Colin Kaepernick refuses “to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses Black people”...

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https://twitter.com/courshel/status/905942396831191040

I guess some people will say this is a fake letter sent to Texas A&M's coach. SMH

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5th Letter;c-9978509 said:
dnyce215;c-9978503 said:

They just want us to handle injustice like Jackie Robinson did, just take the abuse and don't say nothing.

Nigga how dare you, read your GODDAMN history

this dude founded one of the first Black Owned Banks in Harlem and literally refused to sit at the back of the bus......

Jackie agreed to hold his tongue for his first 2 seasons and put up with the racist bullshit before going full Field Nigga on these cacs while having his GOAT MVP season and never holding his tongue again. I thought everybody knew this fucking story smh

"The Hall of Famer wrote in his 1972 autobiography “Never Had It Made” that he had “believed in payback, retaliation” from the time he was 8 years old and a neighborhood girl called him the vilest of racial epithets. “Jackie had a genius for getting into extra-curricular scrapes,” wrote sports columnist Will Connolly, and he was quick to speak out against injustice. While in the Army in 1944, the defiant Robinson had been arrested for insubordination after refusing to sit in the back of a military bus as ordered by the driver. He was temperamental, too quick-tempered some teammates feared. He talked back to white officials, struck back against white players who levied hard blows. Rickey had heard the reports that Robinson was a “racial agitator” but believed he would have been considered “a competitor” had his skin tone been paler.

Robinson faced perhaps his greatest test a week after his debut when the Philadelphia Phillies, led by their manager Ben Chapman, sprayed the field with racial taunts and calls for him to “go back to the cotton fields.” Robinson daydreamed “for one wild and rage-crazed minute” about “what a glorious, cleansing thing it would be to let go. To hell with the image of the patient black freak I was supposed to create. I could throw down my bat, stride over to the Phillies dugout, grab one of those white sons of bitches and smash his teeth in with my despised black fist.” Knowing that he carried the prospects of an entire race, though, Robinson endured it all without retaliating, and it ate him alive. He suffered from stomach pains. His hair turned gray prematurely.

Before the start of Robinson’s third season in 1949, Rickey called his new star into his office and issued what he called “an emancipation proclamation.” Rickey told a relieved Robinson he no longer needed to restrain himself. “You can be yourself now,” he said.

With his cheek no longer turned, Robinson started to challenge other players and argue with umpires. Some fans and sportswriters began to turn on the Dodgers star as a result. The Sporting News called him “a chronic griper” and took him to task for “umpire-baiting.” No longer the “martyred hero,” he was labeled a “troublemaker,” “uppity” and a “rabble-rouser.”



What he really was, however, was the true Jackie Robinson, someone who would speak out, someone who would fight back. “If I had a room jammed with trophies, awards and citations, and a child of mine came into that room and asked what I had done in defense of black people and decent whites fighting for freedom, and I had to tell that child that I had kept quiet, that I had been timid, I would have to mark myself a total failure at the whole business of living,” Robinson wrote."
http://www.history.com/news/silent-no-longer-the-outspoken-jackie-robinson

Here's his letters to the White House telling President Eisenhower that he would rather have nothing than be insulted by calls for patience and weak-ass Civil Rights legislation:

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SMFH @ pro-black heads believing the propaganda bullshit cacs try to whitewash our historical heroes with

 
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...ice-union-request-investigate-michael-bennett

NFL: No Bennett probe despite cops union's call

The NFL said Thursday that it has no plans to investigate Seattle Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett's behavior during an incident in which he was detained and handcuffed by police in Las Vegas two weeks ago.

The league was responding to a letter to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell from the president of the Las Vegas Police Protective Association, the union that represents the police in that city. In the letter, the union alleged that Bennett made false accusations against Las Vegas police and asked the league to "conduct an investigation, and take appropriate action."

NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy wrote in response, "There is no allegation of a violation of the league's personal conduct policy and therefore there is no basis for an NFL investigation."

