Does anyone know where you can get the t-shirt the Minnesota Lynx wore last night?

[Ken Burch]

As many of us as possible should try to get one of those shirts.

I think the stand the Lynx took in wearing them is comparable to that taken by Mr. Smith and Mr. Carlos at the '68 Olympics

[pkdu]

1. I agree with all but one of the graphics visible in your post Ken..can you guess which one?

Sorry that was off-topic , and so is this...whats the significance of the rightly proud Americans not wearing the track shoes visible on the podium?


..and I agree on the T-shirts...should be available to buy.

[Ken Burch]

2. They were shoeless as a comment on black poverty

John Carlos had additional symbolism in his attire:

he wore his tracksuit unzipped as a gesture of solidarity with working-class people, and wore beads as a tribute to those who died on slave ships.

In addition, Tommie Smith, John Carlos AND Peter Norman(the Australian athlete on the podium as silver medialist, who supported Mr. Carlos and Mr. Smith in their actions), all wore badges in support of the Olympic Project for Human Rights.

IOC president Avery Brundage, a one-time Nazi sympathizer who had refused to condemn Nazi salutes at the Berlin Olympics in 1936, condemned the athletes for their principled stand and tried to get Mr. Smith and Mr. Carlos banned from the U.S. team(USOC officials refused to go along with the demand), and Peter Norman was ostracized from the Australian Olympic movement for the rest of his life for refusing to condemn Mr. Smith and Mr. Carlos.

BTW, which image do you disagree with in my graphics? It's not obvious to me which one it would be.

[pkdu]

5. Thanks for the info...Keep Corbyn nt

[Ken Burch]

6. I'll respond about that in a pm. n/t.

[zz-la]

3. How could anyone find offense with those shirts

It was not condemning all police and was simply stating that all of "us" have to change the way we think in order to stop this violence. Seems to me this is a sentiment that all reasonable police officers could get behind.

[Ken Burch]

4. The police "line" on the issue is that there is no such thing as racist police violence

and no such thing as excessive police use of force against people of color or anyone else. They believe that every black(or brown, or Native American or LGBTQ)person ever killed by the police had it coming.

And they also harbor the delusion that the only reason the Dallas killer massacred those officers was because BLM had raised the issue of police violence(as if no people of color would have been feeling anger about this were BLM not in existence).

And, possibly, some of the cops who walked out at the Lynx game have secrets they don't want people asking about.