re: Eric Reid takes a knee....on Veterans Day weekend

You think the average American understands concepts like ideology?

Unfortunately many people view the flag as something divine and sacred while ignoring the concepts behind it.

It wouldn’t be too difficult to develop a cult like worship of the flag and that leads to bad things like the destruction of the principles the flag represents.

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But he unquestionably has put his time and money where his mouth (or knee?) is.

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And he's out of a job because of it...and likely so toxic he may never catch on with a team again....and yes I know the Texans were talking about him.
Think he'd do the same stupid shite again given the chance to go back in time?

If I protest at my work, I get fired and rightly so.
He wants to protest, get in front of a camera before or after the game and express yourself. I'll support that right all day long. People come to be entertained...not to be subjected to someone else's political views.

Frick him and the horse he rode in on.

I do! I am a Veteran!

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oes not make the country my great grandfather fought and died for rife with injustice and worthy of blatant disrespect.

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There were tons of black people who volunteered in WWII and they were treated like shite for making the same sacrifices.

It's all about intent. Him kneeling has nothing to do with the military in this case. His mom is a Army veteran. A persons actions should be judged by their intent.

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He's taking it way too personally

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Because it is personal to him.

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A relatively few bad apples or misjudgements by police officers

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Most cops are good, but the bad ones should not get a free pass for what any other person would serve time for. Everybody can agree on that.

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Mohican

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Not really disagreeing with your point of view. But his point of view could be different and necessarily not wrong at the same time. His intent has nothing to do with disrespecting the military.

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Right. When I see a guy pooping on a baby I should not get upset if he tells me that he is protesting police brutality and that he has a baby himself. Because only the protestors intentions matter, not the act. In fact, he is pooping on his own baby!

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I was about to get really mad but then I saw it was in protest of police brutality... What a saint.

I’m glad he did and I’m glad y’all are mad about it

Why?

Eric Reid is a loser. Need to pull his colors.

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I’m glad he did and I’m glad y’all are mad about it

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Word. There's nothing like deepening the racial divide here in America...

This is a human rights issue which Reid said is not black or white or about the military, the flag, but social injustice. The South is still fighting the Civil War and displaying Confederate flags and monuments.





NOLA recently removed the Lee Circle statue but had to remove others under the cover of darkness due to militia death threats. Unlike automatic weapon-weilding whites (imagine a black man doing this), the icon of the GOC 9-6 win, All-American Eric Reid has carefully chosen and explained his motivations and actions based on injustice. How many LSU players besides Mathieu, Fournette, Guice, Perrilloux have been shot or had members of their family and friends shot?

This reminds me that we still have not made a lot of progress since Jessie Owens who said the Nazis treated him better than the US. Or Jackie Robinson, or Ali who won a unanimous Supreme Court Case not to fight in a war when his people had been imprisoned for hundreds of years and he could not eat in a restaurant.

There is no legitimate use for a weapon at a political demonstration. Banning guns from protests is necessary to preserve the First Amendment for all protesters, not just a few. But White supremacists have more 1st Amendment rights than minorities. The police feel threatened.









“What I was upset about was the false narrative being told about us. People were saying that we’re un-American, that we were against police entirely. And that just wasn’t true. Then fast forward to Charlottesville and people see what an un-American protest really looks like. What Colin and I did was peaceful protest fueled by faith in God to help make our country a better place. And I feel like I need to regain control of that narrative and not let people say what we’re doing is un-American. Because it’s not. It’s completely American. We’re doing it because want equality for everybody. We want our country to be a better place.”



Have you ballooned this thread with ugly hate-filled posts?