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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSuper Bowl winner rejects Trump's invite: Idon't want my kids thinking I'm okay with his misogyny
Its refreshing.
NFL football player and Super Bowl winner Alan Branch turned down an invitation to the White House on Wednesday in order to stand up for his daughters, his son and women everywhere. The New England Patriots team member told CNN:
Its nothing about the politics; its about the person and what he said.
Branch was so repulsed by what Trump said in the Access Hollywood tapes released last October, that he had no desire to even meet this president. Though Trump and his misogynist supporters deemed the tape of overtly abusive and disturbing discourse as locker room talk, Branch said during his 10 years of playing in the NFL and also playing college football, he never heard locker room talk so aggressive and disrespectful.
What President Trump said on the bus really struck a nerve with me. Im a father of three daughters and I have a son as well. I cant see myself having any type of interest to go see a person who would say those things. I have a baby boy, not even a year old yet. I dont want him to grow up thinking saying stuff like that is all right at any point in his life...
It's disgusting the way that he talks about women and I just can't deal with it and that's why I have no interest in going and shaking his hand. I've gotta go back home and look my daughters in the eye, and I don't want them to view me in a different light just because I did that.
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/4/20/1654926/-Patriots-star-rejects-Trump-s-invite-I-couldn-t-shake-his-hand-look-my-daughters-in-the-eye?detail=email&link_id=3&can_id=861a9125edc6ec9480b5e7910a47b2d9&source=email-george-will-predicts-obamacare-to-become-single-payer-because-of-this-inconvenient-fact&email_referrer=george-will-predicts-obamacare-to-become-single-payer-because-of-this-inconvenient-fact&email_subject=george-will-predicts-obamacare-to-become-single-payer-because-of-this-inconvenient-fact
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Super Bowl winner rejects Trump's invite: Idon't want my kids thinking I'm okay with his misogyny (Original Post)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Apr 2017
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Phoenix61
(16,992 posts)1. That is the attitude of a real man
Concern about the women and little man in his life and how his own actions will shape their views of right and wrong.
Lotusflower70
(3,077 posts)2. Good for him
He is setting a great example for his children.
PsychoBabble
(837 posts)3. Not sure you can say it any better than that.
Would love to see THAT on endless video loop online ...
demmiblue
(36,816 posts)4. Thank you Alan Branch... you are a wonderful role model.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)5. +1000
He really is. It is so refreshing to see a sports hero with such an enlightened attitude.
stuffmatters
(2,574 posts)6. Awesome clarity
And it will certainly get under Orange thin skin.
KPN
(15,635 posts)7. Damn straight!