{"id":3777,"date":"2020-07-08T22:41:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T22:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=3777"},"modified":"2020-07-08T22:41:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T22:41:31","slug":"knives-are-out-on-social-media-and-its-stupid-to-resume-pro-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=3777","title":{"rendered":"Knives are out on social media, and it’s stupid to resume pro sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

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TERRY MOSHER<\/p>\n

TOP OF THE TOWN<\/strong> \u2013 As we get closer and closer to the election I detect a sharping of knives on social media. Sides are firming up their arguments and backbone and it\u2019s getting downright nasty. Trouble brews when you speak your beliefs and the more famous you are the more trouble it attracts, as Philadelphia Eagle wide-receiver DeSean Jackson found out this week when he used a quote attributed to Hitler saying white Jews, \u201cWill blackmail America \u2026. Their plan for world domination won\u2019t work if the Negroes know who they were.\u201d He also posted on Instagram admiration for Louis Farrakhan, an anti-Semitic and leader of the Nation of Islam. My problem isn\u2019t that Jackson said these things. He is likely telling the truth as he sees it (he has apologized) and that is okay. Well, maybe it\u2019s not okay, but I don\u2019t believe for a second that among 330 million Americans there aren\u2019t many who think like him. Among those millions I bet there are way too many that hold racist views. Go back when we didn\u2019t have the Internet and social media platforms and racist views were not as public. But those racist views were still there. With social media and a guy like Trump, a white supremists and racist who has shown a proclivity to verbalize his beliefs in rallies to incite the racists among us to come forward out of the darkness into the light, we are experiencing a rise of racists incidents around the country. People who hold extremists and racist views are not afraid anymore to grab an assault weapon and appear in public. I don\u2019t know if that is good or bad to let the dogs (racists) out. I know they were always there, but there was some comfort knowing they would not act on their beliefs. Now I\u2019m not too sure about that. Our thinking about skin color has to change at birth. We cannot go on hiding our racism or even worse use it in public to knee on a black\u2019s neck and kill him (George Floyd). It\u2019s time to use an eraser and wipe the slate clean and become a welcoming and all inclusive people that uses a four-letter word \u2013 love \u2013 as our standard, our mode of operation. I have never understood why a skin color makes a difference. It doesn\u2019t. Character makes the man, not the man\u2019s skin color. \u2026 I still think it\u2019s stupid and dangerous for most sports to resume. Golf I can see\u2011 \u00a0if you manage the protocols that keep you safe from COVID-19 \u2011 can continue on. But any sport where you have contact or close contact, no way. Football, basketball and baseball are disasters waiting to happen. You could play tennis, but not these other sports. I get it that Trump wants everybody to get back to normal \u2013 I would like that, too. But he is encouraging it because he needs a robust economy for his reelection. He doesn\u2019t care who gets sick or who dies, he just wants the economy humming. I want the same thing, but not at the expense of lives. If this virus continues to spread and we have more and more cases, I could die. If I get it and die, Mary will also get it and die. Am I being selfish? We have no national leadership on the virus and it already has killed thousands that should not have died if we had an effective national plan to fight it. We still don\u2019t have that leadership, so I say back off. Stop sports from resuming. You are going to die. \u2026 During our home quarantine \u00a0I have spent time watching horse racing around the country that is shown live on TVG. \u00a0Man, I have realized how bad some of these horses are. I have figured out a way to pick out the better ones by just watching the post parade. It works maybe 40 percent of the time. But in some of those races at some of the smaller tracks the horses are so bad that it\u2019s difficult to pick a winner. The races from Belmont in New York are great. Those horses are the best of the best. I have seen Tiz The Law, Mr Monomoy and Charlatan win races. If Charlatan is healthy, and I\u2019m not sure he is, he and Tiz The Law are my favorites to win the Kentucky Derby. There are some other good ones, including Nadal, Storm The Court and Maxfield. Bob Baffert trains Charlatan and Nadal, both of whom won their divisions at the Arkansas Derby. The Kentucky Derby runs this year on Sept. 5. That\u2019s it for today.<\/p>\n

Be well pal.<\/p>\n

Be careful out there.<\/p>\n

Have a great day.<\/p>\n

You are loved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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