Posted on 09/25/2017 5:22:07 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
You fellas in the NFL had better all stand with your hands over your hearts next Sunday, or your sport is doomed. It is pretty obvious that you don't believe this, but watch what happens next. You are forcing fans to choose between loyalty to lawless, disrespectful, bigoted black players mostly who feel they can do whatever they want whenever they want and the country governed by rules of law and requirements of patriotic loyalty to survive.
This is almost literally a choice between a collapsing path to severe division and civil war, or unity in honoring our country and flag a de-escalation of conflict. This is the dividing line in our history going forward. Either you are for this country, or, you are against it as it stands. You can NOT have it both ways. You are trying to FORCE us to accept your rebellion and get rid of Trump and all we voted for, or else.
Choose you this day whom you will serve moment for all of us. It actually is a choice between good and evil this time.
Similar thoughts here recently, from different angle.
Ok, so the US has an imperfect record on race relations. (Overlooking all that has been done to correct it, like Abolition, MLK, legislating equality, affirmative action, interracial marriage normalization, black President, etc.)
Why keep drawing attention to the unchangeable past?
What is gained by relentlessly pointing at what’s been done?
What do they - game players who make millions - want done that will satisfy them?
They want divisiveness. They want a fight, have designated the line, and have no resolution of grievances.
Game on. Hostilities have commenced.
There was an old Jimmy Stewart movie on last night.
Much more enjoyable...
“It does seem to be mostly a race issue”
I don’t know...maybe just a “here I am on the bandwagon too” thing???
I don’t see it as a race issue either. It is a full out protest against Trump and the people who voted for him.
Yes indeed. These individuals set forth their utter lack of history, utter lack of gratefulness for their various opportunities. Obviously they are totally unaware of Great Britain's role in the slavery trade. Obviously just adhereing to the 'herd mentality' to stick it to 'the man'.
“There was an old Jimmy Stewart movie on last night.
Much more enjoyable...”
We restained our log siding and watched it dry. Also more enjoyable....
Oh, it’s a race issue
Plenty of white tools have been guilted ,suckered and bullied into thinking or pretending to think or otherwise accepting the premise that there is massive social injustice in this country ... look what theyre doing to our kids and college students
Just like “ climate deniers” are being dehumanized as targets for criminal persecution, the progressuve anarchist left coalition has now targeted their rage on “ white privilege deniers”
and what are the white players protesting?
First they came for Tebow.
I’ll bet the NFL’s emails on the subject of Tebow, Kaepernick, kneeling, et al would make interesting reading...
Wonder what Anonymous and/or Wikileaks are up to these days...
What is it with protestors always wanting to burn down their own neighborhoods?....
It’s possible, many of them, just went along, so they wouldn’t be called racists.
I have a suggestion for NFL players who are so offended by America’s National Anthem that they refuse to stand for it: they are more then welcome to stand for the Liberia’s national anthem and play for the Liberian National Football League instead. Though they’ll probably have to learn to be soccer players to do that and take a big pay cut, but hey, at least they won’t be surrounded by “white racists”.
The NFL is doomed anyway. Football is. Look at the demographic. Kids today play video games. Not football. In 20 years they will be begging for people to show up. Football is boring anyway.
Nah.
It’s over already.
Not only that, but the UK restricts free speech in many ways. The UK does not have a written constitution. The UK has something called The Official Secrets Act, and the 1989 changes to it removed the public interest defense. Those idiots are standing in defense of THAT?!
Read this post. It explains the broader, very dangerous issue at stake.
As for conditioning, how long would a soccer player last being blasted at the line by a 300 lb lineman? Tell me, which is the better conditioned athlete, the sumo wrestler, the sprinter, or the marathon runner?
Very VERY boring.
I would love to see the NFL implode and disappear under the weight of its own anti-Americanism.
Problem is season tickets, parking passes, subscriptions are all pre paid sunk costs for this year - there are 6 games left in NE- they already have my cash.
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