Posted on 12/29/2018 6:54:47 AM PST by Eddie01
Miami Dolphins defensive end Robert Quinn lashed out at the media for not paying enough attention to his national anthem protests, which he said are supposed to shine a light on racial problems in America.
“Y’all ignore it,” he said during a press conference Thursday, The Miami Herald reported. “Because when I gave my first message on trying to bring unity, y’all swept it under the rug.”
Mr. Quinn has been raising a fist during the national anthem since he joined the Dolphins in the offseason. The Miami Herald suggested that kneeling during the anthem in protest is “radioactive to many fans” and thus receives more coverage than players who simply raise a fist. For instance, Dolphins wide receiver Kenny Stills, who chooses to kneel during the anthem, is still routinely asked about his activism.
“Man, I don’t have nothing to do with Kenny,” Mr. Quinn told The Herald. “That ain’t got nothing to do with me. All I’m saying is, my production went up because I’m just playing football and America’s got a lot of problems to fix within itself. Tell America to look itself in the mirror and the people who built it.”
Mr. Quinn explained in April that he protests against “the way America was built” and “the way people talk.”
“The president said to build a wall to keep Mexicans out,” he said at the time, The Herald reported. “This country was built off of — they killed Indians, built off the backs of the blacks. So yet, they tell us to keep quiet. So at the end of the day, let’s confront the situation and let’s bring humanity and friendship and let’s get rid of all the ignorance. Let’s face it head-on, let’s look at each other as humans.”
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Yeah! Let's face that Robert! Jacksonian DEMOCRATS wiped out the Native Americans and DEMOCRATS started the KKK to keep the black man terrified and under control.
Hitler liked both approaches so much, he modeled his brown shirts and the slaughter of the Jews after both.
HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES?!
dude no one cares about your stupid protest and no one cares about your lousy team....
In other words, “Hey man...Nike ain’t offerin’ me no deals!”
And if he and others like him did, I would support them.
What BS. The moron thinks America was built on blacks.
This is why I have NO respect for these idiots.
TFB. Go suck a lemon.
This country was built off of — they killed Indians, built off the backs of the blacks.
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And then they went on to hire negroes and pay them millions of dollars to play sports.
“Man, why ya’ll be trippin dat America be done hurtin’ us an’ s—t?”
I think Robert Quinn is a stand out among NFL players.
He could be the most ignorant.
It ignorance were points, the Dolphins would already be the Super Bowl Champs.
He sounds like one illiterate bastard, to me.
Dear Mr. Quinn: Then do something we’d notice. Like moving into an inner city and provide jobs to neighbors there maintaining your residence. And move some of the homeless minorities in with you.
“This country was built...off the backs of the blacks....”
I think that might be a bit of an exaggeration. Of about 1000%. And if it really was so, what would he want done about it?
...and for product endorsements. On TV and everything!
Instead of taking a knee during the National Anthem, take a knee every time the other team’s QB takes a snap. You alone will bring kneeling back into the spotlight if just take a knee for every snap you’re out on the field for...so the cameras will all catch it live. Do it for an entire season! Do it for Lebron.
“dude no one cares about your stupid protest and no one cares about your lousy team....”
That is the truth.
It is reflected in significant number of vacant stadium seats. Despite the NFL’s open support of the protests in 2017, I would bet that there is some collusion between the front office and the media (networks) to downplay (i.e. not show) the protests. They both need to stop the financial bleed, and to keep calling attention to protests is a negative.
After watching no NFL last year, I have watched (as a captured audience while visiting someone) a sum total of 30 minutes of NFL in 2018. The game looks so different to me now, I have no interest. They should remove the red-white-and-blue from the NFL symbol. The billion dollar protected industry really harmed its brand.
... did they build the railways?
Cotton and Tobacco occurred in what 4 states? 5?
The dude has to remember there are 57 states, ask obama
Yes, blacks built everything.
Have not watched a single minute of the NFL this season or last. Don’t even miss it. It’s as if it never existed, apart from reading articles like this, where I can relish it’s slow roll into oblivion. Yes, it is sad that liberals have destroyed another once-great American tradition/institution, but also encouraging that so many have rejected their leftist crap.
This fool is a typical misinformed, undereducated, low-IQ loser who inhabits the nfl. Who watches these nitwits and their games? Tpo watch them is to support their lunacy. Pox pox them.
Nope, just you. And your league.
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