(09-27-2017, 10:06 AM)Jay Carter 904 Wrote:

(09-27-2017, 09:58 AM)UCF Knight Wrote: Wait, I thought the guys were taking a knee because of police brutality towards black people.  The third stanza of the national anthem that nobody knows about nor cares about and was written by a guy that owns slaves is all the sudden important now?  Nobody owns slaves, and a large portion of the world is trying to move on from it.  They want peace and for everyone to get along.  This is only brought up to bring divisiveness.  This is only brought up now because it fits the narrative.

If you believe that there is police brutality and profiling towards black people fine, but don't start bringing things up to fit the narrative after the fact.  Kaepernick and other football players are not taking a knee because of that third stanza.  That's crap.

Thats not what I'm saying. 

1. The players and owners Sunday only took a knee or locked arms because dum dum poked the bear. And no one talks about the NFL. If he would have never said those comments, everything would have remained the same. 

2. CK was kneeling because of racial injustice and police brutality. His protest is quickly being lost in all of this

The reason i posted those lyrics are because all of a sudden, people want to get butt hurt over the national anthem. We dont even sing the whole thing. We sing the "heroic" part and leave out everything else. To say you are going to burn jerseys and turn in tickets means you support this bigotry and foolishness in stanza 3.

I do agree that dumb dumb needs to just shut his mouth, delete social media, lock the doors to the white house, and we'll see him in 3 1/2 years when someone else is voted in.

I also agree that his protest is being lost in all of this because the protest is now the main story line instead of the reason why.  I mean guys for the Dolphins wore I support Kaep shirts or something along those lines.  I mean that's great at this point, but you wearing a shirt does absolutely nothing.  You think there are issues with police brutality....go talk to cops, do ride alongs, see what they see, talk to the people in the community and see how things can be changed. 

The protests still haven't left the football field and unless that happens will change begin?

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