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Go Bree! Sing it!
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)n/t.
sheshe2
(83,853 posts)Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)..It's All About His Racism, And His Fear Of Losing Cult Leader Status.
sheshe2
(83,853 posts)It suits him well.
You are so right, Grassy Knoll...
rurallib
(62,439 posts)Why do they even play the anthem at sporting events anyway.
sheshe2
(83,853 posts)Tis...
Gore1FL
(21,151 posts)Which doesn't give me much hope of "God Bless America" at MLB games going away in my lifetime.
I don't know why we need nationalistic pageantry at athletic events.
Bettie
(16,120 posts)the more little things we do automatically becasue they are expected, the more big things we (as a rule, not all of us) accept as things we must comply with.
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)sheshe2
(83,853 posts)A S-hero.
GaryCnf
(1,399 posts)It's not about free speech either.
If a person can't check their privilege at the door and stand against the institutional racism that infects every aspect of American life they aren't standing with Kaepernick.
tblue37
(65,482 posts)Lucky Luciano
(11,258 posts)Gothmog
(145,486 posts)CrispyQ
(36,499 posts)...which is why no one has ever been up in arms about folks buying hot dogs & popcorn when anthem is playing...
The media/GOP are masters at changing the narrative. She nailed it that that is exactly what they are doing - take the focus from the WHY they are protesting, and put it on the WAY they are protesting. I unfriended a networking acquaintance this morning. She posted a picture of a group of soldiers, on their knees, aiming their guns at something, with the text, "This is what real men look like when they take a knee." Yeah, as they're about ready to kill someone. And she is a Christian. One of the vocal ones. Goes to a church that hates gays.
From another DU post. Don't let them forget WHAT is all about.
sheshe2
(83,853 posts)Perfect Graphic, thank you CrispyQ.