Pete Carroll Speaks on Social Justice

[tallguy]

Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll spoke at his team press conference about something he feels more and more strongly about.  Good for him.

Pete Carroll Speaks on Social Justice  

[Opti]

Interesting, although I'd recommend starting at the 4 minute mark for one. I'd like to point out that the Civil Rights movement succeeded because some people were willing to risk their lives to get past hope and hang on. 

[tallguy]

Yes, this has been going on for a long time, and there is still a long way to go.  It is certainly better than it was, but we are not there yet.  One of the things I have been doing lately is to go through as many American Experience DVDs as I can get from the library.  The one I watched an hour ago was about the Freedom Riders.  That was in 1961, within the lifetimes of many posters here.  Hundreds of people, black and white, getting beaten, jailed, and worse merely for riding a bus in the Deep South and challenging the racial segregation laws in place there.  Police and FBI leaders giving angry mobs and Klan members freedom to assault, firebomb, or even kill riders until finally federal troops have to come in and grant protection.  We have moved past the point when so-called law enforcement personnel are first encouraging and then ignoring mass violence on a large scale.  We cannot be finished until it no longer happens even on a small scale.  If a football coach can publicly implore people to open their eyes and their ears to see and hear what is actually happening in this country, more power to him.    

[Tennesseer]

Aug 29, 2020 23:51:46 GMT -5 tallguy said:

Yes, this has been going on for a long time, and there is still a long way to go.  It is certainly better than it was, but we are not there yet.  One of the things I have been doing lately is to go through as many American Experience DVDs as I can get from the library.  The one I watched an hour ago was about the Freedom Riders.  That was in 1961, within the lifetimes of many posters here.  Hundreds of people, black and white, getting beaten, jailed, and worse merely for riding a bus in the Deep South and challenging the racial segregation laws in place there.  Police and FBI leaders giving angry mobs and Klan members freedom to assault, firebomb, or even kill riders until finally federal troops have to come in and grant protection.  We have moved past the point when so-called law enforcement personnel are first encouraging and then ignoring mass violence on a large scale.  We cannot be finished until it no longer happens even on a small scale.  If a football coach can publicly implore people to open their eyes and their ears to see and hear what is actually happening in this country, more power to him.    

In 1961 I was ten years old. I was also a regular reader of our city's newspaper by then. I was very aware of what was happening in the south regarding civil rights including the beating, jailing and murder of civil rights workers like James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner.

Justice was also slow (anyone remember Edgar Ray Killen) and almost non-existent in the south when it came to crimes committed against blacks citizens and whites working with them to help secure their rights.