He gave a great speech at his HOF induction ceremony. (Warning: This might make some Republican's head explode)
sigh, another OT thread that's really just a reminder of how old I am.... LT is Lawrence Taylor, and he wasn't a running back!
I just copped a LT jersey yesterday for $6 at goodwill, the time to strike eBay is now I guess! It dawned on me afterwards that with the chargers moving their fan base is virtually null, whatevz. It's an official stitched powder blue. I'll just frame it or someshit.
Drew Brees wasn't as good in San Diego as he became in New Orleans, which is pretty remarkable considering the injury that ushered him out of San Diego. I'm surprised LT and Rivers never won anything, but the really talented Chargers teams in the second half of the 2000s suffered a lot of injuries in the playoffs. Plus Marlon McCree trying to run back a Tom Brady interception and fumbling it when just falling down after the interception would have sealed the game.
I'm not sure what your point is here of bringing politics into this. The man didn't mention politics one time in his entire speech. Instead, he thanked a southern Democrat slavemaster for giving him his name, and encouraged everyone to come together under one nation. Something with every Republican I've ever met agrees with. Now, the comment section on that video is pretty telling. Every black person the entire page is busy calling LT a coon. If you ask me.....those aren't the types of people that vote Republican...... So no, I don't think any Republican head is going to explode here. Especially since Republicans freed the slaves anyways. I think you've made a failed attempt to make this political, when it's actually not. Not once was politics brought up in that speech.
Don't get too carried away with hyperbole. The Emancipation Proclamation called for slaves to go back to a country they've never been in in 80 years. It also carved out specific areas where slavery was still legal. And it never once did abolish slavery as it is still legal today. Lincoln was not the great emancipator that everyone makes him out to be.
Please don't tell me you think the modern Justice system is a form of slavery. That's asinine. When you commit a crime, you don't get to decide your own punishment. And let's also remember that such work is voluntary in most jurisdictions. They don't just yank criminals out of their cells and force them to work. Would you rather criminals contributed while they were incarcerated? Or would you rather they sat and did nothing in over-crowded prisons without an opportunity to learn skills? Freedom is earned. Not given.
I watched it and I don't have a problem with it but I'd change my name. I don't care if he does but I don't forget shit or let time heal anything. If I was just freed as a slave years ago I'd change it. (Edit, time wouldn't change that) If I couldn't find out what my name was supposed to be I'd pick one.
He brought up an Obama quote. That in its own is enough to make a Republican lose it. You need to do you research a little bit on the political landscape in the 1860's the roles of Republican's and Democrats were reversed. Black people in the comments section calling LT a coon? I'm not buying it.
You don't have to take my word for it. Click on the link and open it in YouTube. It's right there, clear as day.
I would rather that we use prison for what it's for rehabilitation and not for work. You don't have a fucking clue when it comes to the work that the incarcerated are doing.
I still haven't seen the whole speech yet. If he thanked his slave masters for his name, then yes that's a little bit of coonery and I could see people in the comment section saying that. I dropped my slave name 10 years ago before my son was born.
