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as if respecting the flag and the national anthem was somehow tacit approval of police brutality?

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ORIGINAL: tamaka

I think they should stop playing the National Anthem at sporting events.

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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr

The first amendment, though, does not guarantee employment if you piss off your boss.

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My problem is not with the players, but let me add this: it is MY RIGHT to free speech to call them out for the ignorant pieces of human flotsam that they are.

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

"Tip sheet?"

LOL.

You guys are a trip.

Ironic

All you quote are overt propaganda sheets, you're just far too stoopid to realize it

Someone else points out a truth, you're conditioned to mock them just like the ignorant little backward punk that you are

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ORIGINAL: BoscoX

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

72 percent find Kaepernick’s national anthem antics unpatriotic…

Massive traumatic wound for the NFL

They made some really poor and stupid choices in the way they're handling this issue

Bordering on suicide for their business

You might have to start reading books.

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ORIGINAL: JstAnotherSub

~FR~ It amazes me that he is too stoopid to realize that the linked arms and knees taken yesterday were a direct "Fuck you" to him personally. He is about the most ignorant, lying, worthless piece of shit in the world.

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ORIGINAL: AtUrCervix

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ORIGINAL: JstAnotherSub

~FR~ It amazes me that he is too stoopid to realize that the linked arms and knees taken yesterday were a direct "Fuck you" to him personally. He is about the most ignorant, lying, worthless piece of shit in the world.

(We need a gawdamned "like" button)

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Sgt. William H. Carney

1863: First black Medal of Honor recipient

William H. Carney was born as a slave in Norfolk, Virginia, on February 29, 1840.[1] How he made his way to freedom is not certain. According to most accounts, he escaped through the Underground Railroad, and joined his father in Massachusetts. Other members of their family were freed by purchase or by the death of their master.[1][2]

Carney joined the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in March 1863[1] as a Sergeant. He took part in the July 18, 1863, assault on Fort Wagner in Charleston, South Carolina.[3] (The attack on Fort Wagner is depicted in the film Glory.) It was in this attack that Carney's actions ultimately earned him the Medal of Honor. When the color guard was fatally wounded, Carney retrieved the American flag from his comrade and marched forward with it, despite suffering multiple serious wounds.[1][4] When the Union troops were forced to retreat under fire, Carney struggled back across the battlefield. He eventually made his way back to his own lines and turned over the colors to another survivor of the 54th, modestly saying, "Boys, I only did my duty; the old flag never touched the ground!"[2]

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Commissioner,

I’ve been a season pass holder at Yankee Stadium, Yale Bowl and Giants Stadium.

I missed the ’90-’91 season because I was with a battalion of Marines in Desert Storm. 14 of my wonderful Marines returned home with the American Flag draped across their lifeless bodies. My last conversation with one of them, Sgt Garrett Mongrella, was about how our Giants were going to the Super Bowl. He never got to see it.

Many friends, Marines, and Special Forces Soldiers who worked with or for me through the years returned home with the American Flag draped over their coffins.

Now I watch multi-millionaire athletes who never did anything in their lives but play a game, disrespect what brave Americans fought and died for. They are essentially spitting in the faces and on the graves of real men, men who have actually done something for this country beside playing with a ball and believing they’re something special! They’re not! My Marines and Soldiers were!

You are complicit in this! You’ll fine players for large and small infractions but you lack the moral courage and respect for our nation and the fallen to put an immediate stop to this. Yes, I know, it’s their 1st Amendment right to behave in such a despicable manner.

What would happen if they came out and disrespected you or the refs publicly?

I observed a player getting a personal foul for twerking in the end zone after scoring. I guess that’s much worse than disrespecting the flag and our National Anthem. Hmmmmm, isn’t it his 1st Amendment right to express himself like an idiot in the end zone?

Why is taunting not allowed yet taunting America is OK? You fine players for wearing 9-11 commemorative shoes yet you allow scum on the sidelines to sit, kneel or pump their pathetic fist in the air. They are so deprived with their multi-million dollar contracts for playing a freaking game!

You condone it all by your refusal to act. You’re just as bad and disgusting as they are. I hope Americans boycott any sponsor who supports that rabble you call the NFL. I hope they turn off the TV when any team that allowed this disrespect to occur, without consequence, on the sidelines. I applaud those who have not.

Legends and heroes do NOT wear shoulder pads. They wear body armor and carry rifles.

They make minimum wage and spend months and years away from their families. They don’t do it for an hour on Sunday. They do it 24/7 often with lead, not footballs, coming in their direction. They watch their brothers carted off in pieces not on a gurney to get their knee iced. They don’t even have ice! Many don’t have legs or arms.

Some wear blue and risk their lives daily on the streets of America. They wear fire helmets and go upstairs into the fire rather than down to safety. On 9-11, hundreds vanished. They are the heroes.

I hope that your high paid protesting pretty boys and you look in that mirror when you shave tomorrow and see what you really are, legends in your own minds. You need to hit the road and take those worms with you!

Time to change the channel.

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I walked through a county courthouse square
On a park bench an old man was sitting there
I said, your old courthouse is kinda run down
He said, naw, it'll do for our little town
I said, your old flagpole has leaned a little bit
And that's a ragged old flag you got hanging on it

He said, have a seat, and I sat down
Is this the first time you've been to our little town?
I said, I think it is
He said, I don't like to brag
But we're kinda proud of that ragged old flag

You see, we got a little hole in that flag there when
Washington took it across the Delaware
And it got powder-burned the night Francis Scott Key
Sat watching it writing say can you see
And it got a bad rip in New Orleans
With Packingham and Jackson tuggin' at its seams

And it almost fell at the Alamo
Beside the texas flag, but she waved on though
She got cut with a sword at Chancellorsville
And she got cut again at Shiloh Hill
There was Robert E. Lee, Beauregard, and Bragg
And the south wind blew hard on that ragged old flag

On Flanders field in World War one
She got a big hole from a Bertha gun
She turned blood red in World War Two
She hung limp and low a time or two
She was in Korea and Vietnam
She went where she was sent by Uncle Sam

She waved from our ships upon the Briny foam
And now they've about quit waving her back here at home
In her own good land here she's been abused
She's been burned, dishonored, denied, and refused

And the government for which she stands
Is scandalized throughout the land
And she's getting threadbare and wearing thin
But she's in good shape for the shape she's in
'Cause she's been through the fire before
And I believe she can take a whole lot more

So we raise her up every morning
We take her down every night
We don't let her touch the ground and we fold her up right
On second thought, I do like to brag
'Cause I'm mighty proud of that ragged old flag

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ORIGINAL: JVoV

The most celebrated versions of The Star Spangled Banner have been performed by amazing black musicians. Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock and Whitney Houston at the Superbowl in 1991.

I don't believe it's the right thing to protest, to get racial justice.

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ORIGINAL: Wayward5oul

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ORIGINAL: JVoV

The most celebrated versions of The Star Spangled Banner have been performed by amazing black musicians. Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock and Whitney Houston at the Superbowl in 1991.

I don't believe it's the right thing to protest, to get racial justice.

I don't see that it was doing much good, as a protest. Course now the whole point will be lost.

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And they decided to make it about the right to protest instead.

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ORIGINAL: bounty44
"Must Read: Retired Marine Destroys NFL Players Who Disrespect America’s VETERANS"
http://thepoliticalinsider.com/retired-marine-destroys-nfl-national-anthem-players/

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And they decided to make it about the right to protest instead.

But that IS what it is about.