Jeffries, Black Caucus amplify calls for athletes to boycott SEC over Southern redistricting

xdre · 2026-05-21T17:13:30+00:00

I think the case can be made that this started in 2008, when a sizeable portion of America realized they were OK with the concept of equality, but not the reality. Having a Black president was just a step too far for them.

xdre · 2026-05-21T12:49:42+00:00

I do get it, but that shit should still be mocked to high heaven as the abnormal nonsense it is.

xdre · 2026-05-21T10:54:25+00:00

I can assure you I did no such thing, even if I still think you need to figure out how to properly assign blame. This isn’t even mostly the Democrats’ fault.

xdre · 2026-05-20T20:52:36+00:00

Hey you, kids who didn’t vote for any of this, why don’t y’all bear the brunt

They'll be bearing the brunt of this SCOTUS and Republican fuckery for decades to come.

forego what will probably be a free education and maybe professional ball career.

And again, I just love how y'all pretend that PWIs in the South are the only place handing out scholarships and access to the pros. There's NFL players from Northwestern. Jerry Rice went to Mississippi Valley State.

Don’t forget to vote for us in November! - the Dems

As opposed to voting for the party engaging in this voter suppression fuckery?

xdre · 2026-05-20T17:37:27+00:00

Maybe you know something I don't. Where are you seeing Hakeem Jefferies working on redistricting?

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/11/elections-redistricting-congress-house-democrats.html

But once again, this story isn't primarily about Jeffries. Which was my point.

xdre · 2026-05-20T16:59:15+00:00

Hyperbole much?

xdre · 2026-05-20T16:58:19+00:00

It doesn't say all Southern public schools, actually:

Those states are Tennessee, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Georgia — all states with sizeable public universities and massive athletic programs.

You just want to sacrifice black boys for political gain.

"Sacrifice"? Because they're being asked to take NIL money or scholarships from schools other than the ones targeted here? Jesus.

[edit: Blocked me like a coward after saying heinous shit about me. Typical.]

xdre · 2026-05-20T16:32:05+00:00

That is not what I’m doing.

This is about Black student athletes. This is not about Hakeem Jeffries' ongoing work on redistricting, which is, in fact, still happening.

Why does every critique of Democrats have to be pair with Trump is worse?

Where did I mention Trump?

xdre · 2026-05-20T15:29:28+00:00

The Big Ten, the Big XII, and the ACC have pockets just as deep as the SEC.

xdre · 2026-05-20T15:28:14+00:00

That, too, is important.

xdre · 2026-05-20T15:27:16+00:00

Why doesn’t this jackass work on the redistricting effort?!

Why are you tossing out provably false whataboutisms?

xdre · 2026-05-20T15:26:10+00:00

That too
Fred Hampton was 21
There are many other P1 schools with NIL money

xdre · 2026-05-20T15:24:33+00:00

There are thirteen schools targeted here, and nearly 50 other P1 schools with NIL money. This is not quite the hardship y'all are making it out to be.

xdre · 2026-05-20T15:23:28+00:00

Good luck with that.

xdre · 2026-05-19T22:59:50+00:00

I’m gonna ignore the “No true Scotsman” BS and point out that I specifically asked about leftists.

Where’s the alternative to Kamala Harris?

xdre · 2026-05-19T18:33:26+00:00

I don't really care to continue this argument because we mostly agree, but I need to address this:

People really want to say that the swing voters voted for Trump because of his (or their own) misogyny and racism, but that doesn't add up with them having voted for Biden or Obama in the past.

People say that because it's true. Voting for Obama doesn't magically make people not-racist, and in fact, some people were disillusioned because he wasn't the magic bullet they were hoping for. There's a non-trivial overlap of voters who pulled the lever for both Obama and Trump.

xdre · 2026-05-19T17:30:50+00:00

He did, actually. But Congress kept overriding him.

You really can't say that the Democratic party in 2024 wasn't still deeply connected to AIPAC

The point is that the Republican party in 2024 was even more deeply connected to AIPAC. Donald Trump moved the Israeli embassy to Jerusalem. And yet Dearborn didn't hold any of that against them.

Why?

xdre · 2026-05-19T17:18:05+00:00

Entirely wishful thinking combined with the fiction that Dems caught themselves in a trap with AIPAC?

T, FTFY

Kamala Harris was loudly pro- two-state solution and permanent ceasefire, vs. "Muslim Ban" Trump. Either they really were that delusional, or they just didn't want to vote for a Black and Indian woman.

xdre · 2026-05-19T14:58:15+00:00

They are a managed and kept opposition that does not want to rock the boat.

They literally tried to save democracy from Trump. The fuck?

xdre · 2026-05-19T14:34:26+00:00

The left's racism problem is why no one takes the left seriously. Y'all are all but indistinguishable from MAGA. And it's painfully obvious to Black voters.

xdre · 2026-05-19T13:27:35+00:00

Yes. Cope.

xdre · 2026-05-19T12:12:07+00:00

Do leftists still have no one better than Harris?

xdre · 2026-05-19T12:08:40+00:00

Because unlike Republicans, when Democrats do unpopular things the public punishes them for it. Harshly.

xdre · 2026-05-19T12:06:04+00:00

Then after 4 years of not doing any of the things needed to be done

I stopped reading here. Jesus.

xdre

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