[Thanos]

Lemmy Lemmy:

And I sure miss the before-going-nutty Thanos. I hope he returns sometime.

Much like his career prospects the previous Thanos is gone and most likely not coming back. Sorry.

[BRAH]

Lemmy Lemmy:

Uppity niggers, the three of them.

Racist much?

[Lemmy]

BRAH BRAH:

Racist much?

Lemmy Lemmy:

I can't recall a thread in a long while that so clearly differentiates the smart people from the dumb ones around here.

See?

[ShepherdsDog]

Yah. It was a pretty dumb thing you wrote.

[BRAH]

Lemmy Lemmy:

BRAH BRAH:

Racist much?

Lemmy Lemmy:

I can't recall a thread in a long while that so clearly differentiates the smart people from the dumb ones around here.

See?

Don't you have a Klan meeting to attend or a cross to burn?

[andyt]

Colin Kaepernick protests national anthem again, is joined by teammate

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/colin-kaep ... 26337.html

oh, nos.

[andyt]

Colin Kaepernick's wealth and fame don't protect him from police brutality. Here's proof.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion- ... story.html

$1:

Kaepernick, who is half-black, has faced criticism for this decision from all directions — most of it silly and reductive, some of it outright racist. Arguably the most deceptively noxious critique of Kaepernick, however, also happens to be the most common: The quarterback is rich and famous, and therefore has nothing to complain about. Police brutality clearly isn’t an issue for him, so he should shut up and dab tears away from his eyes every time he sees the flag, in gratitude for all it has given him.

Not only is this line of criticism intellectually vacant and generally hypocritical—more often than not it comes from entitled media commentators like Sean Hannity, who, despite wealth and fame on a par with Kaepernick’s, continues to devote his life’s work to complaining, loudly and obnoxiously, about everything — it is obviously, painfully, demonstrably wrong.

[Thanos]

Golly, who would have ever guessed something like this was the cause of it all?

http://downtrend.com/vsaxena/crimes-com ... k-athletes

$1:

Research from the University of Missouri-Columbia highlighted in Science Daily revealed that media organizations engage in “racial and ethnic stereotyping” by covering more stories of black athletes (versus white athletes) committing crime.

The researcher, Cynthia Frisber, an associate professor of strategic communication in the University of Missouri School of Journalism, found that “more than 66 percent of the crime stories [pertaining to athletes] involved black athletes while only 22 percent involved white athletes.”

“True cultural sensitivity requires the eradication of racial and ethnic stereotyping; thus, journalists and reporters must reflect on how their own unfounded beliefs about race differences in sports likely contribute to the stereotyping of black athletes as engaged in more criminal activity,” she argued.

She added, “Not only does negative media coverage serve to legitimize social power inequalities, but also it is likely to undermine black athletes’ achievements and contribute to stereotype threat.”

I might buy her bullshit, if it weren’t for the fact that, according to USA Today, “black NFL players [are] arrested nearly 10 times as often as whites.”

Simply put, black athletes seem to commit way more crime than white athletes — and as a result, they get covered by the media in a negative way a whole lot more often.

But as usual, some uber-educated liberal grievance monger wants to blame everything on white racism and discrimination.

Yes, a disparity exists between how black athletes and white athletes are covered in the media, but the disparity doesn’t exist because of racism — it exists because of bad behavior!

This is not to say that all black athletes engage in bad behavior, or that white athletes never engage in it as well. This just to say that black athletes engage in it more often than their white peers — and that’s a fact!

[Freakinoldguy]

andyt andyt:

Colin Kaepernick's wealth and fame don't protect him from police brutality. Here's proof.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion- ... story.html

$1:

Kaepernick, who is half-black, has faced criticism for this decision from all directions — most of it silly and reductive, some of it outright racist. Arguably the most deceptively noxious critique of Kaepernick, however, also happens to be the most common: The quarterback is rich and famous, and therefore has nothing to complain about. Police brutality clearly isn’t an issue for him, so he should shut up and dab tears away from his eyes every time he sees the flag, in gratitude for all it has given him.

Not only is this line of criticism intellectually vacant and generally hypocritical—more often than not it comes from entitled media commentators like Sean Hannity, who, despite wealth and fame on a par with Kaepernick’s, continues to devote his life’s work to complaining, loudly and obnoxiously, about everything — it is obviously, painfully, demonstrably wrong.

Counter point.

[stratos]

andyt andyt:

Colin Kaepernick's wealth and fame don't protect him from police brutality. Here's proof.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion- ... story.html

$1:

Kaepernick, who is half-black, has faced criticism for this decision from all directions — most of it silly and reductive, some of it outright racist. Arguably the most deceptively noxious critique of Kaepernick, however, also happens to be the most common: The quarterback is rich and famous, and therefore has nothing to complain about. Police brutality clearly isn’t an issue for him, so he should shut up and dab tears away from his eyes every time he sees the flag, in gratitude for all it has given him.

