Brandon Marshall.....

[crays]

[ray1970]

Pat Tillman is probably rolling over in his grave.

[Aloha_Shooter]

The freedom to express yourself doesn't mean the rest of us have to support it or listen to it. He can say whatever he wants but the NFL doesn't have to let him play. Do you think he'd be taking the field if he had beat up a woman on national TV? What if he said something homosexuals found offensive? What irks me is that you can do or say anything that's offensive to American heritage, traditional American values, Western/Christian values, etc. but the full power of the Left will come bearing down on you if you do or say anything they dislike or disagree with.

[OldFogey]

College football, anyone? Screw the nfl.

[ZERO THEORY]

Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave

For what it's worth, Scott Key celebrates runaway slaves being killed fighting for safe haven in the song too. I find it ironic that people will sport Confederate flag stickers on their trucks, or defend people who do, but these guys kneeling for a song that celebrates the plight of their lineage are freedom-hating traitors. If you're one of the people who fail to understand that irony, please schedule a vasectomy now.

Lest we forget, law enforcement in this country has become so highly militarized and rights-averse that the FBI conducted illegal searches in people's homes at the threat of imprisonment just a few years back. MRAPs were supplied to local police stations. Connecticut mandated gun confiscation. The umbrella of government wants to take YOUR guns, YOUR money, and YOUR civil liberties.

It's misguided and oversimplified to think that the same New York cops who killed a black man for selling cigarettes are in cahoots with the California system that let a white male off with 6 months for felony sexual assault. However, if you think that Colin Kaepernick or Brandon Marshall or Jeremy Lane don't appreciate their financial and athletic gifts because they're protesting a homage to a government that will crush us all alike at the first opportunity, you've really got some missing hardware in between your ears.

My father fled South Africa during apartheid, landed in what was then Zaire, only to be threatened by civil war. When he arrived in America, he worked his ass off to develop a life of prosperity. I won't soon forget that, and I would never want to leave this country. America affords me more opportunity, freedom, and pride than any other nation on earth. And I will never hesitate to give my life defending it from its enemies, foreign or domestic. That being said, I also don't turn a blind eye to the grave missteps we have taken here, and I will not be a jingoist who refuses to look at things critically for fear of being 'unpatriotic' or 'unappreciative'.

I will finish by saying this: as young black men, our biggest threat in this country is ourselves. The social engineering and manipulation on the parts of Southern Democrats all those years ago was only a catalyst; not an excuse. It is our responsibility to stop killing each other in senseless crimes in our own communities. I acknowledge this fully. But it is ignorant at best, and facetiously racist at worst, to ignore and marginalize the reality this is still a nation whose lifeblood was built on slavery, native genocide, and corporate immunity. The Jim Crow era is over, but not forgotten. To tell a Black man that he needs to "get over it" or "he himself wasn't a slave" is so disrespectful to his family's history and his social growth, that it's no wonder the racial tension has gotten to the point it's at now. Imagine telling people looking at the Alamo museum or Auschwitz that they weren't alive then, so they should shut up and quit bitching.

[Irving]

Thumbs up

[SamuraiCO]

Thank you for your prospective Zero. I think the majority of members here agree with your statement and have some understanding of the plight of minorities in America.

We are as frustrated as you are because we (on the right) are the ones being blamed and not the Dems who propagated the vast majority of injustices against blacks in our history and continue to this day with their actions of atonement and guilt. It has been more so with 2A issues and "sensible gun laws" that have been put in place as a solution for problems we did not create. Our way of life, thoughts are being challenged to the point of intolerance in debate or academia. Our language being triggers and not to be spoken less the professors be challenged.

I understand that the more we (on the right) are oppressed the more the left will continue their march towards dismantling of the Republic by either weakening the Constitution with legal challenges or outright replacement. No where does the plight of minorities change we all just get mixed up in the same blender.

[BushMasterBoy]

Seems British security services are concerned terrorists can now genetically engineer biological weapons that affect only those they are engineered for. That means you could create a virus that knows you are white, black or any sex, age, disabled etc. Hell, they could probably custom tailor a virus or bacteria that will only kill you specifically! Football? More of the "bread & circus" program promoted by corporations & the .gov...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/sc...-a7229106.html

[ZERO THEORY]

Thank you for your prospective Zero. I think the majority of members here agree with your statement and have some understanding of the plight of minorities in America.

