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Nate Wallace joins Political Misfits to discuss the working class revolt that sank billionaire plans for European Football Super League, the Olympic Games and the potential for a ban on protest in the upcoming Tokyo Summer Games and 2022 Beijing Winter Games.

Recorded and aired live in Washington, DC on Wednesday, April 21st, 2021.

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Identity, Community, 🏈/War, the Raiders, Hunter S. Thompson, Al Davis & Pete Rozelle Battle Royale and which (nefarious) historical figure does "The War Nerd" compare with longtime NFL commissioner, Pete Rozelle.

*First Release of Part I from behind Patreon paywall (as little as $1 per month gets you all access including Part II). Public Release Date: Saturday, May 15th, 2021. Recorded on Wednesday, March 24th, 2021.

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The question of whether war metaphors are appropriate in sport, identify formation and sporting communities, William Faulkner, Raider Cannon Dan, Jack Tatum, Fred Biletnikoff, Ray Chester, Kenny "The Snake" Stabler, and so many more.

We examine contemporaneous efforts to change the names of schools with Confederate names like Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville, Florida, where Nate used to coach and recently spoke in favor of changing the name in the face of older white alumni doing everything in their power to stand in the way.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2021/03/25/robert-e-lee-high-school-renaming-jacksonville-florida-orig-jk.cnn/video/playlists/top-news-videos/

https://twitter.com/NateWallace9/status/1375274196335525893?s=20 (checkout this thread for full context)

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/the-myth-of-the-kindly-general-lee/529038/

We connect this to the larger "Lost Cause" mythos that the United Daughters of the Confederacy (the UDC) helped spearhead starting in the late 19th and 20th centuries, and led to the ahistorical brainwashing of a few of generations so that they earnestly believe the lie that the Confederacy did not secede from the Union to defend and expand the lucrative institution of slavery -which it did.

This history connects to contemporary American sports most notably in the brand of Southern College Football played the the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and to a slightly lesser extent in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and Big XII Conference (where Texas and Oklahoma still play).

The War Nerd helps connect the romanticizing of defeat that vanquished Confederates and their propagandists engaged with on an epic scale, to the genesis of the type of poetry (James McPherson and later Sir Walter Scott) that romanticizes defeat: the Scottish Highlanders defeat to the English crown at the Battle of Culloden in 1745.

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In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Nate Wallace, co-host of Red Spin Sports podcast, for another edition of our weekly segment “The Red Spin Report.” They discuss the recent attempts to silence Lebron James after the NBA superstar deleted a tweet calling for the officer who killed 16-year-old Ma’Kiah Bryant to be fired, why James is such a magnet for right-wing attacks, and recent legislation in Georgia and Florida aimed at compensating college athletes for their unpaid labor.

Recorded and aired on Friday, May 7th, 2021 in Washington, DC.

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In this episode of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Nate Wallace, co-host of Red Spin Sports podcast, for another edition of our new weekly segment “The Red Spin Report,” to discuss the emotional response by NBA superstar Lebron James to the police killing of 16-year-old Ma’Kiah Bryant, the bizarre theory by reactionary sports commentator Jason Whitlock that James is secretly helping carry out a communist takeover of the United States, and how the capitalist system works to silence high-profile Black figures.

Recorded and aired on Friday, April 23rd, 2021 in Washington, DC.

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In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Nate Wallace, co-host of Red Spin Sports podcast, for another edition of our weekly segment “The Red Spin Report.” They discuss the defeat of the European Super League by predominantly working-class soccer fans in Europe, as well as the racial and class dynamics playing out at this year’s NFL draft.

Recorded and aired on Friday, April 30th, 2021 in Washington, DC.

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In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Mike Sampson, co-host of Red Spin Sports podcast, for another edition of our weekly segment “The Red Spin Report.” They discuss the anti-trans legislation set to regulate high schools athletes' genitals which was recently passed by the Florida House, as well as the recent comments expressing dismay about ‘politics in sports’ by Former Green Bay Packers quarterback and outspoken Trump supporter, Brett Favre.

Recorded and aired on Friday, April 16th, 2021 in Washington, DC.

