panopticon
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All facts. Jim was really in deep with the movement. I can't take that away from the man.
I suspect he's a loyal type of dude at the end of the day, with more than a bit of stubborness to him. You don't make waves like the brehs from his era did without either.
He came out in support of Trump off rip - met with him at Trump Tower right after the election, etc. They spent considerable time together in conversation.
Jim a L.A. cat at the end of the day - lived there since the 60s. I wouldn't be surprised if his main attraction to Trump was his stance on illegal immigration. Black people damn near extinct in a lot of formerly all-black neighborhoods in L.A. these days, and the Hispanic-owned businesses won't even hire a breh to mop the damn floors. Cats movin to Phoenix, the Inland Empire, anywhere. Churches closing down, all types of shyt.
So now Trump out here talkin crazy about the Anthem...but Jim feels like he still gotta support him after their conversation and whatever promises were given. He isn't the type to feel comfortable criticizing someone who he gave his word (and who gave their word to him).
What's truly disappointing is that there was an easy way for Jim to navigate this shyt. He can get a meeting with Trump anytime. Jim should've gotten on the calendar and told him to back off the anthem issue - not because he disagreed with Trump (he doesn't, he's a old school WWII era cat, them nikkas don't fukk around with the flag, anthem, etc. off GP - and that isn't changing
), but because Trump's continued twitter rants about the shyt were counterproductive.One thing we know about Trump - he worships celebrity. How else would Kim Kardashian get to walk in the Oval Office and get Alice Johnson a pardon after a 5 minute meeting?
Jim should've exploited his celebrity and done the same thing, just with the anthem. That would've been a smart move - a move that someone like Jim with experience in social movements could've made. OG Civil Rights brehs did this sort of shyt on the regular - the whole post-MLK civil rights squad were in the damn Nixon White House making moves on a daily basis - read up on how they implemented public school desegregation. Trump isn't turning him down on something like this - it's an easy favor to do that costs him nothing but helps him preserve a potentially useful relationship.
But in his old age, the breh might've lost his touch. Instead of being strategic with it, he let his stubborness and pride get in the way - going full tilt on Fox News rather than putting his relationship with Trump to the test.
Just disappointing as fukk.
do you know who Jim Brown is?
