TRUMP’S THREATS TO NFL PROTESTS: MUZZLING BLACK MEN LIKE SLAVERY DAYS

Who: Refuse Fascism activists & football fans of conscience
What: Taking a Knee Against White Supremacy – Support Marshawn Lynch! Suspend Trump!
When: Sunday, Nov. 26, 11:30am-1:30pm
Where:Oakland Raiders Coliseum, D Gate Entrance

Refuse Fascism Bay Area plans to take a knee against white supremacy right in front of the Oakland Coliseum for the Raiders v Broncos game. They will be at the D gate entrance at 12:PM before this Sunday’s Game.

Xochitl Johnson calls on people to join her saying, “Like Marshawn’s shirt said: EVERYBODY VS TRUMP! Donald Trump is a white supremacist to the core… banning Muslims, demonizing Latino immigrants, and attacking Black athletes who don’t ask “how high” when he says jump. First he demands gratitude from UCLA basketball players like a paternalistic slavemaster and then lashes out at LaVar Ball for insufficient gratitude.”

Today @realDonaldTrump tweeted:

“Marshawn Lynch of the NFL’s Oakland Raiders stands for the Mexican anthem and sits down to boos for our national anthem. Great disrespect! Next time NFL should suspend him for remainder of season. Attendance and ratings way down.”

“Mexico is not the country with the highest incarceration rate in the world, imprisoning disproportionately Black and Brown people”, says Rafael Kadaris of Refuse Fascism: “Mexico is not the country where police are gunning down Black people with impunity!”

“In Trump’s fascist worldview, the Nazis and KKK white supremacists in Charlottesville are “very fine people”… while the NFL players who protest the murder by police of people of color are “sons of bitches” who should be immediately fired.”

Refuse Fascism Bay Area will stage a visual tableau before thousands of game attendees warning that if Trump shuts down the NFL protests, or if the owners punish the players taking righteous action, it will be a significant victory for fascism. It would mean he will have succeeded in silencing Black men. Says Xochitl Johnson, “It brings to mind the binding and gagging of Black Panther leader Bobby Seale in a political kangaroo trial in 1969 and the literal muzzling—and worse—that slave owners perpetrated on “back-talking” slaves.”

White supremacy + mandatory patriotism + the suppression of dissent = FASCISM. This nightmare must end — the Trump/Pence regime must go!