On Friday, NY Giants QB Jaxson Dart revealed his true colors by showing up in upstate NY and introducing Tr**p at a rally at Rockland Community College.
Dart’s appearance drew immediate reactions, one most notably from his teammate Abdul Carter, who took to X after seeing the video of an ecstatic Dart support his president.
“Thought this sh!t was AI, what we doing man,” posted Carter.
And that set things off on Memorial Day weekend.
Dart’s appearance rehashed the discussion regarding sports and politics, an intimate relationship that has always existed yet one that is denied by and decried by the right and MAGA fans unless the relationship involves people like Dart.
After the video and Carter’s reaction began going viral, opinions quickly flooded social media.
MAGA found a new golden boy to support and one idiot even lent his hateful and idiotic Islamophobic point of view to the debate; when that crowd needs something to fire up their base of ignorance, there’s no low they won’t travel to in order to fan the flames of hate.
Others with a moral compass criticized Dart, defended Carter and pointed out MAGA’s hypocrisy when it comes to sports and politics.
This comes on the heels of the NAACP‘s call last week for Black athletes, fans and families to “withhold athletic and financial support from public universities in states that have moved to limit, weaken, or erase Black voting representation.”
In its Out of Bounds campaign, the organization identified eight states – Tennessee, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, and Georgia – for Black audiences to boycott, specifically targeting athletic programs with more than $100 million in annual revenue, which include programs from the SEC, Big 12 and the ACC.
But this didn’t begin last week.
We’ve written extensively about the subject and about how current Black athletes need to rediscover and revive the athlete activism once wielded by Black athletes in previous generations, an activism that has been silenced through NIL and the big money swelling the coffers of college football and basketball.
The NCAA has echoed the same call previously.
In 2021, the organization sent a letter to the player’s unions of the NFL, NBA, WNBA, MLB and NHL urging Black free agents not to play in the lone star state due to its passage of oppressive laws targeting marginalized groups.
“If you are a woman, avoid Texas. If you are Black, avoid Texas. If you want to lower your chances of dying from coronavirus, avoid Texas,” wrote the NAACP in their letter.
Their letter was sent two months after the NAACP’s Texas chapter stood up for Black students at the University of Texas by filing a complaint with the the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights against the school’s song, “The Eyes of Texas”, which was originally performed in blackface at minstrel shows starting in the 1900s.
