You support the Black Lives Matter organization? Then I won’t watch you anymore, NBA
This timing is too suspicious
The special election to replace state Sen. Pat Fallon, the presumed soon-to-be-winner of Rep. John Ratcliffe’s U.S. House seat, is concerning. (Aug. 23, 6A, “Jailed salon owner to run for Dallas-Fort Worth Senate seat”)
The timing seems intended to predetermine the election. The election date was announced Aug. 23, and candidates were given five days to file to run. It is nearly impossible for candidates without an existing political operation or political connections to join the race.
If Democrats did this, Republicans would cry foul. It smacks of deal-making, not democracy.
- Dexter Turner, Fort Worth
This is Trump’s doing, not Biden’s
Under President Donald Trump’s watch, unarmed Black men are being shot by white policemen and there are riots in our streets, all worsened by the Trump administration. He keeps telling us that this is what we should expect under Joe Biden.
Am I missing something? What about today? Lies don’t make today better.
We really need a leader, not a liar.
- Clarence Culwell, Fort Worth
I don’t want your lectures, Mac
The Star-Telegram should either eliminate the Sports section or relabel it Opinion Part 2. Mac Engel, whom I used to enjoy as a sportswriter, has finally convinced me not to read it again.
I don’t care about his leftist political opinions or his lecturing me that if I don’t agree with him then, “maybe (I) just don’t care when Black people die.” (Aug. 27, 1A, “Bucks force us to face an issue only we can fix”)
Take a knee if you want, athletes, but know that far fewer of us will be watching in the future.
- David Jackson, Keller
This is my bigger concern
Mac Engel tells me that I do not care when “Black people die.”
Actually, I care more than the NBA and the Black Lives Matter organization. I care for all those young people, including children, who have been killed in Chicago’s gun violence. I care for all those minority lives snuffed out in the womb. I care for those Black lives that are stuck in the cycle of poverty and crime because they are forced to attend schools that have under-performed for years instead of having school choice.
Where is the NBA and BLM’s concern for these lives?
I will stay away from the NBA, the NFL and Major League Baseball as long as they support BLM instead of all Black lives.
- Charles Primm, Keller
What Black Lives Matter means
I used to respond to the Black Lives Matter movement with the rebuttal, “All lives matter.” I was threatened by the misunderstanding that I was being told that my white life mattered less.
I was wrong.
I came to see my error while watching a documentary on the suffragettes. When women held up signs reading, “Votes for Women,” they were not asking that we take the vote away from men. They were just saying that women have the right to vote, too.
Today, when people hold up signs that read, “Black Lives Matter,” they aren’t suggesting that other lives don’t matter. They are just saying that Black lives matter, too.
- Melanie Miko Davis, Fort Worth