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As Nelson Mandela said: 'Sport can create hope where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers.'

Now that was a great man who had understood what it takes to bring racially divided people together in harmony.

Gwen Berry on the other hand....seems to think that the opposite is true and she would use sports in a divisive manner to even further alienate an already divided people!

That is the difference between a wise person and a fool....

This Rotten Berry would further elaborate the reason for her childish and churlish tantrum....'I don't need to do anything sport-wise,''....'What I need to do is speak for my community, to represent my community, and to help my community. Because that's more important than sports.'

Well, then Rotten Berry? Why not do just that....leave sports to those who are more appreciative of its intent to harmonize....and just go and concentrate on your divisive community activism....

Not even American and he stood proud for it. He isn't a brainwashed idiot like so many Americans are today.

As far as I'm concerned, the should be kicked from the team. As an Olympian your job is to represent the United States of America. If you want to protest, find your own platform. If you want to compete, do your job and compete proudly for your country.

My $0.02 worth MoozaHooza is to give up trying to explain simple concepts to people who are pre-determined to believe their incorrect interpretation of your meme, over your explanation of what it means.

The fact that many with left-leaning political views here on imgflip are like dogs with a bone in their mouth when it comes to believing the wrong interpretation of your meme, even when you explain it to them more than once, is proof that the chronic TDS these klowns have suffered for four plus years now, has done irreversible damage to whatever limited ability to reason they may have once have had.

Especially these two....they seem to run as a tandem of two retarded children still in diapers.....could be the same person with two IMGs because when you see one and the other immediately follows with the similar "retardedness". But I will ignore the one (or them) from now on. Your 2 cents of advice was worth the effort of you taking the time to type it out....Thanks!.

As someone who has traditionally "liberal" views on things, I'm gonna agree with you. They should have shown activism elsewhere.
It brings up a good point, that is, how America has become needlessly divided, but it should have been conveyed somewhere other than a sporting event.
Then again, it is a free country. Anyone is entitled to their own opinions and practices.
But I agree that just because the nation is in turmoil does not mean what it stands for should be disrespected.

Usain bolt is Jamaican you fat f**k. He’s not African American.

You have to be 13 to post here.

Oh yes, the 12 yo's favorite meme. Go to school, junior.

With all due respect, you seem to be lacking a brain. This meme poses a question, yet the response you posted does not even remotely answer it. I learned this in kindergarten and I feel like you have a gap in your education. Have a nice day.

The meme never remotely claims that Bolt is American. You lefties need to be spoonfed. You miss the forest from the trees. But I don't think you're being deliberately obtuse, like the other lefties here.

And if you jump on a meme cursing at the OP, expect blowback. Same to you.

You still have not answered my question

I don't see a single question mark in anything you wrote me.

Typical 12 yo zoomer. Uncreative and unoriginal. Keep thinking you're clever because you had big brain moment and realized Bolt was Jamaican lol

Not necessarily, but you can believe that if you want to.

I'll try one last time. What is this question you speak of?

The lines about slavery have no impact on his life

Ummm! The ancestors of Black Jamaicans were slaves in the British West Indies.....working on the sugar plantations mostly! They were freed in 1833....if I recall correctly. So Bolt is the descendant of slaves who were brought to Jamaica from Africa. Interestingly, the VP of America....one Kamala Harris....well her father is from Jamaica.....his ancestors were both slaves and slave owners!
I am not sure what your point "Usain bolt is Jamaican you fat f**k. He’s not African American." is about....everyone knows that he is Jamaican....I am not aware that anyone here thinks that he is American. Rather, the point is that he a Jamaican....and would respectfully stand for the American anthem.....as do almost every single other athlete from around the world ....even the Arabs, Chinese, and the Russians....That piece of shit Rotten Berry is an American and would not!

She protested the lines she disliked in front of many, many people. She is strong and stands for the abused former slaves in America

Again...WHAT ARE THE LINES THAT SHE WAS PROTESTING! I am NOT American....I do not know the American anthem! Can you enlighten me because you seem to know her every thought!

Ok, I already posted this.

No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave

I am not American and you may not be either....but that verse refers to the BRITISH soldiers and other "BRITISH hirelings who were employed and paid by the British monarchy, and facing off the American settlers. They were like the blind slaves of the British monarchy....eager to do their biddings without a question! They did fight, they did die, they did run....all the way back to England....There would be no refuge for the British on American shores! This had absolutely NOTHING to do with Black slaves!
You should really read the American anthem if you are going to talk about it and it will serve you well in the future!
As it is....I have engaged with you long enough and will not waste any more of your precious time! BYE!

