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Washingtonian/Gemini/Comedian One life left to live. Chelsea FC💙💙. #walkaway blackmen

[HTTC @MarzetPrice]

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[Black Millionaires ® @Blackmillions_]

Music legend and founder of the iconic label Motown Smokey Robinson says he resents the idea of considering himself an African American. “ I consider myself a Black American, I'm an American American.” Via @CNN

[HTTC @MarzetPrice]

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[Ellen Carmichael @ellencarmichael]

The most interesting part of the red card saga isn't the ruling. It's how differently Americans and Europeans process the idea that they might have been wronged.

Europeans are fundamentally different from Americans in one particular way: they expect life to be aggravating and at times unfair. It's just a fact of moving through the world. I joke that in Europe, the customer is always wrong. You didn't read the fine print. The only pharmacy in town is closed every other Tuesday for three hours, and even if the times weren't posted, that's still your problem. Too bad if you want the bill, because the waiter's on his union-mandated half-hour smoke break, and you're just going to have to wait.

To quote the great Mark Knopfler: sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. There's something freeing in that. Things are less in your control, so there's less angst in managing your expectations.

In America, things couldn't be more different. We simply can't accept a wrong left unrighted.

The flight attendant sneezed handing you a drink on your one-hour flight? 15,000 frequent flyer miles. Didn't like your appetizer? A replacement is on the way, and the whole course comes off the bill. There's a reason our interstates are lined with trial lawyer billboards.

Europeans have turned complaining into a continental pastime with no expectation that the universe owes them a remedy for their grief. You gripe about the train being late, your friends nod solemnly and everyone goes back to their apéro. In America, we launch a full-blown investigation of the train system, sue the government (and its contractors) that allowed for the tardiness and hold a Congressional hearing on the state of national infrastructure.

So to an objective observer, the red card shouldn't have happened, and VAR was a travesty. To Americans, our star player shouldn't be unfairly banned from a match we couldn't afford to lose for a card he so obviously didn't deserve.

Who cares that FIFA used a little-used reversal to fix it. Who cares that other people are mad about it. We. Were. Wronged. It was unjust. It must be corrected. We would accept nothing less.

Europeans waxing poetic about the sanctity of the game are, of course, talking about a governing body whose last tournament host was decided via confirmed cash bribes — one that imposed dress codes on women, shrugged off widespread allegations of modern slavery and reconfigured the entire tournament calendar to suit the host country. Which is exactly the point. If you've made peace with all of that, at least enough to watch the tournament four years later, a probationary suspension isn't actually a scandal.

Maybe that's the real divide. Over millennia, Europeans have made peace with being the bug. Americans have never once considered it, and apparently, we're not about to start now.

[HTTC @MarzetPrice]

@larssivertsen Hilarious irony considering that upholding the wrongful suspension would’ve been “based on vibes”. This is at least the CORRECT thing to do.

[HTTC @MarzetPrice]

@FrancoPanizo @milehighmill You don’t seem to be addressing the fact that protocol was violated in the first place for that red card to happen.
If you’re wrongfully arrested because of mistaken identity, don’t you expect to be released from custody when they find out you’re the wrong guy?

[Stef. | Content + Marketing Director 👨🏾‍💻🛠 @STEFisDOPE]

When they say “Hood Dudes” it’s code for “Black men.”

Regardless if he’s “hood” or not.

They just can’t outright say it without exposing themselves.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Told you.

[HTTC @MarzetPrice]

@CFCDaily @__nathan3 @AdamCrafton_ @TheAthleticFC @Dan_Sheldon_ What about the part where the official broke protocol by reviewing the collision with VAR stills and slow motion, for an incident where there wasn’t even a foul call on the field?

[Balogun @balogun]

HAPPY 4TH JULY AMERICA! 🦅🇺🇸

[SMB Attorney @SMB_Attorney]

Do you guys realize what they’ve done? Lumen Field on a Monday night?? I honestly feel bad for Belgium. Will be the greatest crowd in the history of sports. If we score early, the earth will literally shake. No man could deliver in that environment. The Belgians will break.

[U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @USMNT]

🎉 happy birthday @balogun! 🎉

[Matt’s Idea Shop @MattsIdeaShop]

250 years ago today.

[HTTC @MarzetPrice]

😬😬😬😬

[Adika @Adikastakes]

Today we find out if this clown is legit.

[Stef. | Content + Marketing Director 👨🏾‍💻🛠 @STEFisDOPE]

Lol. Are you beginning to understand, Black man?

[🫶 @__LV19__]

This is why Americans don’t care about this fuck ass sport dude. He’s obviously trying to play the ball but because the dude song and danced as if he’d had his leg blown off, it’s reviewed and Balogun is gone for the rest of this game AND the next.

[🇺🇸🦆 @cookinquack]

IN AMERICA WE CALL THAT SHIT “BALL DONT LIE” FUCK YOU AND YOUR SHITTY REFS @FIFAcom

[Top Gee🧍🏾‍♂️🦅 @UsurpedPoetGee]

I wanna know what you people do for work, it’s scary knowing there’s so many women with this secret hatred towards black men, imagine them being teachers and how they might be treating young black boys.

[HTTC @MarzetPrice]

Get his ass Nicki

[Nicki Jhabvala @NickiJhabvala]

Your summary of what I wrote is wrong, which is incredible since you pulled three of my grafs and pasted them here. Go back and read it.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Food trucks need to go back to being cheaper than dine in restaurants. Paying restaurant prices to eat on a sidewalk was never part of the deal.

[☯️ @FLACKO444]

these women never be with the nigga they swear they deserve. one thing i noticed.

[Rebecca 📖 @Avonleebythesea]

I think too many women view men as the enemy when the opposite is true, men are very generous and forgiving of our flaws, and women are our own worst enemy, projecting our self criticism onto men and one another

[HTTC @MarzetPrice]

😑 do I look like boo boo the fool?