The Uncivil Race War: Thursday Developments

(Will be updated throughout the day)

• Yes, this is Norman Lear, former producer all of those shows you remember (All In The Family, The Jeffersons, etc.)...

As a combat vet, I fought Nazis ofWWII. Today I #takeaknee, once more, in solidarity w/my brothers&sisters still fighting 4 equality&justice pic.twitter.com/cmFbIju4SY

— Norman Lear (@TheNormanLear) September 27, 2017

• Of course, not everybody is getting the hint... 

And it has begun.

High schools are now following Trump’s order.

Will kick off any players who don’t stand during the National Anthem. pic.twitter.com/lfNWyW7z5f

— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) September 28, 2017

Parkway High School of Bossier City, Louisiana will expel from the athletic teams anyone who refuses to stand for the National Anthem. (A first offense will be loss of playing time -- anything further, they're gone...)

• Charlie Daniels is another country-music Cracker Idiot.

It's bad enough that he's joining Honky Williams Fartknocker of "All My Honky Friends" fame on the wrong side of all this.

But he also decided to boycott the Thursday Night game last night...

Wait for it...

• And in the latest Donald Trump idiocy, the Blowhard Oompa-Loompa in Chief actually had the gall to say this morning that NFL owners are actually afraid of the players.  (Yardbarker)

Does this fucking idiot have one clue as to the nature of the relationship between the owners and players of the National Football League?

Or does he truly want to plant enough dog whistles out there so the NFL becomes the WFL -- the WHITE Football League?

• Back to Missouri for a good example!  Yahoo! reports today that there is a bar in Lake Ozark, Missouri with a homemade doormat.  Two NFL jerseys:  One a Raider Marshawn Lynch, the other a 49er Colin Kaepernick.
  
  That's right:  LYNCH KAEPERNICK...

I've got half a mind to get real pissed off and say some things I might end up regretting -- real soon -- here on the blog.  Part of the reason why is that I am really beginning to wonder, in the current political climate, how much left of this really is going to matter anyway -- as in how long do I stay out of jail or prison in any event!

• Rare moment of non-clarity for Adam Silver, and surprising, given the Silver situation:  It appears that there is a rule in the NBA that the players must stand ("stand and line up in a dignified posture") for the Anthem, and he expects it enforced. (ESPN)

It appears he's saying all the right things about unity and having opportunities otherwise to speak out against the injustices, but that he does except that when "Oh Say, Can You See..." starts the Anthem, they will stand for it.

• Most of the top Tweets for Thursday's rivalry game (Chicago at Green Bay) have been right-wing "Boycott the NFL" jobs.  Just finally popped off to at least one of those pigs.