He will have a job before the season starts. And within 5 years he will be back at a power 5 school. Sad but true.
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He will have a job before the season starts. And within 5 years he will be back at a power 5 school. Sad but true.
I just think if it wasnt Nile. Like if it was Hayden or something OK.
I can understand your point too.
It's just a statue. It's not like they defaced his grave. We put far too much value into material things. They weren't attacking Nile, they were attacking the football program. I respect your opinion and agree that veterans deserve respect but I hardly believe that it was directed at him.
I get it, I am on a board that supports community arts - it does cost money and time to remove spray paint, but it can be done. But that image is now in the public eye With the KKK epithet.
Anyone else remember when they drew a wang on the Cy statue at Brookside? The city got that off. (No pun intended.)
Good point. Definitely can see both sides here. I just feel like its a slippery slope to justify vandalizing some things but not others.
As one that served it is getting a bit tiresome deifying veterans. Those that died not because they wanted to be held as something they are not. Radical dissent is a part of who we are. It is odd as white folk we are telling black folk how to communicate there pain, anger, and rage. “Hey boy keep your voice and action to that which I white person am comfortable with.” Chicken ****.
I get it but Nile's grave is the bottom of the ocean, that's why I think it was just too much.
Everyone has their own opinion I just think that one could have been left alone.
America was also built on the backs of riots and protests. The American Revolution, for starters. Every big change in our society, every move forward, has involved protests and riots. The destruction of property isn’t ideal, and the target is unfortunate for sure, but taxpayers and students helped build the university and pay for it - and they are telling the caretakers that this is not okay. The graffitos will pay their taxes or whatever to help clean it up, and they are fine with that pretty clearly in order to say something that desperately needs said. Putting a flagrant racist on paid leave while doing an “internal investigation” is not enough. It isn’t enough at a university, it isn’t enough in a police station, it isn’t enough in an office building.
Again - spray paint on a bronze statue is a pretty easy fix. Tearing down a society based off of hate is tougher - and requires revolution.
The problem, from my view, is that these people were trying to be ********. Defacing the statue of a man that, by all accounts, was a good man and that lost his life in service to his country makes no sense.
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Dude, students at ISU have actually hung on, beaten, and ruined $35k statues near the Campustown intermodal parking facility for no reason. Spray painting (which is easily removed) to denounce racism and the KKK actually has a purpose.
Kinnick’s service is not in question here. I doubt the graffitos probably knew about it. What they see is the name on the building that has perpetuated racism and they are willing to tear down that symbol to start fresh. It sucks because a lot of symbols have worthy backgrounds, but a lot also don’t.
and there were plenty of black men that put there lives on the line in the same war. But when they came back to America they did not get access to the same freedoms as white men that served.
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Kinnick stadium is the structural embodiment of the Iowa football program. The vandalism has less to do with Nile Kinnick the man and what he represents, than it does with what the statue represents on a superficial level, which is Iowa football. Not saying I like seeing it defaced, but I doubt his military career even entered the minds of the folks who did it.
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