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TexasTowelie

(111,282 posts)
Mon Sep 17, 2018, 06:59 AM Sep 2018

We put a hand over our heart, Nike puts thumb in our eye

Note: This is a conservative editorial by Michael Shannon from the Great Bend (Kansas) Tribune regarding the Colin Kaepernick/Nike marketing campaign. There is a whole lot of stupid in this editorial and for additional irony the author is a public relations consultant. Please amuse yourself with an editorial full of right-wing talking points that should be thoroughly ridiculed.


Failed NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick continues to stay culturally relevant by depending on the kindness of strangers. If it weren’t for white folks, beginning with his foster parents, Kaepernick might just be another player who peaked early and disappeared.

The first white person who bailed him out was - of all people - President Donald Trump. Colin began his ‘take a knee, look at me’ protest with an example of bad timing that should have rendered him a joke from the beginning. He protested black “injustice” during Barack Obama’s second term.

Now I won’t deny there are still jerks {Mr. Shannon should check his mirror first} who like nothing better than disparaging black folks while burning a cross in their backyard fire pit. Still, it’s a pretty ramshackle variety of “institutional racism and oppression” that lets a black guy slip through the net and become president.

Cognitive dissonance has never been a feature of the Opposition Media, so the contradictions of Kaepernick’s genuflection were ignored. Colin’s problem was the public was starting to ignore him.

Read more: https://www.gbtribune.com/opinion/we-put-hand-over-our-heart-nike-puts-thumb-our-eye/



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We put a hand over our heart, Nike puts thumb in our eye (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2018 OP
"Interesting" article, but very disturbing. FM123 Sep 2018 #1
My blood pressure went up in the first paragraph with the phrase TexasTowelie Sep 2018 #3
That's a lot of racism in one editorial. That newspaper should have refused to publish it. LonePirate Sep 2018 #2
I believe that your suspicions are correct. TexasTowelie Sep 2018 #4
I travel in Kansas a lot, FoxNewsSucks Sep 2018 #5
A recent trend in rural areas is to have all the 'local' papers owned by one company rurallib Sep 2018 #6
The same thing has happened in the area where I grew up. TexasTowelie Sep 2018 #8
I live in Kansas... Blue_playwright Sep 2018 #7

FM123

(10,050 posts)
1. "Interesting" article, but very disturbing.
Mon Sep 17, 2018, 07:16 AM
Sep 2018

I would like to put my thumb in Shannon's eye! One line that really made my blood boil was when he said "Still, it’s a pretty ramshackle variety of “institutional racism and oppression” that lets a black guy slip through the net and become president".

TexasTowelie

(111,282 posts)
3. My blood pressure went up in the first paragraph with the phrase
Mon Sep 17, 2018, 07:34 AM
Sep 2018

"...if i weren't for white people..."

Then Shannon continues to double-down throughout the rest of the editorial. His suggestion that donors to the colleges should withdraw financial support is tantamount to extortion.

I hope that his career as a public relations consultant fails because he is definitely tone-deaf as to what is occurring in society.

LonePirate

(13,386 posts)
2. That's a lot of racism in one editorial. That newspaper should have refused to publish it.
Mon Sep 17, 2018, 07:24 AM
Sep 2018

I suspect the editor is just as racist as the writer.

TexasTowelie

(111,282 posts)
4. I believe that your suspicions are correct.
Mon Sep 17, 2018, 07:38 AM
Sep 2018

A small town editor who is still stuck in the 19th century and tone-deaf. They might as well include ads for KKK meetings elsewhere in the newspaper.

FoxNewsSucks

(10,375 posts)
5. I travel in Kansas a lot,
Mon Sep 17, 2018, 08:35 AM
Sep 2018

and have for over 30 years. This crap is typical of pretty much every county seat town in the rural parts of the state. The Salina newpaper is maybe even worse.

And when tuning up and down the radio dial, the likes Hannity and Limpbough ( a drug-addled gasbag) are always on at least 2 stations in range. Sometimes 3-4 stations.

Places like this are saturated in rightwing spew, and rarely see any dissenting point of view.

rurallib

(62,342 posts)
6. A recent trend in rural areas is to have all the 'local' papers owned by one company
Mon Sep 17, 2018, 08:55 AM
Sep 2018

so what you see as 'typical' may well be the company line that is passed down from corporate. I live in a rural area and most of the small town papers are owned by a single larger city newspaper.

Similarly there is only one local radio station that is still independently owned. The other commercial stations in Iowa are owned mostly by the remnants of ClearChannel (now IHeartRadio I believe) or Cumulus. So listening to local radio - and hey NPR really sucks anymore too - is a no-go.

And TV? I don't believe any of Iowa's stations are locally owned anymore. Many Sinclair and Gray Broadcasting and one other I can't think of.

TexasTowelie

(111,282 posts)
8. The same thing has happened in the area where I grew up.
Mon Sep 17, 2018, 06:22 PM
Sep 2018

The publishing company isn't one of the large companies, but they now control what used to be eight newspapers over a seven county area. The Republican point of view saturates each of the newspapers.

Blue_playwright

(1,568 posts)
7. I live in Kansas...
Mon Sep 17, 2018, 05:17 PM
Sep 2018

Great Bend is not known for its eloquence or as a place of higher learning. My hub has to work there twice a month, he calls it the armpit of Kansas.

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