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Mattand10/14/2017 9:51:31 am PDT

Jesus Christ, if I see one more white person wave that goddamn William Harvey Carney meme around Facebook, I’m going to fucking lose it. He’s the black Union soldier who supposedly got shot to pieces but still didn’t let the flag hit the ground.

These fucking people are using it like a goddamn talisman that somehow proves that black athletes aren’t allowed to comment on the endemic racism in the US.

Angry postal worker (not joking here):

Yeah … that’s why I will NOT give the disrespectful anti-American NFL my hard-earned American dollars, no matter how cheap the tickets get. Circus clowns should be grateful AMERICA made them millionairs.

Me:

I wonder how Mr. Carney was treated after the war by white people after he returned to civilian life. He still lived in a country where segregation was legal, and black people were treated just as poorly in the North. I’d be willing to bet it wasn’t great.

Which is why it’s really galling to see white folk waving this guy’s photo around Facebook, basically trying to shame black people into not telling white people there’s still a huge racial problem in the US.

Which segues into, *again*, the NFL protests are a heads up that black people are still being discriminated against in this country, particularly by white police who use them as target practice.

Black people are peacefully protesting under the rights granted to them by the First Amendment, and white people are losing their shit because its interfering with their precious sports ball games. That’s basically the crux of the matter.

It’s worth noting that many of the complaints being leveled against the NFL players are frighteningly similar to those leveled against Rosa Parks; the lunch counter protesters; and MLK, Jr: aka, “Why don’t those people just be quiet and stop causing trouble.”

Also, refusing to support the NFL means never watching another a game, in addition not buying products/services from their advertisers. Boycotts are really hard to do correctly. I’m curious to see how this works out.

Probably not the best use of my time, and I probably just torpedoed another friendship on FB, but it sorta makes me feel better.