Wrong. The British hired American slaves (kidnapped and made them work for them)

I said BYE! Which part of that do you not understand?

I’m sad that you wish to spread lies, but goodbye.

Hello, sorry if my initial post was crass. I simply intended to get your attention. Gwen wished not to listen to the song because she felt like it was offensive toward slaves and the harm they lived through every day. To me this seems like a very good reason to not listen to the anthem. This also has nothing to do with Usain Bolt. They stand for different things and come from different places.

Blacks were freed in 1865 in America....Both Bolt and Berry are the descendants of African slaves.....likely both their Black ancestors came from Nigeria. American Blacks, even the poorest ones, are astronomically wealthier than Jamaican Blacks.....many of whom live in the most abject of poverty....in a country run for at least 55 years by largely Black Jamaicans! I have been in both the Black ghettos and in Jamaica and so I know this to be true! Blacks in American, if all of their wealth was pooled together would be somewhere in the lower half of the 18 wealthiest countries in the world! Four decades ago, the vast majority of the middle class was white. In 1979, the middle class was 84 percent white, nine percent Black, five percent Hispanic, and two percent “other.” Over time, the middle class has become much more race–plural. In 2019, the middle class was 59 percent white, 12 percent Black (Blacks make up 13% of the American population), 18 percent Hispanic, and ten percent “other.”
Blacks were doing quite well in the 1950% and early 1960s, and swiftly catching up with whites....that is, until the Democrats in the 1960s said that they would give cash to African women with children....but only if there were no men in the house. It is well known and documented at that time that the democrat president lyndon johnson did this deliberately to wed Blacks to the democrat party....These are his words "I'll have those n*ggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.". This gesture by the democrats had horrific results.....In 1960, the year before Obama was born, 22 percent of black children lived with single parents. In 1968, (after cash was given to Black mothers to be single) the number rose to 31.4 percent. By 2006, the 1960 percentage had more than doubled to 56 percent. Today it is over 80%!
The Brooking Institute, a left-leaning organization, outlined 3 things to practically ensure that one does not become poor in America
- Finish High School. - Get a job...any job to start off with to build up experience if you have to.
- Do NOT get pregnant before you are married (or today, not until you are in a secure relationship).
Studies after studies have shown that if these 3 simple rules are followed then the poverty rate in a community will be under 4%. The problem in the Black community with poverty is absent fathers....obama himself said on 2008/July/13, "More than half of all black children live in single-parent households. A number that has doubled...."

Your last bit sounds just like Larry Elder.

I did not get that from him....many have said that in the past.....including Bill Cosby and Ben Shapiro.....but I heard this from Thomas Sowell, one of the greatest Black American economists (if not the greatest) who is not spoken about because he is a Conservative....just as Martin Luther King was a Conservative and who is not really mentioned by the democrats either!
I know of Larry Elder though....and I do respect his knowledge! A black who has achieved a very high status in America through very hard work!

He quoted your 3 rules for success verbatim. Guess he got it from Sowell. Elder is brilliant. You can tell he was a great lawyer. He says he is proof a black person can succeed in America with effort back in the day. That's what drives me nuts about Michelle Obama. She plays the victim while her handicapped dad busted his ass and became a success and great role model.

I believe they all got it from the Brooking Institution which is a left-leaning organization that is based in Washington DC. I think that they came up with those 3 rules in 2013....and this is how the wrote it..."Let politicians, schoolteachers and administrators, community leaders, ministers and parents drill into children the message that in a free society, they enter adulthood with three major responsibilities: at least finish high school, get a full-time job and wait until age 21 to get married and have children."

I feel like we are talking about different things. I simply want to state that Gwen wished to protest some lines in the national anthem. Why does this bother you?

What words exactly does she wish to protest....?

What words exactly does she wish to protest? Or, is she protesting? Just so we are talking about the same thing!

She is trying to protest these lines:

No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,

Now, I don’t necessarily agree with her, but protest and freedom of speech are what makes America America

Oh! She has the right to do so....but she would be the very same one who would stand and respect the Chinese flag when they actually have slaves today....over 1 million Uighur muslims....
I would guess that hypocrisy would not daunt you though!

She fights the American fight, not the Chinese one. However, I am constantly appalled by China.

