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8-year-old football players, coaches kneel during national anthem: WWYD?
Posted on 9/20/17 at 7:22 pm
Posted on 9/20/17 at 7:22 pm
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A team of 8-year-old football players and their coaches took a knee during the national anthem in Illinois on Sunday as a demonstration of solidarity with St. Louis protesters.
Orlando “Doc” Gooden, head coach of the Junior Comanches youth football team, said the players decided to make the gesture ahead of Sunday’s game in Belleville, an Illinois suburb of St. Louis, after discussing the verdict in the trial of former police officer Jason Stockley in the 2011 shooting death of Anthony Lamar Smith.
Mr. Stockley’s not-guilty verdict last week has sparked violent clashes in St. Louis, and Mr. Gooden said one of the young team players asked him why people were protesting, a local Fox affiliate reported.
“One of the kids asked me if I saw [people] protesting and rioting in St. Louis. I said yes; I said, ‘Do you know why they are doing it?’” Mr. Gooden recalled.
He said his player responded, “Because black people are getting killed, and nobody’s going to jail.”
This post was edited on 9/20/17 at 7:28 pm
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Posted on 9/20/17 at 7:23 pm to trom83
Of course they did.
Posted on 9/20/17 at 7:23 pm to trom83
Why is the anthem being played for 8 year old football games?
Posted on 9/20/17 at 7:24 pm to trom83
Germans
Posted on 9/20/17 at 7:24 pm to trom83
Their defense likes to blitzkrieg
Posted on 9/20/17 at 7:25 pm to OysterPoBoy
Solely so this coach can brainwash some yoofs.
Kid is right though. Blacks keep killing each other but the rest of the neighborhood refuses to cooperate.
And lastly; the Comanches? Isn't that racist ? Change the name of this youth football team !!
Kid is right though. Blacks keep killing each other but the rest of the neighborhood refuses to cooperate.
And lastly; the Comanches? Isn't that racist ? Change the name of this youth football team !!
Posted on 9/20/17 at 7:26 pm to trom83
Good parenting in Illinois. 
Posted on 9/20/17 at 7:34 pm to trom83
Any coach that uses his players to make political statements should be fired.
Posted on 9/20/17 at 7:37 pm to Tigers0891
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the Comanches? Isn't that racist ?
Posted on 9/20/17 at 7:43 pm to trom83
Condon talked about this at 7:45 am this morning.
Posted on 9/20/17 at 7:44 pm to trom83
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WWYD?
Mind my own business if they're not endangering anyone, like I always do.
Posted on 9/20/17 at 7:59 pm to tigerbutt
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Condon talked about this at 7:45 am this morning.
I can only imagine what he had to say about it
Posted on 9/20/17 at 8:13 pm to trom83
If my team was better I'd pummel them into the ground.
Posted on 9/20/17 at 9:27 pm to trom83
I would continue not giving a frick, just like I do about all the other people who sit or kneel for the anthem. I'm not a snowflake, so why do I care what others choose to do when it is completely inconsequential?
Posted on 9/20/17 at 9:37 pm to trom83
"Me. Gooden"
Congratulations on perpetuating stupidity and following the masses in an attempt by one group of people to manipulate you for their own gain. Knight take pawn.
Congratulations on perpetuating stupidity and following the masses in an attempt by one group of people to manipulate you for their own gain. Knight take pawn.
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