Jerry Jones will never fully outrun this photo. And he shouldn’t be allowed to. (via TheReidOut Blog)
On the first day of classes at North Little Rock High, a crew-cut sophomore named Jerral Wayne Jones found his spot among a phalanx of White boys who stood at the front entrance and blocked the path of six Black students attempting to desegregate the school.that day to observe what was going on , but the Post explains why that seems implausible:
[The] photographs indicate Jones had to scurry around the North Little Rock Six to reach the top of the stairs before the Black students completed their walk up to the schoolhouse door. And while Jones offered a common explanation of the confrontation — that it was the work of older white supremacists — most of those surrounding the six young Black men were teenagers.
These revelations are offered as evidence of Jones’ history with racism in an article largely focused on his failureIn response to the photo,Jones, the head of “America’s team,” of engaging in America’s most despicable pastime: racist discrimination. Others have claimed that invoking Jones’ past to bring up his present behavior is immoral. The loudest of that group is Stephen A. Smith, an ESPN commentator who has bragged about the“You’re making an attempt to eradicate him, what he stands for and all that he has done,” Smith claimed.
Of course, accountability for racism — no matter when it occurred — is not oppression. Nonetheless, Smith wanted to make it widely known he’s standing by his man.
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