Not only is this line of criticism intellectually vacant and generally hypocritical—more often than not it comes from entitled media commentators like Sean Hannity, who, despite wealth and fame on a par with Kaepernick’s, continues to devote his life’s work to complaining, loudly and obnoxiously, about everything — it is obviously, painfully, demonstrably wrong.

Sorry but no where in the article does it once show how Colin Kaeprnick's wealth and fame did not protect him from police brutality. It talked about other athletes being wrongfully shot and arrested by cops but nothing on Kaeprnick.

Yet you still have not posted a reply in regards to C.K. throwing out ethnic slur's nor the fact that he, as far as I can tell, had never voiced one ounce of concern about this till AFTER he was demoted to 3rd string and had basically become irrelevant in the NFL and the media.

[DrCaleb]

Jim Wright Jim Wright:

. . .

AS A VETERAN, what do I think about Colin Kaepernick's decision to sit during the National Anthem?

As a veteran?

Very well, as a veteran then, this is what I believe:

The very first thing I learned in the military is this: Respect is a two-way street. If you want respect, true respect, sincere respect, then you have to GIVE IT.

If you want respect, you have to do the things necessary to earn it each and every single day. There are no short cuts and no exceptions.

Respect cannot be compelled.

Respect cannot be bought.

Respect cannot be inherited.

Respect cannot be demanded at the muzzle of a gun or by beating it into somebody or by shaming them into it. Can not. You might get what you think is respect, but it's not. It's only the appearance of respect. It's fear, it's groveling, it's not respect. Far, far too many people both in and out of the military, people who should emphatically know better, do not understand this simple fact: there is an enormous difference between fear and respect.

Respect has to be earned.

Respect. Has. To. Be. Earned.

Respect has to be earned every day, by every word, by every action.

It takes a lifetime of words and deeds to earn respect.

It takes only one careless word, one thoughtless action, to lose it.

You have to be worthy of respect. You have to live up to, or at least do your best to live up to, those high ideals -- the ones America supposedly embodies, that shining city on the hill, that exceptional nation we talk about, yes, that one. To earn respect you have to be fair. You have to have courage. You must embrace reason. You have to know when to hold the line and when to compromise. You have to take responsibility and hold yourself accountable. You have to keep your word. You have to give respect, true respect, to get it back.

There are no short cuts. None.

Now, any veteran worth the label should know that. If they don't, then likely they weren't much of a soldier to begin with and you can tell them I said so.

IF Kaepernick doesn't feel his country respects him enough for him to respect it in return, well, then you can't MAKE him respect it.

You can not make him respect it.

If you try to force a man to respect you, you'll only make him respect you less.

With threats, by violence, by shame, you can maybe compel Kaepernick to stand up and put his hand over his heart and force him to be quiet. You might.

But that's not respect.

It's only the illusion of respect.

You might force this man into the illusion of respect. You might. Would you be satisfied then? Would that make you happy? Would that make you respect your nation, the one which forced a man into the illusion of respect, a nation of little clockwork patriots all pretending satisfaction and respect? Is that what you want? If THAT's what matters to you, the illusion of respect, then you're not talking about freedom or liberty. You're not talking about the United States of America. Instead you're talking about every dictatorship from the Nazis to North Korea where people are lined up and MADE to salute with the muzzle of a gun pressed to the back of their necks.

That, that illusion of respect, is not why I wore a uniform.

That's not why I held up my right hand and swore the oath and put my life on the line for my country.

That, that illusion of respect, is not why I am a veteran.

Not so a man should be forced to show respect he doesn't feel.

That's called slavery and I have no respect for that at all.

If Americans want this man to respect America, then first they must respect him.

If America wants the world's respect, it must be worthy of respect.

America must be worthy of respect. Torture, rendition, indefinite detention, unarmed black men shot down in the street every day, poverty, inequality, voter suppression, racism, bigotry in every form, obstructionism, blind patriotism, NONE of those things are worthy of respect from anybody -- least of all an American.

But doesn't it also mean that if Kaepernick wants respect, he must give it first? Give it to America? Be worthy of respect himself? Stand up, shut up, and put his hand over his heart before Old Glory?

No. It doesn't.

Respect doesn't work that way.

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https://www.facebook.com/Stonekettle/po ... noscript=1

[BRAH]

This shit storm is about Kaepernick a 3rd string QB trying to prevent himself drom being cut from the roster because now the 49Ers are in a difficult position.

[Thanos]

Either way the Natural Felon's League starts yet another season of feral monkeyshines with yet another self-inflicted black eye, something that remains endlessly hilarious to those of us who utterly despise this organization, this sport, and everything that they morally represent.

[BRAH]

This is the biggest felon in the league, when confronted with the truth of CTE he turned a blind eye to it.

[stratos]

$1:

this sport,

I love the sport Thanos but the rest of it I agree with you on. NCAA is a far better football product IMO then the NFL. GO BUCKEYES!