What are black NFL players protesting?

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  1. Vegas giants

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    You can think anything you like. They are not trying to be liked. But it is working
     
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    The only fool here is you, my friend.

    It was the LEFT that forced Nixon to end the war and withdraw from Southeast Asia. Does the name Eugene McCarthy ring a bell? Or George McGovern?

    It wasn't me or the GOP that caused Pol Pot to kill all those people! He was a radical Marxist - the same philosophy the left is pushing today. And we see the fruits of that philosophy in the violent leftist antifa movement today.
     
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    This is a free forum. If you don't like that then you don't have to be on here. Just go somewhere else.

    I support *RESPECTFUL* protesting. Did you *ever* see MLK burn an American flag or kneel during the playing of the national anthem?

    The truly sad fact is most of these players have no idea of what they are protesting other than President Trump. Pathetic!
     
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    "Black with a wideset nose."

    That describes nearly every African-American person I know who's not had $10k worth of plastic surgery.

    I would prefer an accurate description that does not implicate 90% of all Black men in a crime they didn't commit.

    NYPD did not stop the program out of concern for the rights of the people they were accosting on the streets. They stopped because the courts ORDERED them to stop. The leadership of the NYPD opposed the order and even tried the equivalent of "blue flu" to get their point across. So, no, the NYPD has not changed. Will not change. Cannot change. Until the people who stood by and supported this type of activity are long gone.
     
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    What does that to do with anything? I question the fact that you and yours always talk as though you represent these soldiers and I pointed out that there are a few soldiers on here who disagree with you and yours. And you get bent out of shape? Need to go to your safe space?
     
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    The fool is you and yours. I noted that you didn't address what I've posted. And that is you and yours are shaking hands with the commies and want to sell them arms in the name of $$$. Hypocrites.

    http://fortune.com/2017/06/01/trump-vietnam-deal-trade/

    Why do you spit on the graves of these dead soldiers?
     
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    Not so ridiculous for those who are on the wrong end of the gun of one of those jerkoff cops
     
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    So, you make it the deaf guy's fault!

    Clever!

    And, you excuse the officers from not even bothering to taze him while he's still likely to live.

    And, how many officers must be there before one of them shows an interest in something besides using their weapons on this guy?
     
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    Hold on a second. I believe these men are praying to God. This cannot be allowed to occur! Get the NFL commissioner in here. Gather up the owners and coaches. This will end NOW!

    Huh? Oh, they're disrespecting the country that grants them the right to take a knee? Well that's entirely acceptable. So long as God isn't anywhere to be found, we're good...

    :angel:
     
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    Free speech is about the right to speak, not some right to not listen.

    So, how much of a problem is Vietnam? Are you aware that Vietnam did not like China at all? Are you aware that we had no solution for the serious problems faced by the Vietnamese people?

    Your should keep your crazy assumptions about others to yourself.
     
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    He was also expected to provide his ID.
     
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    I am truly sorry if that represents the best of your thinking so far.
     
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    Most of the civil disobedience of the civil rights movement would not be called respectful. If you were respectful you sat at the back of the bus
     
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    What's working? Turning off the public? Yep, that *is* working well!
     
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    We are talking about this issue. More than ever.
     
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    MALARKY! You are showing *YOUR* racist attitudes with this comment!

    You can only give the description the witnesses provide!

    YOU ARE LIVING IN THE PAST! Get over it!
     
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    We are talking about idiots who don't even know what they are protesting!

    And you think *that* is helping the country?

    ROFL!!!
     
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    I think peaceful civil disobedience can be very helpful. Rosa Parks and others were called a lot worse that idiots at one time. Now they are hailed as heroes. Do you disagree?
     
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    He was expected to do EXACTLY what the officers told him to do. He didn't. Stupidity is *NOT* a survival trait!
     
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    You are *supposed* to have a right to move freely so you don't have to listen to what you don't want to hear or see. That is impossible to do when you in a stadium filled with football players trying to proselytize you with a political agenda and you have spent a huge sum of money to be there!

    It does not *matter* about how the Vietnamese felt about the Chinese! We were there to stop the domino effect from happening. That's the pure plain truth.

    It appears my "assumption" must have hit the target!
     
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    A) it's NOT just Black Football Player's who are Protesting ...
    B) if you were aware of (A) you'd know these protest started to bring awareness to Racial Injustice.
    C) It never did and never will have anything to do with the Flag
     
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    Impossible? You can not avert your eyes? Were you blinded by their display?
     
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    According to the news reports it *WAS* the dead guys fault. Just like it was Mike Brown's fault. Just like it was Trayvon Martin's fault. Being killed by someone while attacking them does *NOT* make the perp innocent!

    You don't even know the guidelines for the use of the TAser, do you? A Taser is *NOT* considered a self-defense weapon against an attacker. It's primary use is to subdue someone that is *not* a deadly threat.

    So you think at least one policeman actually has to suffer death or grevious bodily harm before other officers can act? It doesn't make any difference *how* many officers are there! if the subject has a knife and there are *fifty* officers there then a police officer is still at risk of injury or death in trying to physically restrain an attacker!

    I suggest you do some reading up on police procedure before making comments the way you are. You will find that most of the Marxist Democrat talking points on this subject are lies, just plain bald-faced lies.
     
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    Trayvom Martin ran away and was pursued by a civilian
     
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    Ok, you come up with a metaphor for this
     

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