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Originally Posted by Sidd Finch
Meh. A better response would have been "Black people are being killed and abused by police throughout this city and you're asking about a fucking baseball game?"
Also, since when did Nelson Mandela preach non-violence? He founded Umkhonto we Sizwe specifically because the killings of peaceful protestors led him to believe that non-violence was not sufficient. (Baltimore, et al: Take heed.)
Even while on Robben Island he didn't preach non-violence. He preached a non-racial society, so that black activists would not envision a post-apartheid society that took revenge or excluded whites, but rather that worked with people of all races who accepted that society.
He renounced the armed struggle after being freed from prison, but it's not accurate to suggest that was a come-around to non-violence as a guiding principle -- rather than a recognition that, at that time and in that environment, this was by far the best strategic move.
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Exactly. Right on.
But, cut the dude some slack. The message above was sent out by the dude on twitter, 140 characters at a time, in what has to be among the most epic rants in sports twitter history. Entire rant was subtweeted, like he was screaming it at the sports reporter. And by the end it was being followed by a cheering, retweeting mob. It was like someone gave angry-Sebby a cell phone, a bottle of bourbon, and an audience of a few hundred thousand and let him loose. Truly righteous.
