Who gives a damn?
The rest of us don’t get to use our jobs as a grandstand.
He can say or do whatever he wants outside the arena.
On the job? Just do your job punk. That’s what people are paying you to do. Hijacking the game for your own political reasons is crap.
Maybe I’m being a little harsh. After all, he isn’t going to do the kneeling thing.
But it’s still...why does he have to bring it into his job in the first place.
As an American of Italian descent, I’ve had to withstand AWFUL jokes (as in not funny) from the likes of Nickcarraway and I’ve had to read about places called “Noodle Company” or some such wording.
Yet I’ve NEVER knelt while reading Free Republic.
Except for that one time when my hiatal hernia acted up after a particularly strong dish of gnocchi.
twice as many whites are shot by cops than blacks, but white liuves don’t matter.
nearly everything in america revolves around the 13 percent of the population who have “no power”
Something to keep in mind here is that being disrespectful during ANY country’s national anthem is a no-no in hockey. Canadian hockey fans know the U.S. national anthem by heart.
..liked PK Subban’s statement much better...
Good job Joel.
For crying out loud, you’re from Ontario and your parents are from Barbados.
Get over yourself.
As the players stand there during the National Anthem, they should imagine they are standing in front of many soldiers, fully dressed in combat gear, ready for action, possibly facing death that day.
When the movie Black Men Can’t Skate or Swim we can talk.
Who cares...he’s a Canuck.
Good grief... the bogus meme in a different form.
Yes, by all means, let’s talk about the issues. Pull up chair at my kitchen table.
And let’s start with a riddle.
Q: What’s the difference between brown skinned immigrants from India and brown skinned African Americans from inner city neighborhoods?
A: The Indian immigrants’ kids usually do better in school than the top 20% of White kids, while the few African American kids who do as well in school as the top 30% of White kids get ostracized by their peers for “acting White”.
Dude, try getting pulled over by two California County Sheriffs, both women, and have them try to tweek you into getting upset. And the Black Women Sheriff did the tweeking.
Virtue Signalling On Ice
it stinks despite the ice
If you’re ‘Splaining, you’re losing...
Firstly I should say i am not an American.
But I am a keen observer of America and American Politics, my first observation into the laudable words of Joel are this.
Whilst words and phrases of love and understanding and co-operation are wonderful, just like a divorce if one party doesn’t want to comply, words or platitudes will solve nothing.
Moreover it not only requires a need to change but a DESIRE to change.
I believe after years and years of every man and his dog calling out the white people of the USA to change and help the poor down trodden minorities, the minorities themselves have shown little if any appetite to throw of the shackles of perpetual victimhood and change their own future.
I have a saying I am keen on “ attitude determines altitude” and this is true for everyone, many minorities have succeeded why?
Because they have an attitude to succeed and reject the hand out mentality and believe that strength in their family will help them all achieve a better way of life , which is why in many cases, they came to the US in the first place.
Certain minorities don’t seem to understand that success and opportunity doesn’t come from holding out your hand !
It comes from effort and education and rejecting easy options.
Joel’s words are Nice but the people who need to hear them are not listening.
PS A black hockey player?