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NFL QB Colin Kaepernick sits during Nat. Anthem; cites America's oppression of POC
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DasPenguin
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Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf lost his whole career for not standing during the anthem. Hopefully times have changed and Kaep doesn't suffer the same fate. Well, the way he is playing that might happen anyway, but not because of this.
Frozenprince
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Shaq was so pissed for how dirty they did Mahmoud.
DasPenguin
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My favourite player of all time. Mahmoud would've benefitted greatly of the current NBA rules. He was hand checked to death by bigger guards. But now I'm derailing the issue. Hopefully the NFL stays out of this. NBA wasn't smart enough to do so.
FrenchMovieTheme
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NFL already came out and said that players are encouraged, not required, to stand during the national anthem so there aren't going to be any issues from the league or team as far as that goes
DasPenguin
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Ok, so that's the first thing NFL has done correctly in the past ten years or so. Miracles can happen. I was waiting for a 6 game suspension or something like that.
This protest respectfully shit is always amusing.
What kind of rose colored glasses are you using to view the history of this country? People haven't always been free under our flag.
Do you think it doesn't? What did Richard Sherman do that was thug-like?
I love how you stopped responding to Ninja Scooter once he brought up some of the atrocities that have been committed under the flag.
What kind of rose colored glasses are you using to view the history of this country? People haven't always been free under our flag.
Do you think it doesn't? What did Richard Sherman do that was thug-like?
bobbychalkers
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Tell us how you really feel
DasPenguin
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Yeah I'm pretty sure that belongs in the "we don't know what we are doing" category. Right there with CTE, Ray Rice, and every "Adderall" suspension the NFL has ever given. And this is derailing the thread once again.
Frozenprince
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Graduate Stanford with a 4.0 GPA?
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Lol white people are going to be so mad.
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While I'm all for the suspension of any and all patriot players, the reason for it was still immensely stupid.
Officerrob
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Kaep might have been days away from being cut before this
Gordon Shumway
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lol..I can't help but just laugh at your tiny baby hands. Silly baby corn child..
Frozenprince
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Dude's shoulder is shot. His career was probably pretty much over regardless of what happened with this.
RBelong2Us
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Kap is good at one thing, stealing teammates hoes.
Dudes pulling hoes rating is about 155.0
Dudes pulling hoes rating is about 155.0
Fenderputty
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Surprised, but happy. The right wing is gonna shit a brick.
Um.
I'm not as easily impressed as GAF is. In fact I'm a bit offended because, as an American who truly wants equality for everyone - I feel his message divides us further.
He's not rejecting Americana or imperialism.
He's not protesting our military's bloodshed abroad.
He's certainly not protesting capitalism, because lord knows he's making more than I would in 10 lifetimes (That could be a miscalculation - he might be making more than that...)
In reality, he's protesting for the improvement of black lives -- which the American federal government has only improved over the course of two centuries.
If that flag didn't rise over the confederate flag, American black lives would be far worse off.
If that flag didn't rise of the swastika, American black lives would be far worse off.
If that flag didn't rise over the hammer-and-sickle, American black lives would be far worse off.
I personally feel this protest was misguided.
I'm not as easily impressed as GAF is. In fact I'm a bit offended because, as an American who truly wants equality for everyone - I feel his message divides us further.
He's not rejecting Americana or imperialism.
He's not protesting our military's bloodshed abroad.
He's certainly not protesting capitalism, because lord knows he's making more than I would in 10 lifetimes (That could be a miscalculation - he might be making more than that...)
In reality, he's protesting for the improvement of black lives -- which the American federal government has only improved over the course of two centuries.
If that flag didn't rise over the confederate flag, American black lives would be far worse off.
If that flag didn't rise of the swastika, American black lives would be far worse off.
If that flag didn't rise over the hammer-and-sickle, American black lives would be far worse off.
I personally feel this protest was misguided.
