{"id":117580,"date":"2021-02-04T09:58:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T14:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=117580"},"modified":"2021-02-04T10:42:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T15:42:47","slug":"white-privilege-tom-brady-has-gotten-undeserved-pass-for-supporting-trump-columnist-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-privilege-tom-brady-has-gotten-undeserved-pass-for-supporting-trump-columnist-says\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018White Privilege\u2019: Tom Brady Has Gotten \u2018Undeserved Pass\u2019 For Supporting Trump, Columnist Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-privilege-tom-brady-has-gotten-undeserved-pass-for-supporting-trump-columnist-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=117580&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/brady-2.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A&nbsp;USA Today sports columnist says NFL superstar quarterback Tom Brady eluded criticism over his support for former President Donald Trump because of \u201cwhite privilege.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/columnist\/nancy-armour\/2021\/02\/02\/super-bowl-2021-tom-brady-doesnt-deserve-pass-trump-support\/4358829001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">piece<\/a> published Tuesday headlined, \u201cTom Brady has gotten an undeserved pass for his past support of Donald Trump,\u201d Nancy Armour said the Tampa Bay Buccaneers QB shouldn\u2019t get a pass just because he\u2019s a star. And she blasted Brady for recently refusing to talk about politics, saying he was \u201chappy to talk politics until he wasn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow mighty white of him,\u201d Armour wrote. \u201cBrady\u2019s ability to enter and exit the debate at his choosing, to shield himself from accountability, is the height of white privilege. As this country grapples with the far reaches of systemic racism, look no further than Brady, for whom the expectations, and allowances granted, will always be different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Armour noted that Brady had a \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d hat in his locker when he played for the New England Patriots and said the QB called Trump his \u201cfriend.\u201d But Brady, who is heading into his 10th Super Bowl on Sunday, recently said he\u2019s not talking about the former president now that he\u2019s out of office and facing a second impeachment trial.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn theory, it should not matter whether Brady supports Trump, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or someone somewhere in between on the political spectrum. He has a right to his private views,\u201d Armour wrote. \u201cBut it was Brady himself who chose to make those private views public. If you think that MAGA hat just happened&nbsp;to wind up in his locker&nbsp;\u2013 at camera level, not buried at the bottom beneath a pile of cleats and clothes \u2013&nbsp;I have a case of TB12 supplements to sell you. Brady has carefully cultivated his image over his 21-year career, whether it be his style or his social media posts, and he knew just what kind of reaction he would get.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrady has had the chance \u2013 several, in fact \u2013 to clarify or walk back his comments and has chosen not to \u2026&nbsp;Instead, Brady has been allowed to divorce himself from it while Black athletes are made to own their views in perpetuity,\u201d she continued. \u201cIt might seem petty to bring up Brady\u2019s moral cowardice now, when the 43-year-old is accomplishing things unlikely to ever be seen again in the NFL. But celebrating what he\u2019s done while turning a blind eye to what he has not is a privilege Brady does not deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Armour later took to Twitter, where she defended her piece. \u201cICYMI This isn\u2019t about Tom Brady\u2019s politics. Really. It\u2019s about his refusal to recognize that his ability to enter and exit the debate when he chooses, to shield himself from accountability, is a privilege that Black and brown athletes don\u2019t have,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ICYMI This isn\u2019t about Tom Brady\u2019s politics. Really. It\u2019s about his refusal to recognize that his ability to enter and exit the debate when he chooses, to shield himself from accountability, is a privilege that Black and brown athletes don\u2019t have. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pb9PEhvgn0\">https:\/\/t.co\/pb9PEhvgn0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nancy Armour (@nrarmour) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nrarmour\/status\/1356950105543368708?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>GOP strategist Chris Barron replied, saying, \u201c140 million Americans over two elections voted for Trump \u2013 many of them black and brown. Your column is ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0USA Today sports columnist says NFL superstar quarterback Tom Brady eluded criticism over his support for former President Donald Trump because of \u201cwhite privilege.\u201d In a\u00a0piece published Tuesday headlined, \u201cTom &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892622,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5236,5239,3936,5233,4482,3634],"class_list":["post-117580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-brady","tag-gotten","tag-pass","tag-privilege","tag-supporting","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}