required viewing before the superbowl

[rdking647]

this should be shown before,during and after the superbowl
of course theres no way the nfl would let this air

[alfredo]

1. Knr

[Fla Dem]

2. Very powerful, a very proud people. Wish it would air n TV. nt

[dougolat]

3. Love it!....

Every treaty broken; no promise kept: whiteman speak with forked tongue, indeed.

[tavernier]

4. Excellent!

Powerful message, riveting images.
I think this is a territory they're not prepared to lose, nor should they. I pledge my support to their cause.

[countryjake]

11. I agree with you on that...

and that's kind of what I expected this video to be about when I clicked play.

As someone with a young friend, a former NFLer, who has been stricken with ALS, I find it very difficult to see a hard hit without thinking of him and the struggle for his life that he now finds himself in.

[progressoid]

6. Is the Johnny Depp narrating?

[countryjake]

7. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was asked on Friday...

if he would call a Native American a "R*****n" to his face. Instead of answering that question, he said this:

The Oneida Indian Nation responded to Goodell’s comments in an email statement:

“It is deeply troubling that with the Super Bowl happening on lands that once were home to Native Americans, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell would suggest that the dictionary-defined R-word racial slur against Native Americans is somehow a sign of honor. Commissioner Goodell represents a $9-billion brand with global reach, yet insists that it is somehow no big deal that his league uses those vast resources to promote this slur. In the process, he conveniently ignores all the social science research showing that the NFL’s promotion of this offensive word has serious cultural and psychological effects on native peoples. Worse, he cites the heritage of the team’s name without mentioning that the name was actually given to the team by one of America’s most famous segregationists, George Preston Marshall. Mr. Goodell also seems unaware that the R-word is an epithet that was screamed at Native Americans as they were forced at gunpoint off their lands. The fact that Mr. Goodell doesn’t seem to know any of this – or is deliberately ignoring it – suggests that for all his claims to be listening, he apparently isn’t listening at all.”

http://thinkprogress.org/sports/2014/01/31/3233961/goodell-redskins-honor-native-americans/



Thanks for posting the "Proud to Be" video, rdking647.

[DLevine]

8. K&R. nt

[Heidi]

9. Kick!

[Le Taz Hot]

10. Beautiful!