Wed Sep 27, 2017, 08:43 AM
72 replies, 11119 views
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Author | Time | Post |
 What I find so frustrating about the NFL players "taking a knee" (Original post) |
SHRED | Sep 2017 | OP |
| MyOwnPeace | Sep 2017 | #1 | |
| InAbLuEsTaTe | Sep 2017 | #11 | |
| Borchkins | Sep 2017 | #21 | |
| HopeAgain | Sep 2017 | #2 | |
| Amimnoch | Sep 2017 | #30 | |
| SalviaBlue | Sep 2017 | #45 | |
| Amimnoch | Sep 2017 | #48 | |
| SalviaBlue | Sep 2017 | #51 | |
| ProudLib72 | Sep 2017 | #57 | |
| iluvtennis | Sep 2017 | #70 | |
| Madam45for2923 | Sep 2017 | #3 | |
| InAbLuEsTaTe | Sep 2017 | #6 | |
| Madam45for2923 | Sep 2017 | #12 | |
| MichMan | Sep 2017 | #4 | |
| SHRED | Sep 2017 | #5 | |
| InAbLuEsTaTe | Sep 2017 | #8 | |
| Laurian | Sep 2017 | #9 | |
| SHRED | Sep 2017 | #10 | |
| luvtheGWN | Sep 2017 | #22 | |
| King_Klonopin | Sep 2017 | #72 | |
| milestogo | Sep 2017 | #18 | |
| EffieBlack | Sep 2017 | #42 | |
| LenaBaby61 | Sep 2017 | #52 | |
| milestogo | Sep 2017 | #53 | |
| LenaBaby61 | Sep 2017 | #55 | |
| milestogo | Sep 2017 | #56 | |
| LenaBaby61 | Sep 2017 | #59 | |
| milestogo | Sep 2017 | #60 | |
| LenaBaby61 | Sep 2017 | #64 | |
| Orsino | Sep 2017 | #20 | |
| Iggo | Sep 2017 | #24 | |
| EffieBlack | Sep 2017 | #43 | |
| Iggo | Sep 2017 | #47 | |
| EffieBlack | Sep 2017 | #68 | |
| billh58 | Sep 2017 | #26 | |
| CrispyQ | Sep 2017 | #27 | |
| Iggo | Sep 2017 | #28 | |
| druidity33 | Sep 2017 | #49 | |
| LenaBaby61 | Sep 2017 | #66 | |
| spanone | Sep 2017 | #7 | |
| Bleacher Creature | Sep 2017 | #13 | |
| Saviolo | Sep 2017 | #19 | |
| Bleacher Creature | Sep 2017 | #29 | |
| 4139 | Sep 2017 | #14 | |
| SHRED | Sep 2017 | #15 | |
| workinclasszero | Sep 2017 | #16 | |
| TNNurse | Sep 2017 | #17 | |
| DK504 | Sep 2017 | #23 | |
| RobinA | Sep 2017 | #62 | |
| IronLionZion | Sep 2017 | #25 | |
| unblock | Sep 2017 | #31 | |
| SHRED | Sep 2017 | #32 | |
| FLPanhandle | Sep 2017 | #33 | |
| The Wizard | Sep 2017 | #35 | |
| The Wizard | Sep 2017 | #34 | |
| Hayduke Bomgarte | Sep 2017 | #36 | |
| MichMan | Sep 2017 | #37 | |
| JonLP24 | Sep 2017 | #38 | |
| EffieBlack | Sep 2017 | #46 | |
| MichMan | Sep 2017 | #50 | |
| EffieBlack | Sep 2017 | #69 | |
| Soxfan58 | Sep 2017 | #39 | |
| SHRED | Sep 2017 | #41 | |
| Enoki33 | Sep 2017 | #40 | |
| SalviaBlue | Sep 2017 | #44 | |
| Ferrets are Cool | Sep 2017 | #54 | |
| Crash2Parties | Sep 2017 | #58 | |
| Nitram | Sep 2017 | #61 | |
| Marcuse | Sep 2017 | #63 | |
| Hell Hath No Fury | Sep 2017 | #65 | |
| LenaBaby61 | Sep 2017 | #67 | |
| Beartracks | Sep 2017 | #71 |
Response to SHRED (Original post)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 08:49 AM
MyOwnPeace (16,216 posts)
1. Yeah, like
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the 63 million who voted for Orange Cheat-o!
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Response to MyOwnPeace (Reply #1)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 09:07 AM
InAbLuEsTaTe (23,845 posts)
11. Love Cheetohs... but Donny (orange) Tiny Hands ruined em for me.
Response to InAbLuEsTaTe (Reply #11)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 10:11 AM
21. I still love then and with each bite, I release a bit of frustration!
Response to SHRED (Original post)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 08:49 AM
2. They have sucessfully reframed the issue ... again
Response to HopeAgain (Reply #2)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 11:02 AM
30. Exactly! We HAVE to get critical thinking into highschools
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and make the course a requirement.
