Posted on 09/26/2017 8:01:10 AM PDT by ForYourChildren
What a shock it truly wasn't that one of the most warped recent examples of Trump Derangement Syndrome would be heard on a cable show hosted by Al Sharpton.
Former Chicago Bulls player Craig Hodges, author of "Long Shot: The Struggles and Triumphs of an NBA Freedom Fighter," appeared on Sharpton's PoliticsNation yesterday to talk about President Trump's criticism of NFL athletes for kneeling during the national anthem to protest perceived racial injustices.
What Hodges said about the president was over the top even by the inelegant standards of MSNBC's weekend programming:
SHARPTON: "Let me show you this tweet he just recently put up encouraging people to, he put it up a few minutes ago today, telling people don't go to the game. It says (quoting from the tweet), "If NFL fans refuse to go to games until players stop disrespecting our Flag & Country, you will see change take place fast. Fire or suspend!"
"So is he trying to kind of front-end or interfere with those that are boycotting on behalf of (NFL quarterback/free agent Colin) Kaepernick?"
HODGES: "Well, first of all, Rev. Al, I want to thank God for giving us the opportunity to wake up this morning and speak on behalf of our people, you know, and honestly speaking when I look at where we are right now, it's beyond us getting justice in America. It's absolutely time for the Congressional Black Caucus to call for human rights violations that have occurred, past and previously, you know, and I think right now it's a civil rights issue within the context of what President Trump said the other night and as far as hampering athletes to be able to employ or get employment or gain employment."
"And, you know, when I think about his whole thing is when was Amer-, make America great again. Now we see that 1817 is more likely when he's thinking about America being great as opposed to us kneeling on behalf of righteousness and justice, he wants us to be kneeling in the cotton fields again."
Lest anyone think he wasn't serious, Hodges then accused Trump of fomenting race war --
"But it's a different day in that we who are mindful we have to stand up and battle this thing and it can't be us in a war of words, of back and forth. No, it's about making moves, like I'm talking about, go to the World Court, reach outside of the nation for help from Brazil, Russia and China, India, South Africa, the BRICS nations who've made, invest in black people, because right now it's a standard that he has set where he's trying to set up race, a basic race war, and it's ugly, man. And then to hear him just to go off on black women and women should be outraged all over the planet earth."
Oh it's ugly all right, but we've come to expect no less on MSNBC. What made Hodge's remarks even shabbier was his invocation of the Almighty just before accusing Trump of wanting to enslave tens of millions of people across America. His years in the NBA presumably enabled Hodges to make that prodigious leap from righteous to unhinged.
Absolutely - My dad grew up picking tobacco by hand. I have even picked a few leafs myself
I’m with you there.
That’s right, we just learned last week that cotton plants are racist LMAO!!!
When I was a little bitty baby
My mama done rock me in the cradle
In them old cotton fields back home
It was back in Louisiana
Just about a mile from Texarkana
In them old cotton fields back home
Let me tell you now well got me in a fix
I caught a nail in my tire doing lickitey splits
I had to walk a long long way to town
Came along a nice old man well he had a hat on
Wait a minute mister can you give me some directions
I gonna want to be right off for home
When I was a little bitty baby
My mama done rock me in the cradle
In them old cotton fields back home
It was back in Louisiana
Just about a mile from Texarkana
In them old cotton fields back home
Don’t care if them cotton balls get rotten
When I got you baby, who needs cotton
In them old cotton fields back home
Brother only one thing more that’s gonna warm you
A summer’s day out in California
It’s gonna be those cotton fields back home
It was back in Louisiana
Just about a mile from Texarkana
Give me them cotton fields
(it was back in Louisiana)
Let me hear it for the cotton fields
(just about a mile from Texarkana)
You know that there’s just no place like home
Well boy it sure feels good to breathe the air back home
You shoulda seen their faces when they seen how I grown
In them old cotton fields back home
You bet it is!
I think this goes way beyond this.
Watched a YouTube series a few years ago on how Hitler convinced the German people and the Jews to vote for him. His propaganda made them feel like victims cuz of the Treaty of Versailles. When that wore off, he went after Jews. He convinced the people that they were victims of the Jewish people,
It is about how power over the of the middle class is gained for the progressives.
They have been doing this for over 100 years. It's alive and well today.
You guys may think I'm a lunatic, but this the beginning for there first moves to destroy our Constitution. Read too much history to believe otherwise.
I think that one's gonna catch on, FRiend! LOL! :)
The sharecroppers never really got out of their “contracts”, did they?
What a difficult life for all...black and white.
Thank goodness for modern machinery.
“Imagine a world without cotton”
As a quilter, I cannot possibly imagine that!!
If I remember correctly, at one time there were more white sharecroppers than black. — like my ex-husband’s father’s family who were sharecroppers
You never hear about the poor white experience.
Wonder why?
The Cowboys thought they had figured out how to straddle that fence, keep everyone happy. No clue how angry people really are they walked right into the fire. Even though they stood for the anthem, their kneeling was seen as being in support of those that were disrespecting our country. I cannot believe when they came up with this plan that reaction wasn’t expected.
Because it’s not PC. White supremacists never picked cotton.
Watched a YouTube series a few years ago on how Hitler convinced the German people and the Jews to vote for him. His propaganda made them feel like victims cuz of the Treaty of Versailles. When that wore off, he went after Jews. He convinced the people that they were victims of the Jewish people,
It is about how power over the of the middle class is gained for the progressives.
You are right, the left has the brown shirts, the Hitler youths, reeducation, shouting down decent, the propaganda machine, and they point to groups as the cause of their woes and call for economic and social destruction of any group they dislike.
The only thing the right has is Trump. The leftists don’t have their barn raising speaker yet. The best they have is Bernie. But if they had one, we would all be in a lot of trouble.
I think you nailed it. I think the closest they had was Bammy.
Get a forceful Bill Clinton in there and we are hosed. I think it’s only a matter of time since the Progressive own education/ indoctrination today.
Hope I’m old enough to miss it.
Yes machinery has made our lives more productive and easier.
But we can go to far and that can be a disaster. Machines that do all but wipe your butt. Leave sheeple.
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