Colin Kaepernick refuses “to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses Black people”...
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I ain't mad at em,.. -
It is what it is
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black caesar wrote: »A lot of emotion in these posts. You don't ? up the golden goose to be a broke activist. Standing for the anthem ain't no ? ? . In a few years Colin K will be a 30 for 30. It's honorable what he did, but at the end of the day, he sacrificed his platform to make a point, and now he can no longer even use that platform in silence because it's not there.
You can't wave a red flag in front of a bull and not expect it to charge. Everybody wanna cry that blackball ? like the owners don't still hold the cards. If i'm dez and I see what Kap is goin through, i'ma lay in the cut too, hell yea.
Like somebody said before. A lot of ? been quietly on some trill ? they whole careers.
Dez has money man. If he saved up like he should have, he would have what's called "? you" money.
See the problem is, these high paid athletes need to pool their resources together and start their OWN league, but some don't see the big picture.
It really ain't that simple...and it takes alot more than people would probably imagine to start an entire league. Especially one to compete with a multi billion dollar corporation that's already in existence. I'm not saying it's impossible, but the way this gets tossed around really over simplifies it -
Go to the Arena Football League or the CFL...see how that works out.
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Every man makes their own choices. He was willing to sacrifice for what he believed in. Instead of questioning other players to get "quotes" and shaming those who aren't down why not use that energy to show Kap some love or support. Dez made his choice and the only person that has to live with that is him
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stringer bell wrote: »
We really need to know how to use the term "? ". ? is what whitey called your black ? . Whitlock and his ilk would be what they call a "Tom" not a ? .
My brother, we always take terms and give'em new meanings ...we all understand ? and uncle tom are being used interchangeably now days.
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No... not Tim... Not Tim!!!!!
Why Time, why? Cause that ? don't give a ? . If you know anything about Lynch you should know he doesn't give two ? . He's going to do what he wants. Definitely when he's right (like this time) and most likely when he's wrong too. -
stringer bell wrote: »
We really need to know how to use the term "? ". ? is what whitey called your black ? . Whitlock and his ilk would be what they call a "Tom" not a ? .
My brother, we always take terms and give'em new meanings ...we all understand ? and uncle tom are being used interchangeably now days.
And ? still use them ? wrong most of the time -
stringer bell wrote: »
We really need to know how to use the term "? ". ? is what whitey called your black ? . Whitlock and his ilk would be what they call a "Tom" not a ? .
I've been saying this for the longest but ? don't listen -
black caesar wrote: »A lot of emotion in these posts. You don't ? up the golden goose to be a broke activist. Standing for the anthem ain't no ? ? . In a few years Colin K will be a 30 for 30. It's honorable what he did, but at the end of the day, he sacrificed his platform to make a point, and now he can no longer even use that platform in silence because it's not there.
You can't wave a red flag in front of a bull and not expect it to charge. Everybody wanna cry that blackball ? like the owners don't still hold the cards. If i'm dez and I see what Kap is goin through, i'ma lay in the cut too, hell yea.
Like somebody said before. A lot of ? been quietly on some trill ? they whole careers.
Dez has money man. If he saved up like he should have, he would have what's called "? you" money.
See the problem is, these high paid athletes need to pool their resources together and start their OWN league, but some don't see the big picture.
It really ain't that simple...and it takes alot more than people would probably imagine to start an entire league. Especially one to compete with a multi billion dollar corporation that's already in existence. I'm not saying it's impossible, but the way this gets tossed around really over simplifies it
so you telling me if the all the top players? in the league left and started they own ? they would have to compete with the shield? gtfoh. all they will have is the pats and thats because its a "white" team. and it is that simple. like i said in an earlier post, you tell me that these ? couldnt rent a high school football field for sundays just to play? gtfohwtbs. they just dont want to take the pay cut because they could give a ? about the future they want their ? now -
Comes from the top. Jerry Jones has built some deep roots in Texas, Not exactly a state known historically for its friendliness towards our kind.
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Don't get mad, get real. And he could do more with an NFL salary, and the title of NFL quarterback playing into his late 30s then he can without the two. That interview tour ain't even going to amount to what he would get paid if he only played in division games.
Far from mad this the internet ? this ? ain't real.
What he could do with that nfl money ain't none of your concern. Why pocket watching that man?
It's saying alot about you that you keeping referencing another man's money to what that man is willing to forego over his own self-respect and the respect of his people.
Saying ? on the internet ain't real is how people ignored and let those white supremacists congregate online for years.
That changes nothing I said.
It ain't real until there is some action put behind it cause.....
Tough talk and mean looks ain't never did ? to anybody! -
Basically he said " regular black ppl? I'm only worried about $$$". He feels like hes on a peddlestool. Cacs have a way of knockin yo black azz off that same peddlestool once you stop performing at a high level
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https://sports.yahoo.com/chris-long-anthem-protest-support-time-people-look-like-step-123338919.html
Defensive End Chris Long is supporting Malcolm Jenkins in the Anthem Protest
says its time for White Ppl to step up -
BusterBreeze wrote: »https://sports.yahoo.com/chris-long-anthem-protest-support-time-people-look-like-step-123338919.html
Defensive End Chris Long is supporting Malcolm Jenkins in the Anthem Protest
says its time for White Ppl to step up
Chris Long been a real one!