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In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, host Sean Blackmon and producer Wyatt Reed are joined for another edition of our new weekly segment “The Red Spin Report.” They discuss the recent (both this week) senseless slayings involving former NFL players Phillip Adams and Travis Rudolph, the physical, mental, and psychological effects of a high-impact sport like football, and why it appears President Biden’s gun control executive orders would do little to prevent such incidents in the future.

Recorded and aired on Friday, April 9th, 2021 in Washington, DC.

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Thumbnail Image: Accused murderer and former Florida State and NFL WR Travis Rudolph, flanked by ESPN's Marty Smith, Leah Paske and her son Bo Paske. Rudolph made national headlines for the kindness he showed young Bo Paske, an autistic child from Tallahassee, Florida that Rudolph befriended on a visit to his middle school during his time as a college athlete for the Florida State Seminoles football team (2014-2016).
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TIME Magazine article on Rudolph's kindness: to Bo Paske:
https://time.com/4480526/boy-autism-florida-state-travis-rudolph/

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https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/crime/york-county-doctor-mass-shooting-phillip-adams-suspect-father-identifies-son/275-2fa8b949-1a7f-4a86-a90b-2223b595a756

Former NFL defensive back who went on a killing spree this week in York County, South Carolina, Phillip Adams; and his father, Alonzo Adams, photographed speaking from his vehicle just the day after his son snapped and killed five people before taking his own life.

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Description and Context for the Image found in the above link: Former Florida State University and New York Giants WR, Travis Rudolph, flanked by his mother and father (diseased since he was killed by mistake by an AK-47 while working as a handyman in 2017) in a photograph from what seems like a lifetime ago when he signed with Jimbo Fisher's Florida State Seminoles as a heralded 5-star recruit on January 2nd, 2014 in his hometown of West Palm Beach, Florida. It's impossible to not make the connection between Rudolph's father being senselessly killed while working as a handyman, and the tragic events of this past week that took someone else's life due to gun violence exactly 4 years to the month after his father's death. Image Credit: WPTV NBC 5

In the third segment of Friday's episode of "By Any Means Necessary" on Radio Sputnik, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Nate Wallace, co-host of Red Spin Sports podcast, for another edition of our weekly segment “The Red Spin Report.” They discuss the arguments heard by the Supreme Court this week in the antitrust lawsuit brought by former West Virginia running back Shawne Alston against the NCAA, and conservatives and liberals alike use the notion of “amateurism” to keep college athletes from profiting off their labor.

CNBC article summarizing the action from Alston v. NCAA at the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, March 31st

Recorded and aired on Friday, April 2nd, 2021 in Washington, DC.

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Part II: Edited video episode of the second half of the two-part conversation with Prof. Derrick White.

Part II of Nate Wallace's conversation with Professor Derrick E. White, author of the award-winning book, "Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Jake Gaither, Florida A&M and the History of Black College Football," on HBCU sporting congregations and their significance both historically and present-day. Nate and Prof. White get into a lot of topics from the book and the discussion takes off from there; taking us back in time while also making illuminating connections to how this history is as relevant as ever not just in the world of sport, but also society at large.

Thumbnail Image Credit: Getty Images: (Original Caption) Paul "Bear" Bryant of Alabama, left, and Alonzo "Jake" Gaither of Florida A&M, right, won the Kodak Awards as 1961 Coach of the Year, representing the major and small colleges respectively. The two coaches, both of whom enjoyed a 10-0 '61 season, were selected by the votes of 526 members of the American Football Coaches Association. Presenting awards in Gerald Zarow, vice president of Eastman Kodak Company.

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I was remiss in the intro not to mention that Prof. White's a co-host of "The Black Athlete Podcast" with Grand Valley State University Prof. Louis Moore. They produce amazing content & Redspin Sports encourages everyone to checkout their work (Apple Podcast link below).

