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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAmerica is taking a knee today Mr. President. (photo heavy) I don't think he knows how big this got.
I also don't think he cares. At all.
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Sneederbunk
(14,291 posts)leftstreet
(36,109 posts)Thanks for putting this together
Rorey
(8,445 posts)These demonstrations of what it really means to be an American have brought me almost to tears today.
I'd love to be a fly on the wall wherever 45 is when he figures out that so many disagree with him. I'd love to ask him, "How's that boycott the NFL thing going for you?"
iluvtennis
(19,863 posts)mcar
(42,334 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,611 posts)the effort would be lost in all the blubber around it.
niyad
(113,364 posts)mountain grammy
(26,626 posts)called American citizens exercising their Constitutional rights sons of bitches and his confederate flag waving mob of followers cheered.
ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)Do they stick with him and his authoritarian edicts, or do they side with their team's right to protest? I hope they know that this is about protesting injustice, not the flag!
meow2u3
(24,764 posts)Authoritarian Trumpanzees are dumber than a box of rocks. They'll follow Racket Man off a 500-foot cliff, jumping to their deaths, before they'll admit they'd been conned by a career criminal who never was held accountable for his crimes against humanity.
trueblue2007
(17,228 posts)Squinch
(50,955 posts)white players kneeling in solidarity. There were very few in those photos.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,862 posts)or mostly black players it will be misinterpreted as some attempt at "black power".
fierywoman
(7,686 posts)I haven't looked at many photos but they're pretty scarce in the ones I've seen.
Meanwhile I'm seeing lots of RW/"centrist" types I know on FB getting outraged and declaring themselves "done" with this team or that team, or the whole NFL, often accompanied by militaristic glurge. Who'd have thought Trump's ineptitude could wreck the NFL?
MrPurple
(985 posts)Maraya1969
(22,484 posts)hands on the kneeling players and locking arms.
Maybe they are not ready to actually take a knee yet. I hope as time continues they get over their fear and stand with their fellow Americans.
Aristus
(66,393 posts)Some people never learn empathy until something similar happens to them...
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)Earlier several white players stood in solidarity with their black teammates, but Trumpists claimed it was a counter-protest. The black players are risking everything - their white teammates need to unambiguously show their support.
drmeow
(5,020 posts)It was nice to see some white players kneeling and the the WWII vet was awesome but I wish more were doing it.
FloridaBlues
(4,008 posts)Maybe the fans booing would feel differently if dotart called one of them a SOB.
Why even start this crap dotart at a campaign rally for a man named Strange.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)ameriKKKans want to have a potus who has disrespected POC and encouraged violence against POC, by police and citizenry. They can boo all they please. An american has a right to protest, peacefully, injustice in any manner available and at anytime. The dullards who booed are silly, hateful people who have disrespected the flag, country and decent people by voting for and siding with a racist, sexist very stupid individual who calls himself potus....I wear a button whenever I'm out now, "he's not my president", given to me by a friend. I mean it, this POS is not my president in any respect.....have gotten some stares and I stare right back...fuck them , the Philli Penguins and NASCAR owners, they are part of the 66million+. The flag is a piece of colored cloth that represents a country...the deaths through outright murder of men, women and children of color represents injustice....which do I choose to understand as the important point here...flag or lives killed by racist pigs? Knees down in protest of murder and injustice or 66million+ idiots booing? No contest. I fly my flag upside down now in protest of the disrespect this country has shown to vets and decent people that care in having to put up with this asinine racist bullshit...this country is in distress....BIGTIME.
fantase56
(444 posts)lpbk2713
(42,760 posts)Gotta love it.
calimary
(81,323 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)And he knows that.
handmade34
(22,756 posts)National Anthem and history (which so many don't, especially DT)
https://vimeo.com/166881889
kstewart33
(6,551 posts)Thx!
JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)dalton99a
(81,526 posts)uponit7771
(90,347 posts)Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)tblue37
(65,409 posts)Alice11111
(5,730 posts)Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)Home. Alone. In my living room
IN SOLIDARITY!
JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)I am proud to be an American because of greatness like this.
arthritisR_US
(7,288 posts)powerful because he fought for all those continuing to fight for equality. He shows how impotent 45's tweets and words are.
Upthevibe
(8,053 posts)arthritisR_US
(7,288 posts)raven mad
(4,940 posts)Well over 60 in age, but managed!
JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)America the beautiful.