25 Sep 2017 3:34 pm
Haven't you heard?Huey » 25 Sep 2017 2:57 pm » wrote:Yeah, I guess you missed las weekend ya stupid bitch. Where white and black players were supporting the protestors thru locked arms and hands shoulders, etc.
Go back to your stupid pictures and peanut gallery threads.
45 says locked arms are okay, but he believes that players who take a knee should be fired.
(How many white players have taken a knee?)
Of course I guess he had to say that after his good friend Tom Brady locked arms with a black teammate.
Refresh my memory, did 45 go all ballistic when Tom Brady skipped out on a visit to the White House when his team won the Super Bowl like he's doing to Steph Curry now?
Did he disinvite Brady? LOL
I know you want to dwell in your denial that this is not about race, but the protests are all about racial injustice Sparky, so that makes it about race.
Let's remember how this all started.
Eric Reid: Why Colin Kaepernick and I Decided to Take a Knee
In early 2016, I began paying attention to reports about the incredible number of unarmed black people being killed by the police.
The posts on social media deeply disturbed me, but one in particular brought me to tears: the killing of Alton Sterling in my hometown Baton Rouge, La.
This could have happened to any of my family members who still live in the area.
I felt furious, hurt and hopeless. I wanted to do something, but didn’t know what or how to do it.
A few weeks later, during preseason, my teammate Colin Kaepernick chose to sit on the bench during the national anthem to protest police brutality.
To be honest, I didn’t notice at the time, and neither did the news media.
It wasn’t until after our third preseason game on Aug. 26, 2016, that his protest gained national attention, and the backlash against him began.
That’s when my faith moved me to take action.
I looked to James 2:17, which states, “Faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.”
I knew I needed to stand up for what is right.
I approached Colin the Saturday before our next game to discuss how I could get involved with the cause but also how we could make a more powerful and positive impact on the social justice movement.
We spoke at length about many of the issues that face our community, including systemic oppression against people of color, police brutality and the criminal justice system.
We also discussed how we could use our platform, provided to us by being professional athletes in the N.F.L., to speak for those who are voiceless.
