Baseball player kneels during anthem

[Benjamin Sisko]

Jesus Christ

Well hell this should've been posted in the OP so weren't not left figuring out what he meant by saying it just doesn't mean BLM now. That last tweet was mad suspicious.

 

[CantStop]

So you agree there's a rule that says they're not allowed to. If Silver wants to change that rule he can, but he hasn't yet.

There was also a rule that you can’t wear a non team t shirt on the court but did anyone get fined for the I can’t breathe shirts or Luol did he get fined for his Africa shirt?

 

[tremonthustler1]

There was also a rule that you can’t wear a non team t shirt on the court but did anyone get fined for the I can’t breathe shirts or Luol did he get fined for his Africa shirt?

Actually Adam Silver was like "can we please not do that again even though I don't disagree with y'all?" He just warned them in the lowest of keys and you didn't see the shirts anymore.

 

[Scott Larock]

You see where this is going?

Instead of black lives matter it's all lives matter.

Literally their taking kapernick original purpose out of the equation and make this is a issue about patriotism and what right and wrong.

President Trump is drawing the hest to him and taking it off brutality.

 

[Kenny West]

The narrative never got started. It's been all about whether it's wrong or right to kneel from the start.

This.

It first changed to the appropriateness of his protest.

Then it changed to Kaepernick himself and whether he plays football or not.

This is just the next step. Like I said in posts before, the point of the protest is being lost in the gestures.

 

[No1]

It will mean what it wants for each group. What's wrong with that? It's no less a statement of police brutality on unarmed black men for Kap when a person is kneeling to send a message to Trump.

Because then the focus will be shifted. The whole point is for a marginalized group to raise awareness. If the majority coopts it to just be opposition to Trump then it loses its power. The point was never expression, it was bringing attention.

 

[HHR]

You see where this is going?

Instead of black lives matter it's all lives matter.

Literally their taking kapernick original purpose out of the equation and make this is a issue about patriotism and what right and wrong.

President Trump is drawing the hest to him and taking it off brutality.

Had Kap's not reached it's peak though? He made his point, and it was effective, but its power dissipated along with his prospects of employment.

The reframing happening right now isn't necessarily a bad thing though. To a lot of people, the mischaracterization of his actions as un-American or anti-military drowned out their true purpose. The current galvanizing happening today is proving those mischaracterizations as such, which is important.

 

[Scott Larock]

Had Kap's not reached it's peak though? He made his point, and it was effective, but its power dissipated along with his prospects of employment.

The reframing happening right now isn't necessarily a bad thing though. To a lot of people, the mischaracterization of his actions as un-American or anti-military drowned out their true purpose. The current galvanizing happening today is proving those mischaracterizations as such, which is important.

Yep once he couldn't get s job he became.just another unhappy black man with a voice and white america is known for bushing off that quite well.

Yes you're right but he put s hole in the system and the people couldn't follow through.

Now it's too late Trump don't gotta do shut just speak and let others speak until it dies down.

He don't have to spend a dime.

 

[Calmye]

Because then the focus will be shifted. The whole point is for a marginalized group to raise awareness. If the majority coopts it to just be opposition to Trump then it loses its power. The point was never expression, it was bringing attention.

I understand were your coming from breh I just don't agree with you.

 

[///Vega+++]

Abdul-Rauf and Hodges were blackballed.
Stern used to infantilize players.
Stop painting the NBA as this paradise for self-expression.

 

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

I think that's the point you're missing... anytime we bring an issue up it either gets dismissed or grouped with "others.

People always end up latching their problems on to ours. Shyts comical at this point. You'll see tho when the reason why Kaep did it is no longer spoken about in favor of "others

It was never spoken about in the first place. The message isn't muddled, it's not even there.

 

[10bandz]

There was also a rule that you can’t wear a non team t shirt on the court but did anyone get fined for the I can’t breathe shirts or Luol did he get fined for his Africa shirt?

Exactly they keep leaving out that the NBA players have already broken dress code rules to make statements and the NBA didn't do shyt about it

 

[Marci-Senpai]

America the nation of followers

 

[Crude Abolitionist]

Join the Boycott yall...Indefinitely

The NFL has done NOTHING for you and will continue to be pointless. You are the ones giving the NFL its power and relevancy.

Any sports league run by racist is nothing but a distraction from the realities that face us today.

We live in a Police State.

We still have legalized slavery in the US because the exception clause in the 13th Amendment.

We still have Black people who are not armed and ready to protect themselves.

We have studies out saying we will have ZERO wealth by 2050.

We dont have time to keep watching sports leagues operated by racist. It does not make sense.

We have so much work to do.

Drop all distractions. We must start to focus on unity and actually winning for once.

We are at WAR.

 

[Tanahashi Coates]

You see where this is going?

Instead of black lives matter it's all lives matter.

Literally their taking kapernick original purpose out of the equation and make this is a issue about patriotism and what right and wrong.

President Trump is drawing the hest to him and taking it off brutality.

That's what you got from that?