Colin Kaepernick refuses “to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses Black people”...
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black caesar wrote: »Just a quick PSA to let ya'll know Shannon Sharpe needs to be protected. Throw hands for the homie.
Now back to the thread topic.
I watched that and that ? said " i be on them milds and that yak!" I ? died lol love that ? -
5th Letter wrote: »This is what they want black people to stand up for?
"And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country, should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave"
Any and everytime cacs bring up violent rap music each and every black person should bring this up -
eastbay510 wrote: »So I heard David Carr got hurt today, I’m not sure how serious it is... and I know it’s late in the game hoping Kaepernick gets a job anywhere...
But not having a decent backup QB killed the Raiders last year and Kaep is beloved in the Bay Area, if he is was gonna get a chance anywhere Oakland would be perfect. -
stringer bell wrote: »
Peters the homie. I wish him nothing but best in life. Trill -
They just dropped mike bennet arrest bodycam footage....2 latino n 1 blk cop...hes running while everyone is down...hes sounding like a ? about to cry lmaoo...funny how that story fizzled out
Sad....
When are mods gonna take care of this racist troll for good? -
http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2017/09/29/ray-lewis-anthem-controversy-mom-speaks/‘We’re About Prayer, Not Protest,’ Ray Lewis & His Mom Speak Out On NFL Anthem Controversy
It’s a controversial protest sweeping the NFL right now.
Images seen around the world from the Ravens first-ever game in London, shows Ravens legend Ray Lewis, arm-in-arm with players, on his knees during the national anthem.
Players say taking a knee during the anthem is to bring attention to racial injustice. But in an exclusive interview with WJZ, Ray and his mother explained his actions on the sideline.
“We’re about prayer, not protest,” says Lewis.
Ray spoke to WJZ via Facetime from New York with his brother by his side.
“It’s a bad day when a man is crucified for praying,” says Lewis.
[Jessica Kartalija: “When you look at that picture, Ray, both of you — do you see how people could misinterpret it?”]
“Absolutely not! Absolutely not! All of these brothers that’s praying across the league, you got to look at the league, what we do — we pray!” says Ray.
Text messages sent between Ray and his mom reference his taking two knees and praying.
“I will not apologize for my son on two knees praying. I cannot apologize for that,” says Ray’s mom Sunseria “Buffy” Smith.
But since that game in London, more than 60,000 people have signed an online petition to remove Ray’s statue outside M&T Bank Stadium, which was placed there in 2014 honoring the two-time Super Bowl Champion.
[Jessica Kartalija: “What bothers you the most out of this entire situation — is it the perception that the kneeling gave, is it that people are calling for the removal of the statue, what is it that’s really getting to you?”]
“All this was taken out of proportion. He was not kneeling against, disrespecting our America. I said to Ray, you went down for the team with one knee and two knees for Jesus,” says Buffy Smith.
“Now this is where we come to as a country, to where now you want to remove a monument? A monument means things I’ve already done, not things that I have to do,” says Lewis.
Ray Lewis wanted to share this song that he says inspires him, Bob Marley’s “High Tide or Low Tide.”
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stringer bell wrote: »http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2017/09/29/ray-lewis-anthem-controversy-mom-speaks/‘We’re About Prayer, Not Protest,’ Ray Lewis & His Mom Speak Out On NFL Anthem Controversy
It’s a controversial protest sweeping the NFL right now.
Images seen around the world from the Ravens first-ever game in London, shows Ravens legend Ray Lewis, arm-in-arm with players, on his knees during the national anthem.
Players say taking a knee during the anthem is to bring attention to racial injustice. But in an exclusive interview with WJZ, Ray and his mother explained his actions on the sideline.
“We’re about prayer, not protest,” says Lewis.
Ray spoke to WJZ via Facetime from New York with his brother by his side.
“It’s a bad day when a man is crucified for praying,” says Lewis.
[Jessica Kartalija: “When you look at that picture, Ray, both of you — do you see how people could misinterpret it?”]
“Absolutely not! Absolutely not! All of these brothers that’s praying across the league, you got to look at the league, what we do — we pray!” says Ray.
Text messages sent between Ray and his mom reference his taking two knees and praying.
“I will not apologize for my son on two knees praying. I cannot apologize for that,” says Ray’s mom Sunseria “Buffy” Smith.
But since that game in London, more than 60,000 people have signed an online petition to remove Ray’s statue outside M&T Bank Stadium, which was placed there in 2014 honoring the two-time Super Bowl Champion.
[Jessica Kartalija: “What bothers you the most out of this entire situation — is it the perception that the kneeling gave, is it that people are calling for the removal of the statue, what is it that’s really getting to you?”]
“All this was taken out of proportion. He was not kneeling against, disrespecting our America. I said to Ray, you went down for the team with one knee and two knees for Jesus,” says Buffy Smith.
“Now this is where we come to as a country, to where now you want to remove a monument? A monument means things I’ve already done, not things that I have to do,” says Lewis.
Ray Lewis wanted to share this song that he says inspires him, Bob Marley’s “High Tide or Low Tide.”
‘We’re About Prayer, Not Protest,’ Ray Lewis & His Mom
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This guy just needs to shut up. He's making in worse.
