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Orange You Glad You Named Your Team The Bobcats?

By Matt Trammell, Jul 3, 2020
 

SAN ANGELO, TX – The 2020 cancel culture has worked its way through people, statues, and flags and now looks to add sports teams to its agenda. 

In wake of the alleged murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May, groups such as Black Lives Matter and the NAACP have been demanding changes across the nation. It started by getting rid of statues like in Love field in Dallas where officials took down the statue of the Texas Ranger due to the "rough" past. Three days ago the state of Mississippi decided to change its state flag by taking off the confederate symbol that was located in the top right corner. Also this week Orange County, CA discusses taking down a statue of the Duke, John Wayne. Here is the story: Cancel Culture Now Going After John Wayne.

Now that these things have been taken down the cancel culture is moving to sports teams. It started with the NFL team the Washington Redskins. What some call a derogatory mascot, the "Redskins," has been used in the NFL since the 1932 and the Beltway area football team is one of the oldest teams in the NFL. Earlier this morning, owner of the Redskins Dan Snyder stated that they will be reviewing the team's name. This could lead to a possible name change but Snyder said he doesn't see much wrong with the name. 

“It's just historical truths, and I'd like them to understand, as I think most do, that the name really means honor, respect,” he told ESPN at the time. “We sing 'Hail to the Redskins.' We don't say hurt anybody. We say 'Hail to the Redskins. Braves on the warpath. Fight for old D.C.'  We only sing it when we score touchdowns.”

When asked what a “Redskin” was, Snyder replied: “A Redskin is a football player. A Redskin is our fans. The Washington Redskins fan base represents honor, represents respect, represents pride. Hopefully winning. And, and, it, it's a positive. Taken out of context, you can take things out of context all over the place. But in this particular case, it is what it is. It's very obvious.”

Shrink the scale down to Texas and you will see a few familiar teams that has changed to be more politically correct. In the Metroplex, Richland High School has decided to get rid of its rebel mascot. The school will also get rid of the fight song which is "Dixie" a popular song of the Confederacy. Then Arlington Martin announced Thursday that it will be removing the logo of the warrior mascot which depicts a Native American. 

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San Angelo has already seen the cancel culture go after the name of a local middle school. When will the teams up in Lake View be next? For now, it appears that the San Angelo Central Bobcats, with their colors orange and blue, are safe from cancelation. Their safety is what the headline was all about.

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What this country needs to do right now, and before 5pm today would be nice, and before any more of these BLM idiots and Liberals get butt hurt any further, is compile a list with each and every one of their names, members, supporters and followers, round them all up and ship them to some other continent and dump them out like yesterdays trash in order to end all of their misery they are having to live with and suffer with here in our U.S. of A..............

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Or, would you rather round--up the BLM idiots and Liberals, ship them by train to forced labor camps, work them until they are too weak and then gas them and incinerate the bodies. Seems that was once used to eliminate an enemy of the government.
I don't like the current left wing ideology any more than you, but your solution is absurd.

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Reading thru some of the rants on here just makes every single one of you ladies and gentlemen pretty much sound like racist!! OMG people are we all really that full of hatred and disrespect! I realize everyone is pretty much suck and tired of our current situation! Everybody is a racist if you want to nitpick every word, every comment, every move you, we, I make.. I truly believe we are all better than all of this! Don’t let a small percentage of police, WHITE, Hispanic, Black, Asian, etc destroy this Great Nation!! I wish we could all go back to September 9-11-01!!! We came together once, but if everybody doesn’t stop buying in to what the media is cramming down our throats, day in, day out! Coronavirus, shut downs, POLITICS! I know I’m about ready to say Uncle and let whatever happens, happen and not even care! I am white so I can’t speak for how Hispanic, black or Indian! No more than a another race can speak for me! I have friends, family and co-workers in every race! Please don’t try to throw that White Privileged Racist crap at me! Because the second you throw it at me it 100% makes you nothing more than a racist by saying it to me! Not one of you knows me Personally to begin with. Why not try and make an effort to look at yourself first, instead of slinging the good ole race card out immediately to respond! Each and every single one of us all know that’s a cop out in every way!! We have to al come together to make changes to our country and to ourselves! It starts at home and in your heart!! We all have our defense mechanism within ourselves, God knows I do! But with the rioting, looting bs this has turned into at this point! I hope they find all of them that’s been destroying, property, looting and especially the ones committing violence on or towards others! Most of them have no clue what there even there for at this point! And if you disagree with me that’s fine but ask yourself this question! If it was or is about Black Lives? Then why are they attacking blacks, whites and whoever else disagrees with you!! Sorry captain but your never going to get everything you think you should in life, especially when it’s just your own opinion for most of it! You can’t change history and you shouldn’t want to change it! History is our reminders of what has happened in the past and what we need to learn and grow from!! Tearing down a Monument or changing a name on a building isn’t going to take away the past! No more than giving money from me or whatever some of the supposed demands ! Last time I checked if you threaten violence with these lil demands? It’s a terroristic Threat And organized criminal activity!! Not that I believe what the MEDIA LIES are saying but if they are saying it? Maybe we should tell Japan they need to pay all of us for Pearl Harbor or something! Come on Americans! Letting these politicians and Rioting destroy this country from within!! It’s time to clean house in Washington and set term limits for all of them, if you don’t think so! Ask yourself why they call it public office? When each and every single one of them have became FILTHY RICH multi millionaires while they’re in office!! While they’re blaming everybody but themselves for this damn mess they created!!

