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WTF is your point? The media is not the NFL bruh.And he was the number 1 pick and a starting qb in the league?![]()
WTF is your point? The media is not the NFL bruh.And he was the number 1 pick and a starting qb in the league?![]()
Dude the media be shytting on Manziel non stop. Why you think this incident is still in the news when the team tried to sneak it under the rug?WTF is your point? The media is not the NFL bruh.
It was barely mentioned today and they spoke more about the alcohol than the physicality, just like they keep leaving out his drug addiction when he went to rehab.Dude the media be shytting on Manziel non stop. Why you think this incident is still in the news when the team tried to sneak it under the rug?![]()
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Cac women always protect their cac men, this is why the statistics are severely flawed because way more cac DV crimes go unreported.
People of privilege, like Johnny Manziel, seem to be above the law when it comes to domestic violence
In America, we act like putting the word “domestic” before violence somehow softens the slug of a fist to a woman’s face. It doesn’t.
This strategy, though, of putting privileged adjectives before words that describe the horror faced by the victims of violence is common here. Domestic violence is just violence. Police brutality is just brutality. An officer involved shooting is just a shooting. The victims hurt, bleed and die—like everyone else.
When people of privilege use brute force to harm others, systems of power and privilege almost immediately kick in to protect them.
Few people are as privileged in America as Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel.
Being a rich, white, famous, NFL quarterback puts a person in the upper echelon of American privilege. Traditional rules need not apply to Johnny Football. With his privilege, drug possession morphs into drug addiction and jail time turns into rehab. When images circulated of Johnny Football tightly rolling a dollar bill in a bathroom, which is regularly done to snort cocaine, his privilege made it out to be a joke.
This very privilege appears to have now saved Johnny from an arrest for domestic violence and driving under the influence.
Multiple people called 911 to report the car that Manziel was driving was swerving erratically and that he appeared to be violent with a female passenger.When they were pulled over by police, Colleen Crowley, visibly shaken and crying, repeatedly told authorities that Manziel “hurt” and “hit” her multiple times. In spite of clear marks on her body, and Manziel admitting that he had been drinking earlier in the day, police opted not to arrest him.
Come again? A man is so unsafe on the road that multiple people feel the need to call 911, he admits to drinking, and his passenger openly claims he was abusive, and he’s free to go?
Be honest with yourself: If we started to strip away the privilege from Manziel, would he have been let go and treated with kid gloves?
Would a black quarterback have been set free?
What about a black actor?
Or, what if a poor, black, unemployed man had three people call the police on him and he admitted to drinking and had an emotional passenger claim he was abusive? Would that poor black man be free to go? You and I know the answer to that question.
Do police, who have a rate of domestic violence higher than any profession in the nation, even have the moral authority to lead on this issue?
Will Manziel be blacklisted from the NFL like Ray Rice or suspended four games like Greg Hardy?
I doubt it.
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