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Anthem protest spreads to Oakland City Council
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | September 23, 2016 | Otis R. Taylor Jr.

Posted on 09/23/2016 7:07:23 AM PDT by artichokegrower

Colin Kaepernick’s decision to not stand for the national anthem has inspired two Oakland City Council members to remain seated for the pledge of allegiance.

Desley Brooks and Rebecca Kaplan are the latest Oaklanders to follow Kaepernick in protesting oppression of minorities.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: oakland; pledge; pledgeofallegiance
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How soon they forget in Oakland:

On March 21, 2009, Lovelle Mixon, a convicted felon wanted on a no-bail warrant for a parole violation, fatally shot four Oakland, California police officers. Mixon initially shot and killed two Oakland police officers during a traffic stop. After escaping on foot to the nearby apartment of his sister, Mixon then killed two police SWAT team officers attempting to apprehend him. Mixon was then killed as officers returned fire.

The killings made it one of the worst days for law enforcement in California history

1 posted on 09/23/2016 7:07:23 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

Let me guess... they’re, uh, “Amish,” right?


2 posted on 09/23/2016 7:10:17 AM PDT by fwdude (If we keep insisting on the lesser of two evils, that is exactly what they will give us from now on.)
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To: artichokegrower

These America haters are making me sick. Ship them all off to Catalina where they can start their own country.


3 posted on 09/23/2016 7:10:35 AM PDT by scottinoc
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To: artichokegrower

Come election time vote them out


4 posted on 09/23/2016 7:17:32 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: fwdude

“Let me guess... they’re, uh, “Amish,” right?”

No, a Black and a Jew!


5 posted on 09/23/2016 7:23:58 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: scottinoc

In what part of the world are “minorities” treated better than they are in the territory once known as “the United States of America”?

If there is such a place, these “mistreated minorities” should be evacuating from this territory, in a SELF-DEPORTATION, and heading for that Nirvana where they shall in all ways be treated “fairly”.

Catalina is not NEARLY big enough to house all the “Americans in name only”.


6 posted on 09/23/2016 7:24:14 AM PDT by alloysteel (Of course you will live in interesting times, Nobody has a choice, now.)
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To: artichokegrower

This is where it begins. A group, or race, or culture decides to overthrow the “State” through this. it may seem small, but we created this country starting with small protests. So the end of this nation is coming sooner then we thought. Maybe the next generation, maybe this generation. Either way, our values, freedoms and our culture that exists now is being challenged by a culture that is less intelligent and has far less value on life and freedoms. This new culture seeks to impose it’s values over yours, believes it can take from others anything of value and have no consequences, and demands that you bow down to them and submit to their demands.

This planet is doomed. Thank you, Democrats. After you lost the Civil War, your set out of a mission to destroy the US. And your hate is going to change the world into a cesspool


7 posted on 09/23/2016 7:25:28 AM PDT by realcleanguy
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To: artichokegrower

United we stand, divided we fall. If they aren’t for us, they are against us.


8 posted on 09/23/2016 7:33:40 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: artichokegrower

“Mixon was then killed as officers returned fire.”

Undoubtedly an oppressed minority.


9 posted on 09/23/2016 7:40:50 AM PDT by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory.)
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To: realcleanguy
My alt-right hero speaking truth, but be warned maybe too harsh for even FR. Don't agree whatsoever his views on abortion, but he's spot on.. Harsh but spot on
10 posted on 09/23/2016 7:41:33 AM PDT by pburgh01
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To: scottinoc

Yet they will ask, no, DEMAND, that the government they hate send them lots of our money. Typical ungrateful third-worlders.


11 posted on 09/23/2016 7:41:44 AM PDT by henkster (Democrats want to keep blacks on the plantation and whites on the collective farm.)
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“oppression of minorities” huh?

Not even in quotes, so I guess that’s a “Fact” to the writer


12 posted on 09/23/2016 7:43:04 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Romeo + Juliet = True Love hilLIAR + Obambi = ISIS)
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Come election time vote them out

Do we have enough real Americans in Oakland to vote them off. I doubt it. America is saturated with communists minded rotten people that it is highly unlikely they will be removed. America is in trouble, real trouble.

13 posted on 09/23/2016 7:50:10 AM PDT by Logical me
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They gonna give the money they got from the US since they’re no longer part of it?


14 posted on 09/23/2016 7:56:55 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: artichokegrower

The JAF POWER ALLIANCE. JAF = Jew African.


15 posted on 09/23/2016 7:57:06 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarm)
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Colin Kaepernick’s decision to not stand for the national anthem has inspired two Oakland City Council members to remain seated for the pledge of allegiance.

From 2011:
San Francisco Supervisor Criticized For Refusing To Recite Pledge Of Allegiance

I was vaguely astonished that this earlier effort hadn't really spread. I'm vaguely astonished that the Pledge of Allegiance even takes place in Oakland anymore; I'd be less astonished if there were some city law banning it.

16 posted on 09/23/2016 8:03:05 AM PDT by Lonely Bull ("When he is being rude or mean it drives people _away_ from his confession and _towards_ yours.")
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For Colin Kaepernick:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/qq0_nyWVXCI


17 posted on 09/23/2016 8:03:55 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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Time to kick some council members out.

January can’t come soon enough.


18 posted on 09/23/2016 8:05:03 AM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: fwdude

“Amish,” right?”

Kaplan isn’t an ‘Amish’ name.


19 posted on 09/23/2016 8:09:20 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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Minorities oppressing minorities in Oakland. Kinda hard to pick a side

Ex-Black Panther leader says Oakland councilwoman assaulted her

A former head of the Black Panther Party has filed a police report and a claim against the city of Oakland alleging that she was assaulted by Councilwoman Desley Brooks at a popular downtown restaurant.

Elaine Brown, 72, is seeking monetary relief from the city, saying she suffered physical and emotional harm from the assault on Oct. 30 at 126 Broadway, which is the Everett and Jones Barbeque restaurant.

“City Council member Desley Brooks assaulted me in a dispute arising from city business,” Brown wrote in a one-page complaint released by the city.

According to the claim, Brown sought medical attention and wants more than $10,000 from the city. Persons who intend to file civil lawsuits against the city must first file claims.

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Former-Black-Panther-leader-claims-Oakland-6645231.php


20 posted on 09/23/2016 8:20:00 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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