BEast teams will wear BLM patch

[jesmu84]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamzagoria/2020/08/19/big-east-basketball-teams-to-wear-black-lives-matter-patches/#771768e77539

[The Sultan]

[Uncle Rico]

Tough break for Fox News viewers

[wadesworld]

Good for them.  Glad the BE is on the right side of history.  Sad some of the meat eating men of Scoop will not be watching any BE conference teams play basketball this year.  Or maybe ever again.

[Galway Eagle]

Good for them.  Glad the BE is on the right side of history.  Sad some of the meat eating men of Scoop will not be watching any BE conference teams play basketball this year.  Or maybe ever again.

Don't they have their own board now that they're developing so it can be as political as they want as long as it fits their narratives?

[THRILLHO]

[4everwarriors]

Should sho out super during the Zoom games, hey?

[MU82]

Should sho out super during the Zoom games, hey?

Don't worry, Doc. I'm sure they'll wear the patch for the 2021-22 season if this season gets canceled.

[sodakmu87]

Like the idea, but don't like the politics

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[avid1010]

Like the idea, but don't like the politics

do you think the same was said 65 years ago when john lewis marched across a bridge and was nearly beaten to death....a bridge that is still named after a grand dragon of the kkk?

i fail to see the politics in stating that black lives matter, and i understand that it's being politicized (which is being done so to get the exact statement that you just shared), but that doesn't mean you turn around and don't cross the bridge....especially if you want to hold yourself to the standard of a jesuit university. 

[wadesworld]

do you think the same was said 65 years ago when john lewis marched across a bridge and was nearly beaten to death....a bridge that is still named after a grand dragon of the kkk?

i fail to see the politics in stating that black lives matter, and i understand that it's being politicized (which is being done so to get the exact statement that you just shared), but that doesn't mean you turn around and don't cross the bridge....especially if you want to hold yourself to the standard of a jesuit university.

Nailed it.

The only reason it's a "politics" issue is so the people who benefit from the system we live in can continue to do so while pretending this is a political issue, when it's really just a matter of basic human rights. Equality is not political. People who benefit from not having equality try to distract from the real issue that BLM is addressing.

[Hards Alumni]

People who get upset about a patch or worry about it being political should be less comfortable with their racism.

NFL players have patches on their uniforms and stickers on their helmets for all sorts of things, and I don't see the same hand wringing, and pearl clutching.

Just to be clear:

American flag patch - A-okay
Patch for cancer awareness - A-okay
Patch that says BLM - POLITICS IS BAD

So as long as the patch fits your belief structure, its fine, but if not, its political garbage, and the solution is to call people sheep.

Fully understood.

[Uncle Rico]

"Shut up and dribble"

[MU82]

Some were hoping for the Q-ANON patch instead.

[Pakuni]

"Shut up and dribble"

Stick to sports!
Also, let's elect a washed up college football coach to the U.S. Senate!

[GoldenWarrior11]

The Big East has steadily, and without declared initiatives or policies, hired more Black Head Coaches than any other power conference (Anderson, Cooley, Ewing, Jordan, Leitao; in recent years, they have also had JTIII and Purnell as well).  They have helped create Coaches For Action, founded by 21 Assistant Coaches in the Big East on a mission to use their platform to educate and bring awareness to social injustices.  They have had, and will continue to have, numerous young Black student-athletes play and represent the schools and the conference at the highest levels of college basketball. 

It is important for the league, and our school as a part of it, to help support and create any change it can for the institutions or beyond.  I think the Big East has been one of the transformational conferences in college athletics today, and this is just another positive example of that. 

Personally, I think it is cool.  I know others may not agree. 

[Uncle Rico]

The Big East has steadily, and without declared initiatives or policies, hired more Black Head Coaches than any other power conference (Anderson, Cooley, Ewing, Jordan, Leitao; in recent years, they have also had JTIII and Purnell as well).  They have helped create Coaches For Action, founded by 21 Assistant Coaches in the Big East on a mission to use their platform to educate and bring awareness to social injustices.  They have had, and will continue to have, numerous young Black student-athletes play and represent the schools and the conference at the highest levels of college basketball. 

