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

[Shizlansky]

In the end Trump won.

Smh

 

[Chi Snow]

I haven’t watched a single game all season

Outside of national headlines I have no idea what the landscape of football looks like.

I know Kaep still without a job and ppl are trying to spin what the protest are all about. That’s enough to keep me away

 

[blackrain]

Officially no longer fucking with the NFL

Were you watching it earlier? Most of us were boycotting. I know I was and the way things are going the NBA is going to enforce the same shit, so I won't be watching that either.

@blackceaser The NBA has long had a rule saying players have to stand...so that's not a new thing they're enforcing

 

[black caesar]

Officially no longer fucking with the NFL

Were you watching it earlier? Most of us were boycotting. I know I was and the way things are going the NBA is going to enforce the same shit, so I won't be watching that either.

Not heavily this season. But I wont be tuning in at all anymore.

The NBA isnt going out of thier way to shut player rights down

.......

 

[dnyce215]

Are the NFL ratings down?

 

[So ILL]

When has kneeling ever been a disrespectful act?

Exactly, it never has been until this shit. Which is why all of these fake patriots kill me with that disrespect bullshit.

 

[stringer bell]

When has kneeling ever been a disrespectful act?

When the Black Man started using it for a righteous and just cause...

 

[stringer bell]

https://twitter.com/Kaepernick7/status/917955545197314048

 

[2stepz_ahead]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ng04qbOocE

how the fukk he gonna say stand up to peer pressure when he pressuring them to do what he wants?

 

[infamous114]

https://twitter.com/KingJames/status/917961576350699520

 

[D. Morgan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ng04qbOocE

how the fukk he gonna say stand up to peer pressure when he pressuring them to do what he wants?

Cause you know just as well as I do that there is not one team owner in any pro sports league in this country that thinks, looks at or treats the players on said team as their peer.

For example look at the shit Abe Pollin pulled with Jordan back in the day. Didn't matter how much money Jordan had Abe Pollin still treated him like a anything lil ass nigga ball player.

 

[TheBoyRo]

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/761216404406153216

 

[soul rattler]

https://twitter.com/KingJames/status/917961576350699520

LeBron just made the line even cornier than it already was

 

[MR.CJ]

https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/918156543803215874

 

[stringer bell]

https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/918156543803215874

 

[blackrain]

https://twitter.com/MikeLeslieWFAA/status/918195470010388481
https://twitter.com/MikeLeslieWFAA/status/918195623635161089

 

[stringer bell]

https://twitter.com/marcus_mosher/status/918196521606279170

 

[northside7]

Officially no longer fucking with the NFL

Were you watching it earlier? Most of us were boycotting. I know I was and the way things are going the NBA is going to enforce the same shit, so I won't be watching that either.

Not heavily this season. But I wont be tuning in at all anymore.

The NBA isnt going out of thier way to shut player rights down

They are.

Co-sign. Some naive thinking that the NBA wouldn't buckle under the same pressure.

 

[stringer bell]

http://www.theroot.com/penn-college-football-quarterback-kicked-off-team-afte-1819372786

Penn. College Football Quarterback Kicked Off Team After Kneeling During National Anthem

As the NFL protests continue and teams and the association at large continue to argue about how to deal with players kneeling during the national anthem to protest police brutality and black oppression, school football players—across high schools and colleges alike—are also showing their solidarity and their own morality by choosing to take a knee.

In fact, one college football player payed a hefty price, losing his spot on the team for kneeling for his rights and for the rights of black people everywhere.

“At some point in life, there’s going to be a time when you’ve got to take a stand,” Gyree Durante told NBC Philadelphia after he was removed from the team. “For me it just happened to be on Saturday afternoon.”

Durante is a sophomore at Albright College in Reading, Penn., and was also a backup quarterback for the team. Over the weekend, for the second game in a row, Durante chose to kneel during the playing of the national anthem and as a result was quickly cut from the team.

“I was just taught you fight for what you believe in and you don’t bow to anyone,” Durante said. “I believe heavily in this. So I decided to fight for it.”

Albright College told the news station that Durante lost his spot because he went against a unified decision that was made by the team. All the players had reportedly agreed to kneel during the coin toss before standing for the national anthem.

“This action, which was supported by the coaching staff, was created as an expression of team unity and out of the mutual respect team members have for one another and the value they place on their differences,” an Albright spokesperson told the station. “It was established as a way to find common ground in a world with many differing views.”

According to the spokesperson, this was decided on by the team’s leadership council, which comprises 24 student-athletes. The players also reportedly had an agreement that there would be consequences for those who chose not to fall in line with the rest of the team.

“One football player, who unbeknownst to the coach and the team, chose not to support team unity and has been dismissed from the team,” the spokesperson wrote. “He remains a valued member of the Albright College student body.”

Right. That went over well.

NBC Philadelphia spoke to two of Durante’s now-former teammates, and both echoed the spokesperson’s words. Stephen Glynn and Josh Powell told the news station that they understood what Durante was trying to do, but in doing so, he broke the team’s trust after agreeing to stand for the anthem and then later going back on his word.

“We trusted him throughout the week, after time and time again he told us he would stand,” Powell said. “When you can’t have a player on a team that you can trust, he’s got to go.”

Amerikkka 2017...

 

[stringer bell]