On Monday morning’s CNN Newsroom, host John King brought on former NFL wide receiver Donté Stallworth to gush over the Washington Redskins announcing that they will be changing their name. King, in sync with the far left, signaled his woke virtue throughout the segment and declared that Monday was an “important day.”
King began the segment by attacking the name:
Proof today that activism matters and never doesn't always mean never. The NFL's Washington Redskins are changing the team name and the team's Native American logo, a name and logo many found offensive, racist.
Maybe woke liberals like King find the name offensive, but the vast majority of the people who they claim to represent do not. In a 2004 Annenberg poll, 90 percent of Native Americans said they supported the name. In a 2016 poll, the Washington Post also found that 90% of Native Americans found the name to not be offensive. Woke white liberals like King decry everyone else of being racist to certain groups, but then do not listen to those groups themselves.
King then attacked capitalism:
Let’s be honest up front, this is not altruism, this is capitalism. Dan Snyder finally saying after seven years ago never, never would he change the name of the team. That's what he said seven years ago. FedEx, Pepsi, Nike, Bank of America among those saying you want our sponsorship, you've got to change the name. Still, progress?
Only socialists and communists are capable of giving to others. Not those mean, greedy capitalists.
Stallworth also demonstrated his woke credentials:
And like you said, this is definitely not a case of altruism, it -- it is more of a case of capitalism and as -- as you noted Daniel Snyder said that, 8 years ago, that he would never, in all caps, never change the team's name, but financial pressure along with also I -- I have to mention the financial pressure obviously coming from all the protests and this reckoning of racism that we've -- that we’ve seen, you know, the last couple of months, that had a lot to do with it. And to call it progress, I -- I think you call it capitalism, as you duly noted.
King then connected the name change to the Back Lives Matter movement:
You do have the black lives matter movement, you have the broader racial reckoning you just talked about in the wake of the George Floyd killing and so much else happening. And at -- at least, maybe Dan Snyder was not going to respond, but at least those corporations did put pressure on Mr. Snyder and the team. So to an activist out there who might be getting tired, saying, you know, the Congress doesn't appear like they are going to get police reform done. What is the message to somebody to stay in the fight and maybe find somebody else to pressure and you might eventually get the attention you need?
Stallworth is a strange guest to bring on to discuss lives mattering. He accepted a plea deal for a DUI manslaughter charge in 2009 and paid out an undisclosed sum to the family of the man he struck and killed.
It also seems that CNN is determined to booster BLM, even though two of its leaders are self-described Marxists. Furthermore, the group’s New York leader stated that "if this country doesn't give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it.” The group’s website is not concerned with black lives, but instead discusses destroying the nuclear family. One would think that the group would focus on black on black violence, since it has left multiple children dead in the past few weeks and 93% of violent black deaths are from such violence. However, CNN’s Don Lemon says that BLM does not care about those black lives.
King finished the interview by calling Monday an “important day.” In what regard is it “important”? Will the name change undo every offense ever perpetrated upon Native Americans? Like most white liberals, King is more concerned with symbols than actual policy that would benefit the groups they claim to represent.
CNN is all in on the far-left’s radical agenda.
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Read the full July 13th transcript here:
CNN Newsroom
07/13/20
11:28:32 AM
JOHN KING: Proof today that activism matters and never doesn't always mean never. The NFL's Washington Redskins are changing the team name and the team's Native American logo, a name and logo many found offensive, racist. Here's the statement from the team: Dan Snyder and Coach Rivera are working closely to develop a new name and design approach that will enhance the standing of our proud tradition-rich franchise and inspire our sponsors, fans, and community for the next 100 years. The team took the name Redskins 87 years ago. The new name will be revealed at a later date. Let's bring in Donté Stallworth, a veteran NFL wide receiver who played a season with the Redskins. Donté thanks so much for being here. Let’s be honest up front, this is not altruism, this is capitalism. Dan Snyder finally saying after seven years ago never, never would he change the name of the team. That's what he said seven years ago. FedEx, Pepsi, Nike, Bank of America among those saying you want our sponsorship, you've got to change the name. Still progress?
DONTE STALLWORTH (FORMER NFL PLAYER): You know what, growing up I was a huge fan of the NFL. I had pictures all over my wall, posters all over the house, and I was blessed to play in the NFL for ten years. I played for Washington in 2011 and the thing I had noticed initially about the team was their extremely passionate fan base, and it wasn't until later that I -- that I -- that I learned that the team's original owner, George Preston Marshall, had -- was the last to integrate in the NFL and was essentially forced to do so by the Kennedy administration. They threatened to evict him from RFK Stadium which was federal grounds And, you know, when -- when we start to learn about these things, it changes your mind about the team's direction and where they have been since the 87 years that -- that Marshall change the name, excuse me. And I know that his granddaughter, I read -- read in The Washington Post, that his granddaughter herself was even excited to see it go. She said it was past time for this to go. And like you said, this is definitely not a case of altruism, it -- it is more of a case of capitalism and as -- as you noted Daniel Snyder said that, 8 years ago, that he would never, in all caps, never change the team's name, but financial pressure along with also I -- I have to mention the financial pressure obviously coming from all the protests and this reckoning of racism that we've -- that we’ve seen, you know, the last couple of months, that had a lot to do with it. And to call it progress, I -- I think you call it capitalism, as you duly noted.
KING: And -- and yet -- and yet, this is why your insights are so important to us here as -- as a former player and also as a black American. You do have the black lives matter movement, you have the broader racial reckoning you just talked about in the wake of the George Floyd killing and so much else happening. And at -- at least, maybe Dan Snyder was not going to respond, but at least those corporations did put pressure on Mr. Snyder and the team. So to an activist out there who might be getting tired, saying, you know, the Congress doesn't appear like they are going to get police reform done. What is the message to somebody to stay in the fight and maybe find somebody else to pressure and you might eventually get the attention you need?
STALLWORTH: Yeah. I think this is -- I think this is the perfect case in point, that you point to, someone who was extremely hard on the facts that he would never change the name. He grew up, the owner Daniel Snyder, grew up a huge fan of the team and like I said the passion -- the fan base has been extremely passionate and so you have someone that -- that was a -- that was a huge fan growing up, then purchased the team and so, of course, naturally his instincts would be not to change it, but due to the protests, which then subsequently followed the financial pressuring which we see today now that the Redskins have come out and said that they will change the name, and it works. It -- it eventually worked. It took, you know, a long time, and I -- I do have to note, I'd be remiss if I didn't note, that since the civil rights era, indigenous peoples have been fighting and protesting against caricatures of or mascots of indigenous peoples, and -- and -- and this has been something that's gone on for far too long. So they’ve have also been ignored, but I think that it’s -- it is a point to note that when you do essentially have these protests, there are -- there are power in numbers. And not just across America but all across the world people are protesting in mass gatherings with tens of thousands of people in -- in each city. So I think that's important to -- to understand that. You can move forward even if someone in Daniel Snyder's position who was saying that they would never change their stance on a particular issue. They eventually did and it -- it mounted. It -- it came from financial pressure, but that financial pressure came from all the protests and the activism that people had done prior to that.
KING: Persistence pays if you stay at it long enough. Our guest Donté Stallworth, very much appreciate your insights on this important day.