I've been saying for a long time now, a course in Critical thinking should be a part of every high school curriculum, and it should be a required course for graduation. More than ever with the fake meme's, actual fake news, and intentional propaganda misinformation; the ability to sift through information, identify facts, consider different perspectives, and weigh evidence is severely lacking these days.  ?w=619&h=512 |
Response to Amimnoch (Reply #30)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 02:45 PM
SalviaBlue (2,820 posts)
45. good graphic
Response to Amimnoch (Reply #48)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 05:22 PM
SalviaBlue (2,820 posts)
51. I could not agree more!
Response to Amimnoch (Reply #48)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 09:36 PM
57. Too bad this graphic wasn't around last night
Response to HopeAgain (Reply #2)
Thu Sep 28, 2017, 01:19 AM
iluvtennis (17,945 posts)
70. Absolutely
Response to Madam45for2923 (Reply #3)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 09:01 AM
InAbLuEsTaTe (23,845 posts)
6. Ding, ding ding!!! We hava winna!!!
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Response to SHRED (Original post)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 08:56 AM
4. If you have to explain why you are protesting, you are doing a poor job of it
Response to MichMan (Reply #4)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 09:03 AM
InAbLuEsTaTe (23,845 posts)
8. CK said it best, right out of the gate...
Response to MichMan (Reply #4)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 09:04 AM
9. Or some people choose not to understand and change the
Response to luvtheGWN (Reply #22)
Thu Sep 28, 2017, 02:41 AM
King_Klonopin (1,290 posts)
72. It's the same method of distortion they used against BLM
Response to MichMan (Reply #4)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 09:49 AM
milestogo (14,496 posts)
18. You always have to explain why you are protesting.
Response to milestogo (Reply #18)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 06:41 PM
LenaBaby61 (6,385 posts)
52. "You always have to explain why you are protesting."
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Last edited Wed Sep 27, 2017, 09:24 PM - Edit history (1) And it's NEVER a right time for minorities or for those who are down-trodden to protest anything wrong in this country.
Many in this country don't have to worry about being unarmed and MURDERED by rotten policemen (Who get away with it), of course you don't give a damn, and you don't CARE about the issue Kaepernick was kneeling about 
That installed, tReasonous piece of filth is continuing to go after African-American athletes, Jemele Hill--African-Americans in general. Just because they're athletes/sportscasters who make money they have NO right to say anything about or protest indignities, racism, sexism? They don't have a right to want this country to be BETTER? Again, they'll NEVER be a right time for protestation, even if peaceful. NEVER--especially if you're a minority, and it's simplistic to think that there is a "proper" way for African-Americans to protest racism. It was not the right time in 1965 for Dr. King to take a knee in silent, peaceful prayer either. 
It also wasn't the right time as my fellow Native Americans to protested as they're being pepper-sprayed and tear-gassed @ Standing Rock by policemen in 2016. 
Yet it's ALWAYS the "right time" for ANGRY, RACIST, privileged white men to march under a got damn NAZI flag protesting the removal of a treasonous asshole's statue, and it's of course crickets from that fat, mentally-ill, racist bastid who said that they were "good" people. He had to be forced to read something negative about THEM "Sieg Heiling" and chanting disgustin things about Jewish people. 
LeBron James IS a rich, famous, and mostly popular athlete, but that didn't absolve HIM from having NI**ER written on his gate/fence. 
(Not sure if this is a legit photo of his house after it was vandalized, but that's what it was represented as). All of his money won't absolve him from being shot and killed by rogue policemen IF one decides to go after him. 
tRumptun's doing what putin wants him to--the ruskies are STILL meddling, STILL making trouble over in this country by trying to get a worse culture war going now. The Flag is being used as a prop for that. 
I hope that I live long enough to see some of the KARMA that's going to befall tRumputin and putin, beauguard and their filthy ilk, because it's gonna be horrific |
Response to LenaBaby61 (Reply #52)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 08:49 PM
milestogo (14,496 posts)
53. I'm afraid you projected quite a bit onto my statement.
Response to milestogo (Reply #53)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 09:22 PM
LenaBaby61 (6,385 posts)
55. You call ....
Response to LenaBaby61 (Reply #55)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 09:32 PM
milestogo (14,496 posts)
56. WHY ARE YOU PUTTING WORDS INTO MY MOUTH?
Response to milestogo (Reply #56)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 10:05 PM
LenaBaby61 (6,385 posts)
59. You're the genius ...
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Who said that we need to open dialogue up with those who don't get what taking a knee means: Black males are being MURDERED AT AN ALARMING CLIP LIKE BIG GAME BY ROGUE POLICEMEN WHO THEN HAVE A BENCH TRIAL AND GET AWAY WITH IT. YOU called being murdered by rogue police "baggage."
You never said that if you were non-minority, and if you're not, it must be nice to be able to ride around and feel free huh? I've had relatives on my African-American side and Native American side who've been harassed and in a few cases beaten by police, so I GET IT. Didn't matter that many of them served honorably in the military, and had never been in trouble with the law, they were STILL seen as "disposable" by the rogue police that harassed/beat them. Who knows when MY time will be up--when a rogue policeman might stop me and beat my ass or worse--murder me. I'm Native American & African-American, so I definitely get it, and being a woman doesn't matter.