Only white dude that actually supported Kaep! -
Jermichael Finley talking about he thinks Kaep, Marshawn and Bennett are only protesting for marketing and attention. This ? need to sit his ass down somewhere
He's just repeating what his white friends said -
Ghostdenithegawd wrote: »
nah he owns his comments -
Finley said he is getting educated on social issues
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Finley said he is getting educated on social issues
Should've done that before he said that ? in the first place -
BusterBreeze wrote: »https://sports.yahoo.com/chris-long-anthem-protest-support-time-people-look-like-step-123338919.html
Defensive End Chris Long is supporting Malcolm Jenkins in the Anthem Protest
says its time for White Ppl to step up
I respect what Long did.. And what Jenkins & Bennett are trying to do.. But I don't get why they're obsessing over getting white athletes to join/support the cause.. The majority white folks(not all) are never going to care about the plight of black folks.. During the civil rights era every black person who spoke the truth about what was going on in this racist ass country was hated.. Even the most peaceful black man ever MLK was deemed the "most hated black in AmerikkkaAmerica" by some white supremacist magazine.. Whitey didn't start liking MLK until a white terrorist assassinated him.. And then they used his memory and likeness as propaganda tool to keep ? subjected.. White folks aren't going to suddenly start caring about police brutality,racial profiling and those pigs across the country unjustly killing black folks.. Because white athletes start protesting.. IMO.. They should focus on speaking out against the serious injustices happening to black folks and trying to educate these young black kids about what's going on in this country.. Like Kap is doing w/ his "Know Your Rights" initiative...
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eastbay510 wrote: »
True, but credit where it's due, a lot of people that say stupid ? just double down on the stupid ? (see Donald Trump), so the fact that he is at least willing to expand his view his good. -
The Lonious Monk wrote: »eastbay510 wrote: »
True, but credit where it's due, a lot of people that say stupid ? just double down on the stupid ? (see Donald Trump), so the fact that he is at least willing to expand his view his good.
I don't know that ? but I just don't think that ? is sincere. Feel he only saying that ? because of the backlash he got. Now if he is sincere all credit to him for trying to correct his mistake and learn.
I could be wrong but I could be right!! -
http://www.thenewstribune.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/john-mcgrath/article167208362.htmlIf Michael Bennett wants to sit for anthem, maybe he should walk away from football
By John McGrath
On the night he acknowledged the pregame national anthem by sitting alone on the bench, with a towel draped over his head, Michael Bennett insisted he was neither anti-military nor anti-American.
“I love the military, my father’s in the military,” he said after the Seahawks exhibition opener Sunday. “I love hot dogs like any other American. I love football like any other American. But I don’t love segregation. I don’t love riots or oppression.
“I just want to see people have the equality they deserve, and I want to use my platform to be able to continuously push the message of that.”
Bennett’s outspoken advocacy for equality is laudable, and any reasonable person shares his loathing of segregation, riots and oppression.
But there’s a problem about this “platform” he mentioned. It’s not entirely his and his alone. From the the moment he takes the field before kickoff, and the moment he returns to locker room after the final gun, Bennett belongs to a team.
As an accomplished NFL player, he has ample opportunities to serve as a change agent preaching justice for all: Seven months during the off-season, six full days a week between August and January.
But over the three and half hours he’s competing for the Seattle Seahawks on Sundays, his ambitiously virtuous platform should be limited to the mundane matter of winning a football game.
It’s a fair compromise, no? As a citizen of a nation conceived by a protest movement strong enough to achieve independence, Bennett gets every right to voice opinions on issues unrelated to football.
But as part of a roster assembled with athletes from coast to coast, from gated-community neighborhoods to neighborhoods where the only gates are in front of windows and doors, Bennett’s national-anthem stance — or lack thereof — is distracting and potentially divisive.
Like baseball dugouts, football sidelines are team-centric sanctuaries where any kind of disruption goes viral on social media. The Seahawks became familiar with the phenomenon a year ago, when star cornerback Richard Sherman had a pair of meltdown tantrums that suggested the Hawks were not so much a team as a collection of splinter factions coexisting tenuously.
While no fellow players criticized Bennett’s refusal to join them for the anthem, I suspect at least a few of them were not thrilled by the snapshot of the towel hanging over his head.
It’s one thing to sit down while everybody else in the stadium is standing, and quite another to sit down in a gesture that amounted to exclamation point.
Make the sit-down statement, OK. Making the sit-down statement with a towel over your head pushes the line, and Bennett’s job is to push another kind of line.
“This is bigger than me,” Bennett said of America’s racially polarized climate. “This is bigger than football. This is bigger than anything we have. This is about people.”
Except for three and a half hours a week, when all it’s about is the guys on your team beating the guys on the other team. There’s a time and place to advance deeply rooted philosophic ideals, and it’s not on the sideline, a few minutes before kickoff.
“People say ‘you’re making money, you’ve got a Nike endorsement, you’ve got some other endorsement, you’re not part of the society,’” Bennett continued. “But you’re part of the society, to show every person that no matter what you believe in, keep fighting for it, keep fighting for equality. Keep fighting for oppressed people, and keep trying to change society.”
Bennett speaks with the passion of an activist who might want to explore a post-football career in politics. His voice is loud and clear, defiantly candid and yet consistently humane. From a distance, it seems to me he’s a five-star prospect.
But once a week, for three and a half hours, nothing should matter more to Michael Bennett than participating in football games and their attendant rituals.
If his fiercest motivation as a Seahawks defensive end is to bring about change in America, a four-letter word comes to mind.
Quit.
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stringer bell wrote: »
http://www.sacbee.com/sports/nfl/san-francisco-49ers/article167948327.html49ers John Lynch gets second chance to explain flag stance, regrets using ‘divisive’
John Lynch got a second chance to discuss his view of anthem protests on Friday morning.
His Wednesday comments on the subject drew criticism after he said the protests can be "divisive" and that he'd always seen the national anthem, and the game of football, as a way to bring disparate groups of people together.
Speaking on KNBR radio, Lynch said he regretted the word divisive.
"If I could take one thing back, I would have changed that word," he said. "Because of the negative connotation. But I was really trying to make the point that our game should be a beacon for what can be."