Earlier, NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith voiced a similar response, saying, "There are no grounds for the NFL to investigate our union rep, and I look forward to Roger confirming the same."

Steve Grammas, president of the Las Vegas Police Protective Association, wrote the letter to Goodell on Thursday and made it available to media. He said, in part, "While the NFL may condone Bennett's disrespect for our American Flag, and everything it symbolizes, we hope the League will not ignore Bennett's false accusations against our police officers."

Bennett sat on the bench during the national anthem for a Seahawks preseason game on Aug. 13 and said at the time, "I can't stand right now. I'm not going to be standing until I see the equality and freedom."

John Burris, an Oakland attorney who is representing Bennett in the Las Vegas incident, said that the union's questioning of Bennett's integrity is "outrageous," especially given the department has just begun its investigation of the incident. "To suggest he is lying without having conducted an investigation is ridiculous," Burris told the Seattle Times.

On Wednesday, Bennett accused Las Vegas police officers of racial profiling, saying they pointed guns at him and used excessive force during the incident.

"It sucks that in the country that we live in now, sometimes you get profiled for the color of your skin," Bennett said Wednesday. "It's a tough situation for me. Do I think every police officer is bad? No, I don't believe that. Do I believe there's some people out there that judge people on the color of their skin? I do believe that."


The incident occurred in the early morning hours on Aug. 27, after the Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor fight in Las Vegas, when police apprehended Bennett after hearing what sounded like gunshots in a crowded area. Bennett wrote on Twitter that officers pointed guns at him "for doing nothing more than simply being a black man in the wrong place at the wrong time" and ordered him to lie down on the ground.

Bennett wrote that one officer, with his gun drawn, warned him that he would "blow my f---ing head off" if he moved. Another officer jammed his knee into Bennett's back and handcuffed him, according to Bennett.

"The Officers' excessive use of force was unbearable," Bennett wrote. "I felt helpless as I lay there on the ground handcuffed facing the real-life threat of being killed. All I could think of was 'I'm going to die for no other reason than I am black and my skin color is somehow a threat.'"

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Undersheriff Kevin McMahill said Wednesday that his department has launched an internal investigation into the events of that night.

McMahill said he had found "no evidence that race played any role in this incident."

McMahill said that officers were investigating what they thought was an active shooter in a nightclub. As people ran from a club, an officer spotted Bennett crouched by some machines. McMahill said that when the officer spotted Bennett, Bennett took off running out of the club, and officers pursued him before taking him down and putting him in cuffs.

Later, when asked why Bennett had been singled out, McMahill said he did not know but that he hoped the investigation would clarify that.

Wednesday night, Goodell issued a statement in support of Bennett, saying he "represents the best of the NFL -- a leader on his team and in his community."

"Our foremost concern is the welfare of Michael and his family," Goodell said in his statement. "While we understand the Las Vegas police department will address this later this evening, the issues Michael has been raising deserve serious attention from all of our leaders in every community. We will support Michael and all NFL players in promoting mutual respect between law enforcement and the communities they loyally serve and fair and equal treatment under the law."
 
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...-police-firefighters-emts-military-show-unity

Police, military to join Browns in show of unity

BEREA, Ohio -- The Cleveland Browns will join with police and other public safety officials to make a statement about unity before Sunday's opener against the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Players, city officials and team executives confirmed this week that the Browns will be joined by Cleveland police officers, firefighters, EMTs and members of the U.S. armed forces as they run onto the field before the game.

The organization will also show a video before the national anthem aiming to express solidarity with the community and stress the importance of diversity and equality.

The public safety officials will also stand with the players for the anthem. Players said they asked the Haslam family, the team's owners, to stand with them as well.

Players have also talked recently about developing a sort of "neighborhood plan" to create dialogue within and to help communities. They've inquired about going on ride-alongs with the police, and they hope to host town halls with police officers to discuss relations between the police and the community. They are also discussing other ways they can be active in the community with the police.

