Eric Reid Anthem Thread

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(04-10-2018, 05:51 PM)XenoMorph Wrote: Really to me that's part of the problem    We are all(mostly All) Americans here (in America not on the message board)  We are 1 people Americans.

we are not Irish-Americans / German Americans / Japanese-American or even African American.. We are Americans...   the sooner we stop labeling ourselves as separate things the better. (only someone with actual DUO citizenship can claim one of those titles.)

"those people" referring to Professional Atheletes right?

I can't speak for everyone who complains about how much athletes make, but I've noticed some underlying discomfort with some people on the notion of young black men having lots of money.  Even then, it's more about how you protest it and how you articulate it.  I once talked basketball with a guy who plainly told me he lost interest in the NBA because there aren't enough white players these days.  He didn't say they shouldn't let so many black players in the NBA, and he's just saying why he isn't into something anymore so to each his own, I guess.

Maybe I've just set the bar so low for people that being openly racist but just being upset and not calling for the world to be tailored to fit what you want is enough for me to shrug and say to each his own.

But to your point, yes, the idea of us being 1 people and all Americans makes sense, but it's just too easy /profitable to build your own team/brand by saying that you are or represent REAL Americans.  You hear that all the time.  Real Americans voted for ____.  Real Americans buy/eat/drink/think _____.  Look at any football team's fanbase and you'll see people arguing that real fans think/do _____.  I noticed in my facebook feed that Fleetwood Mac fired Lindsey Buckingham and now people are saying real Fleetwood Mac fans won't go to the concert and the fake ones will and blah blah blah.

It's all marketing. Look at Coke and Pepsi. Both are brown syrup drinks in metal cans but long-term marketing has us believing these two nigh incidental types of cola are vastly different. One is pure Americana, historic, part of your very life, it's like drinking a Norman Rockwell painting. The other is edgy, the choice of a new generation, the hip alternative to your grandma's lame-o cola. If Americans get this divisive over brown sugar water, what's to stop us from killing each other over stuff with more significance?