Naw! She is just a racist who is in the twilight of her career and is fearful of what the future holds for her as this was her one egg in that basket! And so she is pulling out that most favourite of all liberals' card to gain attention....the race card! She is just fishing for a contract with one of the big corporations. And like the big corporations and athletes who are fawning over China because of money....she would do the same....while ignoring the atrocities that are committed in China.....atrocities that are 1000 times worse than in America! She is a hypocrite!

Answer my question, child.

No ❤️

It said in the meme hit isn’t American.

So Bolt was in Eugene Oregan, for a US Olympic trial meet? Why would a foreigner be competing against Aericans in an Olympic trial?

I really dont think you have the whole story right.

SIGH....and then another big FUC@ING sigh! Where did I say Bolt from Jamaica was competing at that meeting???? Are all American liberals this stupid....The point of the video is that the Great Bolt stood for the American anthem although he was not American but Jamaican!....As do almost every single athlete from around the world including the Chinese and Russians at sports events! If you want me to spoonfeed you like a fuc@ing idiot child then here is a video of him shushing up an interviewer and telling her that the American anthem was playing to stand at attention and occasionally mouthing the words of the American anthem! FUC@! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gi0h9ewHwM

yea , pretty much every liberal I ever had the misfortune of speaking with seems to be this stupid. They are completely immune to facts and reason.

I get how people can be misled by the way the information was presented. They're less so being dumb and more so trying to bring up issue with how it's conveyed, which is fine.

Naw! They are just plain fuc@ing dumb! Everyone knows the Great Usain Bolt (except that is, for these two dumb pieces of crap)....Everyone knows that he is Jamaican. Everyone knows that he is retired! Everyone knows that he would NEVER be at an American Olympic trial as an athlete! And finally, everyone knows that at any sports event....athletes from other countries would stand when the anthem for another country is being played....every single time....It is just plain respect! This is nothing new and I was not saying anything unique! It is a very simple deduction! My 7 years old daughter got this....but big ox-headed dumb democrats did not! Here is the thing! This Rotten Berry would stand for the anthem of China when it is being played.....even though China has over one million Uighurs in "reeducation camps....serving out their time to infinity doing slave labour!!

Different people see different implications. Nobody's at fault.

As for the issue with Gwen Berry here, I reiterate in my agreement that that statement should have been conveyed in a more constructive manner.

So! She can be extraordinarily destructive to America.....and I must be constructive with her. F**k that! I am not a Christian....but "You will reap what you sow!" seems appropriate here! Liberals have been extraordinary malicious to America....and they can do what the shit they want to do because the media (over 90% of which is liberal-leaning)....but nobody can do the same to them! You must be a liberal! When you start to condemn this Rotten Berry for her bigotry then maybe I will attempt to be constructive....But until then.....Gloves off! She is a shithole!

Nono, I'm saying *HER* statement should have been more constructive in how she brought up division.
I understand your concern with how she conducted herself, and I do agree with you here. She raises a point, but she's doing it in a way that's disrespectful. Within her rights, yes, but disrespectful.
The malice isn't towards America itself, but more so towards societal pressures. I understand that most of these have been dealt with, but there's still progress to be made, which can be done by teaching people to treat others with fairness and respect, which is what's been going on. But those kinds of things take time, which is something that people are being impatient about. Yes, there are things we can do to work on things now, and we're not where we should be in terms of equality, but that also doesn't warrant spite and division. If anything, it should spark people to be more compassionate...

The malice is towards America....and she will tell you that herself.....She hates America....And she has been taught to hate America by the liberals leadership and the liberal media....not to mention by her leftist teachers while she was in school....This is all that they teach there!

If she is expressing hate towards America, that's less the fault of schooling and more a wrong target. Hate should be discouraged, but when that discouragement turns into more hate, and overgeneralization turns it from hate towards inequality to hate towards where that's happening, then I can see how someone can come to hate America. But that's not what's being taught. It's what happens when people overgeneralize.

There are laws that expressly state that teachers from kindergarten to senior year aren't supposed to inject their political views into teaching. As someone who spent my childhood in that system, the stuff specifically about marginalized communities seemed to be pretty apolitical in nature. Yes, it highlighted that there was suffering, but it never blamed white communities, just the society at the time. And it certainly doesn't blame modern society for past suffering.

Ok then, I will assume that you have been out of school for at least a decade....because my daughter who is just nine ....is in school and I know the shit that they are teaching there.....they are teaching kids to hate the West, and Whites.....and teachers are very political SJWs. And as for "overgeneralize"....then let us just say that she is overgeneralization her hatred towards America! I do not wish to see what else she is overgeneralizing.....