"We all have one job and the main job is to treat others as you want to be treated and make sure you secure each other in the right way," linebacker Christian Kirksey said this week.

The decisions were made at the players' suggestion and after discussions with the Cleveland police department.

"It means that people are willing to sit down and work together to come up with actual solutions rather than just talking about what's wrong and who's at fault," police chief Calvin Williams said. "That's what the Browns have come to the table and said: 'We want to be able to talk to folks and start a dialogue.'

"Which is kind of what ... if you want to call it a protest or what their prayer was about -- to start a dialogue to start to talk about some of these issues and try to come up with solutions."

Discussions about the pregame began eight days ago, when seven players joined owners Jimmy and Dee Haslam and other members of the front office for a frank discussion about why some players had decided to kneel in prayer during the national anthem before the team's second preseason game, and why they had linked arms while standing before the following games.

Players present were linebackers Kirksey and Jamie Collins, tight ends Seth DeValve and Randall Telfer, defensive backs Ibraheim Campbell and Jamar Taylor, and receiver Ricardo Louis. All seven are between 23 and 27 years old.

The Haslams, joined by Player Development Director Ron Brewer, wanted to understand the players' message, and to see if and how the organization could support and amplify that message.

From an hour-long discussion came resolve to channel concerns into action. As a result, the team hopes to make Sunday's pregame about unity.

Williams and other members of the Cleveland police department met with players Thursday afternoon to share ideas and discuss plans. During the meeting Telfer talked of seeing people in town wearing T-shirts that read "Cleveland against the world." Telfer said he wanted that image to come across Sunday, the notion of Cleveland standing together to face issues related to race and equality.

"We want to unify and not create a disconnect between us and our fans or anyone else watching the games," Telfer said. "We don't mean any disrespect toward the flag, the national anthem, law enforcement or any civil servant. We have a clear vision of what we hope this nation and this community can be like. Those are the steps we're taking."

"The players led this," Williams said. "They were the ones saying, 'We want to get out in the community to start talking about this.'"

The efforts are in part a result of a racially charged environment in the country that saw neo-Nazis march in Charlottesville, Va., and NFL players like Seattle's Michael Bennett and former 49er Colin Kaepernick kneel or sit during the national anthem to protest what they view as racial inequities, especially related to law enforcement.

Browns players took a knee as a group, and said they did so to pray for the country. None complained about the reaction they received, but they recognized the kneeling overshadowed the message they were trying to convey, and they wanted the message stressed.

"Until we start talking about race and equality and building up neighborhoods and working together, we're not going to be able to solve the problem," Dee Haslam said. "They want to go out and talk about it, and they want to do it with the police force."

"We understand that (police) are here to protect and serve," Telfer said. "That's what we'll focus on. They're humans too, and people too. The humanity aspect is what we need to get back to."

Sunday's actions come amidst the backdrop of Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association president Steve Loomis telling cleveland.com that members would not hold the flag on Sunday. Williams said the police have had "a great relationship with the Browns since I've been a police officer."

"There's a lot of misunderstanding as to what the players were really trying to accomplish with the prayer that they did," Williams said. "And the response by some folks in law enforcement was kind of over the top also."

Loomis released a statement after news broke of the Browns' actions, saying: "We have accepted their invitation and the Chief's office is detailing 20 members to participate in this event. Once again Cleveland has risen above the fray and has demonstrated that respectful communication is the key to solving any problem. We can always accomplish much more good by standing, communicating and working together than we ever will by standing apart."

The Browns typically have an oversized flag that is usually held by fans and civic servants. Sunday, members of the USO will hold it.

Haslam said the team believes in standing for the flag and being patriotic. "But we also know that we've got to have actions in our community and that's what we're so proud of for the players," she said. "They were saying let's get out in the community and actually do something and not just talk about it. Let's stand together during the anthem in brotherhood, and then we're going to do something in our communities."

Jim Brown had also urged players in a team meeting to take positive steps, and to talk with the team's ownership because Brown felt they would be supportive.

