re: Seattle pondering supporting Kaep's protest of showcasing stupidity pg 6 Update

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Baldwin tweets about “pregame demonstration of unity” in Seattle Sunday

Posted by Zac Jackson on September 8, 2016, 4:05 PM EDT
Doug Baldwin
AP
The Seahawks are planning “a pregame demonstration of unity” before Sunday’s season opener, Seahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin wrote on his Twitter account Thursday.

Both Baldwin and Seahawks linebacker Bobby Wagner spoke on the record Wednesday about the national anthem protest in which 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and Seahawks cornerback Jeremy Lane have participated. Baldwin said he had considered joining them but hadn’t decided, and Wagner said the Seahawks had discussed some sort of team-wide act.

Without going into detail — and amid rumors that the entire Seahawks team might sit during the national anthem — Baldwin tweeted that the Seahawks have decided how they’ll handle things.

“To express a desire to bring people together, our team will honor the country and flag in a pregame demonstration of unity,” was his full tweet.

We’ll find out Sunday just what that demonstration will entail.

Baldwin had spoken Wednesday about understanding that Sunday is Sept. 11 and “a significant day” in American history. He stressed that he’s been “thinking things through” in regards to how he might handle the national anthem, but he’s spoken out on social media in support of Kaepernick and Lane.

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I mean what is it that black people want? You seriously can't think that a vast majority of white people, who had literally nothing to do with the heinous act of slavery, don't already feel bad enough about it.

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I think would have been better off had we done what we morally and ethically should have.

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“To express a desire to bring people together, our team will honor the country and flag in a pregame demonstration of unity,” was his full tweet.

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I'm hoping this means they'll all run out of the tunnel with flags and sparklers while "America, frick Yeah!" is blasted over the speakers.

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Again, Great great great g paw shouldn't have left this burden to his descendants

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So a modern day black man is going to agree with this logic when someone demands reparations for the wildabeast thigh his great, great, great, great grandpa stole back in the day from the neighboring tribe?

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Why haven't we given blacks what they were justly owed?

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You mean like the 620,000 young men who died to abolish slavery?

'Mic drop'

People really are blind to how much a huge % of the US population hates America and wants to see it torn down.

It's time for people who actually love and respect this country to wake up and see these people for what they are and what their motives are.

America is by no means perfect, but it's still awesome and has bestowed everyone who lives here countless blessings most of the rest of the world can only dream of.

Considering the social stigma surrounding the freedman at that time, and the pervasive mistreatment of blacks before and after the civil war, I'm and many are inclined to believe those men weren't mostly fighting because they say blacks as equals, but more so for the unity of our states.

You're not gonna pass that intellectually shallow appraisal of the racial attitudes of civil war vets past anyone with a brain bigger than a pea

How black do you have to be to get these reparations? If a guy looks white, but his great, great, great grandpa was black, does he get them? Does Mike Tirico get them for looking black even though he claims to be white?

My ancestors arrived in the US in the 1890s.

I ain't paying you shite.