It’s the difference between rich people using their privilege for good (NBA boycott) versus using their privilege for well, nothing (JayZ, Kanye). At this point, Dolly Parton has more BLM cred than JayZ does.

I’m in tears.

No team should play tonight.

Ben Shapiro is going to lose his shit.

Quit responding to the trolls, dismiss them.

Particularly after the Kenosha cops treated armed white thugs, one 17 yo that would go on to murder 2 people and attempt to murder a 3rd, like bros. And then their chief blamed the victims in a contorted press conference. The Bucks decision is not only the right thing, it’s the necessary thing. As the Blake family…

The Milwaukee Brewers and Cincy Reds have agreed to not play tonight. When this has reached baseball you know it is serious. Oh can’t wait for all the conservative white guys that never watched The NBA anyway to start their inevitable boycott. Rumor has it that Mike Pence was going to mention kneeling players in his…

*Slow sarcastic applause*

Wow. Finally, moving on from t-shirts with victims names on them and other various empty gestures.

The ones who say “What does it accomplish?” are either trying to discourage people from trying to make change, or have lost their spirit. Either way, every effort, small and large, adds up.

The brewers won’t be playing tonight either

That’s right. Everything you said is right. Fuck the NFL.

I don’t think anybody could honestly argue it was a useless gesture, especially with the RNC insisting every night on TV that racism isn’t a problem in America. This is a whole bunch of influential people, mostly black people, telling Nikki Haley she’s full of shit.

Some of the brewers players supported the bucks boycott/strike so I wonder if they will boycott as well.

And absolute respect. They know how much people are thirsty for sports at this very moment. This takes balls. Bravo.

Doncha hate it when athletes can’t “stick to sports”?

Good for them.  And being so close to Kenosha it makes sense for the Bucks to be the ones to start the strike.  Good on the NBA for tacitly supporting them.  It will be interesting to see if there are games tomorrow night.  It was widely reported that the Raptors and Celtics players had also been discussing not…

I’m pretty impressed with how much better the NBA handles players protests, and BLM support, than the NFL. I mean, can you imagine if instead of fucking Kaepernick’s shit up, the NFL had a competent commissioner who just said “We support his right to protest in whatever manner he feels comfortable and appropriate”?? I…

This is people and allies using their privileged positions to enact pressure on governors, mayors, and other people in power/authority to push back against the evil shit going on.

I’m really proud of them. I don’t really have anything else to add other than