Cam and Kaep article: Hints at what changed with Cam and other info

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Cam Newton's ever-changing stance on race





He had another Oswald Bates quote on the topic and was so cringe worthy I had to skip over it.
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However, this was a really well done article. :ehh:


Here’s what I know Newton has said and done in recent years: He spoke out in favor of the Confederate flag coming down at the South Carolina statehouse in 2015, saying it was a “triumph” to see that “symbol that represented so much hatred come down.” He visited families of the victims of the Charleston shootings with no media attention. The Cam Newton Foundation has donated more than half a million dollars to schools and children athletic programs in the past five years, and is currently working on a cultural relevancy program that will bring children from different cultural backgrounds together for various experiences they otherwise wouldn’t be exposed to. There can be no criticism of Newton not “going out into the communities” to try to help.


Though I’m not asking these questions of Newton, others are. During Super Bowl week he was asked about his comments and said he believed the stereotypes around black quarterbacks had been shattered long ago. It was clear Newton didn’t want to deal with the heavy topic of race leading up to the biggest week of his life, and few would blame him.


Race has played a role in some, if not most, of the criticism Newton has received over the years. He said it in January and he said it again to the nation’s most recognizable black publication. But since then, something has changed, and Newton has been operating under the politics of respectability and colorblindness.

Part of the shift has to do with GOP pollster and PR advisor Frank Luntz. Luntz has worked with the Panthers before—Deadspin outlined some of his work with them and Cam Newton in a piece from 2014, which included, as the article says, “a campaign to enhance the image of several players and the organization.” He was called in (by whom is unclear) this off-season to help Newton frame discussions on race among other topics, according to people close to Newton. Luntz, who declined comment on this story through a spokeswoman, is often credited with prompting the phrase “climate change” rather than global warming and helping Newt Gingrich with his 1990s “Contract With America.”


It’s also not hard to see where he stands on Kaepernick’s recent protests.




Newton clearly didn’t want to talk about race in that summer interview with GQ—the interviewer himself said as much. In an interview with ESPN before last Thursday’s opener in Denver, Newton seemed baffled as to why the color of one’s skin makes us so divided despite the mountains of evidence compiled over centuries of just why that has come to be.
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Newton also did an interview with Charlotte TV station WCCB before the Denver game that got much less publicity than his other comments. Here he addressed police brutality.

“It’s not just police killing black people it’s…people make mistakes. People make mistakes often,” Newton told the station. “No matter the color, no matter the age, no matter the size or what have you. In my community, it’s people that’s killing people. And that’s all across America. So it’s not a point in time where I just don’t want to fingerpoint and hold this specific entity up to a standard that we’re all not living up to.

“Do I think it’s right? No. But I just think we all, as a whole, should be better. You know? And I don’t think skin color, I don’t think culture status, should kind of alienate certain people from others. That’s just not something that I believe in. I believe in treating everybody right.”

A black woman in Raleigh told me in July that her husband wouldn’t allow their son to wear Newton’s jersey anymore “because he turned his back on his people.” That was, comparatively, a mild reaction. Fans took to his Twitter and Instagram accounts to air their grievances with the blackest Panther. Some comments were along the lines of “don’t forget you’re black” while others were far nastier, as the Internet is wont to be.



Possibly inspired by this year’s O.J. Simpson TV series and ESPN documentary—“I’m not black, I’m O.J.”—observers linked Newton’s comments to the same colorblind rhetoric Simpson espoused when he got the endorsements few black men could during and after his career. He was called an Uncle Tom and a c00n. Several people called him Ruckus or Uncle Ruckus, references to a character in the cartoon Boondocks who hates that he’s black.

“You just sold out for all the black people. Smh,” one commenter wrote. “Just say, I don’t want to f*** up my check, my contract, my career. Just say it!!!”

Newton sees some of these comments. He told WCCB that he doesn’t look at the comments every day, but eventually it’s something that he does. And yes, sometimes the comments hurt.

“I’m no different than anybody else,” Newton said. “You slap me, pinch me, hurt, me, it’s gonna hurt. Talk or say anything, it’s gonna hurt. I’m still human.”
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It’s fair to note the differences between Newton and Kaepernick’s geographic locations. Newton was born in Georgia, played college ball in Alabama and plays professionally in North Carolina, which has been a blue state just once in a presidential election since 1980. Employers, concerts and sporting events are leaving the state due to the discriminatory House Bill 2. In July, a federal appeals court struck down the state’s new voter ID law by saying it disproportionately targeted “African Americans with almost surgical precision.” This is not the Bay Area, where Kaepernick protests and where Charlotte’s son Stephen Curry voices his support for Kap.
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“I believe that you’re going to restore that power that you once exuded,” the fan says. “God was with you that year, right? Took you all the way, right? You’ve got that power again. And I need you to be disciplined.”

Kaepernick grits his teeth and smiles back. “I’ve always had that power.”

“You’re as great as Cam Newton, and Cam Newton is great,” the fan continued.

“You’re greater, bro,” voice from behind the camera shouts even louder.

Kaepernick, still indulging the fan, shakes his head softly.

“We ain’t the same person,” he said.

“You think you’re better than him?,” the man continued.
“I didn’t say that,” Kaepernick said. “I said we’re not alike.”
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The last thing we need to a conquer and divide cac. We can deal with Cam within our community but we don't need a cac opinion on shyt. fukk you. Write about ending white supremacy. bytch!
 
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Galvatron said:
It's deeply disturbing that Cam is letting a white right wing nut job anti blk maniac like Frank Luntz guide him in public relations. This article made me hate Cam even more...DO YALL KNOW WHO FRANK LUNTZ IS...SMH AT CAMS IGNORANCE
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Really good read .


And shed some light on what's behind Newton's change. I dunno if he broke news with that revelation , but I had no idea Luntz was that influential in regard to Cam. Shyt is suspect as fukk and with his pops likely playing along privately but being all Al Sharpton publicly is some snakes oil salesman shyt. :smh:
 
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