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 Post subject: Re: Professional Athletes vs. America
PostPosted: Mon October 09, 2017 12:54 am 
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I guess this is a funny gotcha, but the guy just used an old picture before the game to say he was excited about the game. Our time is probably better served talking about his hatred of women, gays, and the poor.


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PostPosted: Mon October 09, 2017 1:18 am 
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 Post subject: Re: Professional Athletes vs. America
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I guess Mother gave him permission to attend the game.

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Wanna read the worst possible headline related to the whole situation?


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 Post subject: Re: Professional Athletes vs. America
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This is among the dumbest controversies this year.


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 Post subject: Re: Professional Athletes vs. America
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And it just keeps getting more foolish, fake, and absurd.


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And it just keeps getting more foolish, fake, and absurd.


I think you have to pay royalties to Trump for your use of the word "fake" there, buddy.

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And it just keeps getting more foolish, fake, and absurd.


I think you have to pay royalties to Trump for your use of the word "fake" there, buddy.



hahaha Oh I paid. Every day I pay.


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Trump says he's going to attack the tax exemption for the NFL. That's the kind of thing that would help communities though so it's kind of weird.


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And it just keeps getting more foolish, fake, and absurd.


I think you have to pay royalties to Trump for your use of the word "fake" there, buddy.



hahaha Oh I paid. Every day I pay.

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 Post subject: Re: Professional Athletes vs. America
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So, in the AM today, Trump tweets about getting rid of the NFL's tax exemption:



Then, this afternoon, Roger Goodell sends a memo to teams that sounds like the league may require players to stand for the anthem soon:



You think they would've at least waited a day.

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 Post subject: Re: Professional Athletes vs. America
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Mike Ditka, "There has been no oppression in the last 100 years that I know of,” Ditka said. “Now maybe I’m not watching it as carefully as other people. I think the opportunity is there for everybody — race, religion, creed, color, nationality. If you want to work, if you want to try, if you want to put effort in, you can accomplish anything.”

Nothing bad has happened since 1917.

1917.

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 Post subject: Re: Professional Athletes vs. America
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Simple Torture wrote:
So, in the AM today, Trump tweets about getting rid of the NFL's tax exemption:



Then, this afternoon, Roger Goodell sends a memo to teams that sounds like the league may require players to stand for the anthem soon:



You think they would've at least waited a day.


To be honest, it's about time there was a break away organisation. Not being able to play unless you could afford to go uni, seriously...

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 Post subject: Re: Professional Athletes vs. America
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Mike Ditka, "There has been no oppression in the last 100 years that I know of,” Ditka said. “Now maybe I’m not watching it as carefully as other people. I think the opportunity is there for everybody — race, religion, creed, color, nationality. If you want to work, if you want to try, if you want to put effort in, you can accomplish anything.”

Nothing bad has happened since 1917.

1917.


If more protests focused on Jim Crow, where there is indisputable evidence of of systemic and legally enforced racism against people who are walking on the streets today, IMO we would get a lot closer to a point where most people can empathize with the lasting effect of the history of black America.

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Mike Ditka, "There has been no oppression in the last 100 years that I know of,” Ditka said. “Now maybe I’m not watching it as carefully as other people. I think the opportunity is there for everybody — race, religion, creed, color, nationality. If you want to work, if you want to try, if you want to put effort in, you can accomplish anything.”

Nothing bad has happened since 1917.

1917.


If more protests focused on Jim Crow, where there is indisputable evidence of of systemic and legally enforced racism against people who are walking on the streets today, IMO we would get a lot closer to a point where most people can empathize with the lasting effect of the history of black America.

This is the most depressing sentence I think I've ever read.

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McParadigm wrote:
Bi_3 wrote:
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Mike Ditka, "There has been no oppression in the last 100 years that I know of,” Ditka said. “Now maybe I’m not watching it as carefully as other people. I think the opportunity is there for everybody — race, religion, creed, color, nationality. If you want to work, if you want to try, if you want to put effort in, you can accomplish anything.”

Nothing bad has happened since 1917.

1917.


If more protests focused on Jim Crow, where there is indisputable evidence of of systemic and legally enforced racism against people who are walking on the streets today, IMO we would get a lot closer to a point where most people can empathize with the lasting effect of the history of black America.

This is the most depressing sentence I think I've ever read.


Sure, but do you agree or disagree?

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I guess I am just not conservative enough to be offended but a legal, peaceful, brief protest that does not directly effect me.


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Mike Ditka, "There has been no oppression in the last 100 years that I know of,” Ditka said. “Now maybe I’m not watching it as carefully as other people. I think the opportunity is there for everybody — race, religion, creed, color, nationality. If you want to work, if you want to try, if you want to put effort in, you can accomplish anything.”

Nothing bad has happened since 1917.

1917.


If more protests focused on Jim Crow, where there is indisputable evidence of of systemic and legally enforced racism against people who are walking on the streets today, IMO we would get a lot closer to a point where most people can empathize with the lasting effect of the history of black America.

This is the most depressing sentence I think I've ever read.


Sure, but do you agree or disagree?

I believe that the majority of white Americans who currently feel no or minimal empathy for people of any particular color are not now, or ever going to be, an argument, observation, or a strategy away from grasping at that basic human understanding.

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