So if you want to just watch or go to a game and not be annoyed by overpaid millionaires taking a piss on law enforcement and the Military you must be a evil racist.. Well according to these DUmmies.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210993370#post4Sun Aug 12, 2018, 05:32 PM
Funtatlaguy (2,602 posts)
Easy answer to NFL players kneeling "controversy".
For those of you that have attended both college and pro football games, you know that the college teams don’t come out of their locker rooms until AFTER the national anthem has been played.
Pro teams could do the same if the tv networks would move kickoffs back a few minutes.
Squinch (24,500 posts)
1. Why should they? Its a respectful and righteous protests, it's purpose is to be seen.
I wish I were a football fan. This middle-aged white lady would be taking a knee with those guys.
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Response to Squinch (Reply #1)Sun Aug 12, 2018, 06:07 PM
Star Member backtoblue (5,029 posts)
5. I agree
Taking a knee in silence is the one of the most peaceful ways to protest. It hurts no one by either the humble kneeling or their silent opposition to violence.
I would kneel with them.
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Response to Funtatlaguy (Original post)Sun Aug 12, 2018, 05:45 PM
RockRaven (1,070 posts)
2. That's how the NFL was too until 2009. They could easily go back to the "traditional" way.
Someone needs to tell Trump that having the NFL players on the field for the anthem is something Obama started. Then he'll be against it.
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Response to Funtatlaguy (Original post)Sun Aug 12, 2018, 05:52 PM
Mike Rows His Boat (238 posts)
3. How about we recognize that football causes brain injury and ban it?
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Response to Funtatlaguy (Original post)Sun Aug 12, 2018, 06:00 PM
Star Member Solly Mack (72,951 posts)
4. No. It's a peaceful protest. They shouldn't be attacked or punished for it.
What people should do is to start thinking about what is being protested - police brutality against POC.
Instead of mindlessly embracing symbols & words over actually living up to the ideas of justice, equality, freedom, liberty.
If protests against police brutality of POC makes a person uncomfortable or angry, then the problems is with the people getting their panties in a wad - not the protests.
A lot of football players are famous and have a name - and they are using that fame for good.
No different than any well known person doing the same.
And it is a common practice to get well known people to speak out against injustices.
They have a larger audience and the message gets out.
The only problem now is some white people getting offended.
And to that I say - So?
White people who feel the need to turn the protest into something it isn't. White people who feel the need to take a truth - racism in America - and turn a protest against that racism into an attack on them as white people - which they equate with the whole of America (as if America and white were synonymous).
Well, if the white hood fits - wear it.
What should offend them is police brutality against POC.
Not the actions to stop it.
Their anger at a peaceful protest lets the rest of us know just what kind of person they are - and it ain't good.
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Response to Funtatlaguy (Original post)Sun Aug 12, 2018, 06:25 PM
Star Member johnp3907 (2,320 posts)
6. A better idea:
Focus on what the protests are ABOUT!
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Response to Funtatlaguy (Original post)Sun Aug 12, 2018, 06:27 PM
unblock (38,993 posts)
7. Nice compromise. White supremacists are spared seeing protests
And black people keep dying.
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Response to Funtatlaguy (Original post)Sun Aug 12, 2018, 06:34 PM
Star Member uppityperson (111,957 posts)
8. I'd rather they focus on what the protests are about.