“It was not just an attack on the Dallas police it was an attack on our basic humanity and the common decency we used to cherish in America,” he said. Hansen said that minority communities hate to suffer the indignity of stereotypes but that the killer did the same exact thing by shooting at any cops “because don’t we all really know, they’re all the same.” And the officers who abuse the badge and the power they have should be punished, but too many times they are not.”īut, he said, opening fire on the city streets of Dallas does not do anything to right the wrongs that people deal with every day and that the shooter might have killed good cops in the process. “A white man in America doesn’t die for driving with a broken taillight, he gets a ticket, too. “A white man in America doesn’t die for selling cigarettes on a street corner, he gets a ticket,” he said. For this reason, he said, we cannot and should not defend all police officers. Hansen said police officers are great people because they run into buildings we run from and look for people we hide from, but they cannot make mistakes because they have the power of God in their hands in the form of guns. It wasn’t this way when I was a boy, but it is life in America now,” he said. “Our lives will go on, while the lives of so many others won’t, because we expect it now and we accept it. In the end, he said, nothing will change. But when I listen to Michael Sam, I do think it’s time to celebrate him now.Hansen said that people will fly their flags at half-mast, say the rights things and make promises they won’t keep. I don’t know if that day is here yet, I guess we’re about to find out. We’ve always been able to recognize them, some of us accept them, and I want to believe that there will be a day when we do celebrate them. But I do understand he’s part of mine.Ĭivil rights activist Audre Lorde said: It is not our differences that divide us, it is our inability to recognize, accept and celebrate those differences. I am not always comfortable when a man tells me he’s gay. I never understood how they felt comfortable laying claim to both sides of that argument. So many of the same people who used to make that argument, and many who still do, are the same peolple who say government should stay out of our lives but then want government in our bedrooms. Because we weren’t comfortable with that either. It wasn’t that long ago we were told that black players couldn’t play in our games, because it would be uncomfortable.Īnd even when they finally could, it took several more years before a black man played quarterback. You love another man – well now you’ve gone too far. Players accused of rape and pay the woman to go away, you lie to the police trying to cover up a murder – we’re comfortable with that. Players caught in hotel rooms with illegal drugs and prostitutes – we know they’re welcome. You kill people while driving drunk – that guy is welcome. You beat a women and drag her down a flight of stairs pulling her hair out be the roots – you’re the fourth guy taken in the NFL draft. ”It will be uncomfortable, because that’s a man’s world.” Several NFL officials telling Sports Illustrated it WILL hurt him on draft day because a gay player wouldn’t be welcome in a NFL locker room. Michael Sam would be the first openly gay player in the NFL says he knows there will be problems and they’ve already started.

The best defensive player in college football’s best conference only a third to fifth round NFL pick? Really? That IS chocking. ”… and then yesterday Missouri’s All American defensive Michael Sam, the SCC:s Defensive Player of the Year and expected to be a third to fifth round pick in the NFL draft, tells the world he’s gay. Notera hur han använder bilder som väcker känslor, citat som han sedan parafraserar och till sist avslutar med en väl underbyggd uppmaning. Lyssna noga på hur Dale Hansen bygger sin argumentation kring varför det är helt fel att räkna bort Sam i den närliggande draften.

Amerikanarna kan sin retorik.įöljande är ett slags försvarstal som stödjer Michael Sam, USA:s första öppet homosexuella fotbollsspelare i NFL. Ser den korta tv-snutten och överväldigas av det perfekt uppbyggda talet. Springer på detta underbara nyhetsklipp i mitt flöde.

Dale hansen unplugged