Colin Kaepernick refuses “to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses Black people”...
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dnyce215;c-10010405 said:
You know shit is fucked up when a jackass like MJ winds up on the right side of an issue.
"Unity": The word the NFL is using to avoid talking about Colin Kaepernick
By Zito Madu on September 25, 2017 6:55 am
On Friday night in Alabama, Donald Trump said that if an NFL owner saw one his players kneeling in protest during the national anthem he should make that “son of a bitch” leave the field and be fired. The NFL responded on Sunday by showing solidarity. That solidarity came under the branding of “unity.”
Players responded to Trump’s words on Twitter after the comments were made on Friday. Then on Sunday, many teams and individual players engaged in some form of protest against his words. Some took a knee like Colin Kaepernick, who was the originator for the protest. Others linked arms. Some teams stayed inside the tunnel during the anthem. Dolphins players wore shirts in support of Kaepernick, and some players raised their fists in the air during the anthem or after scoring touchdowns.
Owners and teams and even the league itself released statements condemning the divisive words of the president. These statements made clear that the NFL has always been a unified community that asks its employees to do their part in helping the greater community. Shad Khan, owner of the Jaguars, joined his players in linking arms. Dan Snyder, owner of the Washington NFL team, did the same with his players.
Trump, in trying to encourage punishment against protesters and divide the country even more, unified the NFL in a way that hasn’t been seen before.
But then, it’s bemusing why it took Trump for this to happen. Or rather, this unity seems more about the league standing behind an empty word — unity — rather than standing behind the original reason for Kaepernick’s protest. The deep irony of this entire situation is that all of this happening while Kaepernick himself is unemployed, and owners who refused to give him a chance because of his protest, now stand, arms linked, in protest to Trump saying that protesters should be fired.
It’s become a protest against Trump, rather than what it was intended to be.
It’s worth revisiting that Kaepernick’s protest was so divisive that he did so alone and was condemned by owners, talking heads, fans and anonymous NFL executives. A protest that’s been discussed and picked over so many times that it has been distorted into something else that it was never about.
Kaepernick was protesting racism. He kneeled during the anthem because he thought the United States was not living up to its own ideals of freedom. The form of racism that he was concerned with was police brutality. Kaepernick thought that unarmed and harmless minorities, black people especially, shouldn’t be killed by the same police officers tasked with protecting them. And the officers shouldn’t do so with impunity.
Kaepernick kneeled as a plea for humanity. He thought that human beings of a different race should be given the same respect, compassion and fair treatment as other human beings. He wanted police officers to not profile or kill minorities in a disproportionate fashion. He asked this because he loves the U.S. and knows that love isn’t pretending that what you love is perfect, but shows itself in wanting the object of your love to be the best version of itself.
That plea for compassion, in a country that believes itself to be the greatest civilization, is what is at the heart of all of this anger. That people should be treated fairly seems like a mundane sentiment, or it would be if the U.S. was more like the ideal of itself and not the work in progress that it is right now.
His protest was never in disrespect to the flag. It wasn’t about those who serve in the armed forces. It wasn’t against police; it was against police brutality. It wasn’t about the NFL and it most certainly wasn’t about Donald Trump.
If the word “unity” that the NFL now stands behind meant something, then Kaepernick should have been backed by the entire league from the beginning. He should still have a job. But what happened was that he saw a fault in the country that he loved, said that we should be unified in an effort to fix it, and was roundly condemned for it.
Now, removed from Kaepernick, who is on the outside looking in, with his stance distorted by arguments cowardly trying to look away from the original issue — claiming that he kneeled against things that he didn’t — and with the spotlight pointed at Trump rather than police brutality, the NFL has decided to protest without really protesting anything. The same people who thought a call for equal treatment was too divisive to keep Kaepernick employed are now saying that they’re unified against an ambiguous something that’s not definitely not racism. It’s less of a protest now, and more of a branding exercise
By Zito Madu on September 25, 2017 6:55 am
On Friday night in Alabama, Donald Trump said that if an NFL owner saw one his players kneeling in protest during the national anthem he should make that “son of a bitch” leave the field and be fired. The NFL responded on Sunday by showing solidarity. That solidarity came under the branding of “unity.”
Players responded to Trump’s words on Twitter after the comments were made on Friday. Then on Sunday, many teams and individual players engaged in some form of protest against his words. Some took a knee like Colin Kaepernick, who was the originator for the protest. Others linked arms. Some teams stayed inside the tunnel during the anthem. Dolphins players wore shirts in support of Kaepernick, and some players raised their fists in the air during the anthem or after scoring touchdowns.
Owners and teams and even the league itself released statements condemning the divisive words of the president. These statements made clear that the NFL has always been a unified community that asks its employees to do their part in helping the greater community. Shad Khan, owner of the Jaguars, joined his players in linking arms. Dan Snyder, owner of the Washington NFL team, did the same with his players.
Trump, in trying to encourage punishment against protesters and divide the country even more, unified the NFL in a way that hasn’t been seen before.
But then, it’s bemusing why it took Trump for this to happen. Or rather, this unity seems more about the league standing behind an empty word — unity — rather than standing behind the original reason for Kaepernick’s protest. The deep irony of this entire situation is that all of this happening while Kaepernick himself is unemployed, and owners who refused to give him a chance because of his protest, now stand, arms linked, in protest to Trump saying that protesters should be fired.