Sorry, my bad. Bringing up all that "Being a minority/unarmed and murdered by rogue police baggage" and all  |
Response to LenaBaby61 (Reply #59)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 10:15 PM
milestogo (14,496 posts)
60. I said nothing of the sort.
Response to milestogo (Reply #60)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 11:48 PM
LenaBaby61 (6,385 posts)
64. "You are hostile and irrational."
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Last edited Thu Sep 28, 2017, 03:16 PM - Edit history (1) |
Response to MichMan (Reply #4)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 10:08 AM
20. If you have an entrenched white supremacist power structure in place...
Response to MichMan (Reply #4)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 10:32 AM
24. No, it means you're not explaining it enough.
Response to MichMan (Reply #4)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 10:49 AM
billh58 (6,597 posts)
26. Everyone, including the white supremacist Orange Anus-mouth,
Response to MichMan (Reply #4)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 10:58 AM
CrispyQ (33,875 posts)
27. If you have to hijack a protest in an effort to distract & silence the voices,
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maybe the protesters have a point.
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Response to CrispyQ (Reply #27)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 03:56 PM
49. Thank you for that graphic! Saved. K&R. nt.
Response to CrispyQ (Reply #27)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 11:55 PM
LenaBaby61 (6,385 posts)
66. To a poster that called me "hostile and irrational ...."
Response to SHRED (Original post)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 09:03 AM
spanone (133,359 posts)
7. trump hijacked Kaepernick's entire protest for some cheap jingoism....that's just who he is
Response to SHRED (Original post)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 09:15 AM
Bleacher Creature (11,033 posts)
13. You should read this op-ed.
Response to Bleacher Creature (Reply #13)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 09:51 AM
19. There was a good Twitter thread about it, too...
Response to Saviolo (Reply #19)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 11:01 AM
Bleacher Creature (11,033 posts)
29. Thanks! Nuance and detail both seem to be lacking these days. Nt
Response to SHRED (Original post)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 09:18 AM
14. Colin choose the National Anthem as it was the only way to get the media attention
Response to SHRED (Original post)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 09:47 AM
TNNurse (6,420 posts)
17. Clearly there are people in this country that think that the flag and the anthem
Response to TNNurse (Reply #17)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 10:28 AM
23. Nor do they believe in the 1st Amendment right of free speech.
Response to SHRED (Original post)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 10:36 AM
IronLionZion (42,012 posts)
25. Colin started out by just sitting quietly
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Ironically his friend who was a military veteran told him it would be more respectful to current and former military if he knelt instead, so he started kneeling. Lots of military veterans are supportive of this protest. Lots of military veterans are black.
Megan Rapinoe joined in immediately afterwards in solidarity with Colin. 
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Response to SHRED (Original post)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 11:08 AM
unblock (51,287 posts)
31. once again, i find the media's right-wing frame to be the problem.
Response to SHRED (Original post)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 11:16 AM
The Wizard (12,072 posts)
34. Their willful ignorance
Response to SHRED (Original post)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 11:30 AM
36. "we still have millions in this country who can't, or refuse to think"
Response to SHRED (Original post)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 11:36 AM
37. IMO protest is analogous to advertising
Response to EffieBlack (Reply #46)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 04:59 PM
50. Either one is about getting your message out
Response to SHRED (Original post)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 11:51 AM
Enoki33 (1,520 posts)
40. It is extremely easy for the Repugs to reframe
Response to SHRED (Original post)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 02:43 PM
SalviaBlue (2,820 posts)
44. Willfully ignorant. nt
Response to SHRED (Original post)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 09:07 PM
Ferrets are Cool (19,399 posts)
54. I expect nothing else from the PGIC. He is a less than slime. At least it has its uses.
Response to SHRED (Original post)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 09:38 PM
58. Simply put, Republicans lie, and they are racist.
Response to SHRED (Original post)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 10:20 PM
Nitram (20,348 posts)
61. You are not alone in expressing this point of view.
Response to SHRED (Original post)
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 11:14 PM
Marcuse (6,573 posts)
63. Trump disrespects the military, not Kap.
Response to Hell Hath No Fury (Reply #65)
Thu Sep 28, 2017, 12:10 AM
LenaBaby61 (6,385 posts)
67. I guess to some folks who don't HAVE to worry about DWB....
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Those black males on that list below is mere BAGGAGE as one poster on this site told me
Some people KNOW what taking a knee IS--have had it explained to them--and yet they still want those rich, black, disrespectful males to shut up and sing to the flag and forget about that uh black males being murdered by rogue/racist cops like big game baggage thingy
Just because you're a black, wealthy athlete you don't have the right to speak up or out about injustices/murder. You just need to shut up and play ball. |
Response to SHRED (Original post)
Thu Sep 28, 2017, 01:49 AM
Beartracks (12,108 posts)
71. Ikr? That's like saying protest marchers "disrespect transportation." n/t
