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This is an astounding story from the WaPo's ongoing series, Black Out, examining the NFL owner's failures to hire black coaches.

The story is titled Jerry Jones helped transform the NFL, except when it comes to race. From the story:
On the first day of classes at North Little Rock High, a crew-cut sophomore named Jerral Wayne Jones found his spot among a phalanx of White boys who stood at the front entrance and blocked the path of six Black students attempting to desegregate the school.

In a photograph taken at the scene, Jones could be seen standing a few yards from where the six Black students were being jostled and repelled with snarling racial slurs by ringleaders of the mob. At one point, a Black student named Richard Lindsey recalled, someone in the crowd put a hand on the back of his neck. A voice behind him said, “I want to see how a nigger feels.” The ruffian hostility succeeded in turning away the would-be new enrollees.

The confrontation occurred 65 years ago, on Sept. 9, 1957, during the same month that a higher-profile integration effort was taking place at Little Rock Central High in the capital city a few miles away. The story of the Little Rock Nine, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower dispatched federal troops to escort the trailblazing Black students past the spitting hordes, is regarded as a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement. It overshadowed the ugly events unfolding contemporaneously at Jones’s high school on the other side of the Arkansas River — an episode mostly lost to history, though not entirely.

The photograph, taken by William P. Straeter of the Associated Press, shows a young Jones wearing a striped shirt, craning for a better view, “looking like a little burrhead,” as he said in a recent interview with The Washington Post, acknowledging his presence on the steps that day. He was one month from turning 15. He had been bulking up by lifting weights and going through two-a-days since August, trying to make the school’s football B-team. The head coach, Jim Albright, had warned there might be trouble and said he “didn’t want to see any of you knot-heads near the front of that school tomorrow.”

That directive did not deter Jones. He showed up near the conflict’s epicenter, stationed on the top landing near the school’s double-leaf entry doors, a face in a rear row of the human bulwark intent on keeping people out because of the color of their skin.

Jones said he was there only to watch, not participate. “I don’t know that I or anybody anticipated or had a background of knowing … what was involved. It was more a curious thing,” he said.
This story isn't a hit-piece. For one thing, Jones agreed to be interviewed for the piece, and did so candidly, talking about everything from being raised in 1950's Arkansas to ownership of the Cowboys.

It's a fascinating piece of journalism that I recommend as a must-read.
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I am no fan of Jones or the Cowboys that being said going back and finding a picture of him in the crowd at age 14 is typical of the low class things liberals are known for.

It reminds me of when they went after Romney for picking on a kid when he was in high school.

How many of us wouldn't be embarrassed by things we did when we were children. But, according to the left those things are somehow relevant.
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Glennfs wrote: Thu Nov 24, 2022 7:15 am I am no fan of Jones or the Cowboys that being said going back and finding a picture of him in the crowd at age 14 is typical of the low class things liberals are known for.

It reminds me of when they went after Romney for picking on a kid when he was in high school.

How many of us wouldn't be embarrassed by things we did when we were children. But, according to the left those things are somehow relevant.
You didn't read the story, of course. It's a long story and I guess you don't have the attention span.

But until you read the story, you don't know what the fuck you're talking about. It's no hit piece. Especially about the photo. Jones discusses it at length, as well as the rest of his boyhood.

But you had no problem hitting Hillary and Obama for things THEY did in college, huh?
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gounion wrote: Thu Nov 24, 2022 7:19 am You didn't read the story, of course. It's a long story and I guess you don't have the attention span.

But until you read the story, you don't know what the fuck you're talking about. It's no hit piece. Especially about the photo. Jones discusses it at length, as well as the rest of his boyhood.

But you had no problem hitting Hillary and Obama for things THEY did in college, huh?
Actually I read the story before it was posted here.
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Glennfs wrote: Thu Nov 24, 2022 7:24 am Actually I read the story before it was posted here.
Bullshit. If you read the story, you wouldn't have made the post you did.
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gounion wrote: Thu Nov 24, 2022 7:25 am Bullshit. If you read the story, you wouldn't have made the post you did.
I take that back I did not read the wapo story .
I read this account of the story.

