A Call for Unity - Justin Forsett
There’s been a huge amount of negative groundswell over the past few weeks over the killing of police in response to police brutality against people of color, and blacks in particular. Many times professional athletes are viewed with a lens of negativity. It is a commonly held belief that NFL players are only interested in playing the game for money. We should not forget that these players are people too, with thoughts and emotions just as viable as the rest of us. It is great to see a player speak out in support of the men and women who protect and serve our communities, and to spread that respect to the rest of the league by speaking out.
It’s amazing how a call for unity can spark conflict and anger. Speaking out doesn’t come without consequences, as evidenced by the comments below:
Peyton Lind
Another black athlete who is clueless.
-blacks have been getting murdered by other blacks for decades rather than months. Blacks who are murdered are killed by other blacks something like 70%-74% of the time. They are killed by whites about 4-5% of the time. Let that sink in for those who keep trying to imply the evil white man is killing off blacks.
-cops have killed twice as many white people as black people this year and it was the same story last year and probably the year before that and the year before that and you get the picture. Most shootings are also not of unarmed people. I am in no way backing the police or implying all the armed shootings have been justified (I believe police officers as a whole are power hungry) but quit trying to act like only black people get shot by police.
-this belief black people like him have that the police just get off without punishment for shooting blacks is also absurd. Police get off without punishment all the time whenever they shoot someone or absue their power. It's the police brotherhood at work and they don't like to punish their own.
-many of the unjustified shootings of blacks that have made the news the last year have been by people who simply gave the cops a hard time and antagonized the cops and resisted. This isn't to say they deserved to be shot (they of course didn't) but is to show that if a cop confronts you then just act passive and don't take your chance with police as you don't know if the one you're dealing with is a hothead who likes to abuse his/her power. Just accept whatever the cop is telling you right there and if you are being treated unfairly, deal with it after. YOU WILL NOT WIN if you try to go up against a cop in the heat of the moment like that. It's called common sense.
These are facts but I get the feeling blacks like Forsett don't like facts and would rather buy into the media's race baiting narrative and try and imply the evil white man or the system is holding blacks down and that it is just evil whitey killing blacks left right and center when (again) the FACTS show it is almost always blacks killing other blacks. Funny when you see multi millionaire athletes saying that crap as their position in society proves it is complete BS.
All it takes is for people (this goes for all the SJWs and white guilters as well) to actually do some RESEARCH to see what is reality and what isn't but people like him don't like that and would rather just listen to the media narrative and then go and post something on social media to try and win points with the black community.
You never see any of these black athletes asking the black community why blacks treat other blacks so poorly and asking for that to change. Oh no, they'd never do that because they'd be called sellouts and other stuff by morons and they can't have that! They love to bring up race when it is a black that dies at the hands of a white person but race is never brought up when talking about black on black crime or blacks killing whites/cops and instead they just use worlds like "the country" or "we have to come together"
The worst part about all this stuff is that there are many blacks (perhaps the majority of blacks) who don't try and play the victim/race card and know all the points above and if tensions keep rising in society, they will probably get screwed over in some way because of the vocal minority making others think that is how all blacks are like.
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