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<\/p>\nRUSH: I want to move on to professional sports. We are 10 days away from the NFL — I believe 10 days away. The NFL season opener is a Thursday night, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Houston Texans, and it\u2019s a week from Thursday, so basically 10 days away. And I first want you to hear a sound bite from the coach of the Seattle Seahawks.<\/p>\n
His name is Pete Carroll. He used to be the coach at USC. He has coached in the NFL at the New York Jets and at the New England Patriots, then went to USC, left USC in a cloud of dust, a scandal over recruiting and this kind of thing, goes to Seattle and has been there for the Seahawks for a number of years.<\/p>\n
So, two weeks before his first game of the season and on a day that he canceled practice for the Seahawks so that his players could vent and rant and discuss important social issues, he made a 14-minute statement. Now, I think the quarterback of the Seahawks, Russell Wilson, after what happened in Kenosha, Russell Wilson said (paraphrasing), “You know, if we had a game today, we wouldn\u2019t have played. We would have boycotted the game. We would have not played. We would have stayed in the hotel or stayed at home and we would have devoted ourselves to social justice.”<\/p>\n
Now, head coaches don\u2019t want to lose their players. Head coaches do not… In this day and age, head coaches do not run the show. The players run the show. They have been granted that power, at least in Seattle. It\u2019s not true in every franchise, but it\u2019s happening to more and more. And Pete Carroll does not want to lose his players.<\/p>\n
The coach of the Houston Texans, Bill O\u2019Brien, doesn\u2019t want to lose his players so he has vowed to kneel during the anthem with them. He will join them in protesting America. So, here is what Pete Carroll said on a day his players took practice off because they were so irritated at what is going on in America.<\/p>\n
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CARROLL: White guys came over from Europe and started a new country with a great idea and great ideals and wrote down great, uh, great writings and laws and all of that about democracy and freedom and equality for all and then it ain\u2019t happened. That\u2019s not what happened. Because we went down this — this other road here. We followed economics. Rich white guys making money and they put together a system of slavery. And we\u2019ve never left it, really. It\u2019s never gone away. And black people know the truth. They know exactly what\u2019s going on. It\u2019s white people that don\u2019t know. We\u2019ve been taught a false history of what happened in this country.<\/p>\n
RUSH: It\u2019s totally unbelievable. It\u2019s Pete Carroll, the head coach of the Seattle Seahawks. There\u2019s more. He said black people can\u2019t scream out anymore. They can\u2019t march anymore. They can\u2019t bare their souls anymore than what they\u2019ve lived with for 400 years. Because white guys came over from Europe and started a new country with a great idea, great ideals, we followed economics and rich white guys making money and they put together a system of slavery, and we\u2019ve never left it, really, it\u2019s never gone away. So, coaches, I\u2019m calling on you. Step up. No more being quiet, no more being afraid to talk the topics. No more I\u2019m a little bit uncomfortable I might lose my job over this because I\u2019ve taken a stand here or there. Screw it. We can\u2019t do that anymore.<\/p>\n
So these white guys came over from Europe, started a new country, great idea, great writings, great laws, all of this about democracy and freedom and equality for all, and then it ain\u2019t happened. That\u2019s not what happened because we went down this other road. We followed economic and rich white guys making money, and they put together a system of slavery, and we\u2019ve never left it, really. It\u2019s never gone away. Black people know the truth. They know exactly what\u2019s going on. It\u2019s white people that don\u2019t know. We\u2019ve been taught a false history of what happened in this country.<\/p>\n
Coach Carroll, I have not been taught a false history of what happened in this country. I have learned it myself, dude. I\u2019ve been taught. I educated myself. And I know that you don\u2019t know what you\u2019re talking about. You are pandering. You may think you know what you\u2019re talking about, but you don\u2019t. Slavery has never really ended.<\/p>\n
Grab audio sound bite number 1. Let\u2019s just get a contrast here. This is Bruce Arians. He\u2019s the head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. This was Thursday last week at the Buccaneers training facility, One Buc Place. He held a press conference, and this is what he said he told his team about social justice protests.<\/p>\n