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VulcanRaven wrote: »This guy just needs to shut up. He's making in worse.
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I was looking forward to Ray's HOF speech now after this ? . ? that smh
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I was looking forward to Ray's HOF speech now after this ? . ? that smh
I've been wondering for a while now how its going to play out when his time comes especially if all this is still a huge issue that all mainstream media is still talking about daily. -
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Did u watch the video u stupid fat ? ?
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Smh @ them inviting that old Trump fanboy Robert Kraft... -
http://www.greensboro.com/opinion/columns/walter-williams-nfl-players-ought-to-protest-high-black-murder/article_25c86f27-e72b-513d-968b-b128b1469e3d.htmlWalter Williams: NFL players ought to protest high black murder rate
Let’s throw out a few numbers so we can put in perspective the NFL players taking a knee during the playing of the national anthem. Many say they are protesting against police treatment of blacks and racial discrimination. We might ask just how much sense their protest makes.
According to The Washington Post, 737 people have been shot and killed by police this year in the United States. Of that number, there were 329 whites, 165 blacks, 112 Hispanics, 24 members of other races and 107 people whose race was unknown. In Illinois, home to one of our most dangerous cities — Chicago — 18 people have been shot and killed by police this year. In the city itself, police have shot and killed 10 people and shot and wounded 10 others. Somebody should ask the kneeling black NFL players why they are protesting this kind of killing in the Windy City and ignoring other sources of black death.
Here are the Chicago numbers for the ignored deaths. So far in 2017, there have been 533 murders and 2,880 shootings. On average, a person is shot every two hours and 17 minutes and murdered every 12 1/2 hours. In 2016, when Colin Kaepernick started taking a knee, Chicago witnessed 806 murders and 4,379 shootings. It turns out that most of the murder victims are black. Adding to the tragedy is the fact that Chicago has a 12.7 percent murder clearance rate. That means that when a black person is murdered, his perpetrator is found and charged with his murder less than 13 percent of the time.
Similar statistics regarding police killing blacks versus blacks killing blacks apply to many of our predominantly black urban centers, such as Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans, St. Louis and Oakland.
Many Americans, including me, see the black NFL player protest of police brutality as pathetic, useless showboating. Seeing as these players have made no open protest against the thousands of blacks being murdered and maimed by blacks, they must view it as trivial in comparison with the police killings. Most of the police killings fit into the category of justified homicide.
NFL players are not by themselves. How much condemnation do black politicians, civil rights leaders and liberal whites give to the wanton black homicides in our cities? When have you heard them condemning the very low clearance rate, whereby most black murderers get away with murder? Do you believe they would be just as silent if it were the Ku Klux ? committing the murders?
What’s to blame for this mayhem? If you ask an intellectual, a leftist or an academic in a sociology or psychology department, he will tell you that it is caused by poverty, discrimination and a lack of opportunities. But the black murder rate and other crime statistics in the 1940s and ’50s were not nearly so high as they are now.
I wonder whether your intellectual, leftist or academic would explain that we had less black poverty, less racial discrimination and far greater opportunities for blacks during earlier periods than we do today. He’d have to be an unrepentant idiot to make such an utterance.
So what can be done? Black people need to find new heroes. Right now, at least in terms of the support given, their heroes are criminals such as Baltimore’s Freddie Gray, Ferguson’s Michael Brown and Florida’s Trayvon Martin. Black support tends to go toward the criminals in the community rather than to the overwhelming number of people in the community who are law-abiding. That needs to end. What also needs to end is the lack of respect for and cooperation with police officers.
Some police are crooked, but black people are likelier to be victims of violent confrontations with police officers than whites simply because blacks commit more violent crimes than whites per capita.
For a race of people, these crime statistics are by no means flattering, but if something good is to be done about it, we cannot fall prey to the blame games that black politicians, black NFL players, civil rights leaders and white liberals want to play. If their vision is accepted, we can expect little improvement of the status quo.
Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University.
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Did that ? say that blacks that fight for the Confederacy did so because they saw Northerners as aggressors? Where is the ? farm that they grow these ? ? Somebody needs to firebomb that ? .
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Shannon Sharpe been makin up lately for being a mayweather groupie before the fight on the show
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This ? got me dying laughing -
soul rattler wrote: »
This ? got me dying laughing
? is dumb. Lynch been sitting for the anthem since before Kaep started his thing. -
The Lonious Monk wrote: »soul rattler wrote: »
This ? got me dying laughing
? is dumb. Lynch been sitting for the anthem since before Kaep started his thing.
Difference is, Lynch doesn't feel the need to explain himself. Hell, he might not have a reason at all and that's fine. It's these white folk who think they're owed an explanation everytime something happens that they don't like. -
stringer bell wrote: »The Lonious Monk wrote: »Did that ? say that blacks that fight for the Confederacy did so because they saw Northerners as aggressors? Where is the ? farm that they grow these ? ? Somebody needs to firebomb that ? .
Its not far fetched. Blacks faught on both sides of the Civil War and the same way some of us tap dance today with the false sense of inclusion, I'm sure it happened back then too.
How many people poured into the military after 9/11 just to invade a country who had nothing to do with it? Indoctrination and blind patriotism can work wonders.