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Prof. Derrick White's Bio: Born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky, I earned my Ph.D. in history from The Ohio State University. I use the lens of black organizational life to examine modern Black history, sports history, and intellectual history. My most recent book, Blood, Sweat, and Tears chronicles the development of black college football in the twentieth century, and is among the first comprehensive histories of black college athletics. Using the biography of Alonzo “Jake” Gaither and the history of the football program at Florida A&M University (FAMU), he shows how black college football and its supporters created successful programs during segregation by relying on a network of athletic enthusiasts in the media, on campuses, and in the community. I have published articles in New Politics, The Journal of African American History, the C.L.R. James Journal, the Journal of African American Studies, and the Florida Historical Quarterly. I co-host “The Black Athlete Podcast” with Professor Louis Moore, Grand Valley State University, and I tweet from @blackstar1906.

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The next two links are an interview RJ Young of Fox Sports did with Prof. White in 2020, and a February 2021 article Young wrote on Florida A&M's Jake Gaither, Bob Hayes, and black college football.

https://soundcloud.com/woosahrj/blood...​

https://www.foxsports.com/stories/col...​

A few more links to articles related to Prof. White, his book, and the topics he covers in it.

https://ussporthistory.com/2019/10/05...​

https://uncpress.org/book/97814696524...​

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya7Cg...​ (Prof. White outlines his book published by UNC Press in this video for UNC Press's YouTube channel)

This interview with Prof. White was recorded on Friday, March 12th, 2021.

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Nate Wallace, co-host of Red Spin Sports podcast for another edition of our weekly segment “The Red Spin Report.” They discuss efforts to remove the name of Confederate general Robert E. Lee from Washington-Lee University in Virginia and Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville, Florida, as well as the intellectual bankruptcy of the “Lost Cause” narrative advanced by new-confederate factions.

Nate coached high school football for the now (since desegregation & white flight) nearly all black Lee Generals (Jacksonville, Fla.) varsity football team in 2009 & 2010, and he connects how that experience -and the role team sports play more broadly in identity formation for players and alums- affects and complicates the issues of school names & mascots.

As always, the social and political contradictions that exist as a natural byproduct of living under a fundamentally exploitative economic system that continues to fuel augmenting income & wealth inequality, are unpacked and explored within the context of the still ongoing battles over appropriately characterizing the Confederate government for what it was -and the logic of its reactionary ideology still is, a criminal enterprise built on naked economic exploitation, an unparalleled system of human trafficking, & the violently enforced bondage of the most basic human rights of enslaved African peoples. The enduring mythos of "The Lost Cause" is a testament to the power of white supremacy in these United States. Why? If not for the -racist decision- to abandon the promises made to emancipated peoples in the form of ending federal military reconstruction in 1877 (a decision long in the making by the time it became official), the militarily, but not necessarily ideologically, vanquished "redeemers of the South" never could have returned to power to institute a Jim Crow system of racialized terror in the 1880's and 1890's. Furthermore, "Lost Cause" propagandists such as the United Daughters of the Confederacy would not have had the political power to advance their ahistorical narratives into K-12 school curriculums across the states of the former Confederacy and beyond; it is precisely because of the UDC's ideological victory in being able to craft racist and classist narratives about the Civil War and what it was truly fought over (i.e. SLAVERY and the "rights" of slavers to expand their "peculiar institution" into the westward and rapidly expanding settler colonial geography of the mid 19th century United States).

So the reality is as William Faulkner so accurately put it: "the past is not dead, in fact, it's not even past." Those words couldn't have been more true on Thursday, March 25th, in both the auditorium and overflow crowd in the adjacent library of Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville, Fla.

Checkout the 90 seconds (I -Nate- could have managed better but was caught off guard after waiting nearly 4 hours to speak) I had to speak on this issue in the tweet below. Despite the self-criticism, it still gets at the core issue: the continued power of the fallacious "Lost Cause" narrative which tries to explain away why the "morally superior" Confederacy was vanquished on the battlefield. Those who ascribe to "Lost Cause" history are invariably delusional, masters of white "grievance politics," acting as if they are somehow "the victims" while ignoring and having contempt for all who dare point out the ahistorical contradictions their arguments rest upon.

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Recorded and aired on Friday, March 26th, 2021 in Washington, DC.

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