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@dijoni Whew...the racists are hot! And that means it's a GREAT strategy. Boycott!!

We do not want NBA players and NFL players and college players to play in the old Confederate states. They make billions of dollars from black sports players.. they do not want any black political power representation. enough is enough.

@UGA_Alphas Alpha man doing Alpha man thangs! Congrats!!

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@BluntStatement Bingo. This is the part where scared Black people start advocating for white power.

There are alot of fake Black ppl accounts getting real active around this SEC boycott, hahaha. Risking people's football really gets them going

@jasonvonholmes First, they're not risking any of that. Second, the idea is pressure and leverage. Third, those 1960s civil rights organizations were lead by...you guessed it, college aged people. John Lewis was 18. Hell, MLK was murdered at 39, meaning he was 23 in Montgomery.

It’s 2026, not the 1960s. Today’s conversation is grown organizations and political institutions asking young Black athletes to risk scholarships, NIL money, and career leverage because those same institutions failed to build stronger alternatives over the last 60 years.

@TheREAL_MBrooks Uh...they literally elected an actor and a game show host...LOL

Yup

How Spursy could Sunday get? Maybe they go down when their own goalkeeper kicks the ball into his own net, just as West Ham goes up on Leeds, with only seconds to go? That might be the Spursiest scenario.

@jfiance @CoachLup Any way to email you, Jeremy? Go Bears!

Great to be in NYC with @CoachLup Dude is in BEAST MODE, 110% all in We're rallying the MANY BEARS in THE BIG APPLE x.com/CalFootball/st…

@NilsHeadley I think this damage is a forty-year-old one.

@alpha1906 You know how when you update the software for your phone and it gives you the progress bar and says “estimated time is 5 minutes” and then it jumps to 29 minutes but ends up taking an hour? Thats how I feel about how long it will take to unfuck this country.

Can this be reversed?

@mr_shnick @thedaywar90 Fuck that pedo ass...

@thedaywar90 I’m not a fan of Trump at all. He’s human garbage. But I have to agree that there is a time and a place and that’s not the place. Children should not have to see the hate. He is not representative of independents or democrats as a whole.

I cannot believe that COSTCO, a family store where there are many children with their parents would allow this POS wear that shirt in the store. I will be contacting COSTCO CORPORATE later today. I know we, in the USA 🇺🇸, have freedom of speech but not hate speech or these kind of statements when in a public place. President Donald J. Trump should take action.

@slmandel @TheAthletic 24 teams work because we've blown up the traditions of the sport. You can't have one foot in the pre-NIL era thinking that 'only the worthy' in the CFP, and then make schools spend tens of mil for a gatekept CFP based on mostly blue bloods maintaining their stake.

We heard the Big Ten's case for 24 teams this week. The SEC meets next week, and Georgia president Jere Morehead tells @TheAthletic's Seth Emerson: "A 24-team Playoff is a mistake." Free story: nytimes.com/athletic/72974…

@differencemakin Which wants, needs, and desires are the pro athletes disrupting to create change?

I wrote about the NAACP’s proposed boycott and was glad to incorporate the perspective of Georgia Senate Minority Leader Harold Jones, who was candid and honest about the VRA and redistricting. “All of this happened because we were asleep.”

@differencemakin Tell me how professional athletes are more effective than college athletes in making change. I can DEFINITELY make the latter argument. And, I'm not talking about symbolism as a strategy.

@Tyler2ONeil She took offense because you're too dumb to understand that the nefarious thing about white supremacy is that it doesn't require white skin to perpetuate. Just like you can have misogynistic women. She's just smarter than you.

You can't see from this video, but Jasmine Crockett was starting directly at me for most of her tirade. She clearly took offense when I stated the truth that the Proud Boys (led by an Afro-Cuban) aren't white supremacist. I wasn't defending them, just stating facts. She responded by launching into a tirade about white supremacy, Jim Crow, and history. She suggested that @tperkins @carolmswain and I support slavery and that the GOP was responsible for racist mass sh*oters. I just had to keep quiet as she shouted at us. As a witness, I'm not allowed to interrupt. It made me feel like I was Jasmine Crockett's therapist.

