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MDK -> RE: MLB General Information PT 4 (10/12/2017 9:50:44 AM)
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ORIGINAL: JT2
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ORIGINAL: TJSweens
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ORIGINAL: Aaron Cross
Or maybe they should just follow the NFL rule that says players must stand for the anthem. The anthem is not the time or place for protests. It’s disrespectful whether they intend it to be or not.
Strange how the person who started this movement wore socks depicting cops as pigs. He also said the flag is a symbol of oppression. Yet the kneelers say they’re not protesting the flag?
Who are you to decide the proper time for protests? Get pulled over 50 times in 10 years for driving while black and get back to me on disrespectful. The words and deeds of one man do not necessarily reflect the opinions of all the kneelers. This is no different to me than Muhammad Ali throwing his Olympic gold medal in the river after returning from representing his country and being refused service in a restaurant. Or the black power salutes during the anthem at the 68 Olympics. These are a people who 50 years later still feel like there are two Americas. If they want to exercise the ultimate form of freedom, freedom of speech, to make their point they should go right ahead.
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I don't know how old you are, but I remember Ali being possibly the most hated man in America. Those filled with hate were wrong, and learned little, it seems.
Sweens is pretty damn old. But I completely agree with his outstanding post. White America expects those who aren't white to eat the shit we dish out on them and then to smile while doing it.
We have treated the American Indian in much the same way we have treated African Americans. We rounded them up, put them on the worst god awful land in America, and expected them to completely change their nomadic ways of living and eek out a living farming and ranching on the worst land we could find. Put them on the res so we can keep our eye on them.
Segregate Blacks so we can keep our eye on them.
Smith and Carlos were right during their protest. At least there is a reason in the Olympics to play the anthem. There is no reason whatsoever to play the anthem before sporting events. Honor the military and first responders? As Bob Costas put it, have they ever honored an overworked underpaid nurse or teacher during these events of patriotism.
We were told by our government that if you didn't support the second Iraq war, you were unpatriotic. Now we are being told by an orange orangatang that if you don't stand at attention during the anthem as an athlete, you should be fired. The same man who called McCain less than heroic because he was captured. The same man who told Howard Stern that his Vietnam was having unprotected sex in the 80's. He is telling us what to do on not to do to honor our flag.
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