Smartest thing the NFL could do (and I don’t give Goodell any credit for brains) is to stop playing the anthem before kickoff. This is a relatively recent thing, and pointless. I know all the NFL fans I work with get triggered by players kneeling, and say they’re done with the NFL, etc because of it. Of course, they always come back. But I have a feeling there is going to be a lot more kneeling in the future.
College football teams across the NCAA are still in the locker rooms when the national anthem is played/sung, which is another option. Just do it earlier.
Menzo
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That’s how the nfl did it until relatively recently.
Timex
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Honestly, i don’t see any problem with playing the anthem. It’s fine. There’s nothing wrong with patriotism.
The problem is that the far right constructed a myth that kneeling during the anthem is a protest against America, when in reality it’s just a protest against injustice.
Thrag
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Atlanta mayor making an announcement right now in the wake of the recent shooting. The police chief is stepping down and an advisory committee to figure out how to reform the police is being created.
Perfect opportunity to take all their moneys!
I started posting this in the Idiot Conspiracy thread but it has a happy ending so I moved it here…
The most disturbing and worrisome thing I saw these past few weeks was a video an old high school classmate of mine posted on facebook on June 1st showing downtown Chagrin Falls, OH all boarded up. It’s not quite my hometown but close enough. So I was pleased to read this today after my mother-in-law emailed me the link…
https://www.csmonitor.com/Daily/2020/20200612/When-hysteria-gives-way-to-love
Here’s Chagrin Falls in more innocent times…
This would effectively remove the opportunity for players to execute their constitutional right to protest. I understand that the NFL doesn’t have to provide them with that venue but if they are truly committed to doing the right thing rather than managing their image to suit the sensibilities of racists, they will not only give them the opportunity to kneel, they will show it on air and discuss what it represents.
I agree with you, but they are not committed to doing the right thing. This is the NFL, after all.
What I meant was they risk pissing off fans. Now, I don’t care if they piss off fans, I don’t care about the NFL. But if I were the NFL, I’d care very much about pissing off fans.
Protesters walking with police on Long Island. Lead protester has a PA mic and is apparently taunting the police behavior. Front policeman seems to deliberately step in front of the protester and stops short, leading to incidental contact as protester almost leaps to the side to avoid running over the policeman. Several police jump on the protester and take him down. Looks to me like a case of creating incidental contact as a pretense to shut him up.
NY AG apparently interested
RichVR
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Welcome to Lawn Guy Land.
Nesrie
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What percentage of black and white respondents do you think said that when faced with a difficult or dangerous situation, police officers are more likely to use excessive force if the person they’re dealing with is black?
There’s a divide here, a big one, but I won’t ruin the surprise. I think a lot of white America wants to bring black people to the table, but they don’t really want to hear from black voices. They’re not comfortable with what we’re saying, or how we’re saying it or why we’re saying it as strongly as we are saying it. Dancing in the street while black… 2020, while literal protests are happening across the globe and some people are still asking… are you sure.
Just in case there is any doubt, I’m sure, and I am not alone. This is part of being black in this country and in other countries. I’m sure. I was sure yesterday. I was sure the years before. I’m sure today. I’d like to be not sure in the future but at this rate… there’s no good reason to think it will be different now… yes even now. We’re still doing the convincing, and you’d think, at this point, we’d have shifted that by now. Someone convince us… but no, it’s never going to be like that.
Serves him right for being an antifa kingpin.
Thrag
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Interesting follow up to those he was no angel claims.
BTW, if it hasn’t been mentioned yet in this thread, there was another fatal shooting of a black man by police last night, this time in Atlanta.
Details that I’ve seen: cops were called to check on a man sleeping in his car in the parking lot of a Wendys next to the drive thru. The officers found the man to be intoxicated. They noticed in his car that the man had a non-lethal taser. They tried to arrest and cuff him, and the guy broke free and started to run off. He turned back towards the cops and pointed his taser in their direction. The pursuing officer shot the fleeing man multiple times, killing him.
The officer who fired the shots has been terminated. The police chief in Atlanta has resigned. Protests still ongoing, earlier today LEO fired teargas to break up one group.
None
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Shouldn’t have run.
Shouldn’t have turned around and fired a weapon at the officer while running.
Shouldn’t have resisted arrest.
Shouldn’t have been black.
I have no idea what prompts a cop to shoot at a fleeing suspect; and it’s impossible to not feel like it is a complete disregard for black lives when we see the number of times on camera that it’s a person of color who is being shot at.
Timex
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The lawyer for the family said that witnesses claimed that the cops poor on gives and we’re picking up their shell casings instead of giving aid to the guy they shot.
That is super shady for multiple reasons.
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