This New York Times piece is worth your time. Here’s what is happening, as simply as I can put it. Back in January, Trump sued the IRS, an agency he controls, demanding $10 billion over the leak of his tax returns a number of years ago. IRS lawyers did their jobs. They wrote a memo laying out the defenses that could beat the suit, including the fact that Trump filed too late. His own lawyer was in court when the leaker pleaded guilty in October 2023, more than two years before Trump sued. The Justice Department never showed up to court. Never argued back. Never used the defenses sitting on their desk. The judge got suspicious and ordered both sides to explain whether they were actually opposing each other or just colluding. The day before that brief was due, Trump dropped the suit. Same day, his Justice Department announced a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded “anti-weaponization fund.”  Trump gets a formal apology. The IRS agrees to drop any audits of him and his family, even though a 2024 Times report found a loss in an ongoing audit could cost him over $100 million. The acting Attorney General, Trump’s former criminal defense attorney, picks the five commissioners who decide who gets paid. Trump can fire any of them. Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are not ruled out. This is the most corrupt thing I’ve ever seen from an American president. Where in the hell are my Republican colleagues? nytimes.com/2026/05/19/adm…

@TheREAL_MBrooks Fuck it, call them European Americans.

There's an actual answer to this. It involves ethnicity, nationality, and racism.

@DrOzCMS @nickshirleyy Donald Trump is gonna be there?

On our way to Minnesota where fraudsters are about to “lear” a hard lesson on stealing from the American taxpayer. @nickshirleyy

@NikkiBarnes Yeah, but protest is about power/leverage, and Black college football players have the power to make that change, without sacrificing their money or scholarships. You can talk about the larger fight, but the smaller fight is how you make change. And the SEC boycott does that.

Some of y’all are just now joining this fight, but I was raised by civil rights activists. I was conditioned to believe that any legislative policy we support should expand access and opportunity for Black people, not limit it. When we start restricting educational access for Black students, we are moving away from what our ancestors fought for. And in this moment, I believe the NAACP is wrong. Boycotting the SEC does not undo gerrymandered maps. Those maps are already drawn. What changes them is political power. The real fight is electing enough people to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and restoring federal protections against racial gerrymandering and voter suppression. The real fight is creating independent redistricting systems for congressional districts so Black communities are not packed into single districts and stripped of broader political influence. Right now, we do not have the Senate majority to accomplish that. So this requires a long game strategy. This is not just about the 2026 midterms. It is about building durable governing power through 2028 and beyond. Winning back the House. Building toward a Senate majority. Winning the presidency. Putting ourselves in position to actually reverse the damage that has been done through federal law. If you care about the SEC issue, fine. But understand the larger fight is electoral politics, voting rights, fair districts, and federal protections. Too many people are being distracted by symbolic fights while the actual power structure remains untouched.

@BrysonBradford They understood power and leverage.

@alpha1906 About what the football players at the University of Missouri did. They knew that one game would not only coat millions, but also make national news, and even possible NCAA fines.

People gotta understand that two things can be true at once. Our youth have been pioneers in protesting before even as you as 7 years of age. At the same time there are areas in which adults didn’t do the work that should have been done. Some people didn’t even vote.

@AshleyTXBurner Except we're not. We're saying to anywhere else other than the SEC. Same money.

20%. This isn’t LSU Football. This is the National Society of Black Engineers. And the LSU Black Law Students Association has been named Chapter of the Year and Social Action Chapter of the Year. And LSU has all 9 of the D9 fraternities and sororities except when they have 8 bc Que be hazing and don’t worry, plenty of IFC fraternities also get suspended bc they be hazing. The way that Black Students who aren’t athletes are being overlooked in this conversation is appalling. 7500 current LSU students are Black. That’s almost the exact same number as the total enrollment of Southern. Black Students at PWIs should have more Black Spaces and any resources they might need for their own mental health and wellness, but we’re not talking about that, are we? We’re not talking about Black Faculty or Staff or Coaches or even Athletic Directors. We’re not even talking about Black Voting Rights. We’re talking about Black Athletes. And telling them to forgo opportunities when the CBC is beholden to Israel and corporations for far less. #BlackExcellence #SEC #BlackEngineers #TheseHandsDontHaze