{"id":1703720,"date":"2022-10-20T11:49:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T15:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1703720"},"modified":"2022-10-20T11:49:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T15:49:33","slug":"bucs-coach-todd-bowles-to-woke-whites-stop-yapping-about-race-every-chance-you-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bucs-coach-todd-bowles-to-woke-whites-stop-yapping-about-race-every-chance-you-get\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucs Coach Todd Bowles To Woke Whites: Stop Yapping About Race Every Chance You Get"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fbucs-coach-todd-bowles-to-woke-whites-stop-yapping-about-race-every-chance-you-get%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=1703720&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>Separated by almost two decades, Tampa Bay Buccaneers Head Coach Todd Bowles and award-winning actor Morgan Freeman have issued a plea that woke whites refuse to heed even when issued by the blacks they wish to be perceived as caring about: Please stop dragging race into every public space. It\u2019s not necessary, it\u2019s often out of place, and it\u2019s not helping. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bowles\u2019 Bucs were set to face the Pittsburg Steelers led by their black coach Mike Tomlin this past weekend, and Steve Wilks, also black, was just named interim head coach of the Charlotte Panthers. So, unsurprisingly, a reporter asked Bowles on Wednesday ahead of the game, \u201cYou and Mike Tomlin are the few black head coaches in the league. I wonder what your relationship is like with him and your thoughts on Steve Wilks joining that [group]?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No doubt the reporter fully expected to draw from Bowles some race-speak role play such as, \u201cI am so proud that blacks are finally gaining these opportunities in the National Football League. It\u2019s been a long time coming, but we\u2019ve still got a long way to go.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Instead, Bowles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/34785264\/bucs-todd-bowles-downplays-attention-coaching-matchup-steelers-mike-tomlin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">responded<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t look at what color we are when we coach against each other. \u2026 I have a lot of very good white friends that coach in this league as well, and I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a big deal as far as us coaching against each other. I think it\u2019s normal. \u2026 We coach ball, we don\u2019t look at color.<\/p>\n<p>Bowles\u2019 response so discombobulated ESPN\u2019s Jenna Laine, who is white, that she decided to school Bowles on how she thought he should handle race-speak questions posed to him: Did Bowles, Laine wanted to know, \u201cunderstand that [racial] representation matters\u201d across the league? \u201cYou have aspiring coaches and football players, they see you guys \u2014 they see someone that looks like them, maybe grew up like them. \u2026 That has to mean something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unfazed and unbowed, the soft-spoken Bowles explained, \u201cWell, when you say, \u2018They see you guys,\u2019 and \u2018look like them and grew up like them,\u2019 it means that we\u2019re oddballs to begin with. \u2026 I think the minute you guys stop making a big deal about it, everybody else will as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Laine\u2019s mind, standard race-speak liberates blacks and advances social justice. But Bowles thinks Laine\u2019s ideas caricature, demean, and infantilize black people. But Bowles\u2019 general complaint, and the one sure to go unheeded by those in the elite chattering classes, is that the news conference participants and their television audience would be better served if race were not mentioned at all.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan Freeman delivered the same message during his 2005 interview with Mike Wallace during Black History Month. Wallace\u2019s reputation as the cool, courageous, and unflappable questioner of the highest-profile interviewees on the planet is well-earned. But Wallace looked lost when Freeman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RosCZkH5uTI&#038;t=69s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> bluntly that he thinks Black History Month is \u201cridiculous.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Black history is \u201cAmerican history,\u201d Freeman said. He asked if Wallace wants a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NFL Coach Todd Bowles&#8217; response to an ESPN reporter perfectly shows how race-speak can caricature, demean, and infantilize blacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":969,"featured_media":1703725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1703720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"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\/1703720","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\/969"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1703720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1703725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1703720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1703720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1703720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}