08-26-2020, 12:56 PM
(08-26-2020, 11:21 AM)fredtoast Wrote: Which one of us missed the point that Dunlap was not complaining about being made to leave the park? He was complaining about being made to leave while the white guys got to stay.
Did you read the story? He wasn't made to leave the park. He was made to move to another field.
If a park ranger, who is either a state or county employee, made a "diverse" soccer team, and all black players move for no good reason this would have been a huge story.
A white home owner gets into a dispute with a fed ex driver (with no context) = gets covered nationally. A random crazy white broad gets into a dispute with a random black guy in a park = gets covered nationally.
Yet in this case you have a public employee egregiously singling out out people, some who are famous professional athletes, and it didn't become huge news? How is that possible?
Where is the video of the exchange? I'm guessing this would have been 15 plus guys who were made to move. You're telling none of them would have started filming and pushed back on clear mistreatment?
And what public employee, in this climate, would want any part of inserting themselves in a potential story?
Why didn't the white NFL players stick up for the black NFL players? Why aren't they being called out and publically shamed? Drew Brees got dragged by a ton of players around the league, even his own teammates, for saying why stands for the anthem. You don't think this guys would get called out for not only letting their peers be mistreated, but for actually staying behind?
I call bs. Can I prove it? No. But I see no proof it happened either. It just doesn't add up.
I'd be willing to bet it was something like you either had to reserve the field for so long, or their time was up, or it was a limited use field that can't support multiple sports, teams, and groups, or something else that is easily explainable.
And when the ranger just asked them to move, for a completely valid reason, it was instantly made into a race issue.
I could be wrong though. To each their own...