"Of course they have our support in this," Dee Haslam said. "These are the kind of discussions that need to be happening all over America. You talk about what's the solution and get involved in your communities. That is what makes a difference."

"I don't want to just be the type of person to talk doubt it," Kirksey said. "It's got to be more about actions, and us going out there and showing people we are really serious about it."

Wow.. More fake kumbaya unity talk but yet no talk about police accountability.. I'm sure this will stop another black kid in Cleveland from getting Tamir Rice'd by some out of control pig next time.. Smh...
 
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Swiffness!;c-9980111 said:
5th Letter;c-9978509 said:
dnyce215;c-9978503 said:

They just want us to handle injustice like Jackie Robinson did, just take the abuse and don't say nothing.

Nigga how dare you, read your GODDAMN history

this dude founded one of the first Black Owned Banks in Harlem and literally refused to sit at the back of the bus......

Jackie agreed to hold his tongue for his first 2 seasons and put up with the racist bullshit before going full Field Nigga on these cacs while having his GOAT MVP season and never holding his tongue again. I thought everybody knew this fucking story smh

"The Hall of Famer wrote in his 1972 autobiography “Never Had It Made” that he had “believed in payback, retaliation” from the time he was 8 years old and a neighborhood girl called him the vilest of racial epithets. “Jackie had a genius for getting into extra-curricular scrapes,” wrote sports columnist Will Connolly, and he was quick to speak out against injustice. While in the Army in 1944, the defiant Robinson had been arrested for insubordination after refusing to sit in the back of a military bus as ordered by the driver. He was temperamental, too quick-tempered some teammates feared. He talked back to white officials, struck back against white players who levied hard blows. Rickey had heard the reports that Robinson was a “racial agitator” but believed he would have been considered “a competitor” had his skin tone been paler.

Robinson faced perhaps his greatest test a week after his debut when the Philadelphia Phillies, led by their manager Ben Chapman, sprayed the field with racial taunts and calls for him to “go back to the cotton fields.” Robinson daydreamed “for one wild and rage-crazed minute” about “what a glorious, cleansing thing it would be to let go. To hell with the image of the patient black freak I was supposed to create. I could throw down my bat, stride over to the Phillies dugout, grab one of those white sons of bitches and smash his teeth in with my despised black fist.” Knowing that he carried the prospects of an entire race, though, Robinson endured it all without retaliating, and it ate him alive. He suffered from stomach pains. His hair turned gray prematurely.

Before the start of Robinson’s third season in 1949, Rickey called his new star into his office and issued what he called “an emancipation proclamation.” Rickey told a relieved Robinson he no longer needed to restrain himself. “You can be yourself now,” he said.

With his cheek no longer turned, Robinson started to challenge other players and argue with umpires. Some fans and sportswriters began to turn on the Dodgers star as a result. The Sporting News called him “a chronic griper” and took him to task for “umpire-baiting.” No longer the “martyred hero,” he was labeled a “troublemaker,” “uppity” and a “rabble-rouser.”



What he really was, however, was the true Jackie Robinson, someone who would speak out, someone who would fight back. “If I had a room jammed with trophies, awards and citations, and a child of mine came into that room and asked what I had done in defense of black people and decent whites fighting for freedom, and I had to tell that child that I had kept quiet, that I had been timid, I would have to mark myself a total failure at the whole business of living,” Robinson wrote."
http://www.history.com/news/silent-no-longer-the-outspoken-jackie-robinson

Here's his letters to the White House telling President Eisenhower that he would rather have nothing than be insulted by calls for patience and weak-ass Civil Rights legislation:

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8jnricfre09g.png


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od6x14wjism1.png


krn83wxi8u56.png


SMFH @ pro-black heads believing the propaganda bullshit cacs try to whitewash our historical heroes with

i shall not tell a lie. i thought that shit. i usually look shit up for myself but this instance i believed the crackaganda. jackie im sorry.
 
stringer bell;c-9980728 said:
Wow.. More fake kumbaya unity talk but yet no talk about police accountability.. I'm sure this will stop another black kid in Cleveland from getting Tamir Rice'd by some out of control pig next time.. Smh...

