Because its a huge fuck you to white people.

But I’ll get to that in a minute…

First of all, I want to say how much I’ve enjoyed the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Hard Knocks episodes. Yes of course its additional content featuring my favorite football team, but more because of the further insight provided giving us affirmation of what we already knew about Jameis Winston. He’s a high character kid. I call him a kid, because he’s only 23 years old, but really (to put it in the proper vernacular) *he’s a grown ass man*.

OK sure, call it cliche that he’s the poor black kid from Alabama poverty who made good in the NFL. The typical rags to riches feel good story meant to spike a positive emotional response in us about life’s possibilities before we return to the drudgery of life. But is it typical? How *typical* can rising up from *three teenage kids sharing a twin bed being raised by your grandma* be? Its not very typical. One person I think about, who we didn’t get to see, was Jameis’ grandmother — the woman who raised him into be the man that he is.

Let me cite examples provided by Hard Knocks…

A young lady, presumably a family member, brings a guest to an obviously pre-planned social gathering of Winston’s closest family and friends. Jameis notices and inquires to the young man’s identity, while imparting to his young cousin a lesson in social decorum. In that moment, you see Jameis as the Patriarchal figure in his family — the wise father and family steward — at 23 years old.

Skip to the end of the first episode, where you see Jameis rising in a predawn hour, dragging himself to morning readiness, eating breakfast alone and then engaging in workouts before any of his teammates — one realizes that Jameis Winston isn’t a *typical* NFL dumbass coasting on his physical gifts. His success is earned through hard work, sacrifice, self-discipline and intelligence.

Its not just Jameis either who demonstrates those qualities, but one of the overall themes of the show is that in the NFL everyone is big, strong and athletically gifted — football greatness comes from the application of intelligence to physical acumen. This is where the real players diverge from the pretenders. Everyone can get out on the field and flash speed, make a move or lay a hit — its those that have it upstairs to know to properly apply those physical gifts are the ones that stand out from the others.

This is the kind of stuff that attracts the white conservative football fan. Its an application of what we *already know to be true* — that rarely are things worthwhile gotten easily, despite the declarations of Maoist protesters who accuse us of having *white privilege*. Work ethic is virtuous. Opinions are meaningless. I would call this actual positivity because the focus is on the positive character of these men and the examples set for others — that anyone of any race could learn and benefit from.

Ok now here’s the juice…

A few days ago, the ACLU tweeted out a photo of a young white child declaring it as a vision of an American future. There was a quick backlash, because people *were offended by that* and the ACLU backtracked. Got that? An American future with happy white children is basically Nazism. This is the damn ACLU essentially agreeing with the concept that being white equals being bad.

Also, a self-declared leader of BLM, Chennelle Helm, published a list of demands issued to white people from BLM. The tl;dr is *white people give black people your stuff and everyone get white men fired if they disagree*.

These are just two recent examples…. This narrative is pervasive, from MTV’s *Dear White People* to the Google firing of James Damore and the message is clear — FUCK YOU WHITE DUDE — STFU GIVE US YOUR SHIT FREE AND GET OUT OF THE WAY. We have been inundated with this kind of bullshit from all angles for a while now — TV, Movies, News and now the NFL… There is only so much a person can be told to go fuck themselves before they just tune you out. Last year millions of white NFL fans saw Kaepernick (as prodded by his racist militant Islamic white-hating girlfriend ) basically tell all of the white football viewing audience to go fuck themselves — and they changed the channel.

Its proven that *Hands Up Don’t Shoot* was a lie. More white people are shot by the police than black people — and at greater likelihood. The entire BLM narrative is fictional propaganda, backed up by real numbers which race hustlers try to say should be adjusted by total population. What about violent criminal incidence rate? What if we adjust for that? Media narratives paint a picture that those black criminal rates are result of racism and not actual criminal behavior. Sorry, but as much the media tries to push that — your average white person isn’t going to buy it. So every time an NFL player protests the anthem — a very large amount of white people are going to see it as a disingenuous motive of getting free shit, not having the law apply to certain people and a way of shaming and hurting whites over shit that has nothing to do with them.

Charles Barkley has said some ugly, unwanted truths about the black community. There are some conservative minded Hotep voices urging personal responsibility as well. These people say what they say under heavy criticism and without support, but I believe they saying what they say because they believe its what is needed to be said in order to facilitate the positive change that everyone wants.

Look at it this way with white folks — you keep telling them they are shit and enough of them are going to get tired of it, hold a mirror up and say *Take a long look into the state of your own backyard. Get your shit straight before you look over into my yard.*

One last thing… Take a look at this video. This is a 15 minute car ride from where I grew up. Rising from that shit is impressive too. The idea that white people don’t feel hardship or struggle is a total lie. 20 million white people live in poverty in America. Being white doesn’t insulate a person from profound difficulty and hopelessness. White privilege is a lie.

It would be nice if all this divisive shit ended — and we all could all enjoy the game of football as brothers without bullshit grinding axes or propaganda.

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