You can kneel, but, damn you!, don't you kneel to pray.
5. The NFL rule book clearly states that all will stand for the Anthem at every game or face punishment....
Only one: protests align them with the anarchist communist movement aimed at destroying our country.
The NFL want to go full retard progressive political?
Ban ALL taxpayer funding for stadiums.
Pull their federal anti-trust exemption.
You can kneel, but, damn you!, don't you kneel to pray.
It’s a free country with a free market. Accordingly, the NFL is fully within its rights to begin its broadcasts with a middle finger to its audience.
And that audience is free to become a former audience. (and former customers of NFL sponsors)
The NFL is a private organization and it can impose whatever work rules it wishes just like a restaurant can require a certain dress code for it’s employees. The owners are putting their financial interests ahead of respect for the country out of their misguided thinking that their viewers and fans think like they do (e.g. urban, elite, liberal globalists). Not taking steps to end these protests right at the outset shows they are nothing but a bunch of hypocritical shickenchits.
5. NFL players kneel disrespectfully for the national anthem as some sort of idiotic protest. Meanwhile, foreign-born Major League Baseball players who don’t even speak English have been standing respectfully for our national anthem for years. I can guarantee you that a Japanese player on an MLB team here in the U.S. would set himself on fire in center field before he would even dream of disrespecting the country where he plays.
“I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.”
All the lawsuits alone are making the police and cities back off from aggressive policing.
The problem here is not connecting the dots to the democrats who created racial divisuon when Obama through the abuse of his office and the “Bully Pulpit” began creating “victims” out of blacks engaged in criminal activities who were not just resisting legal arrest but responding by attacking legal authority and endangering their lives .
Until this get exposed along with its political purposes which was creating racial division and a impeachable proof barrier as the continung political discourse which has been expanded to include “white guilt” will continue.
When blame the cops for cold blooded killings started by Obama’s it was through his use of the Bully Pulpit. It began with his comments during the Zimmerman trial. Those inspired at least 10* deadly assaults ending in death of any non black who wandered near or in “hoods” controlled by members cf black ganags. One such noteable case is that of Christopher Lane an Australian murdered by Crypts while visiting Duncan Oklahoma.*(I think the figure is more like 20 racially inspired murders)
Obama was never held accountable for his inflamatory remarks. And because he wasn’t he contunued hammering away creating a wider racial division targeting police authority which resulted in cops being targeted and murdered in cold blood.
THIS IS NEVER BROUGHT OUT WHEN THE NFL ACTION GETS DISCUSSED...
The protest is based on a lie:
“Do you know anyone who has been struck by lightning? Neither do most people.
Yet each year an average of about 300 Americans are killed or injured by lightning. That’s approximately 40 more than the number of blacks killed by the police in 2015. Is there an “epidemic” of Americans being struck and injured by lightning?
We don’t know the number of black men injured by lightning every year, but let’s assume the number is 7 percent of the total people struck by lightning, mirroring the percentage of the black male population in America. That brings the average number of black men injured by lightning to about” 21.
Out of the 965 people killed by the police in 2015 (as of Dec. 24), the Post reported (on Dec. 26) that “less than 4 percent” involved an unarmed black man and a white cop, the fact pattern most commonly referred to by anti-police activists like Black Lives Matter.
Last year, The Washington Post put the number of unarmed black men killed by the police at 17, less than the number of blacks likely struck by lightning. Twenty-two unarmed whites were killed by the police. Any death that results from police misconduct is one death too many, but the point is that police killing of a suspect is rare, no matter the race of the suspect or the cop. And a police shooting of an unarmed black male is still more rare.