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I agree police violence is bad and that racial discrimination is wrong. I am perfectly happy to listen to african americans or ANY americans about something in our system preventing them or anyone from getting a good education, job, etc or anything physically or economically harming anyone or anything harming anyone's constitutional rights as citizens.
I am not interested in people's f***ing feelings. Having time to worry about things offending you means you have reached the top of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and life is pretty good for you. MOST people on earth do not have lives like americans have (NEARLY ALL AMERICANS) where they have time to worry about feelings. Just google the poor woman in India who died of starvation at a train station next to her three year old wearing a sackcloth who spent the few minutes after she died trying to wake her up last month. The poor in India and numerous other countries is what oppression and hardship look like. "I do not like that statue or song" is not f***ing oppression or keeping anyone down.
A song, statue, base name, facebook post or free thought has never kept anyone down. People are caught up in emotion and not thought. Changing the "Eyes of Texas" is not progress or unifying to making life easier for anyone. It is divisive. If African-Americans and their white counterparts who are filled with guilt over things they did not even do are having to REACH and find things to be mad about that no one has even been aware of in decades, then that's is where my listening "stops".
Excessive police violence, I am all ears. Let's pass logical, reasonable reform to stop or least reduce such excessive violence. Civil rights threatened? Let's protect such rights. However, if life is well enough that people have to find things to be upset about, then this is not about a real hardship. This is now taking advantage of a blind willingness of people to address actual hardships to just get random preferences fulfilled.
As an aside, football players of all races have it pretty good. They do not have the student debt most students take on nowadays. They get free meals and housing. They get a stipend now from the school. Some will likely soon be able to cash in on their likeness. They barely need any game to get a hot guy or girl. They get tons of free stuff. They are popular among their classmates. They get the glory and fame most can only dream of. They get free tutors. They have access to first class health facilities and training staff. Some will go one to be millionaires for playing football. Smart players who get a degree, black or white, will be able to use playing football at UT to increase opportunities in the business world. The truth is football players, and other student athletes, black or white, have it better than most other students, especially poor students of any race. A lot of these athletes did not have to work as hard academically to get into UT and do not work as hard academically at UT. Move over frat boys and sorority girls, the truth is, athletes are the biggest entitled pricks on campus... not the disadvantaged. Amazingly, people are worried about the entitled whining of the "1%er" students enjoying the best student life more than the average student working hard and just praying they'll be able to get a job to pay off their student loans. Seriously though, why should the most entitled students who have it the best and are here for their physical abilities, not their intelligence, dictate anything? How screwed up our priorities are... I wish unnecessary, wasteful admin spending driving student loans and indebted students would get the attention these entitled prick athletes are getting complaining about a song they do not like.
ALL PEOPLE have preferences and things they dislike that they have to see and put up with. Welcome to life. Life is not fair. All people see and hear things that hurt their feelings everyday, whether it has racial undertones or not. As far as hearing and seeing things that hurt your feelings/you do not like, that only keeps you down to the extent you let it. Guess what? We all have to suck up stuff we do not like or believe in. My football coach was a baptist. My apologies to baptists, but he made the team do all kinds of dumb baptist things I did not agree with disguised as "team building". It was totally absurd and wrong. On top of that, and worst of all, he mistakenly thought I was jewish because he was an ignoramus. I told him I was not and even if I was, it should not matter either way. He did not believe me and apparently telling him it should not matter either way was more evidence to him that I was jewish. I endured lost opportunities, mistreatment and bad stuff due my mistakenly being identified as jewish. It sucked, but life is not fair, I grew stronger and moved on. On top of that, my parents did not donate to the booster club. Regardless of talent, every kid with parents who donated got more opportunities on the team than kids with parents who did not. Yes, worse rich kids started over better poorer kids. Life is not fair, I moved on. A song is far less than any of that. Get over it.
Last edited: Jun 13, 2020