re: Eric Reid Signed by the Panthers!

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A millionaire, biracial athlete acting as if he's down on the streets actually experiencing the social injustice he's railing against. What a fraud.

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So, basically your stance is that you can only speak out against what you perceive as injustices if you are poor, 100% African-American and have directly experienced said injustices?

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t's always funny to me when fans feel obligated not to claim a player to their school just because that player did something he didn't agree with.

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Oh I claim him.....never said I didn't.....just think following CK's lead caused him some unnecessary problems...no?

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Oh I claim him

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Then I wasn't referring to you.

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A millionaire, biracial athlete acting as if he's down on the streets actually experiencing the social injustice he's railing against. What a fraud.

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“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view…until you climb in his skin and walk around in it.” Atticus Finch

It is awe-inspiring that, when facing five years in prison, Ali said: “I strongly object to the fact that so many newspapers have given the American public and the world the impression that I have only two alternatives in this stand — either I go to jail or go to the Army. There is another alternative, and that alternative is justice. If justice prevails, if my constitutional rights are upheld, I will be forced to go neither to the Army nor jail. In the end, I am confident that justice will come my way, for the truth must eventually prevail.”

Because America treated its black people as second-class citizens, the champ said he’d stand his ground by refusing to serve in its Army. As for the war in Vietnam, Muhammad Ali, condemned racial discrimination in America, declaring that “no Vietcong ever called me ****.” He was, at the time, the greatest boxer in the world, even if he’d been stripped of his world heavyweight title months before. His crime? Refusing the draft.

In 1967, long before it was obvious to most, Ali connected the black freedom struggle to the injustices of the war in Vietnam, saying: “Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No, I'm not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it again: The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality.... If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people, they wouldn't have to draft me, I'd join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I'll go to jail, so what? We've been in jail for 400 years.”

“Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything”

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This place is filled with fricking retards on acer computers.

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High quality dig.

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Man I dream of a world were labels are not thrown on people, would be nice!

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The greatest part of it is that they are usually throwing the label at independents and centrists, further eroding any possible support for their cause outside of their boisterous few.

Good now he can go and hang out with that tPOS QB they have. Will be a perfect match

Wow you ok baw

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Wait... You said "frick him" like two or three posts ago

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He's a Tiger. I'm a Tiger fan....how can I deny him?

I can still say frick him.