Women’s Basketball Team at Howard U. to Remain in Locker Room Rather Than Stand for National Anthem
“intentions were not to be disrespectful”
This seems so yesterday. It doesn’t even carry the same message it did a few years back. It looks pathetic now.
The College Fix reports:
Howard U. women’s b-ball team to remain in locker room following mandate to stand for nat’l anthem
In response to a new mandate that athletic teams stand for the playing of the pregame national anthem, Howard University’s women’s basketball team has opted to remain in its locker room during that time.
According to The Hilltop, Howard’s Department of Athletics issued the rule following a late-December women’s game against the U.S. Military Academy, at which members of the Howard squad took a knee during the anthem.
Howard Associate Head Coach Brian Davis said the kneeling players’ “intentions were not to be disrespectful,” and the university’s basketball program “as a whole has family members who served in the military.”
Davis claimed the West Point team “kind of took [the kneeling] the wrong way and tried to take it somewhere where it wasn’t.” He added if they took it as disrespect, “we definitely apologized to them, and let them know where we stood with it.”
Davis said the team has been kneeling for the anthem since 2020 “when all the social justice things were happening” and “all the young men and women Black of color [who] were passing away from the hands of police brutality.”
Howard Vice President of Athletics Kery Davis said the new requirement “is about supporting our students’ freedom of expression while upholding mutual respect for all communities.”
The men’s soccer team held a meeting at which it debated “standing in solidarity” with the women’s basketball team or comply with the new rule, according to team goalkeeper Ireal Wyze-Daly.
He added it was his understanding a player who decided to kneel “could carry consequences” for all of Howard’s sports teams.
Ultimately, the soccer team decided to continue standing for the anthem.
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“Davis said the team has been kneeling for the anthem since 2020 “when all the social justice things were happening”
The Good Old Days.
Al Jolson 2.0.
Should have let brittney griner rot in russian prison. She would have been happy to never hear US national anthem again.
Howard Univ is kamala’s alma mater? Is anybody surprised?
Liar. The intention was absolutely to be disrespectful but to try and come up with some nonsense reason why it isn’t.
Uncle Sam should allow his cash to sit in the lockbox while those women sit in the locker room.
Someone should lock the door for a “now youse can’t leave” moment.
Horse pucky, this was pure disrespect. While I am a big supporter of the 1st Amendment, there is a time and a place for this kind of thing, and this is neither. Any team that can’t get behind respecting the country, should forfeit the game, and not be allowed to play, just that simple, and that wound put a quick end to this garbage really fast.
No standing for the Anthem – no $$$ for school. Simple.
Davis said the team has been kneeling for the anthem since 2020 “when all the social justice things were happening” and “all the young men and women Black of color [who] were passing away from the hands of police brutality.”
Wiki: List of unarmed African Americans killed by law enforcement officers in the United States.
That’s 315 unarmed blacks in 11 years: 29 a year. Which means that the chances of an unarmed black being killed by a cop in a given year were about one in a million ( rough estimate of 30 million blacks.)
“All the young men and women”…. one in a million.
I am reminded of the visit that BLM cofounder Opal Tometi made to Venezuela in December 2015, at the time of legislative elections in Venezuela. Black Lives Matter Network Denounces U.S. “Continuing Intervention” in Venezuela.
How is “state violence” in Venezuela compared to “state violence” in the US? US law enforcement killings of civilians—armed or unarmed—run about 1,000 a year. Venezuelan law enforcement’s killing of civilians ran to 5,000 a year circa 2017. As Venezuela is about a tenth the population of the US, that means that circa 2017 Venezuelan law enforcement killings of civilians ran about 50 times the rate in the US.
So much for Opal Tometi’s crowing about “state violence.”