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/resurfac ... segregated
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Glennfs wrote: Thu Nov 24, 2022 7:27 am I take that back I did not read the wapo story .
I read this account of the story.

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/resurfac ... segregated
Yep, you didn't read the story. The FoxNews (which I thought you paid no attention to) story doesn't scrape the surface of the story.

So you again make yourself out to be a fool.

Read the ACTUAL story and get back to me.
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gounion wrote: Thu Nov 24, 2022 7:31 am Yep, you didn't read the story. The FoxNews (which I thought you paid no attention to) story doesn't scrape the surface of the story.

So you again make yourself out to be a fool.

Read the ACTUAL story and get back to me.
So did you look at the fox news link. Gotta run heading for North Carolina.
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Glennfs wrote: Thu Nov 24, 2022 7:34 am So did you look at the fox news link. Gotta run heading for North Carolina.
I went to your link. It was very short and didn't explain the article at all.

You didn't read the WaPo story. You probably won't.
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One of the interesting parts of the article is that Jones basically admits that he doesn’t hire coaches based upon qualifications - he hires his buddies. Hell, Jimmy Johnson was his roommate in college! He hired such completely unqualified idiots such as Jason Garrett. He doesn’t hire coaches that are qualified, he hires coaches who are buddies with him. He admits that’s what it’s all about. Nothing else.

So, no matter how hard black coaches work, and how good they are, they never had a chance. It’s all about being part of the old boy’s network.
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Glennfs wrote: Thu Nov 24, 2022 7:27 am I read this account of the story.

https://www.foxnews.
How utterly typical.

Lmao, you guys minimize every instance of actual that even makes the news, yet think "white Christian heterosexual males" are victims of the party full of the niggers and the sp#cs.

Right? :roll:
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Glennfs wrote: Thu Nov 24, 2022 7:34 am So did you look at the fox news link.
I'm surprised the Fox link didn't overtly say he was a hero.
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carmenjonze wrote: Thu Nov 24, 2022 2:58 pm How utterly typical.

Lmao, you guys minimize every instance of actual that even makes the news, yet think "white Christian heterosexual males" are victims of the party full of the niggers and the sp#cs.

Right? :roll:
The wapo has a paywall. There was 3 choices foxnews was the only bees source the other two were sports related
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Glennfs wrote: Thu Nov 24, 2022 3:42 pm The wapo has a paywall. There was 3 choices foxnews was the only bees source the other two were sports related
Lmao you actually think the Democratic Party discriminates against white male heterosexual Christians because ONE Black man MIGHT become the Speaker of the House.

Now everyone is supposed to overlook racist events like Jerry Jones protesting integration, that happen in our own lifetimes. :?

No wonder you guys need the schools to squelch American history for you. Lol heaven forbid Jayden and Brayden learn grampy's picture was on the lynchmob postcard. :problem:
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carmenjonze wrote: Thu Nov 24, 2022 3:48 pm Lmao you actually think the Democratic Party discriminates against white male heterosexual Christians because ONE Black man MIGHT become the Speaker of the House.

Now everyone is supposed to overlook racist events like Jerry Jones protesting integration, that happen in our own lifetimes. :?

No wonder you guys need the schools to squelch American history for you. Lol heaven forbid Jayden and Brayden learn grampy's picture was on the lynchmob postcard. :problem:
No you are missing my point and probably doing so intentionally.
The man they picked is an excellent choice qualified on evert level. In fact he might be the perfect choice.
My point is if he were a straight white Christian male he would not have been considered for the job.
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Glennfs wrote: Thu Nov 24, 2022 3:51 pm No you are missing my point and probably doing so intentionally.
The man they picked is an excellent choice qualified on evert level. In fact he might be the perfect choice.
My point is if he were a straight white Christian male he would not have been considered for the job.
Why? Of the House, the Senate and the Presidency, how many Dem leaders are white Christian males? I think two out of three.