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I respect Kap for this. Unlike that coon Cam Newton who said racism doesn't exist anymore. He's the only player that has the guts to say something, the rest of these fucking clowns don't care becuase they're making millions.
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Ninja Scooter
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I feel like your post is incredibly misguided.
This notion that black people don't know how good they have it is, at best, incredibly naive and out of touch, and at worst, racist.
Yikes...
Frozenprince
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Yeah, it's not as bad as it would be if he was living in fucking Nazi Germany.
That doesn't mean there ain't a problem.
D1renegade
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This.
They cry and invoke MLK/ peaceful protest, but apparently even the latter isn't good enough for them.
He is protesting for fair treatment, to stop the way police treat POC. But you probably know that and still think that way.
8-Bit Sunset
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No, he should do what he believes in.
Fuck the shallow and weak conformists of society.
Russell Wilson should respect his views, over a bloody anthem.
Frozenprince
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I always took Nana as more of a FanDuel type of lady.
KINGofCRA5H
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Says the guy who made an incredibly misguided post?
The only group responsible for improving the lives of black citizens has been black citizens.
You mean the flag that wanted to keep black persons as property to appease the war from happening in the first places?
You mean the flag that gave black men that signed up to fight fake wooden guns at first, and fucked them over as much as possible on GI Bill benefits afterwards?
Not being the first one to pass out amongst a dare session of holding your breath versus someone else isn't really "rising over" anything.
Ninja Scooter
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Russell didn't actually say that. Just needs to be reiterated before people start attributing stuff to the guy.
So?
She likes to spread the money around, scared money don't make money
What is your argument here? What do you think is a respectable way for us blacks to protest cops?
Strongly worded letter to his local paper's rants and raves section
8-Bit Sunset
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Oh, I never knew that. :/
That tweet and the Quote marks would make everyone think otherwise.
Easy to take that out of context.
He has to make a flag of one of the officers that killed a black man and ask that the stadium raise that flag during the anthem so he can not stand up for the RIGHT thing clearly.
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In favor of setting Muslim women on fire
the classic "Black people complain about black stuff too much" argument
or is it the legendary "there are most important things happening in the world" argument....
No you see police aren't federal officers so even though it's a NATIONwide problem, when you don't stand up for the flag you are only disrespecting federal officers because no one is capable of parsing basic things. We're all idiots so he fucked up his protest.
Yeah, no fear of loss of life.
Like when you build a successful black neighborhood and the white citizens of the area firebomb and mass murder your friends and family just because you're successful and putting meals on the table.
FreedomFighter
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Totally support Kap in this.
Sports talk radio is gonna be lit this week.
I never understood why people get so emotional when POC don't feel the same sort of patriotism for US and the flag that they do. Like, how can you expect people of color to be as in love with America, the flag, as you are given the history and current systemic oppression they experience? I feel like these people are incapable of empathy, can't even just for a minute put themselves in someone else's shoes and try to understand a different point of view.
Sports talk radio is gonna be lit this week.
I never understood why people get so emotional when POC don't feel the same sort of patriotism for US and the flag that they do. Like, how can you expect people of color to be as in love with America, the flag, as you are given the history and current systemic oppression they experience? I feel like these people are incapable of empathy, can't even just for a minute put themselves in someone else's shoes and try to understand a different point of view.
Hellwarden
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Guy better brace himself.
Gonna have to put up the worst aspects of the nationalistic wankfest that surrounds Football.
Good on him tho.
Gonna have to put up the worst aspects of the nationalistic wankfest that surrounds Football.
Good on him tho.
partyphone
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lol assuming our gender. nice going.
Ah. So how do you explain the Chinese exclusion act of 1882? That was under dat flag. Segregation? Japanese internment? People thinking our Catholic president took orders from the pope? This argument is pretty poor.
Still disrespectful... maybe that paper had a hand in making life better for the blacks.
What about all of the other blacks who's lives were improved by not being killed by those officers? Still not respectful enough.
Don't forget the whole "The blacks don't know how well they have it!" nonsense.
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