President Trump brought up the disrespectful NFL football players to an Alabama audience at a rally two days ago, referring to the players as disrespectful. He expressed the feelings of the crowd when he asked this question: “Wouldn’t you love to see one of the NFL owners, when someone disrespects our flag, to say ‘get that son of b*tch off the field right now! Out! He’s fired! He’s fired!”
After these remarks, former Democrat Rep. Donna Edwards called on all NFL Players to kneel during the National Anthem.
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She tweeted encouragement to the kneeling players. She hopes that all NFL players kneel during the national anthem on Sunday.
Edwards called Trump a “white supremacist who squats in our White House” in her tweet.
That’s not disrespectful?
On Sunday, I hope every @NFL player takes a knee in solidarity w @Kaepernick7 against the white supremacist who squats in our White House.
— Donna Edwards (@DonnaFEdwards) September 23, 2017
Edwards is the congresswoman who said police caused the Black Lives Matter riots in Baltimore. She wouldn’t attend Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech before Congress to condemn the Iran nuclear deal. Edwards is also a Socialist.
She retweeted race-baiter Touré’s comments making vile references to slavery.
It was his Get your darkies in line speech. His Shut up and dance, boy, speech. His All Massas Matter speech. His Go get ya shinebox speech.
— Touré (@Toure) September 23, 2017
She retweeted the author of White Flight who went back to Jackie Robinson’s days.
“I cannot stand & sing the anthem. I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world.” Jackie Robinson wrote that. /5
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) August 31, 2016
The reaction to the President’s speech grew embarrassing this weekend when an NFL team of snowflakes had to hold a meeting – it was very emotional.
Sources tell me Bills locker room, for instance, has been very emotional today as some players consider several possibilities for protest.
— Jeff Darlington (@JeffDarlington) September 23, 2017
The national anthem has nothing to do with black oppression and everything to do with showing disrespect for our nation, our military, and values. They aren’t making a stand for equality, they are trashing the country.
People such as her need to create a villain for personal gain and to compensate for their own shortcomings.
I agree with Michael. What used to be a respectable sport has become an elite club of overpaid, arrogant jock straps who disrespect women, murder people, coat themselves in money, servants, gated communities, mansions, limousines….and then disrespect the nation that provided the means for their enrichment.
BOYCOTT the NFL! Let the franchises (and their advertisers) feel the loss of support from the ardent fans that have spent so much of their hard earned money for overpriced seats, overpriced concessions, overpriced ‘official’ trinkets bearing team trademark logos and such just to watch a bunch of OVERPAID, disrespectful babies play football.
Screw the NFL!
And to think all of this shit started because a mediocre, overpaid quarterback decided to protest because he felt ‘oppressed’! To hell with Colon Kaepernick and the horse he snorted in on! His net worth is about 25 million. His salary is about 19 million a year. Who pays that? THE FANS!
Are all these people complete idiots. Protesting the national anthem certainly is NOT, as the “A’s” suggest, a form of free expression. It is an oxymoron. They are “Protesting” against Free speech and expression. That anthem was written during a fierce battle in the War of 1812. A different outcome would have this country under British rule, which has NO First Amendment. And what is England doing these days. They are Not protecting the people’s right to free speech, rather they are arresting people who have made posts to Twitter and Facebook. THAT is what THIS country defeated, and the National Anthem is the representation of a battle that separates a Free Society from one who punishes Freedom. Therefore, to “Protest” the National Anthem is to Deny Freedom with an undeclared desire to supplant it with British style limits.
Seems to me times and opportunities in Jackie Robinson’s time were, um, well … slightly less than they are today. But … I may be wrong. Perhaps these black athletes today, at x millions of $ per year, are oppressed in their Mercedes and gated communities etc.
Why don’t they tell the young black kids today, ‘Buckle down, study hard, become the best at what you do — like I did?’ Did these athletes today, get to where they are, by spending their college days protesting and inciting riots? I don’t think so.
What worked for them, they will not encourage young blacks to do themselves today.