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From the NFL’s profile of Anquan Boldin, this year’s winner of the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award
I don’t know if you saw my post, but…If I were being serious, I’d be hypocritical.
I’m positive that TexasUberAlles neither needs nor wants me to come to his defense but it’s my understanding that everyone’s welcome to bring their education level to the table when posting their comments. I, for one, am consistently impressed with what he has to say as well as the way he says it and he has my admiration if not my identity.
…hey, man. This is a site about cartoon ponies.
Let’s not get academic here.
…Because some people have a hard time fitting the poor into a rigid Calvinist/Social Darwinist/NIMBY worldview unless people living in poverty are all miserable all the time, so it suits their ideology to handwave Occam’s Razor and presume that he went there, dumped off a crate of coloring books, and drove away in a $200,000 Land Rover instead of giving fun things to the kids while their parents got staple foods and household supplies?
[it was sarcasm]
Edited because: Rule #0, no need to fan flames.
I think he’s trying to say that he has so much money, and he chooses to give “dinky coloring books.”
I still think that’s a short-sighted and/or inconsiderate stance.
Short-sighted in that he could give all of his salary to a cause except for $1 million. But regarding disadvantaged groups, just giving money to them is like giving a broke person lottery winnings. They don’t know what to do with it, they don’t know how to handle it, and before you know it, they have a lot of cars, a lot of nice clothes, and nothing that holds value for more than 2 years.
When you have resources, they have to be sustainable, and most NFL salaries will stop paying after 10 years for even the most talented of players. Once that money’s gone, you won’t be able to contribute. So it’s best to use your influence and connections to create organizations that can fundraise for themselves long after you’re not contributing hard resources.
And it’s inconsiderate in the sense that it’s his money that he worked his butt off for ever since he was probably 8 or something. Some claim pro athletes are overpaid, but hey, people pay for the tickets, so that’s the audience’s fault. And if you saw the health problems NFL players have just in their late 30’s after they’ve retired and the lack of health coverage they get, their salaries can run out very quickly after repeated surgeries and procedures. That’s not even mentioning the prevalence of CTE which cause, at worst but very possibly, suicidal and homicidal behaviors.
If he gives any of it away, then it’s an act of kindness. Considering how much money most of us spend on computers, video games, and stuff, we could stand to give some of that money to charitable causes, or at least volunteer some of our time. I mean, how much time do most of us spend online that we could use to mentor someone or help out at a homeless shelter?
But either way, that’s our prerogative to spend our resources in whatever way we see fit, and I don’t think it makes us any more or less of a person than these pro ballers.
Yeah, imagine the nerve of this guy for trying to give those kids some relief from their bleak existence. They need to be out there tilling a field instead of having their heads stuck in those silly books.
Because only poor people are allowed to donate stuff to other poor people.
Just sayin’
Nope. Check the source.
I didn’t catch that. Seriously?