Could I get some examples of the schooling stuff? Never seen a hyper-SJW teacher in the wild...

Yeah, that's why no one had a problem then but are speaking out now.

"Could I get some examples of the schooling stuff? Never seen a hyper-SJW teacher in the wild..".
Sigh....and then another big fuc@ing sigh! Let me guess.....you must be a liberal!

Eh, sorta.
I just haven't seen one. I can identify when and where they exist, I just didn't have that experience with schools.

I feel I've been pretty respectful here; I don't see what the problem is.

"Well, I'm sorry that that happened. Hopefully, things calm down soon.
What were ya teaching, if I might ask? Haven't met too many former teachers, and I'm curious."
Higher education....sciences:....I am better off for leaving....but unfortunately the students are not (not because I had left but generally the state of our education).....as the new mantra recently is that maths and the sciences are a Whiteman's (I am not White by the way) construct and so racist. That is the reason that our students go into high school and our universities intelligent and brimming with potential but come out as dumb as rocks....many with enormous debts and useless degrees....and really angry because the promises of extraordinary jobs and salaries promoted by our universities go unfilled. But they do make great SJWs though (and maybe that was the point of educating them)....bored and raring to go to change the world into the liberals' image....whatever that might be! The universe only knows because they keep changing their agenda and goals in a blink of an eye!

The fact that the sciences are seen as this difficult thing to understand is unfortunate. Everyone should have the opportunity to learn, research, and advance human knowledge. Follow their dreams and help people. I feel like that's something the vast majority of people can agree on...

I just haven't seen one. I can identify when and where they exist, I just didn't have that experience with schools.
I have ....I used to teach not long ago....I just could not stand the bullshit anymore!

Well, I'm sorry that that happened. Hopefully things calm down soon.
What were ya teaching, if I might ask? Haven't met too many former teachers, and I'm curious.

"The fact that the sciences are seen as this difficult thing to understand is unfortunate. Everyone should have the opportunity to learn, research, and advance human knowledge. Follow their dreams and help people. I feel like that's something the vast majority of people can agree on..."

Shrug! I have no problem with that statement....It will only get worse.....But that is not my problem....I am not American. I know that the Chinese, Indians, Indonesians, Japanese, South Koreans, etc, are putting a great deal of effort into the sciences in their classroom while American students have fallen way back....The one who will have to carry on the great achievements of their ancestors....may very well be absent! This what Professor F. H. Buckley, who teaches at George Mason University, noted in 2018, “Not long ago, we had a superb public school system, but now we trail most countries. In math, we’re 38th in the world among developed countries in terms of how 15 year-olds perform. And it’s getting worse, not better.”

Shrug! All civilizations will fall in time! it is just sad to see this one deliberately committing harakiri (the right word is Seppuku....but whatever) on itself.

Yep. Things need to change or it's only going to get worse. I agree.

There is only ONE way this could be interpreted: "Gwen Berry turned her back when the American national anthem was played! He (the Great Usain Bolt) is not American but he stood when that same anthem was played!"

The problem is that they did not know that this athlete is the great Usain Bolt who is Jamaican and retired from sports. Had they known that then they would NEVER have thought that a Jamaican who is retired from sports and who is wearing the world-renowned Jamaican athletic uniform would be competing at the "AMERICAN" Olympic Trial! Look this is just absolutely plain dumb and stupid on their part!

They were trying to highlight a potential inaccuracy on your part as a result of the implication. They knew what they were talking about and wanted you to clarify because they saw it as improperly implicated. That's a misunderstanding, not a disagreement.

I explained and they never agreed....Naw! They were not knowledgeable about shit....and I gave them shit for that! They knew shit about what they are talking about! They just emotionally jumped to conclusions....like all well-indoctrinated libbies....which are all of them! This is what one of them said and it is childish shit beyond anything that I have ever seen! ......
"Yea, you said the Same Anthem, implying the EXACT SAME ANTHEM."

They were trying to correct what they thought was *you* implying that Bolt was there. Obviously, he wasn't. And you clarified that you never implied him to be.

Naw! They were just being assholes....and I treated then as assholes! And even if they had thought that (which they did not!) then that would make them as dumb as rocks and lost to the world....because Bolt is retired....everybody knows that shit! I am not a sports fan by far....and I know that shit also!