You don't get to be shit in the GOP if you aren't a white Christian male.

Just like Jerry Jones doesn't hire the most qualified candidates for head coach, he hires his buddies.
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Glennfs wrote: Thu Nov 24, 2022 3:51 pm My point is if he were a straight white Christian male he would not have been considered for the job.
It's a stupid point, as ever.

"Straight white Christian males" are not discriminated against in any way, you never have been, and you're not being discriminated against by or within the Democratic Party.

Besides, what do you care? You guys ran screaming in to the so-called Party of Lincoln where you ban immgrants, ban books, ban healthcare, ban LGBTQs and make sick (not-)jokes about African Americans having the police called on us.

We have no social, legal, or economic advantages over "straight white Christian males." Some of you simply choose to wallow in race-paranoiac Birth of A Nation victimhood mentality, with no good or rational reason.
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Glennfs wrote: Thu Nov 24, 2022 3:42 pm The wapo has a paywall. There was 3 choices foxnews was the only bees source the other two were sports related
I just "gifted" you the article. I can do that 10 times a month. Check your email.
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carmenjonze wrote: Thu Nov 24, 2022 4:03 pm It's a stupid point, as ever.

"Straight white Christian males" are not discriminated against in any way, you never have been, and you're not being discriminated against by or within the Democratic Party.

Besides, what do you care? You guys ran screaming in to the so-called Party of Lincoln where you ban immgrants, ban books, ban healthcare, ban LGBTQs and make sick (not-)jokes about African Americans having the police called on us.
Glenn is fine with the GOP making sure there isn't a place for black people in their party.

But Glenn is OUTRAGED because he thinks that the Dems discriminate against white males. Which they don't. He just doesn't like to see blacks in places he thinks that white males should be in.
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gounion wrote: Thu Nov 24, 2022 4:05 pm Glenn is fine with the GOP making sure there isn't a place for black people in their party.
Well, only lik 7 people would want to join it, anyway. :lol:
But Glenn is OUTRAGED because he thinks that the Dems discriminate against white males. Which they don't.
Conservative whites are simply delusional white supremacists. It distorts their view of the same violent reality the wish to impose on everyone else.

It would be one thing if they had this attitude just towards us. They have it towards basically everyone, starting with their own miserable women. :?
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carmenjonze wrote: Thu Nov 24, 2022 4:09 pm Well, only lik 7 people would want to join it, anyway. :lol:

Conservative whites are simply delusional white supremacists. It distorts their view of the same violent reality the wish to impose on everyone else.

It would be one thing if they had this attitude just towards us. They have it towards basically everyone, starting with their own miserable women. :?
Glenn isn't satisfied that white males dominates his party, the GOP, but he also demand that white males dominate the Dems too. I guess it's just that he can't fathom the idea that blacks might be as smart and intelligent as whites, so if a black is picked, it's meant as a rejection of white males.

Which is insane.
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gounion wrote: Thu Nov 24, 2022 4:13 pm Glenn isn't satisfied that white males dominates his party, the GOP, but he also demand that white males dominate the Dems too. I guess it's just that he can't fathom the idea that blacks might be as smart and intelligent as whites, so if a black is picked, it's meant as a rejection of white males.

Which is insane.
We’ll, it’s white supremacist replacement paranoia.

What a miserable life.
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gounion wrote: Thu Nov 24, 2022 7:19 am You didn't read the story, of course. It's a long story and I guess you don't have the attention span.

But until you read the story, you don't know what the fuck you're talking about. It's no hit piece. Especially about the photo. Jones discusses it at length, as well as the rest of his boyhood.

But you had no problem hitting Hillary and Obama for things THEY did in college, huh?
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gounion wrote: Thu Nov 24, 2022 3:56 pm Why? Of the House, the Senate and the Presidency, how many Dem leaders are white Christian males? I think two out of three.

You don't get to be shit in the GOP if you aren't a white Christian male.
Well. You get to be used as sticks by racists, neonazis, white nationalists, and other Trump sycophants, to beat normal people, yay. :problem:
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