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

[2stepz_ahead]

the prisoners need to take control of the prison

 

[Shizlansky]

Look, I don't like Rog, and he should've been gone two years ago. Period.

But I don't trust whomever Jerry nominates to replace him.

Jerry gon want a commissioner who makes the players stand for the anthem

All he care about is money.

My sources informed me that he told his players they should just stand and use their resources to do something tangible about making real change.

Lol they been saying that shit on espn and fox sports 1 since he came out with that dumbass "If they don't stand they won't play" comment a few weeks ago

Well I rarely watch ESPN. Only if a game is on.

But I am in Dallas and like I said. My sources told me this shit before that meeting had happen with the owners and shit

 

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http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...s-players-kneeled-linked-arms-national-anthem

Texans' Brown on kneeling: 'Felt sense of unity'

SEATTLE -- During the national anthem before Sunday's game against the Seattle Seahawks, the majority of Houston Texans players kneeled and linked arms. Approximately 10 players stood.

The display by the Texans players comes after team owner Bob McNair's controversial "inmates running the prison" comment, which was said during an Oct. 18 meeting in which owners talked about business concerns related to player protests during the national anthem.

"[There were] a lot of emotions running through our team," left tackle Duane Brown said. "But just a huge sense of unity, I think we all felt, just coming out and playing for each other. And that was it. Forgetting everything else. Once kickoff started, we tried to block out any other distractions we may have had and try and go to work."

"I'm never going to force anybody to do anything that they don't feel comfortable with. I think we all felt the same way on Friday. And as far as the demonstration went, some people didn't feel quite comfortable doing it, some people did. But we all supported each other, and that was what was important. I don't think anyone looks at anyone differently for what they stood for or didn't stand for."

Houston wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins and rookie running back D'Onta Foreman missed Friday's practice as a response to McNair's controversial comments, which were reported in an ESPN The Magazine story on Friday morning.

Hopkins chose not to answer questions about why he left practice on Friday, but said he came back and played on Sunday because he plays football for a living.

"I don't get into the political thing," Hopkins said. "So what I did today on the field, that's what I do for a living."

McNair met with the team on Saturday morning, but when asked how the meeting went, Brown said, "Not too well. But like I said, we blocked out all distractions and came out here ready to play."

McNair issued an apology Friday morning and further clarified his comments in a statement on Saturday, saying, "I was not referring to our players when I made a very regretful comment during the owners meetings last week."

"I was referring to the relationship between the league office and team owners and how they have been making significant strategic decisions affecting our league without adequate input from ownership over the past few years," McNair said in the statement. "I am truly sorry to the players for how this has impacted them and the perception that it has created of me which could not be further from the truth. Our focus going forward, personally and as an organization, will be towards making meaningful progress regarding the social issues that mean so much to our players and our community."

On Friday, Brown spoke out against McNair's comments, saying he thought it was "disrespectful." The Texans added Brown to the active roster on Saturday after his season-long holdout, and he took the field for the first time Sunday.

"I think it was ignorant," Brown said. "I think it was embarrassing. I think it angered a lot of players, including myself. We put our bodies and minds on the line every time we step on that field, and to use an analogy of inmates in prison, that's disrespectful. That's how I feel about it."

Before the Texans' Week 3 game in New England in 2016, an injured Brown raised his fist during the national anthem, and expressed displeasure at the lack of support he received from the organization.

 

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https://twitter.com/_/status/924165500652752897

On Friday, October 27, JAY-Z joined a growing number of celebrities blasting McNair.

“[They’re] injuring themselves on the field, giving it all they got. That’s how they look at you," Hov told the crowd during his concert in Anaheim, California. "That’s what they think about you. We got so much further to go. The truth is we all believe in whatever you believe in. God, Allah. Whatever you believe in, we come from one source which means we are all brothers and sisters at the end of the day.”

 

[Recaptimus_Prime360]

Tony Dungy is a legitimately kind hearted man who wants to believe the best in people. Normally that’s a plus but here it’s a weakness.

Like that old saying goes: when someone tells you who they really are... believe them.

My question for people like Tony is: How many times Esau gotta tell you exactly who he is before you start to believe him?

