Bamsambo said:
Did we all read the same article? All I saw was a short history lesson and praise for several good Bama Coaches. It's hard for an outsider to understand where the team is now without that history lesson.
I think we read the same article and interpreted it differently, which is fine. We can share ideas.
To me, it was an article that this person may have been obligated to write and decided to do it up good.
One thing that is way overdone is the history lesson, in my opinion. The history lesson is always condescending towards 'Bama and Alabama residents in general.
As much as these people don't want to let go of their cherished ideas that they learned about Alabamians who were at their prime almost 60 years ago, Alabama is not stuck in the 1960's, they are.
Why does every national article about us or the team we support have to mention Bull Connor, Bombingham, attack dogs, or George Wallace?
Can they ever just talk about football, or does the history lesson always have to be thrown in? Do they always have to mention the 3rd world, cardboard box living poverty of 99.9 percent of our populace every time they write of Alabama football?
We get it, bad things happened.
We all know Alabama is full of the very stupidest individuals to ever walk the face of planet Earth in the history of recorded time. Most of us can't read due to the poor education system. We get it.
Why can't they stop living in the past.
Bad things happened in the racial riots in Watts in the 60's also. Systematic racism doomed blacks to live like animals in slums that were worse than back alley hovels in Mexico. Police corruption and police beatings of blacks by cops was rampant.
Funny how you don't have to relive that dark time in American history every time USC football is mentioned.
How about the Zoot Suit Riots in the 40's out in sunny L.A.? The U.S. Military ordered thousands of sailors and Marines to kill, maim, or injure any Mexican-American, black person, or Filipino-American they could find on the streets.
The service men went into theatres, into restaurants, into homes, into businesses of all sorts and beat and harmed innocent human beings. Government sanctioned racism was, in effect, sending out hit squads of thousands of trained killers and the L.A. police refused to intervene. The citizens were on their own.
Funny how you don't have to read about that every single time USC football is written about.