And, I admit that I'm a bit confused. Evidently, it's about blacks being repressed, although I'm hard pressed to understand how overpaid, muiti-millionaires can say that they're being oppressed. So, I did some Googling and found the article.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick told NFL Media in an exclusive interview after the game. "To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder."That seems to be a nonsensical reason to take a knee during the national anthem. It looks to me like it is protest for the sake of protest. Some folks defend it as a First Amendment right. I aslo note with some amusement that the guy who started it doesn't have a job this year.
The other players joining the protest should remember that. Your protest might cost you your job. When you start hurting the bottom line of your company, you're likely to find yourself protesting in the unemployment line. I firmly stand with the players right to protest. I also firmly stand with the owners right to run their sorry assess up the road.
I also stand my my right to laugh at the whole thing. It's silliness, a protest without any real goals. It's controversy for the sake of controversy. No one expects anything to change, and I can't see that the players are taking any actions that would lead to change. Yet, that's their right. In America, you have the right to be nonsensical, but you don't have the right to expect me to take you seriously.
As for myself, I boycotted the NFL twenty years ago. I had better things to do on a Sunday afternoon than watch a bunch of overpaid athletes screw up a good game. I'm glad to see that more of America is taking up my boycott.
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I agree wholeheartedly. The only change I'd make would be in your next to last sentence is replace the word "athletes" with "thugs". It's a better descriptor.
I always thought that for as much money as NFL players make that there should be lions released on the field.
Melissa, that might be the only thing that would get me to watch a feetsball game,. That would be entertaining!
--Tennessee Budd
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