A Republican lawmaker in the Missouri house of representatives has proposed a bill that aims to strip scholarships from college athletes who refuse to play for non-health related issues.
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Additionally, the bill continues, “any member of a coaching staff who encourages or enables a college athlete to engage in behavior” prohibited under the bill “shall be fined by his or her institution of employment”.
Guardian
And I would bet that's what they'd do. . In the newly proposed House Bill 1743, State Rep. Rick Brattin, is bringing the phrase “shut up and play” to the level of a law.
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Make no mistake about it. Given that it is targeting and punishing an entity that is 69 percent black, it is also racist: aimed at silencing black voices and diminishing black lives on campus.
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[I]t is worth knowing something about the twisted sadist proposing it. In recent months, the 35-year-old Brattin has introduced a legislation that seems conjured from a coked up weekend in Tijuana with Rush Limbaugh. He proposed making abortions unattainable without the written consent of the father (vividly citing in great detail his own vasectomy as inspiration for the bill); a law preventing food stamp recipients from buying “cookies, chips, energy drinks, soft drinks, seafood, or steak,” and—showing that he is of the moment—to keep Syrian refugees from settling in the state. But the coup de grace was when this sick puppy attempted to introduce legislation that would force Planned Parenthood to erect a memorial to aborted fetuses.
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It’s a shameful law. It’s a racist law. And if passed, players should do what they did last November: fold their arms and refuse to take the field, as the school hemorrhages millions of dollars.
The Nation
..but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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