The end of an era in Milwaukee.
◽ No. 15 pick in 2013 NBA Draft
◽ 13 seasons with the Bucks
◽ 2x MVP
◽ 10x All-Star
◽ 9x All-NBA
◽ 2021 NBA champion
◽ 2021 NBA Finals MVP
◽ 2020 DPOY
@Giannis_An34 | @Bucks
Happy Father’s Day to all the great dads out there. The most masculine thing you can do is have a family and provide and protect them. And if you haven’t yet, get married and have kids.
Trump’s obsession with the Obamas has never been political. It has always been personal, racial, and ugly.
First, he spent years pushing the racist birther conspiracy against President Obama. Then he shared content depicting the Obamas as apes. Recently, a fighter stood in the White House and referred to Michelle Obama as a man, and the White House said nothing. Now Trump is publicly referring to Barack Obama as a “stupid son of a bitch.”
The pattern is impossible to ignore.
MAGA’s problem has never been that Barack and Michelle Obama failed. Their problem is that the Obamas succeeded. They cannot stand the fact that a brilliant Black man became President of the United States and that a brilliant, accomplished Black woman became one of the most admired First Ladies in American history.
So they resort to what racists have always resorted to: dehumanization.
They question Barack Obama’s legitimacy. They question Michelle Obama’s womanhood. They compare them to animals. They mock them. They insult them. They attempt to strip them of the dignity routinely afforded to white public figures.
And then they wonder why people call them racist.
No, this is not about policy disagreements. People disagree about politics every day. This is about a movement that repeatedly reaches for racist tropes whenever the Obamas are involved.
Barack and Michelle Obama will be remembered as historic figures who served this nation with intelligence, grace, and dignity.
The people obsessed with demeaning them are simply revealing themselves as vile, denonic, racist, human refuse.
As this topic gets more and more annoying, I decided to check some facts. I know people don't really care about the players themselves; they're using this topic to express their views against Pride. Yet here are some facts:
1. MLB offers players the option not to wear Pride-themed hats.
2. MLB forbids any unauthorized messages from being written on uniforms, as stipulated in its rules and agreements.
3. Three players chose the Pride-themed hats instead of simply taking the regular hats, then used official uniforms to express their unofficial beliefs, which was an intentional violation of the agreement.
4. MLB and its franchises are almost entirely privately owned, which means they have the right to host any legal event using their own money.