{"id":1538722,"date":"2022-07-04T18:04:39","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T22:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1538722"},"modified":"2022-07-04T18:04:58","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T22:04:58","slug":"espn-writer-bashes-america-on-july-4-with-woke-rant-numb-to-the-spectacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/espn-writer-bashes-america-on-july-4-with-woke-rant-numb-to-the-spectacle\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN Writer Bashes America On July 4 With Woke Rant: \u2018Numb To The Spectacle\u2019"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fespn-writer-bashes-america-on-july-4-with-woke-rant-numb-to-the-spectacle%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=1538722&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--><p>ESPN columnist Howard Bryant seized the opportunity to trash America on July 4, the nation\u2019s Independence Day, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/espn\/story\/_\/id\/34186311\/baseball-barbecue-losing-freedom-fourth-july\">column<\/a> for ESPN\u2019s website, titled, \u201cBaseball, barbecue, and losing freedom this Fourth of July.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Outkick\u2019s Clay Travis, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/espn-hates-america-on-july-4th-loves-woke-columnist-arrested-for-choking-his-wife\/\">column<\/a> bashing Bryant\u2019s suppositions, described Bryant as a \u201cman currently being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to opine on sports for ESPN, despite having no discernible talent whatsoever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bryant started his diatribe by decrying Major League baseball requiring its 30 teams to wear Independence Day-themed baseball hats. \u201cNext is the USA-themed socks, the marketing, the freedom-inspired spikes, gloves, wristbands, the inevitable paeans to the armed forces,\u201d he complained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy now, we\u2019re all numb to the spectacle,\u201d he opined, continuing, \u201cGrilling, baseball and fireworks, first replaced by symbols \u2014 and now by a country tearing itself completely apart. July 4, 2022, falls in the midst of devastation. It is Independence Day in America with independence under current and relentless assault.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe U.S. Supreme Court has run a chain saw through what two generations of Americans had known to be the legal baselines of their lives,\u201d he hyperventilated, adding, \u201cTens of millions of women today do not feel freedom and certainly are not celebrating independence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAh, yes, just what we needed, a man arrested for assaulting his own wife standing up for women\u2019s rights,\u201d Travis commented, referring to Bryant\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/news\/2011\/05\/espn_writer_howard_bryant_agre.html\">case in the past<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Then this woke piece of business from Bryant: \u201cThe <em>people who can become pregnant<\/em> (italics added) who feel celebratory toward the Court may do so from the victory of their position, but it nevertheless remains true that the power of choice \u2014 and the right to privacy \u2014 has been taken from all of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe spectacle of all-white juries acquitting proud, admittedly guilty white killers of Black people largely predated your birth,\u201d he wrote, then segued to the events of January 6, 2021: \u00a0\u201cYou tell yourself to not think about the utter, enraging hypocrisy, to resist the useless and flaccid equivalencies. (<em>Imagine if Black people did that\u2026<\/em>)\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After venting about black players who knelt for the national anthem, Bryant charged, \u201cIf the past several years have reinforced anything, it is that there has always been a separate set of rules, a concierge lane, a front door exclusively for white America. Jan. 6 crystallized this truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then a bald-face lie: \u201cWhen the barricades were overrun, and elected officials of both parties hid under their desks, and the cops were killed \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cops killed?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA significant percentage of white America believes this country belongs to them,\u201d he stated. \u201cThere are two rules in the United States, never directly articulated but rife with consequence when broken: Beyond what the mainstream, which is to say white America, determines to be acceptable, it is forbidden to express humanitarian compassion and concern for the people of Palestine \u2014 just ask Dwight Howard. And it is unacceptable to unequivocally advocate for Black people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Travis picked that apart:<\/p>\n<p><em>This first \u201crule,\u201d \u201cit is forbidden to express humanitarian compassion and concern for the people of Palestine,\u201d is barely disguised anti-Semitism. People express support for Palestine all the time. Huge parts of the Democratic party, in fact, now make it one of their baseline beliefs. \u2026 As for the second rule, it is \u201cunacceptable to unequivocally advocate for Black people.\u201d Are you kidding me? We had an entire NBA season played with \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d emblazoned on the court.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bryant concluded:<\/p>\n<p><em>And that, you know so painfully well after more than a half-century in this land, is the difference. Black people have known it for centuries, and the alarm will always ring for the ones who have forgotten. You participate in the American dream at their pleasure. This is\u00a0theirs, not yours, and thus they can trash the Capitol if they want because the Capitol building is theirs. After all,\u00a0they\u00a0came here to build a better life. The laws enacted in that building, before your ancestors fought to undo them, were in protection of them.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You? You\u00a0were brought here to work.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN columnist Howard Bryant seized the opportunity to trash America on July 4, the nation\u2019s Independence Day, in a column for ESPN\u2019s website, titled, \u201cBaseball, barbecue, and losing freedom this Fourth of July.\u201d Outkick\u2019s Clay Travis, in a column bashing Bryant\u2019s suppositions, described Bryant as a \u201cman currently being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1538761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1538722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538722","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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1538722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1538761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1538722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1538722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1538722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}