Yeah but its still undercutting the Cleveland Police Union's baby tantrum. The Browns effectively pulled the rug out from under that bullshit pig protest, so I can tolerate this particular instance of kumbaya. Any time a Police Union get handed an L, I'm happy. They are the #1 enemy as far as I'm concerned, all of those rigged trials stem from laws and regulations Police Unions wrote to protect their worst actors.
 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...478688d23b4_story.html?utm_term=.70010a4680a6

The making of Colin Kaepernick
https://www.gq.com/story/nfl-cant-stop-colin-kaepernick-protest

The NFL Cannot Stop What Colin Kaepernick Started

Drew Magary explains how the movement started by one kneeling player has changed the league's balance of power.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...l-players-their-power/?utm_term=.8f169ff1f892

Colin Kaepernick has done more than make a statement, he has shown NFL players their power

Some great articles on Kap...
 
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2017/09/retired_cleveland_officers_we.html

Association of retired black Cleveland police officers support Browns players kneeling during national anthem

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A group of retired black Cleveland police officers said Friday they support Browns players who knelt in prayer during the national anthem during a recent preseason game.

Former officers with the Retired African American Law Enforcement Association said they decided to speak out after Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association President Steve Loomis said the union was offended by the Browns players' protest.

"The Browns players have a right to a peaceful protest for social justice, by kneeling and praying during the introduction prior to any game," retired former Cleveland Police Community Relations Commander Marvin Cross said during a news conference outside FirstEnergy Stadium. "We have a duty and responsibility to protect our citizens as they exercise their Constitutional rights."

The protests, which have happened around the NFL, are against fatal police shootings of unarmed black men. Eleven Browns players prayed during the national anthem during an Aug. 21 preseason game in support of the protests, started by former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick.


The police, fire and EMS unions all withdrew support for the pregame ceremony for Sunday's opener that was supposed to feature them holding the flag during national anthem.

Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams, who also decried the union's statements, met Thursday with Browns officials and players and came up with a plan that will feature police officers during the pregame ceremonies.

Officers will run from the Browns locker room tunnel onto the field with the players. Officials did not disclose other plans they have for incorporating the police officers and firefighters into the ceremony. The Browns players wanted to incorporate Cleveland police officers in the ceremony long before the controversy started, a source with knowledge of the meeting said.

Several of the retired officers said they respect the Browns players for praying during the national anthem.

They also said they felt Loomis' and the union's statements were divisive. Loomis said his statements were meant for the Browns' organization, not the individual players. He said he believes the Browns allowing the protest alienated some fans who are against the national-anthem protests that have happened around the NFL.

Juanita Black, the president of the Retired African American Law Enforcement Association and a Cleveland police officer for 23 years, said the goal of the police department should be to heal fractured relationships between officers and the community.

"It's not disrespectful to the flag. That's your right as an individual," Black said. "It's disrespectful to sit on their doggone cellphones or go buy drinks during the national anthem."

Cross said their organization volunteered to hold the flag after the police union volunteers withdrew.

"The only way to straighten things out is having the community and police working together," Cross said. "We're going to be part of that process to make sure that happens for the good of this whole city and for the good of all our good police officers who put their lives on the line every day."

Lynn Hampton, the president of the Cleveland Black Shield Police Association, the union that represents black Cleveland police officers, said he supported the retired officers, the Browns players, and Williams response to the flag-holding controversy.

"This was counterproductive to what our whole mission is," Hampton said. "You have to look at this as a holistic approach to changing the dynamics as far as the paradigm of policing. We have to be cognizant of the things we say and how it's going to affect the community. Those ridiculous statements could definitely damage those relationships we're trying to build."
 
