Posted on 10/02/2017 8:48:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
GB is going down the tubes. I guess maybe he’d feel better if we crashed and burned with the rest of them.
Let’s see some athletes kneel TO PRAY. See how long THAT lasts!!!
Instead of self-aggrandizement go into Chicago, Detroit, or any crime-ridden neighborhood and make a personalized difference. The showboating is just telling someone else to do it.
Would I be out of line, if I said this twit should FOAD? If that’s a little over the top, maybe I should say he can just FO. 😀😆😄
I love my anthem, flag and country more than NFL and motorsports.
He is right about one thing —it is not his anthem. What he misses is that it is also not his business. He misrepresents the racial problem as being worse in America than anywhere else in the world (seriously?) and then he has the arrogance to tell people to “try to educate themselves” about why athletes are taking the knee. Well, educate this, Lewis.
[[A reserve deputy in Oklahoma did pretty much the same thing about two years ago.]]
I remember that one- one thought he pulled out his stun gun, but it was a real gun- he was a rookie too-
My point is that the left and black folks are tryign to paint the police force nationwide as racist and full of police brutality/shootings of ‘innocent unarmed men’- but hte fact is that out of the 100’s of 1000’s of police on citizen acts, only a very very small number are actually racist/police brutality-
As MPJackal pointed out- only a very small number of black folks are killed each year by police compared to white folks killed- the stats show black folks are LESS likely to die by police than white folks-
The football player lectures us about ‘educating ourselves about why players are protesting’ but it is he who needs educating and I bet he can’t name even a 1/2 dozen cases of TRUE police brutality where a TRULY innocent black man was shot for no reason other than racism by a police officer
It’s so yesterday. They need another new fad. Immolation sounds good and is quite visual.
exactly- whites are more likely to be killed by police than black folks are but whites aren’t screaming about ‘racial profiling’ or ‘police brutality’ and rioting and burning neighborhoods everytime a white person is killed by a cop
Hamilton, who is from the UK...
SHUT UP you twit.
For crying out loud.
BLM is in Britain, too. The black soccer players in the English Premier League are talking about having protests of their own.
Adjusted to take into account the racial breakdown of the U.S. population, he said black men are 3.5 times more likely to be killed by police than white men. But also adjusted to take into account the racial breakdown in violent crime, the data actually show that police are less likely to kill black suspects than white ones.
“If one adjusts for the racial disparity in the homicide rate or the rate at which police are feloniously killed, whites are actually more likely to be killed by police than blacks,” said Mr. Moskos, a former Baltimore cop and author of the book “Cop in the Hood.”
“Adjusted for the homicide rate, whites are 1.7 times more likely than blacks die at the hands of police,” he said. “Adjusted for the racial disparity at which police are feloniously killed, whites are 1.3 times more likely than blacks to die at the hands of police.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/apr/21/police-kill-more-whites-than-blacks-but-minority-d/
He can do what he wants in his own country. Here, he is a guest in someone else’s house.
I know that it’s just the white in me talking when I say this, but I will start taking BLMers everywhere more seriously when they start getting concerned about how blacks in Chicago and every other major city shoot each other by the dozen every week, or about the tribal genocides that occur on a regular basis in Africa.
For my part, I have never taken a black life in the line of duty and I have had the occasion to do so. The difference was that they surrendered at the moment of truth.
The truth is that police save far more black lives than take and that should be lauded at every opportunity.
THAT would put BLM back on their heels and negate their argument to nigh standstill.
The only time this guy should kneel is if he is replacing his own tires.
If you the sharks are in a feeding frenzy, don’t jump in with a pork chop around your neck.
If he had a brain he would be dangerous.....v well balanced, he has a monster chip on both shoulders.
[[The truth is that police save far more black lives than take and that should be lauded at every opportunity.]]
Absolutely- like i said in previous posts on the issue- police engage people 100’s of 1000’s of times every year (and maybe even a lot more- I’m just guessing at the number)- and almost 100% of those engagements end without extreme violence or death- and they/you risk their lives DAILY for our sakes- all our sakes- and like you said- they risk their lives protecting all our lives every day- and it just rips me up watching the nfl and others ignore these facts, and disrespect the police, and other professions that lay their lives on the lines for them every single day- The ingratitude on their parts is deafening
Well said, thanks Bob.
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