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I don’t believe Washington asked anybody in Texas about anything, especially NFL related! Lol.

Since we all nitpicking, crying over anything that offends my feelings! How bout let’s shut down all professional sports, shut down all movie theaters, CNN, MSNBC, Fox and any and all so called news related shows dealing with politics! We already have to watch them on national television enough and lie, twist, rephrase or whatever is they wanta call the BS they’re trying to pass off as fact in any way shape or form! Then maybe people will open their eyes and stop with the BS hatred, race card everybody’s slinging all over the place at every whim!! How bout you put you big boy panties, underwear, britches, pants, whatever you wanta call it! Grow up, stop making excuses for everything and man your ass up and deal with it!! Everybody don’t start paying attention to what all them politicians are doing and slipping by every day y’all bitchin and moaning! Fighting, arguing amongst yourself while they’re up there destroying what’s left of this country!! The name of some pos Football team or street, bla bla bla!! You all acting like your not racist and popping racist bs out on here left and right! Blame da white man, we all racist and everything is set up so I be special WHITE MAN PRIVILEGED!! I’m 55 freakin yrs old and I’ve busted my ass and worked for everything I’ve ever had! Nobody ever gave me shut! I earned it!! That WHITE PRIVILEGED bs is just as racist as any name being thrown out there so look in the mirror next time you wanta try and tell somebody your not a racist!! Everybody making excuses and blaming everything and everybody else for all this!! Nobody is even trying to do anything positive in any way shape or form!! People wonder why I can’t stand most people!! The Hypocrisy!! That’s why!!

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The white washing, or cancelling if you will, of history has always been around. Idolizing traitors, making up hardships the original colonizers endured, labeling natives as savages, slaves had three squares aday and a place to live etc... When actual history is brought up, the perps usually retort with, but what about"....

Statistics support the existence of institutionalized discrimination. The ongoing denial of privileged citizens denying their privilege shows the fear they have at loosing the status quo. Simply stating that, oh that name doesn't mean that anymore is still, whitewashing history.

Have a safe and HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY

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I, for one, am so glad that we finally broke away from the British, taking decisive action instead of just complaining to the crown about every little grievance. We taught them a lesson and made sure they would eventually show us proper respect, however grudgingly. Even if we had failed, our efforts would still have been admirable.

Enjoy your freedom, Salt.

https://youtu.be/t2c-X8HiBng?t=1m06s

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Also,

Regarding the "institutionalized racism" theory, (as opposed to regular racial chauvinism,) which like Patriarchy theory, currently holds some credibility in academic circles in much the same way phrenology and alchemy once did, there might be something to this.

I've provided a link to a documentary explaining the roots of these phenomena in extraterrestrial, Annunaki control methods. Obviously, the conspiracy theorists don't want everyone to know about this data because it short-circuits their illusions about individual agency and personal responsibility.

However, once you've watched this documentary and examined the data for yourself, not only will the facts of this subtle control become apparent, but also the logic used in discovering and examining aspects of this control such as Patriarchy, institutionalized racism, and various other forms of privilege.

https://youtu.be/rJJjOKmwl6s

Clearly, the world is controlled by mostly unseen, barely perceptible forces.

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Logan,

I got the white privilege of being molested as a juvenile by a POC. Where I was locked up, it's safe to say I was a minority, I was spit on, slapped, and beat on till I learned to fight back... just because people taught the dudes I was locked up with, that all white people are racist. They said my family owned slaves, and treated me like sh!t because of the color of my skin... my family has never spoke or shown pictures of or brought about any documents tying anyone I grew up with to any slavery.

My family taught me the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Judge a man not by the color of his skin but by the content of his character.

What brings about character? Perseverance and suffering?

See, when Jesus came, he taught to look at our similarities...Not just to point out sinners or act better than.

I'm down with transcending colors and relating on the level of humanity. We can talk about a lot more when we agree than we can when we disagree.

If you're still hurting too much from your past to talk to me about it, I understand, hope you don't keep on feeling like systematic racism is real, or at least realize that if it is, it goes both ways.

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It's a shame that you're older than me and believe this garbage. You ranted about the mid 90s hailstorm, you worked at the Kmart and saw a pool go flying by I believe... I would estimate that puts you around 10+ years or so older than I am.