Cain;c-9979805 said:
Funny thing is people mad as fuck because a player didn't stand for the anthem BUT I bet none of them got off their ass at home to stand for the same anthem.

Shut yo dumbasses up

You already know them fake ass patriots ain't about sh** & there's almost nothing worst than them. I tell these ol "Stand for the flag, stand for the national anthem" ass people that if they feel so patriotic towards the flag & anthem then why they are not overseas to protect "their" flag.
 
Swiffness!;c-9980111 said:
5th Letter;c-9978509 said:
dnyce215;c-9978503 said:

They just want us to handle injustice like Jackie Robinson did, just take the abuse and don't say nothing.

Nigga how dare you, read your GODDAMN history

this dude founded one of the first Black Owned Banks in Harlem and literally refused to sit at the back of the bus......

Jackie agreed to hold his tongue for his first 2 seasons and put up with the racist bullshit before going full Field Nigga on these cacs while having his GOAT MVP season and never holding his tongue again. I thought everybody knew this fucking story smh

"The Hall of Famer wrote in his 1972 autobiography “Never Had It Made” that he had “believed in payback, retaliation” from the time he was 8 years old and a neighborhood girl called him the vilest of racial epithets. “Jackie had a genius for getting into extra-curricular scrapes,” wrote sports columnist Will Connolly, and he was quick to speak out against injustice. While in the Army in 1944, the defiant Robinson had been arrested for insubordination after refusing to sit in the back of a military bus as ordered by the driver. He was temperamental, too quick-tempered some teammates feared. He talked back to white officials, struck back against white players who levied hard blows. Rickey had heard the reports that Robinson was a “racial agitator” but believed he would have been considered “a competitor” had his skin tone been paler.

Robinson faced perhaps his greatest test a week after his debut when the Philadelphia Phillies, led by their manager Ben Chapman, sprayed the field with racial taunts and calls for him to “go back to the cotton fields.” Robinson daydreamed “for one wild and rage-crazed minute” about “what a glorious, cleansing thing it would be to let go. To hell with the image of the patient black freak I was supposed to create. I could throw down my bat, stride over to the Phillies dugout, grab one of those white sons of bitches and smash his teeth in with my despised black fist.” Knowing that he carried the prospects of an entire race, though, Robinson endured it all without retaliating, and it ate him alive. He suffered from stomach pains. His hair turned gray prematurely.

Before the start of Robinson’s third season in 1949, Rickey called his new star into his office and issued what he called “an emancipation proclamation.” Rickey told a relieved Robinson he no longer needed to restrain himself. “You can be yourself now,” he said.

With his cheek no longer turned, Robinson started to challenge other players and argue with umpires. Some fans and sportswriters began to turn on the Dodgers star as a result. The Sporting News called him “a chronic griper” and took him to task for “umpire-baiting.” No longer the “martyred hero,” he was labeled a “troublemaker,” “uppity” and a “rabble-rouser.”



What he really was, however, was the true Jackie Robinson, someone who would speak out, someone who would fight back. “If I had a room jammed with trophies, awards and citations, and a child of mine came into that room and asked what I had done in defense of black people and decent whites fighting for freedom, and I had to tell that child that I had kept quiet, that I had been timid, I would have to mark myself a total failure at the whole business of living,” Robinson wrote."
http://www.history.com/news/silent-no-longer-the-outspoken-jackie-robinson

Here's his letters to the White House telling President Eisenhower that he would rather have nothing than be insulted by calls for patience and weak-ass Civil Rights legislation:

s7r9koe4i8kx.png


8jnricfre09g.png


0w6p4604vp22.png


od6x14wjism1.png


krn83wxi8u56.png


SMFH @ pro-black heads believing the propaganda bullshit cacs try to whitewash our historical heroes with

What propaganda am I "believing" let's start there.
 
If one of these idiots say it's not racial profiling because those pigs are Hispanic one more time... black pigs can racial profile a black person. The racial part of profiling is for the race of victim, not the race of the cop.
 

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