LOOK: Susan Sarandon joins more than 1,000 at Kaepernick rally at NFL offices

CBS Sports ^ | August 24, 2017 | Will Brinson

[Zakeet]

The fury surrounding the employment status of Colin Kaepernick has been taken to a new level, reaching full-blown froth on Wednesday night in the form of a rally at NFL headquarters attended by thousands to protest Kaepernick being unsigned by a team.

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According to Tim Rohan of TheMMQB.com, the group of activists who organized the rally -- The People's Consortium for Human and Civil Rights, led by president Reverend Stephen Green -- had three demands of the NFL.

1. That the NFL institute a policy to protect players' rights to have freedom of speech, so they can kneel, raise a fist or express opinions on social issues, if they wish.

2. That the NFL establish a review board to, Green says, "examine issues of social injustice." As Tamika Mallory, a social activist and co-organizer of the 2017 Women's March, put it in her speech, "The NFL, just like the NYPD, cannot police itself. Any organization that is only being looked at from within is a failing organization. There must be a unit of people internally and externally that look at racial and cultural sensitivity issues within the NFL."

3. And that the NFL develop some sort of program to "reinvest into the communities in which they serve, where there are high rates of unemployment, high rates of mass incarceration. To re-invest those funds into the community," Green says.

Typically speaking, the noise surrounding an issue like this dies out once the games start being played. But this is not a typical situation: Kap doesn't have a job, which means with each week that passes and each horrific quarterback performance that we watch unfold, the noise could get louder.

[dennisw]

As in all the payoffs, bribes and raw cash stacks of Benjamins.

[madprof98]

The 2017 football fan look.

[GnuThere]

I guess when Susan buys a team, she can hire all the black militants she wants.
Until then...STFU.

[Hojczyk]

NFL is done...They should have stopped his the first week...

If you cannot stand for the National Anthem..stay in the locker room..til it is over..

[Alberta's Child]

2.That the NFL establish a review board to, Green says, "examine issues of social injustice."

Right. LMAO. As if the NFL is supposed to fixing every 'effing problem -- real or perceived -- Americans face.

There are more than 35,000 Americans losing their lives every year in motor vehicle crashes. Maybe the American Automobile Association should be picketing the NFL's headquarters, demanding that the league do something about it.

[mulligan]

He exercised his free speech, but is not willing to pay the results. He needs to grow up and act like a man.

[PapaBear3625]

That the NFL institute a policy to protect players' rights to have freedom of speech, so they can kneel, raise a fist or express opinions on social issues, if they wish.

Will other players have the right to wear red MAGA caps on the sidelines, if they wish?

[60Gunner]

The NFL is dead. The retention of Roger Goodell guarantees it.

[dfwgator]

“You Shall Die a Peasant’s Death”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsRxqLP0loY

[WKUHilltopper]

How about Krapperdick start his own football league...hopefully in North Korea.

[Maverick68]

Um, these people don’t watch football...

[A_Former_Democrat]

So won’t you smile for the camera
I know I’ll love you better

“I AM SpartaLEE”

[Alberta's Child]

Rule #1 in using public agitation to bring pressure to a major business establishment:

Don't picket their headquarters with a crowd of demonstrators who aren't your customers anyway.

[Pollster1]

The NFL has taken professional sports as entertainment and turned it into politics. As with everything else in politics, both sides will raise the stakes until the other side loses. As with everything else in politics, it is too late to withdraw from the game. No matter what they do, the NFL can no longer avoid offending a large fraction of their (soon to be former) viewers.

[JWNM]

This is political theater for her. Someone should ask her what position he plays and why she feels that, according to athletic ability, he should be on a team. Ask her how many games she watched last year. It’s all about show!

[southernindymom]

Where was the support for Tim Tebow from the libtards?

[Red Badger]

All the ‘protesters’ in the whole world cannot make him a good QB. He sucks at it. He was a flash in the pan and now he’s toast............................

[ScottinVA]

So these cretins “think” the NFL can force some team to sign that overrated malcontent?

[Red Badger]

He is the epitome of the Flash-In-The-Pan QB..........................

[raiderboy]

It is imperative that th e NFL be severely punished for this traitorous crap. . I suggest we take the field with our own protest and get on our knees in prayer until they carry us off.