Posted on 12/10/2022 6:31:52 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Brittney Griner’s release from a Russian penal colony Thursday as part of a prisoner swap for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout was met with widespread celebration. Griner was sentenced to nine years in prison after vape canisters and cannabis oil were discovered in her luggage at the airport. President Joe Biden’s announcement that Griner was safely on a plane bound for the U.S. means the gay WNBA star will miraculously make it home to her wife and family in time for the holidays.
But perhaps not surprisingly, the basketball star’s release was also met with (another) round of backlash. Many of these criticisms, which gained traction online, have once again centered on Griner’s perceived lack of patriotism. But this kind of litmus test has long been rigged against Black Americans. As with the culture war over critical race theory, conservatives are quick to weaponize criticisms of American history or misbehavior in an attempt to police Americanness and keep Black advocacy against racism and white supremacy at bay.
In 2020, amid widespread Black Lives Matter protests decrying police brutality and racism, Griner stated that the national anthem shouldn’t be played during games and refused to be on the floor while it played. Griner is an articulate athlete, and her intention was always clear. “I don’t mean that in any disrespect to our country. My dad was in Vietnam and a law officer for 30 years,” she told The Arizona Republic at the time. “I wanted to be a cop before basketball. I do have pride for my country.”
And yet, we have tweets proliferating across social media accusing Griner of disrespecting the American flag (she didn’t) or kneeling during the national anthem (also not true).
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Why would anyone celebrate the release of a criminal caught with drugs in her luggage?
We always celebrate tatted up lesbians who smoke dope and are wrongly imprisoned right?
Another self-centered spoiled person biting the hand that feeds her. Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.
One would imagine that pretty much everyone would have the same reaction when a flushed turd manages to work itself back up into the bowl.
Because she’s a fugly, carpetmunching, America hating, unemployed bitch?…
The USA gets back a dope-head basketball player who hates America, and all we have to give up is a guy whose nickname is “Merchant of Death”. New record for the worst trade ever, replacing the Chicago Cubs getting Ernie Broglio in exchange for Lou Brock.
*that hates America
I think Obama’s trade deal for bergdahl was worse
Making Russian Arms Dealers Great Again
MRADGA..
Yeah, doesn’t roll off the tongue like MAGA
Video: Russian media laughing that they got Viktor Bout for Griner
https://rumble.com/v1zup44-russian-media-laughing-that-they-got-victor-gout-for-griner.html
Griner not being sufficiently patriotic isn’t really what the (legitimate) criticism is about, but they won’t address that. Much easier to go after strawmen.
I wish they would take her, Colin Kaepernick, and everyone of those idiots and keep them. I’d rather they be in a prison there than here enjoying the freedoms so many men and women fought for.
That happens when you insult your country on an international level.
In present day- leftist dominated United States , the criminal is the victim and vice versa. Its bizarro world.
Words and actions matter (to some rational folks).
NBC News reporter Miguel Almaguer suspended over retracted Paul Pelosi story
Maybe NBC is the one that's rigged.
She’ll run for office soon.
Biden’s affirmative action spokesperson said it out loud, it was important to get a black lesbian out of the Russian prison, obviously more important than getting any of the other dozen or so Americans in Russian prisons because they aren’t black lesbians.
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