Posted on 09/25/2017 4:29:37 AM PDT by Kaslin
We can all conjur up something to be angry about. But it seems to me that blacks are mad that their culture and traditions can not compete economically within the United States. Affirmitive action did not help. Wefare did not help. Children out of wedlock did not help. Murder in inner cities did not help. Rap culture did not help. Black Liberation Theology did not help. Obama did not help.
The only thing that will help is turn to God for guidance, work hard at whatever job you are capable of, get married, stay married, raise your kids to be good citizens with a work ethic reflected by your own actions, value education, be content with what you have and hope for a better future for your kids.
Only reason I know it, is because I surfed through Game 1 yesterday, while I was looking for the news.
The NFL, if it continues, may be destined for such irrelevancy.
The owners seem to be in a tight spot.
If the owners terminate a Player:
The Player Union will fight any termination of their membership.
ESPN and the Media will paint you as raycist
The Community Organizer will send ANTIFA and BAMN to your home and terrorize your children and wife.
George Soros funded lawyers will sue you and try to bankrupt you.
Thanks Barry Soetoro!
..HEAR HEAR !
I can protest whatever I want - but not on my company’s time. It’s the same with these NFL brats.
They can be compelled to show some respect for our nation abs our flag on company time - or be fired.
I still say Tomlin is a coward and Villanueva is the only man on that team.
I agree with you 100% on that. But that's not Tomlin's decision to make. He's the head coach, not the owner of the team or the general manager. Very few (if any) head coaches actually make player personnel decisions ... they just coach the team with the players they are given.
This all comes down on the NFL team owners ... not the coaches, not the NFL front office, or anyone else.
Tomlin needs to feel heat from somewhere for his comments re; Villanueva in the press conference afterwards, is there any way for that to happen?
For example ... the player can be relegated to the inactive squad for the remainder of the season, and never set foot on the field again for the team. He will still collect his salary for that season, but since NFL contracts are only guaranteed on a year-by-year basis he can be cut from the team after the season is over.
This is actually part of the NFL published rules on behavior on the field. The players are violating it with impunity. They must be fired, fined, benched or otherwise disciplined.
Bye bye, no buy NFL. Hello NASL, La Liga, EPL,Bundesliga, Serie "A" etc., etc, etc.
BTTP
Let's say there was a tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr, right before his birthday (holiday), and the announcer at a game said, "Please rise is recognition of MLK, Jr, and all the Civil Rights who sacrificed for their cause." If a few white guys refused to stand, or took a knee, they would be called, crackers, racists and white supremacists.
You don’t bite the hand that feeds. The NFL is demonizing its fan base. It’s time for fans to wake up and show their disgust by not showing up for games. If you already have season tickets, show up and then leave en masse after the Anthem. Tell the owners and Networks that you will not sit there and be insulted by the people whose extravagant lifestyles you are funding.
HA! Don't hold your breath.
>> We will not stand for the injustice that has plagued people of color in this country.
If this country is so horrible, why don’t they move somewhere else? Leftists keep telling us how superior other countries and cultures are. If things are so much better somewhere else, then move.
I would definitely move if there were another country that was more conservative and less socialistic than the US.
When NFL players began taking knees and raising Black Panther fists during games last year, the NFL had to take swift action. It failed.All of the so-called protestors should be cut loose, even if only at the ends of their current contracts. Since very few of them have any non-sports skills, and can't do so much as balance a checkbook, they'll all begin a long downward spiral (sportscasting will be out, as it is for all the protest advocates currently in the biz), and go out the way they'd otherwise have gone out anyway -- killed by a member of their own family, killed by a rival gang, or of exposure while under the influence. Good riddance.
You can say it AGAIN and AGAIN. AMEN!
A simple statement would have sufficed: “The NFL respects and encourages freedom of speech. The NFL also respects America, and strongly encourages all players and staff to stand proudly for our national anthem, and to engage in individual protests on their own time.
That’s all he had to do. He failed.
You're right tgusa - this is part of the culture war and they are playing to win... What's bad for the NFL is we're suited up and ready to get on the field with them. Game on.
from a culture wars perspective, it was probably inevitable that this issue came about.
it seems as if there are very few if any large public venues left that allow celebrating the USA as a nation without protests of this sort.
If black men and women have reasons to be angry it is because the Democrats and teachers’ unions keep their kids trapped in failing schools. The entire narrative of injustice towards blacks is based on lies! The knucklehead who wrote this trying to be “fair” should read Heather MacDonald’s books that prove that cops are not out shooting black guys on a whim. As for prison reform, do people know just how bad a crime someone has to commit to be sent to prison? Inmates are not a bunch of teens who got caught with a joint.
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