Call me un-patriotic, but...


Olde Hornet, YOU wake up...

Naw bruh,

It's about being at the wrong place at the wrong time. It happens everyday. People get killed as innocent bystanders everyday..... in night clubs, on crowded streets, etc. That doesn't mean you or I should be afraid to go outside and live our lives.

Can you honestly tell me of an instance in which Black people were specifically targeted (by non-whites) in a terrorist activity?

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Muhammed Ali once stated in response to America's involvement in Vietnam, "I ain't got no problem with them Viet-cong. They ain't never called me n****r."

:still waiting on an explanation of why we stand in unquestioning support of a government we know is guilty of numerous atrocities in the recent past:
 
Originally posted by J-State Tiger
I dont have a problem with the games getting canceld. Its not about respect, it my book, but it was about safety. Theres nothing wrong with taking a week and letting things calm down. What would happen if a bomb threat was called into a stadium with 90,000 people in it? You cant compare a high school game to a NFL game or a major Division 1 game.
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I am in agreement with J-State Tiger on this issue. Although I do think that respect was a factor in the cancellations, but I think the main issue was safety.
 



If y'all folk are naive enough to believe that the main reason for those cancellations was safety, then I got some prime oceanfront property in Kansas to sell y'all. This was political correctness and image concern at its best. Nothing more.

SMH @ the naive.

S _ _.:(
 
Originally posted by Olde Hornet
Robber ? but if 5,000 members of your community would have died in the same day ? things would have stopped. Its not about change, its about respect for your fellow Americans ? Atheist, Jews, Christians, Muslims, Buddhist etc? America will survive, but the country needs to mourn it losses.
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If 5000 people from my community died in a similar manner, I would care less if the sports world stopped. I'm smart enough to understand that grieving and mourning does not require the sports world to do so. And I could really give a dayum about whether they wanna appear respectful. Unlike you, I don't think the world has to shut down to mourn. Let me ask you this. What did you do this weekend??? If your answer is not, "I prayed, mourned and grieved every hour on the hour," then you obviously did something else. For me, that something else shoulda been watching football. Live or on TV.

When I've lost loved ones, I didn't pack up my TV. I watched it still. I still surfed the web. I watched the NBA games, because I needed to take my mind off the deaths. But I'm sure you did no such things this weekend. TV is to trivial and doesn't compare to the loss of lives. You didn't go to a movie because it woulda been no different than going to a game. How could you enjoy a movie when so many people are gone??? Right??? All you did was mourn, right???
 
In case any of you have forgotten, the Liberty Bowl is in the direct flight path of the Memphis airport. Can you imagine the reaction of the players and the crowd every time a plane flew over. I wouldn't be nice.

Cancelling the game was the best thing.
 
Originally posted by Hey Que
In case any of you have forgotten, the Liberty Bowl is in the direct flight path of the Memphis airport. Can you imagine the reaction of the players and the crowd every time a plane flew over. I wouldn't be nice.

Cancelling the game was the best thing.
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I guess they should demolish the Liberty Bowl, then. Because it will always be in the direct path to the airport and the crowd might react adversely everytime a plane flies over. One week, month, year or however long won't change that. Every game played there will have a plane flying over and it's just too risky to put fans through that. :rolleyes: No more games at the Liberty Bowl.
 
Originally posted by Robber


I guess they should demolish the Liberty Bowl, then. Because it will always be in the direct path to the airport and the crowd might react adversely everytime a plane flies over. One week, month, year or however long won't change that. Every game played there will have a plane flying over and it's just too risky to put fans through that. :rolleyes: No more games at the Liberty Bowl.
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No they shouldn't stop playing games at the Liberty Bowl. I just forgot about all you macho people. But for some of us it takes more than a week for us to recover from 5,000+ people being killed by 4 jet planes.
 
This isn't a white thing or a black thing. This is a war set on principles. You think those Arabs give a ish if you attended an HBCU or a lilly white college....if you live on capital hill or if you live in the Magnolia projects? Those fundamentalists are against everything we stand for in the modern free Western civilization. I too hope that we can move past this moment this weekend. But actually...how could we have pulled off a weekend of sports when airlines were shut down??? You had to get equipment there...players...news crews...it couldn't have been pulled off. I'm not even going to mention the human emotion factor.

Opinions are like azzholes. Everyone has one...you know the rest!!!
 
I agree with J-STATE TIGER. I think it was more a safety issue . The week off definately gave some of the major capacity playing arenas time to review their security policies. I don't think Security issues could be resolved 4 Days after the attack. Who's to say a terrorist wouldn't enter a game strap and loaded with C-4 or some biological chemical agent to make another statement of our vunerability?
 
patriotism????

Why is it we always have to step up and show that we support things we have no control over or had nothing to do with.
I don't remember any football games or anyother games for that matter being cancel with Dr. King was murder,but here we go again follow suit behind issue that aren't really clear.
I say that when this country start showing the respect that we deserved for our abuse than talk to me about following them blind,you wouldn't do that for your own parents if you weren't sure or knew of some pass deeds that may have cause a certain situation.
 
This is my last word on this subject.

I am happy that the games were cancelled. I hope and pray that Americans never have to grieve over the loss of 5,000 + people in a single day, many jobs, buildings and security.

I hope that all of you can get beyond your own needs.

I LOVE NY! :D :D :D I will miss the city as it was prior to this terrorist attack.

Many people will lose their jobs because on this attack and this could bring on a deep recession. It will reach far beyond the Northeast of the USA. :redhot:

To Shrub ? Nuke em!
 
Originally posted by NASTYNUPE
But actually...how could we have pulled off a weekend of sports when airlines were shut down??? You had to get equipment there...players...news crews...it couldn't have been pulled off. I'm not even going to mention the human emotion factor.

Opinions are like azzholes. Everyone has one...you know the rest!!!
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Last time I checked not a dayum one of this conference's teams had to fly but Gram. And Gram took a bus as an alternative. Also, the last time I checked not a single news crew was needed to play a football game.

The NFL and MLB, I can understand. But the SWAC and SEC??? They cancelled only because the NFL did. They ain't gave a dayum about no safety issues. Otherwise, they wouldna decided to play on Wednesday.
 
Did America stop when Byrd was dragged behind that truck in Arkansas ? Did America think about the injustice of the young man that had a plunger inserted in his rectum, and the young man that was shot at forty nine times and hit nineteen for removing his wallet from his pocket? What about the young lady in California that was shot while sitting in her car having a seizure, and the police called her a threat? No we did not lose Five thousands souls in these incidents, but I am thinking about some of the recent issues that have faced our people of color over the last few years. America is not as innocent as they proclaim, and as they want us to believe. This country is very hypocritcal, and we are getting our payback for all the injustices that this country has bestowed upon every person of color and other nations. I am not saying that terroism is right, but I am saying that whatever we sow, we are going to reap, even if it means that innocent people might lose their lives in the process. Until this country profess and repent their sins about all the injustices that they have caused others, we are going to have these type of problems.
 
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