NorthHawk wrote:This man sums up my position much better than I have done:
"Sergeant Harper has also served in the 82nd Airborne, the Army’s elite airborne infantry division. So he’s not exactly new to deployments, to warfighting, to genuine, proven pride in risking his life to defend our country.
He has no problem with what Bennett is doing.
"We do what we do so people can have the freedoms that they want, such as freedom of speech,” SSG Harper told me in the middle of the practice field moments after Bennett finished visiting with some of the Army’s toughest dudes. “There are places in this world, which we are intimately familiar with as 1st Special Forces Group, that don’t have the luxury to have such freedoms. And I have no problem with somebody expressing the freedom that we help provide.
"Not offended. And I do know that it does offend some people…I know that peaceful protest is one of the greatest things that we have, being American. The fact that someone can do that and go home to their family and not fear they are going to be awakened in the middle of the night or persecuted for doing that, that’s why we do what we do.”
SSG Harper then waved his hand around the field in the direction of other members of his unit standing around him.
“And I bet to a man, if you asked all these people that question (about what Bennett did) they’d say the same thing,” he said.
“Somebody having a non-violent approach to protest? That’s what we fight for.”
http://www.thenewstribune.com/sports/nf ... 81132.html
obiken wrote:The protest will go on and Kappernick will not get a job.
And viewership will continue to edge down. Then salaries will be suppressed. And that will be blamed on your racism, or your heterosexuality. Mark it down.
RiverDog wrote:http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/derek-carr-has-powerful-explanation-for-gesture-during-national-anthem/ar-AAqo91e?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp
HUH?? How did I go from an observer to a Gay bashing racist in one easy post?
They are her to stay unless the CBA is changed and I dont see that.
They are putting real life in our face Burry.
...as opposed to taking a knee during the national anthem which turned a lot of people off of the movement.
burrrton wrote:Second, they're blaming the USA for those racists because they aren't bright enough or are too lazy to figure out a more constructive way to address the real issues where they exist.
Meeting with police, holding press conferences, etc is work- disrespecting the flag is easy.
Racists exist in every country, in every walk of life, among every ethnic group. Police need better training in many things. And on and on.
Turning your back on the USA itself does nothing to address any of that.
How many people would show up for a press conference about social issues if a player had one?
Not as many as would see them protest during a game.
They are just expressing their right to peaceful protest. One that I linked to earlier where
soldiers defended his right to do so.
NorthHawk wrote:It's freedom of speech that we are all letting slip away little by little as the years go by.
We're not as free today as we were 30 years ago and if we denigrate those who exercise freedoms, we will lose even more.
That knife cuts both ways.
MackStrongIsMyHero wrote:Also why Kaepernick doesn't have a job:
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/2059 ... cist-tweet
I suppose any publicity is good publicity, but Kaep's lady just cost him a job.
c_hawkbob wrote:That LVPD letter is ridiculous. They say they detained him because he was running and hiding? C,mon man there were shots being fired and armed police telling everyone to get out! Everyone that wasn't either a cop or the shooter had to be running and hiding.
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