It is important for the league, and our school as a part of it, to help support and create any change it can for the institutions or beyond.  I think the Big East has been one of the transformational conferences in college athletics today, and this is just another positive example of that. 

Personally, I think it is cool.  I know others may not agree.

Yup

[YaBlueIt]

People who think this basketball should "stay out of politics" fail to realize that a) this is a human rights issue, not a "political" issue and b) sports, including Marquette sports, have always played a major role in civil rights movements in this country, which we should be proud of.

How quickly some have forgotten that Al himself rejected the 1970 NCAA Tournament bid, allegedly due to Kentucky HC Adolph Rupp's comments/beliefs about playing against black players. This board would have a collective brain aneurysm if Marquette rejected a tourney bid for ""political"" reasons today. And that happened 50 years ago. And people today somehow freak out about a little patch saying "Black Lives Matter", which shouldn't even be a controversial statement. Get a grip.

Marquette has a made a history of supporting black student athletes and giving them a voice, going back to the Al days. If this patch helps our student athletes feel like their voices are being heard, I'm all for it.

[Nukem2]

People who think this basketball should "stay out of politics" fail to realize that a) this is a human rights issue, not a "political" issue and b) sports, including Marquette sports, have always played a major role in civil rights movements in this country, which we should be proud of.

How quickly some have forgotten that Al himself rejected the 1970 NCAA Tournament bid, allegedly due to Kentucky HC Adolph Rupp's comments/beliefs about playing against black players. This board would have a collective brain aneurysm if Marquette rejected a tourney bid for ""political"" reasons today. And that happened 50 years ago. And people today somehow freak out about a little patch saying "Black Lives Matter", which shouldn't even be a controversial statement. Get a grip.

Marquette has a made a history of supporting black student athletes and giving them a voice, going back to the Al days. If this patch helps our student athletes feel like their voices are being heard, I'm all for it.

Just a point of clarification, Al turned down the 1970 NCAA because they slotted MU in the Midwest rather than the closer Mideast.  Al and Rupp, though, certainly had their differences on Rupp's beliefs.

[YaBlueIt]

Just a point of clarification, Al turned down the 1970 NCAA because they slotted MU in the Midwest rather than the closer Mideast.  Al and Rupp, though, certainly had their differences on Rupp's beliefs.

Thanks, I should have clarified. Rumor is that Rupp had some influence with the NCAA, and didn't want Marquette to play in the Mideast for the reasons I mentioned above. Al rejected the bid in protest.

Again, just a rumor I've heard. Though it doesn't seem Al's type to reject a tourney bid just because he felt the team was disrespected in their seeding or regional placement. This is the "broken sidewalks" guy we're talking about after all. Just my opinion.

[vogue65]

Mr recollection is that Al felt his team was being disrespected, period.

[Elonsmusk]

Love it!  Awesome to support a "movement" that believes: 

There is state sanctioned and deliberate and rampant violence inflicted on Blacks.  (Totally false)

"We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and "villages" that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable." 

(Sweet! I hereby support BLM and am now all for banging whomever, making babies, abandoning them, and leaving the village to raise those bastards!  No doubt absentee fathers and single parent households are the surefire formula for success!) 

Western/European culture needs to reconsider its viewpoints and support this enlightened "movement" (of idiocy).

[The Sultan]

(Sweet! I hereby support BLM and am now all for banging whomever, making babies, abandoning them, and leaving the village to raise those bastards!  No doubt absentee fathers and single parent households are the surefire formula for success!) 

You know that little voice in your head that tells you not to do something?  You probably should have listened to it before you typed the above.

[Elonsmusk]

You know that little voice in your head that tells you not to do something?  You probably should have listened to it before you typed the above.

What do you find so offensive?  This is a tenant of BLM's ideology - they don't support the Western prescribed nuclear family.  Personal responsibility is eschewed.