioning about the multiple violent attacks in the park that night, only 10 were charged with a crime and only five for the rape of the jogger: Antron McCray, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson and Korey Wise. All five confessed -- four on videotape with adult relatives present and one with a parent present, but not on videotape.
Two unanimous, multicultural juries convicted them, despite aggressive defense lawyers putting on their best case.
But the media have a different method of judging guilt and innocence. They don't look at irrelevant factors, such as evidence, but at relevant factors such as the race of the accused and the victim.
Unfortunately for Meili, she was guilty of white privilege, while her attackers belonged to the "people of color" Brahmin caste. So, after waiting an interminable 13 years, the media proclaimed that the five convicts had been "exonerated" by DNA evidence!
DNA evidence didn't convict them, so it couldn't exonerate them. This was a gang attack. It was always known that another rapist "got away," as the prosecutor told the jury, and that none of the defendants' DNA was found in the jogger's cervix or on her sock -- the only samples that were taken.
While it blows most people away to find out that none of the suspects' DNA was found on Meili, the whole trick is that they're looking at it through a modern lens. Today, these kids' DNA would have been found all over the crime scene. But in 1989, DNA was a primitive science. The cops wouldn't have even looked for such evidence back then.
The case was solved with other evidence -- and there was a lot of it.
On the drive to the precinct, Raymond Santana blurted out, "I had nothing to do with the rape. All I did was feel the woman's t--s." The cops didn't even know about a rape yet.
Yusef Salaam announced to the detective interviewing him, "I was there, but I didn't rape her." Even if true, under the law, anyone who participated in the attack on Meili is guilty of her rape.
Two of Korey Wise's friends said that when they ran into him on the street the day after the attack, he told them the cops were after him. "You heard about that woman that was beat up and raped in the park last night? That was us!"
Taken to the scene of the crime by a detective and a prosecutor, he said, "Damn, damn, that's a lot of blood. ... I knew she was bleeding, but I didn't know how bad she was. It was dark. I couldn't see how much blood there was at night."
Wise also told a detective that someone he thought was named "Rudy" stole the jogger's Walkman and belt pouch. The jogger was still in a coma. The police did not know yet that a Walkman had been stolen from her.
Wise told a friend's sister, Melody Jackson, that he didn't rape the jogger; he "only held her legs down while Kevin (Richardson) f---ed her." Jackson volunteered this information to the police, thinking it would help Wise.
The night of the attack, Richardson told an acquaintance, "We just raped somebody." The crotch of his underwear was suspiciously stained with semen, grass stains, dirt and debris. Walking near the crime scene with a detective the next day, Richardson said, "This is where we got her ... where the raping occurred."
Santana and Richardson independently brought investigators to the precise location of the attack on the jogger.
Recall that, when all these statements were made, no one -- not the police, the witnesses, the suspects, or their friends and acquaintances -- knew whether Meili would emerge from her coma and be able to identify her attackers.
Sarah Burns, who co-wrote and co-directed the propaganda film "The Central Park Five" with her father (whose reputation she has now destroyed), waved away the defendants' confessions -- forget all the other evidence -- in a 2016 New York Times op-ed, explaining: "The power imbalance in an interrogation room is extreme, especially when the suspects are young teenagers, afraid of the police and unfamiliar with the justice system or their rights."
Burns has studied the trial transcripts so closely that she called the prosecutor by the wrong name in her op-ed. Far from trembling and afraid, as Burns imagines, the suspects were singing the rap song "Wild Thing" for hours in the precinct house, laughing and joking about raping the jogger. One of the attackers said, "It was fun."
When a cop told Santana that he should have been out with a girlfriend rather than mugging people in Central Park, Santana responded, "I already got mines," and laughed with another boy from the park. One of the youths arrested that night stated on videotape that he heard Santana and another boy laughing about "how they 'made a woman bleed.'"
But none of that matters. Again, the victim was a privileged white woman (BAD!) and the perpetrators were youths of color (GOOD!). So the media lied and claimed the DNA evidence "exonerated" them.
This allegation was based on Matias Reyes' confession to the attack. His DNA matched the unidentified DNA on the jogger -- proving nothing, other than that he was the one who "got away." He is also the "Rudy" who stole her Walkman, as Wise said at the time. Reyes admitted he took it. How did Wise know that?
A cellmate of Reyes claims he said that he heard a woman screaming in the park that night and ran to join in the rape.
The "exoneration" comes down to Reyes' unsubstantiated claim that he acted alone. Years of careful investigation, videotaped confessions, witness statements, assembling evidence, trial by jury and repeated appeals -- all that is nothing compared to the word of an upstanding citizen like Reyes, a violent psychopath who sexually assaulted his own mother and raped and murdered a pregnant woman while her children heard the attack through the bedroom door.
That's the sum total of the "exoneration": the word of a psycho.
