The Brown Brink
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Lives their dream of being a football player, then complains about the country that made it possible.
No, they're protesting police brutality.
Where do you get "the country" part?
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Lives their dream of being a football player, then complains about the country that made it possible.
Lives their dream of being a football player, then complains about the country that made it possible.
And mowed down with night sticks and clubs. Dozens at a time.You mean...they should be grateful that it's not 1968...when people were pepper-sprayed?
And mowed down with night sticks and clubs. Dozens at a time.
Yes we should be grateful that does not happen today.
When was the last time you heard of tanks being called out to put down a protest?
https://www.usnews.com/news/nationa...-of-1967-summer-riots-remain-largely-the-same
Are you saying that what goes on today compares at all with what happened 50 years ago?So you don't mind if we suffer a "little" police brutality...
Is that what you're saying?
You're defending a "little" police brutality?
Really?
What else are you willing for us to suffer?
Are you saying that what goes on today compares at all with what happened 50 years ago?
With regard to protesting the anthem itself, I've never cared for this verse:
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a Country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash'd out their foul footstep's pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Below is what Kaepernick said on the subject. I have seen some people try to say this was not about protesting the country but hois words do not seem to agree with that characterization . So, at least for Kaepernick who started the whole thing by sitting down then later changed it to a kneel , perhaps so it would seem a bit less disrespectful, it is a means to show lack of pride in a flag for a county that he sees as oppressive. We can be fairly certain about what Kaepernick intended as he told us in unambiguous terms. What each NFL player is thinking now is quite a bit less clear.
“I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,”
They are protesting america it seems.
Help me out here - as a non-American, I'm unclear why having a national anthem played at a (AIUI) non-international sports match is even a thing?