...TESTIFY BROTHA!! PREACH!!!

 

[black caesar]

Look, I don't like Rog, and he should've been gone two years ago. Period.

But I don't trust whomever Jerry nominates to replace him.

Jerry gon want a commissioner who makes the players stand for the anthem

All he care about is money.

My sources informed me that he told his players they should just stand and use their resources to do something tangible about making real change.

Lol they been saying that shit on espn and fox sports 1 since he came out with that dumbass "If they don't stand they won't play" comment a few weeks ago

Well I rarely watch ESPN. Only if a game is on.

But I am in Dallas and like I said. My sources told me this shit before that meeting had happen with the owners and shit

Wait you've been watching NFL games this season bruh?

 

[King_Me]

...TESTIFY BROTHA!! PREACH!!!

The chick in that light blue dress!

 

[Chi Snow]

These weak ass dudes will kneel for anything except social injustices and inequality of POC

Niggas will kneel for Pluto being called. A planet again before they kneel for POC color being killed by its own government

 

[playmaker88]

These weak ass dudes will kneel for anything except social injustices and inequality of POC

Niggas will kneel for Pluto being called. A planet again before they kneel for POC color being killed by its own government

Cosign.. now if they would have married the reason why they kneeled to the larger picture "WHITE SUPREMACY" then that would have been something.. see even that in Colin kneeling has taken a back burner to police injustice...

which is caused by white supremacy. That should be the lead. because what is happening as a result is that people tal about it in the context of a lack of communication between police and minorities training and other bullshit buffers.. its... WHITE SUPREMACY cats need too be real as the side of hate.. however we are always trying not to offend racist.... smh

 

[Shizlansky]

Look, I don't like Rog, and he should've been gone two years ago. Period.

But I don't trust whomever Jerry nominates to replace him.

Jerry gon want a commissioner who makes the players stand for the anthem

All he care about is money.

My sources informed me that he told his players they should just stand and use their resources to do something tangible about making real change.

Lol they been saying that shit on espn and fox sports 1 since he came out with that dumbass "If they don't stand they won't play" comment a few weeks ago

Well I rarely watch ESPN. Only if a game is on.

But I am in Dallas and like I said. My sources told me this shit before that meeting had happen with the owners and shit

Wait you've been watching NFL games this season bruh?

Yea. I caught a cpl of them.

Trump gon win if nobody watch. It’s complicated

 

[The Lonious Monk]

Look, I don't like Rog, and he should've been gone two years ago. Period.

But I don't trust whomever Jerry nominates to replace him.

Jerry gon want a commissioner who makes the players stand for the anthem

All he care about is money.

My sources informed me that he told his players they should just stand and use their resources to do something tangible about making real change.

Lol they been saying that shit on espn and fox sports 1 since he came out with that dumbass "If they don't stand they won't play" comment a few weeks ago

Well I rarely watch ESPN. Only if a game is on.

But I am in Dallas and like I said. My sources told me this shit before that meeting had happen with the owners and shit

Wait you've been watching NFL games this season bruh?

Yea. I caught a cpl of them.

Trump gon win if nobody watch. It’s complicated

Yeah, I don't think people get how complicated it is. If you boycott the NFL for its treatment of the players due to their protests, you hurt the NFL, but you also hurt those same players. If the players stop playing as some suggest they should, again, the hurt the NFL, but they also hurt themselves and they lose the platform that is allowing them to protest in the first place.

 

[313 wayz]

Shoutout to Tomi Lahren for violating the US Flag Code for a Halloween costume

36 U.S.C. 176, which reads: “The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery.”

 

[black caesar]

Shannon speaks on Tony Dungy. Starts at 2:29

 

[R0mp]

https://twitter.com/TimKennedyMMA/status/915439864086016000
https://twitter.com/GHurricane/status/915536727787393024
https://twitter.com/NateRockQuarry/status/915591574070878208
https://twitter.com/NateRockQuarry/status/915591852438437888

 

[jay83]

on facebook you keep hearing white people say nfl players are whining. yet all these people are doing is whining about players kneeling. They have to announce they are boycotting. Its like they want attention so bad.