Noticeably, Reyes faced absolutely no penalty for his confession -- the statute of limitations had run out years earlier. Before he confessed, Reyes had been moved to Korey Wise's cellblock. He requested a transfer on the grounds that he feared retaliation from Wise's gang. All he had to do was confess -- with no penalty -- and announce that he acted alone. The Social Justice Warriors would take it from there.
Not even a monster's self-serving "confession" can explain away the five attackers' other crimes that night -- vicious beatings that left one parkgoer unconscious and another permanently injured.
The SJW's verdict: Award the criminals $41 million. Trump's idea: Punish them. And you still can't figure out how he became president.
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Gold is the money of kings;
Silver is the money of gentlemen;
Barter is the money of peasants;
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Welfare thanks for proving my point. If your black it's guilty until proven innocent and still guilty if proven innocent. That whole article was written so people who helped lock them up don't have to feel guilty or ashamed of locking up a bunch of teenagers who had nothing to do with the crime.
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either you are willfully ignorant, illiterate, or just didn't read it.
i'm honestly not sure which
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Gold is the money of kings;
Silver is the money of gentlemen;
Barter is the money of peasants;
But debt is the money of slaves.
-Norm Franz
either you are willfully ignorant, illiterate, or just didn't read it.
i'm honestly not sure which
I carefully read the whole article multiple times.
"A cellmate of Reyes claims he said that he heard a woman screaming in the park that night and ran to join in the rape.
The "exoneration" comes down to Reyes' unsubstantiated claim that he acted alone.
So you believe the word of a prison snitch like god came down from heaven and said it himself. You only believe what ever fits your narrative. Hell multiple women claim trump sexually assaulted them. But you believe they are all bitches and liars.
"Today, these kids' DNA would have been found all over the crime scene."
There is absolutely no way to know that. The whole articular is one sided and B.S
I actually just clicked on the link to see who the author was. WTF Anne Coulter. You want me to take anything she says seriously. Thanks for wasting my time responding to someone this stupid.
The Japanese player isn't even white. She's mulatto, half Japanese, half Haitian.
Wow.
For the record, here is how Wiki defines Mulatto.
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In English, the term is today generally confined to historical contexts. English speakers of mixed white and black ancestry seldom choose to identify themselves as mulatto.
Historical context, ie; your racist uncle on facebook, or MikeHMG on revscene.
Seldom choose to identify, ie; it's a derogatory term
By their own accounts, and still to this day uncontested, they were in the park that night beating people senseless and robbing them.
Psychiatric testimony to Reyes stated that "he was incapable of telling the truth".
Her injuries were also not consistent with a single attacker.
There's also the testimony of melody Jackson, who testified wise admitted to her that he was involved in the attack. She has never retracted that statement.
And what about the walkman that Reyes admitted to stealing from the victim when he confessed in 2002? The victim only recalled it missing after it was brought up by him. Yet wise mentioned a "Rudy" had stolen the victims walkman back when he was detained in 1989. How would he know that detail when nobody else, not the police, and obviously not the unconscious victim, did?
The only reason they were exonerated was by the word of a convicted serial rapist and murderer. Who was "incapable of telling the truth".
And so conveniently for him, after the statute of limitations had taken effect.
The only reason they received a payout was so Deblasio could get elected.
He campaigned on it.
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Gold is the money of kings;
Silver is the money of gentlemen;
Barter is the money of peasants;
But debt is the money of slaves.
-Norm Franz
First, the shit talk.
Second, the tariffs.
Now he's talking about sanctions against China because they bought some shitty Tupolov jets for their military.
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According to a 2017 law, the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA)
I actually agree with Trump fxxking with China big time, and it is one of the few things that he is doing extremely well on.
From an American perspective, China has really gotten to big, powerful, and rich for US' comfort. China's growth and aggressiveness in recent years is also causing a disruption to the status quo in numerous places around the globe, with the most severe disruptions / threats to the East, SE, and South Asia stability. Korea, Japan, and the Philippines are all strategy US allies (and mostly loyal US lap dogs). Having these countries under pressure and threat from China is not very good for the US to maintain control in the region.
The grand Chinese pipedream of One Belt One Road is likely also causing some concern in the US.
Granted, I don't suppose any of these ideas are primarily coming from Trump. Instead, they are more likely the grand US institutional strategy. Since they align well with Trump's MAGA initiative, and perfectly suits Trump's bullying and confrontative style of "diplomacy", I'm sure the institutional players are happy to see Trump using economic sanctions to contain China.
First, the shit talk.
Second, the tariffs.
Now he's talking about sanctions against China because they bought some shitty Tupolov jets for their military.
You'd probably be hard pressed to figure why he wouldn't be fucking with China.
South China sea expansion
Threatening the petrodollar
Intellectual property theft
Take your pick
China has become an uncomfortably big fish in the US' pond
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