I don't know why people subscribe to this bullcrap that blatantly separates and divides... and you don't want to feel like a slave? I tell you what, you're a slave to the mindset that you're losing out somehow in life because your blackness and organizations that once existed to fight slavery like the NAACP, are now the ones that perpetuate racism. I wonder why? Without crying about systemic racism, they don't have a JOB anymore. Kinda pays to look for all sorts of ways that the whiteys can be made to look bad by saying it's about who holds the power.

White guilt is real, white privilege is a LIE!

https://youtu.be/HMSTDsMXoD8

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Yup, all of a sudden an app that tracks, *gasp*, is the focus of retort. ROFL. LMAO. #sanangelokaren.

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No sooner than Trump's announced trip to Mt. Rushmore was announced, the knee-jerk, reactionary basement bunnies began their online chatter about possibly wanting to remove the monument.

Imagine hoards of these doughy, drugged up assholes who've never scaled anything higher then their mother's sofa, trying to master rock climbing and demolition equipment.

The end results would be as humorous as "The People's Garden" (https://imgur.com/pTvewQW), with far more dire and permanent consequences.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRSHzenjiNA . . . . Now that's "social justice".

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The President was wise not to forcefully shut down the CHAZ/CHOP/Petoria zone when it first anomalously appeared and instead wait for the local officials, who sympathetically permitted this treasonous spectacle to arise, to clean up their own mess. He was too smart to take the bait.

There are ways to get most of the results that the Leftist rank and file want, within reason, but these methods are too counterintuitive for them to grasp. We see this in the racial tension that their "anti"-racist demands always create, which may seem counterintuitive to everyone but their leaders and backers, who always seek to capitalize off of the chaos.

There are ways to "fly" above the current social problems we experience, but the stultified intellect and imagination of the average Leftist doesn't permit them to work out and implement those reforms. They are not the Galileos or da Vincis of the present day, but instead the ignorant mob seeking to burn every heretic and even storm the granaries until they've even consumed all of the seed corn.

They largely don't have the wherewithal in personal ability to even learn the principles of flight, both figuratively and literally. Meanwhile, they cause many honest, ordinary people unreasonable, unwarranted and unjust suffering.

Because of this, I'm not exaggerating when I say that many of us would be willing to march hundreds of miles with a rucksack, foraging for scraps of food, just to stop them - if we had to.

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You're spot on, regarding Trump showing a tremendous amount of restraint during these "uprisings", and I too agree, this was more than likely a calculated move by him and his administration to simply let these flash mobs of tantrum throwing, social justice retards commandeer regions which were pretty much on their way down the toilet to begin with. Let's face it, Seattle was a shithole before CHAZ, and will remain such as long as their local leadership are allowed to remain in power.

The Leftist/Marxist/Titty Baby movements have declared themselves beyond reproach, and many have bought into that sentiment. If Trump did something as reprehensible as sending in the National Guard to start slapping the taste of unfettered entitlement out of every brain damaged loafer and habitual criminal, well that'd just be plain ''racist".

The Leftists coerce their puppets to push, and call this "justice". If anyone pushes back, they're told to consider it "systemic racism" or a gross display of ''authoritarianism'', and ordered to push back twice as hard. These marching orders are formulated much higher up on the ladder than that of the level of your average thug, or their token white yes-men. The puppeteers are playing it safe, funneling money where it counts from behind their gated communities and hoping for the worst. The end result were hoards of ghetto rats and their suburban lapdogs having a free-for-all, at the expense of the general public. Their street-level leadership...well, it came in the form of characters like "River", CHAZ's appointed "leader"...who after a scrape with a few cops, displayed absolutely no show of leadership, but instead ran like a coward, ran out of breath before being apprehended, and cried like the bonafide born bitch he is (https://youtu.be/m_sT5rrq9dE), as any ''warlord'' would I suppose.

Children, even those of 25-35 years of age shouldn't be allowed to "make demands". Of course they don't know anything about, or have the attention span to comprehend concepts like town hall meetings or the legislative process, and so the alternative, of course, is to resort to the tactics of a mentally defective child, lash out and insist on getting their way. Even more so to blame, are the mayors and politicians who dismiss the severity of this behavior, with nothing more to back up their apathy besides "well....it's because Trump _____!".

There's a difference between organized protests, and organized crime -- the former became the exception, the latter is now the rule, and though the Left seems to be unanimously OK with this, as you mentioned, many are assuredly not.

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"Gated communities?"

Are you telling me that many of the individuals at the upper levels of these movements are just ordinary human beings that eat, defecate, sleep, and have other human needs?

Surely we're dealing with Olympian gods or, at the very least, true lords born of bloody, physical fights for dominance who inhabit medieval keeps equipped with solar panels, generators, well water with rain water collection systems, and guarded by private security.

Surely you're not telling me that these people are individuals who would be concerned if protesters started damaging infrastructure for power, water, and communications instead of private businesses. Mere narcissists with masters degrees who probably shop at HEB from time to time?

Interesting.

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