An Electronic Notebook of Political, Economic, and Cultural Thought from an Alternative Thinker in Daniel Shays Country, Western Massachusetts
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
The Rams Should NOT Apologize to the St. Louis County Police Department
I still have to complete the larger argument in my previous post (see "The Battle of Ferguson" at: http://boycottcorporatemedia.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-battle-of-ferguson.html), but this very brief post simply stands to make the argument that the St. Louis Rams organization need not apologize for the actions of certain of its players, standing in solidarity with the African-American community of nearby Ferguson by emerging from their locker room conveying the same "hands up, don't shoot" protest against police uttered in Ferguson. More emphatically, many, many more professional athletes in the U.S. should, I hope, stand in solidarity with the local communities around which they stand, afflicted by violence inflicted by civil law enforcement authorities. Rather than concede that violence against African-American, Hispanic, and other minority communities at the hands of overwhelmingly White police forces is simply a matter of fact, a handful of Rams players on Sunday declared that it was a matter of political debate and deliberation. This is as it should be and, should the Rams' organization choose to make an example of the players who acted in solidarity with Ferguson, then they should be boycotted! It is critical, at this volatile moment in U.S. history, that we, as a population, enter into debate on the status of non-White minority groups, particularly in relation to criminal justice/law enforcement practices. To this extent, I stand with those members of the Rams and with all other professional athletes that choose to make the argument that what is happening in Ferguson and in many other communities in the U.S. is not right and needs desperately to be remedied in the name of democracy and justice for non-White minorities against the racial prejudices of those in power and those who have conferred on them the authority to legislate and administer laws in a manner that disproportionately impacts minority communities.
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