There is this mindset among certain white people who black people are only here to entertain them. There is also a mindset that because black athletes gets paid a lot of money to do so, they should just shut up and play.
The “Dance for me boy” mentality doesn’t change even if the contracts have millions of dollars attached to them.
I don’t know the Seattle News Tribune John McGrath, so I can’t speak to his political affiliation or how he feels like minorities in this country.
What I can speak to is him perpetuating the slave mentality and silence negro agenda that white people have pushed on minorities for centuries. Just read what McGrath has to say.
There’s a problem about this “platform” he mentioned. It’s not entirely his and his alone. From the the moment he takes the field before kickoff, and the moment he returns to locker room after the final gun, Bennett belongs to a team.
As an accomplished NFL player, he has ample opportunities to serve as a change agent preaching justice for all: Seven months during the off-season, six full days a week between August and January.
But over the three and half hours he’s competing for the Seattle Seahawks on Sundays, his ambitiously virtuous platform should be limited to the mundane matter of winning a football game.
But as part of a roster assembled with athletes from coast to coast, from gated-community neighborhoods to neighborhoods where the only gates are in front of windows and doors, Bennett’s national-anthem stance — or lack thereof — is distracting and potentially divisive.
While no fellow players criticized Bennett’s refusal to join them for the anthem, I suspect at least a few of them were not thrilled by the snapshot of the towel hanging over his head.
If his fiercest motivation as a Seahawks defensive end is to bring about change in America, a four-letter word comes to mind.
Quit.
White people for centuries have tried to tell black people when, where and how to protest. No matter how we do it, they still push back against it because the reality is some don’t want us to have equality or don’t care that we are being brutalized by the police.
McGrath who I assume has been a reporter for a very long time, makes an assumption that Bennett is a distraction without asking one player, coach or even the janitor. Bennett is a distraction to HIM because he doesn’t like Bennett speaking out when he doesn’t want him to. He doesn’t see Bennett as a human being or he wouldn’t have said such asinine things. Since Bennett is a distraction to him, he assume he would be a distraction to white teammates.
To tell someone to quit because they are speaking their mind on serious issues in society and potentially sparking a young mind or breaking a stereotype is one of the most pathetic things I have ever read. Are you that afraid of intelligent black men?
This is a terrible piece of journalism, that just pushes the agenda that black people should be seen not heard. That athletes are just dumb jocks who shouldn’t have a voice and should just shuck and jive for these type of white men who couldn’t care less about the black bodies dying in the streets or a President who would rather tweet insults at a black man than condemn white supremacists because he is one himself.
Flip the page for video of Bennett explaining why he sat for the anthem…