If you thought the past four years of protests were about anything other than a tantrum, here’s your proof.
The U.S. Women’s National Team is no longer taking a knee during the national anthem.
CNN had the story:
The US women's national team said their decision to resume standing as a group for the national anthem rather then kneel in protest of racial inequality and police brutality is not the end of the squad's fight for justice.
The entire US team, clad in their warmup jackets with the words "Black Lives Matter" on the front, stood for the national anthem ahead of their SheBelieves Cup game on Sunday after some had knelt in the tournament opener last Thursday.
US defender Crystal Dunn said no vote was taken to stop the kneeling gesture but rather it was a collective decision by a team ready to move past the protesting phase.
"I think those that were collectively kneeling felt like we were kneeling to bring about attention to police brutality and systemic racism," said Dunn.
So police brutality and systemic racism is cured?
Or is it that Donald Trump is no longer president?
I think it’s obvious which one it is.
"We decided that moving forward we no longer feel the need to kneel because we are doing the work behind the scenes. We are combating systemic racism.
"We never felt we were going to kneel forever, so there was always going to be a time that we felt it was time to stand."
Funny how the timing on that worked out.
It’s the same from principled NBA players who needed to send a message for four years under President Trump, but are ready to embrace Joe Biden’s White House.
From NBC Sports:
The last time an NBA team visited the White House, it was November of 2016, when LeBron James and the Cavaliers came to visit Barack Obama and continued a long-standing tradition.
A few months later, Donald Trump took over residence in the White House after a campaign that pushed racial and social justice buttons to anger his base and get them to the polls. That’s when the NBA visits stopped.
On Jan. 20, Joe Biden takes over the Oval Office and LeBron, with the rest of the Lakers, want to rekindle the White House tradition, reports Chris Haynes at Yahoo Sports.
The Los Angeles Lakers are looking forward to reconvening a post-championship tradition of visiting the White House at some point during the 2020-21 season after President-elect Joe Biden is sworn into office as the 46th President of the United States, league sources told Yahoo Sports…
Racial and social justice. Those were the buzzwords for years when the bad orange man was in the White House. But because the bland old man is now there, things are suddenly different?
This was always a political tantrum. Lefty athletes couldn’t stand that Hillary Clinton lost. They, like so many others on the Left vowed to make President Trump’s four years hell. They succeeded.
It would be one thing if this was just a simple example of hypocritical athletes. It would be easy to laugh this off as disingenuous. But it is more serious.
There are real world consequences to the lie that this country wanted racial and social justice for the past four years. Cities have been burned, people have died, thousands have lost their jobs or reputations.
Progressive activists were strengthened by the ‘support’ of these athletes, and pushed for all manners of bad public policy. Look at what the phone racial and social justice movement has done to police departments, state capitols, and universities in this country. There have been real, and really damaging changes, over the past four years.
Real people took cues from these justice posers, and our country is not the same.
For LeBron or Megan Rapinoe or others to all of a sudden say, ‘Hey, it’s cool.’ ignores the reality of the damage they helped create.
Politics are downstream from culture. What TV and movies stars, singers, or athletes do today ends-up becoming a law or a policy next week. We watched the professional influencer class throw a tantrum over issues they didn’t understand for four years.
Now, with only a simple change in the person in the White House, all is forgiven? Racism is defeated? Police are no longer murderers? And there is social justice?
No. The problems of 2016 are still the problems of today. They will be for years to come. It’s just that protesting and throwing a tantrum about them is no longer cool.
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