Posted on 09/01/2020 4:06:46 PM PDT by blam
It’s a true talent to unite a team within the lines of a football field, but it’s something else altogether to bring a group of young men together outside the game.
That’s what Alabama head coach Nick Saban helped do on Monday when his players organized a march to protest racial injustice within the country. Although Saban was at the front of the line and the first to speak outside Foster Auditorium at the conclusion of the march, he wanted to ensure the people that the reason this was happening is from listening to his athletes.
“This is what helped me grow in my role as a leader, to listen to the players, to learn from the players and give them opportunities to do things that could impact social change today,” said Saban. “Today I’m like a proud parent. I’m proud of our messengers over here and I’m very proud of the message.
“I’m very proud of the ‘All lives can’t matter until Black Lives Matter’ video that we did early on that I think had a very positive impact. That was something we did together as a team. This is something that the team decided to do together as a team, so I’m very proud and supportive of what they are trying to say, and in a peaceful and intelligent way. I’m very pleased to be here.”
Senior running back Najee Harris was one of the players right up in front with Saban and one of the big orchestrators in putting the march together and also one of the biggest advocates of Saban as a players coach.
Back in August Harris raved about Saban’s willingness to listen to the team when it comes to issues of race...
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(Excerpt) Read more at tdalabamamag.com ...
Effing idiot
Black lives matter?
Then quit killing each other like you’re in Liberia
LOLOLOLOL! Oh, okay. Fookin’ idjit!
Effing idiot
Black lives matter?
Then quit killing each other like you’re in Liberia
White skill players lives don’t matter to D1 Universities.
Just another reason why I stopped watching sports, of any kind.
He did a BLM vid a while back. I’m done.
Now the college game has caught up.
I was big into the SEC with our fam and I being Alum from Auburn, Bama, and Miss State. Never got into Pro. I’m done. Guess it will be all about “footie”, now (commie ball). No thanks.
I wonder if Alabama head coach Nick Saban is aware of what his athletes are being taught in college? Are they being indoctrinated?
For two generations college students are being taught that America is no good, nothing but a bunch of white racists exploiting black people.
Does Nick agree with this kind of teaching?
I had to go to Wikipedia to see who won the championship last year, that’s how memorable it is. I knew it wasn’t Alabama but I couldn’t remember who it was.
The mob demanded. Saban on his knees, trembling, complied.
Only NFL quality drop back passers. but, they are a dying breed.
So what happens to any player on Saban’s team who doesn’t agree with him or go out to demonstrate?
And why are the taxpayers of Alabama having to pay for that?
For a happy, peaceful, successful life, do these simple things...
1. Quit killing each other
2. Stop doing drugs that make you crazy insane
3. Obey the police
4. Quit going into fight mode at every minor slight
5. Show up on time. Stay employed.
6. Get educated. Finish school.
7. Get married. Stay married. Have kids after you are married.
8. Take the damned chips off your shoulders.
9. Take responsibility for yourself. Don’t blame others all the time.
10. Volunteer. Pitch in to help your neighborhood kids, your church, and elders. Clean things up.
11. Love your neighbor as you love yourself.
12. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
How hard is life if you follow the simple rules?
My sources at Alabama tell me that Nick Saban made the statement below. But for some reason this statement didn’t make it into the national news.
Mr. Saban: “I will pander - and kiss as much ass as necessary - to keep my job. I truly have no shame.”
Me also.
1. End the war on black people.
2. Reparations for past and continuing harms.
3. Divestment from institutions that criminalize, cage and harm black people; and investment in the education, health and safety of black people.
4. Economic justice for all and a reconstruction of the economy to ensure our communities have collective ownership; not merely access.
5. Community control of the laws, institutions and policies that most impact us.
6. Independent black political power and black self-determination in all areas of society.
To achieve those demands the group offered a set of solutions that include the demilitarization of the police and an end to systemic attacks on black youth, including black members of the lgbtq community. They call for the passing of state and federal laws that acknowledge and address the impacts of slavery and passage of H.R. 40 to form a commission to study reparation proposals. Another of the recommendations calls for the “retroactive decriminiliazation and immediate release of all people convicted o drug offsenes, sex work related offenses and youth offenses.”
black lives matter releases policy agenda, www.nbcnews.com, august 1, 2016, 1:12 pm edt by trymaine lee
Not hardly dude. Better look and read again.
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