We are as frustrated as you are because we (on the right) are the ones being blamed and not the Dems who propagated the vast majority of injustices against blacks in our history and continue to this day with their actions of atonement and guilt. It has been more so with 2A issues and "sensible gun laws" that have been put in place as a solution for problems we did not create. Our way of life, thoughts are being challenged to the point of intolerance in debate or academia. Our language being triggers and not to be spoken less the professors be challenged.

I understand that the more we (on the right) are oppressed the more the left will continue their march towards dismantling of the Republic by either weakening the Constitution with legal challenges or outright replacement. No where does the plight of minorities change we all just get mixed up in the same blender.

We (on the right) and they (on the left) are really in it together, even if we can't stand each other. I think the biggest mistake we repeatedly make as a citizenry is allowing ourselves to get manipulated into this constant infighting. It drives me absolutely mad when I hear these uninformed, "common sense" liberals supporting gun control or trying to "redistribute" wealth. But the III% who stood up as a citizenry were still in it with the loyalists, even if they loyalists were too overcome with Stockholm syndrome to understand it.

At the end of the day, government doesn't really care about liberal or conservative support. Power corrupts; the democratic republic model is dying. Those in appointed power and their benefactors (corporate weasels) are more than happy to let use continue to weaken each other across party or idealogical lines. Our racial tension, religious segregation, and political rhetoric is causing us to pull ourselves apart as a citizenship, making it that much easier for the true traitors and thieves to take everything away from us all.

I urge anyone reading this to really consider who we should be focusing our anger on. The Democrats have put up a nominee who, by definition, could be tried for treason for the 2nd election in a row. And the GOP is allowing a self-admitted democratic liberal with no military or legislative experience who "doesn't like Black people counting his money, and only wants little guys in yarmulkes doing it" to represent it. Meanwhile, the 3rd party candidates are frozen out of public forums and our model of election puts the entire process in the hands of another corrupted gov't entity (electoral college).

This athletic derision is misguided, in my opinion.

[speedysst]

You know, I might have actually paid attention to your comment but you instruct those that disagree with you to "schedule a vasectomy" or that we're "missing something between our ears." When you go that route, your comment has no credibility. You project intelligence but all I really hear is "agree with me or shut the hell up."

For what it's worth, Scott Key celebrates runaway slaves being killed fighting for safe haven in the song too. I find it ironic that people will sport Confederate flag stickers on their trucks, or defend people who do, but these guys kneeling for a song that celebrates the plight of their lineage are freedom-hating traitors. If you're one of the people who fail to understand that irony, please schedule a vasectomy now.

Lest we forget, law enforcement in this country has become so highly militarized and rights-averse that the FBI conducted illegal searches in people's homes at the threat of imprisonment just a few years back. MRAPs were supplied to local police stations. Connecticut mandated gun confiscation. The umbrella of government wants to take YOUR guns, YOUR money, and YOUR civil liberties.

It's misguided and oversimplified to think that the same New York cops who killed a black man for selling cigarettes are in cahoots with the California system that let a white male off with 6 months for felony sexual assault. However, if you think that Colin Kaepernick or Brandon Marshall or Jeremy Lane don't appreciate their financial and athletic gifts because they're protesting a homage to a government that will crush us all alike at the first opportunity, you've really got some missing hardware in between your ears.

My father fled South Africa during apartheid, landed in what was then Zaire, only to be threatened by civil war. When he arrived in America, he worked his ass off to develop a life of prosperity. I won't soon forget that, and I would never want to leave this country. America affords me more opportunity, freedom, and pride than any other nation on earth. And I will never hesitate to give my life defending it from its enemies, foreign or domestic. That being said, I also don't turn a blind eye to the grave missteps we have taken here, and I will not be a jingoist who refuses to look at things critically for fear of being 'unpatriotic' or 'unappreciative'.

I will finish by saying this: as young black men, our biggest threat in this country is ourselves. The social engineering and manipulation on the parts of Southern Democrats all those years ago was only a catalyst; not an excuse. It is our responsibility to stop killing each other in senseless crimes in our own communities. I acknowledge this fully. But it is ignorant at best, and facetiously racist at worst, to ignore and marginalize the reality this is still a nation whose lifeblood was built on slavery, native genocide, and corporate immunity. The Jim Crow era is over, but not forgotten. To tell a Black man that he needs to "get over it" or "he himself wasn't a slave" is so disrespectful to his family's history and his social growth, that it's no wonder the racial tension has gotten to the point it's at now. Imagine telling people looking at the Alamo museum or Auschwitz that they weren't alive then, so they should shut up and quit bitching.[/QUOTE]