Two WNBA teams dishonor National Anthem: walk off court when played

Aside from Rosie O'Donnell, there are hundreds of women and three lonely men who watch WNBA basketball. To the player's credit, they usually don't emit high-pitched screams when they shoot the ball as they do in women's tennis when they serve or volley, but that's where the differences end.

That being said, most people in the world, the vast majority, would rather do anything else than watch women's basketball, which is the main reason the players salaries are not as high as their male counterparts.

On July 25th, the Seattle Storm and New York Liberty players walked off the court and into their locker rooms as the national anthem was being played in the opening game. This is because everything in the world, since Donald Trump had become President of the United States, has become political. If Trump is President, the flag is evil, seems to be their feebleminded philosophy.

It was so political that the players all wore black long-sleeve shirts with the Marxist "Black Lives Matter" (BLM) slogan, indicating that the women supported some black lives but not all, especially black law enforcement, black unborn, and black folks who are shot and killed in gun violence. They may say they do, but all you need to do is observe what happens when any of these tragedies occur. 

The BLM co-founder is a self-proclaimed Marxist who wants to "disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure" and "dismantle cisgender privilege."

And the irony is, many, if not most, of the BLM protesters are white, generally overweight, women with a chip on their shoulder.

Earlier this month, the WNBA announced that its 2020 season would be dedicated to “social justice,” which is the left's way of saying that they want equal outcome, not equal opportunity in life, regardless of effort or ability.

The league formed a Social Justice Council, composed of women athletes who know as much about political ideology as goldfish know about algebra. They bragged that it would  “be a driving force of necessary and continuing conversations about race, voting rights, LGBTQ+ advocacy, and gun control amongst other important societal issues.” 

Whenever I want to learn about gun control, voting rights and racism, I ask an athlete who knows nothing about guns, voting law, and believes all white men are racists based on their immutable characteristics, which makes them racists.

People go to sporting events to get away from everyday life. They go to be entertained, not lectured to by the players who act as if they know more than we do because they're in the public arena.

Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA), warned that the sport shouldn’t get involved in politics.

“The truth is, we need less—not more politics in sports. In a time when polarizing politics is as divisive as ever, sports has the power to be a unifying antidote,” Loeffler wrote in a letter to the WNBA. “And now more than ever, we should be united in our goal to remove politics from sports.”

The league wouldn't budge and responded by saying it would continue to “vigorously advocate for social justice.”

Before the season opening game, Liberty guard Layshia Clarendon and Storm forward Breanna Stewart dedicated the season to Breonna Taylor, a black woman killed by police in a shootout which also injured a police officer. The police were executing a court-issued warrant in a drug case and were fired upon by Taylor’s boyfriend. Taylor was shot eight times after the officers returned fire. According to a lawsuit by her family, police did not find drugs at the scene.

The teams held a moment of silence for Taylor for 26 seconds, Taylor’s age. 

The team did not hold any moments for these black homicide victims:

LeGend M. Taliferro, the 4-year-old boy shot in Kansas City and the 95th homicide victim, as his family was waiting on a second heart surgery for him that would never come.

Annette McKay, a 19-year-old shot and killed in Chicago

Marcelo Duclerc, age 32.  And the other over 420 victims, mostly black, shot in Chicago this year.

Michael A. Lewis, 37, found on his lawn  shot multiple times in Macon-Bibb County, Georgia.

And so on.

These black lives matter too, but they don't fit the left's mainly false narrative of police brutality. Yes, it exists, but it's very small and in every case where it has been found, charges were brought forth and indictments ensued.

The WNBA, NFL, MLB and the National Tiddlywinks Association can do whatever they want, this is America. But so can the rest of us, and we don't have to support your political views. I, for one, will not go to a WNBA game, in spite of never having gone to one in the past. I will not watch games on TV, and will switch my brand from Yankee Hotdogs to Hebrew National Hotdogs, not because the latter answers to a higher power, but because they're not political.


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