ARIANS: If they want to do something, we\u2019ll do it. As long as it\u2019s something that\u2019s going to have something to do with change, and not just taking a day off. The responsibility is just take action. I don\u2019t know that protest is an action. You know, I would beg them to take action, you know, find a cause and either support it financially or do something to change the situation, \u2019cause protesting doesn\u2019t do crap in my opinion. I\u2019ve been seeing it since 1968.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: And what he means, protests, they been doing crap, my opinion, since \u201968. And what he\u2019s saying is, I\u2019ve been seeing all this protesting since 1968, and what\u2019s happening? They\u2019re still protesting. What\u2019s the change that\u2019s happened? Still protesting the same stuff. Man after my own heart. In essence, this is a different structure of a point that I have constantly made. All of these minority groups that vote Democrat, every four years, every two years, they vote Democrat. Why? Well, because they\u2019re complaining about the same stuff. The Democrats promise they\u2019re gonna fix all of this, they\u2019re gonna end racism, they\u2019re gonna end bigotry, they\u2019re gonna end economic inequality and all this stuff.<\/p>\n
And yet Democrat minority votes continue to complain about the same stuff, meaning their votes are not mattering because their votes are taken for granted. The Democrat Party knows they don\u2019t have to do jack. All they need is a D next to their name and they\u2019re gonna get a majority of Democrat votes, and that\u2019s where it ends. They don\u2019t have to do anything else. They don\u2019t have to fix anything because where else are minority voters gonna go?<\/p>\n
The Republican Party has been so demonized that they\u2019re not gonna support them except that\u2019s not now changing with the Trumpster, like we\u2019ve been telling you. Black support for Trump up nine points during the Republican convention. So Arians, you know what else he\u2019s basically saying, the coach of the Buccaneers? Look. Canceling practice one day is not gonna move your cause forward. Not practicing and not playing a game one day isn\u2019t gonna move your cause forward. He\u2019s also saying I\u2019ve been watching protests since 1968 and I haven\u2019t seen anything but the protests continuing.<\/p>\n
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Now, I was reading Football Morning in America today. It\u2019s a weekly column by Peter King, who writes at an NBC website now, Football Morning in America. Had a segment today on watching on TV, how the game, the National Football League will look different this year. And I\u2019m just gonna read to you what he wrote.<\/p>\n
“Nike has made a T-shirt that players can wear in pregame warmups. It\u2019s optional. It\u2019s the brainchild of Houston safety and NFL Players Association executive committee member Michael Thomas, and designed by Vogue Wilborn of the NFLPA.” Players Association. I don\u2019t know what the T-shirt is. There\u2019s no picture of it. It\u2019s during the pregame, nobody\u2019s gonna see it. Well, I take that back. It\u2019ll be seen because they\u2019ll videotape pregame. It\u2019ll be seen.<\/p>\n
End zones. In the normal ebb and flow, the end zone has the name and city of the home team. Green Bay Packers, Pittsburgh Steelers, New York Jets, New York Giants. That\u2019s out the window this year. In one end line it\u2019ll say, “It Takes All Of Us.” The other end line will say, “End Racism.” That\u2019s what everybody watching an NFL game will see on the end zones this season.<\/p>\n
“Coaches and game officials will be able to wear patches on their cap with the name of a Black victim, or with one of four messages: ‘It takes all of us,\u2019 ‘Black Lives Matter,\u2019 ‘End Racism,\u2019 ‘Stop Hate.'”<\/p>\n
Again, coaches and game officials will be able to wear patches on their cap with the name of a black victim Jacob Blake, George Floyd, or they can wear a patch that has a message. There are four messages the players and the officials can choose from. It Takes All of Us, Black Lives Matter, End Racism, and Stop Hate. “Each week the NFL will select one victim\u2019s name and tell the story of that person in and around the games. As for the helmets, players can choose either a Black name or one of the four preferred phrases offered: ‘Stop Hate,\u2019 ‘It Takes All Of Us,\u2019 ‘End Racism,\u2019 ‘Black Lives Matter.'”<\/p>\n
So you\u2019re not gonna be able to escape, no matter what you\u2019re watching during the televised NFL games this season, you\u2019re gonna be unable to avoid either Stop Hate, It Takes All of Us, End Racism, Black Lives Matter, or the name of a black victim somewhere. And Mr. King says, “Far and away, expect to see ‘BREONNA TAYLOR\u2019 as the most common victim\u2019s name on the back of helmets.”<\/p>\n
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So that\u2019s just some of how the game is going to change as you watch it on TV. Any reaction in there, Mr. Snerdley? (interruption) Well, we\u2019re gonna find out who wants to watch it. We\u2019ll find out. We\u2019ll see. Let\u2019s see. And here\u2019s a story. This is an Issues & Insights editorial. “When NBA, MLB And NHL Players Picked Jacob Blake To Be Their Saint, They Chose Poorly.”<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s a story of why this guy\u2019s not clean and pure as the wind-driven snow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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