NBA Games Canceled

I am not an avid sports fan and, personally, haven't watched an NBA game in years. That said, I fully support the NBA players in shutting down the playoff game(s). Sports spans many generations. There are people from 12 to 92 who enjoy watching the NBA and other professional sports. The statement made by these players will echo across the Land.

Your comment "... like this will stop the riots and looting..." has nothing to do with the NBA boycott. We need to stop the senseless killing of people of color by police. The demonstrators are exercising their rights under the Constitution. The looters need to be arrested and jailed. These are two different subsets of people. Many of the riots and much of the looting is being promoted by white supremacists. A recent video surfaced where... supposedly... a group of BLM protesters were trying to force diners in a restaurant to give some sort of a BLM "salute". If you look at the group of "BLM supporters"... notice at least one was wearing a MAGA hat. The crowd was mostly white. Agitators!

We all watched the video. Why would a police officer who had hold of a man's shirt collar have to fire st least seven rounds into the man's back?? What had he done that justified the death sentence?? Yes, he lived. With seven rounds from a 9 mm in his body. Severed spinal cord. Most intestines removed. Why? If he did get away, they had his license number and people there who could identify him. Find him and make every attempt at questioning without killing him.

Before anyone stops the demonstrations, we need to stop police being judge, jury, and executioner. Before we stop the riots and looting, we need to stop the police killing people of color which will stop the demonstrations which will stop the looting.

Oh... this gentleman in Kenosha allegedly broke up a domestic disturbance before the police arrived. Rather than let him drive away, the police officer thought he would be better off dead. In demonstrations last night, a 17 year old CAUCASIAN youth carrying an assault rifle kills two demonstrators.  He is a member of the "Boogaloo" white supremacy group. He walks right past police officers... AFTER committing murder... and goes to his hotel and to bed. Not even arrested until today. But... he's "innocent until proven guilty". He's white. If he killed demonstrators the police just shrug their shoulders and let him walk. But let a 12 year old walk across a playground with a toy gun... he's black and police shoot him in the back. Let a man allegedly try to pass a counterfeit $20 bill... he's black and put a knee to his throat until you kill him. The stories go on and on. Even to the WHITE man who killed worshipers at a black church. The police arrest him and stop by Burger King on the way to the police station to buy him a hamburger. They didn't kill him. He was WHITE.
It has become prevalent... much too prevalent in our daily news broadcasts to see the killing of people of color. Yes... break up a domestic disturbance and try to drive away and you get seven slugs in your back. If you are white and carrying assault rifles you can storm a state capitol and spit in the face of police officers and not a word is said or any consequences meted.

Yes! I'm fully supportive of the NBA... and the demonstrators. Perhaps when we rid ourselves of this divisive, race-baiting corrupt fool in the White House we can begin to work towards bring relief. Perhaps with some actual leadership, we can get to a point where a black female EMT can be asleep in her bed and not be shot to death by rogue cops.