It’s become a protest against Trump, rather than what it was intended to be.
It’s worth revisiting that Kaepernick’s protest was so divisive that he did so alone and was condemned by owners, talking heads, fans and anonymous NFL executives. A protest that’s been discussed and picked over so many times that it has been distorted into something else that it was never about.
Kaepernick was protesting racism. He kneeled during the anthem because he thought the United States was not living up to its own ideals of freedom. The form of racism that he was concerned with was police brutality. Kaepernick thought that unarmed and harmless minorities, black people especially, shouldn’t be killed by the same police officers tasked with protecting them. And the officers shouldn’t do so with impunity.
Kaepernick kneeled as a plea for humanity. He thought that human beings of a different race should be given the same respect, compassion and fair treatment as other human beings. He wanted police officers to not profile or kill minorities in a disproportionate fashion. He asked this because he loves the U.S. and knows that love isn’t pretending that what you love is perfect, but shows itself in wanting the object of your love to be the best version of itself.
That plea for compassion, in a country that believes itself to be the greatest civilization, is what is at the heart of all of this anger. That people should be treated fairly seems like a mundane sentiment, or it would be if the U.S. was more like the ideal of itself and not the work in progress that it is right now.
His protest was never in disrespect to the flag. It wasn’t about those who serve in the armed forces. It wasn’t against police; it was against police brutality. It wasn’t about the NFL and it most certainly wasn’t about Donald Trump.
If the word “unity” that the NFL now stands behind meant something, then Kaepernick should have been backed by the entire league from the beginning. He should still have a job. But what happened was that he saw a fault in the country that he loved, said that we should be unified in an effort to fix it, and was roundly condemned for it.
Now, removed from Kaepernick, who is on the outside looking in, with his stance distorted by arguments cowardly trying to look away from the original issue — claiming that he kneeled against things that he didn’t — and with the spotlight pointed at Trump rather than police brutality, the NFL has decided to protest without really protesting anything. The same people who thought a call for equal treatment was too divisive to keep Kaepernick employed are now saying that they’re unified against an ambiguous something that’s not definitely not racism. It’s less of a protest now, and more of a branding exercise
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18 U.S. Code § 227 stipulates that any federal employee, member of Congress, or member of the executive branch is forbidden from using their position within the federal government to influence the employment decisions of a private business, solely on the basis of partisan political affiliation. The penalty for doing so could result in fines and incarceration of up to 15 years, and anyone who is found guilty of violating that law could even be disqualified from holding office:
(a)Whoever, being a covered government person, with the intent to influence, solely on the basis of partisan political affiliation, an employment decision or employment practice of any private entity—
(1) takes or withholds, or offers or threatens to take or withhold, an official act, or
(2) influences or offers or threatens to influence, the official act of another shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than 15 years, or both, and may be disqualified from holding any office of honour, trust, or profit under the United States.
It’s worth noting that U.S. Code specifies that no federal employee is exempt from the law, including the President of the United States.
(a)Whoever, being a covered government person, with the intent to influence, solely on the basis of partisan political affiliation, an employment decision or employment practice of any private entity—
(1) takes or withholds, or offers or threatens to take or withhold, an official act, or
(2) influences or offers or threatens to influence, the official act of another shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than 15 years, or both, and may be disqualified from holding any office of honour, trust, or profit under the United States.
It’s worth noting that U.S. Code specifies that no federal employee is exempt from the law, including the President of the United States.
The Lonious Monk
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kzzl;c-10010481 said:
This maybe true, but movements aren't always clean. Support for movements are often increased by things that people in the movement don't always agree with.
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This is what they want black people to stand up for?
"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 washed out their foul footsteps' 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"
"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 washed out their foul footsteps' 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"
The Lonious Monk
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5th Letter;c-10010495 said:
That shit right there still blows me. I honestly didn't know about it before this whole thing. Dude just subtly threw a couple lines about killing black people in a song that has absolutely nothing to do with black people. And these idiots really can't understand the problem here.
playmaker88
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dnyce215;c-10010452 said:
Exactly. what ive been saying in a few more words.. Bra-Fucking-Vo
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The Lonious Monk;c-10010490 said:
Word to Cacs using Ali as a a symbol of the anti-war movement.
They've shifted the conversation
Yesterday was disgusting. Locking arms with owners who not only participated in the blackball but several who donated to the current admin.
It was predictable and weak. Some people can look at this and say, well they kneeled. They ain't do it for the right reason and I can't respect that. The fall of this sport/league will be bittersweet
Yesterday was disgusting. Locking arms with owners who not only participated in the blackball but several who donated to the current admin.
It was predictable and weak. Some people can look at this and say, well they kneeled. They ain't do it for the right reason and I can't respect that. The fall of this sport/league will be bittersweet
The Lonious Monk
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R.D.;c-10010505 said:
I know people don't like the armlocking with Kraft, but I really don't understand his angle here. I doubt he had a change of heart and is on t he right side, but I don't see what the upside is for him. I wonder what he hopes to come from what he did.
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naledgestate;c-10010164 said:
I wana agree but at the same time not everybody wants to be an activist and that's fine. The problem with cam is he keeps answering these questions knowing he's one of those ppl that don't wana be part of this. Just shut up if you ain't about it.
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