 

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...05f80164f6e_story.html?utm_term=.5f4a1009edd4

Eagles’ Jenkins: NFL owners declined meeting with players

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins, one of the founders of The Players Coalition, said the next proposed meeting between the owners and players to discuss social justice initiatives has been canceled.

“The league didn’t accept our invitation,” Jenkins said Sunday.

NFL players proposed to meet Monday in Philadelphia. Jenkins said the league cited scheduling and logistical issues.

“At this point, the ball is in their court,” Jenkins said. “We’ll continue to do what we’ve been doing. Guys are working around the league.”

League spokesman Brian McCarthy said Sunday night: “Nothing is set, but the league is eager to continue the dialogue with the players.”

The league and players met last week in New York to discuss player demonstrations during the national anthem and other issues.

“They want to get back to football; we want to move past anthem demonstrations,” Jenkins said. “But to do that, we need to be able to replace the platform that we have.”

Jenkins wants a venue outside the stadium and not during the anthem for athletes to raise awareness of social issues.

“We don’t really enjoy doing this,” Jenkins said. “We’d love to have a different platform and we think that’s something we could work collaboratively with the NFL to create, to actually draw awareness to the issues we’re doing, to use the NFL as a vehicle to make real change.”

Colin Kaepernick, who began kneeling during the national anthem before the 2016 season and currently is out of the NFL, did not attend the meeting last week.

Jenkins declined to address a report Sunday on Slate.com that said Kaepernick had been iced out of discussions between owners and players. Jenkins and other players had said Kaepernick was invited.

McCarthy also made it clear the NFL would like to include Kaepernick.

“We would welcome Colin at a meeting, but it’s the players who are extending the invitations,” he said.

Kaepernick has filed a grievance against the NFL, alleging that he was not signed because of collusion by owners who wanted him out of the league because of the protests.

Jenkins said the players want Kaepernick “to be a part of the conversation.”

San Francisco safety Eric Reid, who took a knee during the national anthem again Sunday, said Kaepernick told him he would attend if invited.

“I know Colin has been fighting to get in the room to speak to the appropriate people in the NFL,” Reid said. “He told me that he was explicitly told he had no place being there. The NFL wants the protests to end. It’s bad for their business. But it’s ridiculous that they don’t want Colin to be there being that he was the first one to start protesting. If we have to force him into the room, that’s what we’ll do.”

Chargers linebacker Russell Okung, who has been raising his fist during the national anthem, said the league has “amazing political and economic power” and hoped it would walk with the players “to will that power in a way that changes the dynamic of our country.”

Jenkins and Eagles’ teammate Rodney McLeod raised their fists during the national anthem Sunday. Kneeling across the field on the San Francisco 49ers sideline were Reid, Eli Harold, Adrian Colbert and Marquise Goodwin.

All but 10 members of the Houston Texans took a knee during the national anthem Sunday, as the vast majority of the team protested the owner’s “inmates running the prison” comment. Before this week, no Texans had protested during the anthem.

“It’s already a sensitive issue,” Jenkins said. “What am I proud of is, I feel like the voice of the players has been pretty concise and consistent. Even when you’ve had responses the president, responses from different owners that have not been in the good spirit of solidarity. The players have remained pretty level-headed. We’re more concerned about getting actual work done and change and going about the right steps to do that.”

Jenkins said he did not know when players and owners might meet again.

“I feel like we’ve done everything that we needed to do to really try to work in a collaborative effort with the league,” Jenkins said. “We’ve showed up at meetings that they’ve requested. We’ve had the conversations they wanted to between us.”

Jenkins was among a group of Eagles that made a trip last week to the state capitol in Harrisburg and met with legislators to discuss criminal justice reform.

 

[Shizlansky]

Jenkins get it.

He applying action to affect change instead of just taking a knee like most of these dudes is doing.

Respect.

 

[R0mp]

Old article, still applies to much of the outraged reactions:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/post...f-political-correctness-its-just-as-stifling/

 

[AggieLean.]

Slave master McNair got Duane Brown up outta there. One of the more outspoken Texans

 

[Recaptimus_Prime360]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZZdB5hqbTw

Shannon speaks on Tony Dungy. Starts at 2:29

Shannon had time today! Lol