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Posted on 08/23/2017 2:55:52 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
The NAACP's interim president Derrick Johnson has officially requested a formal meeting with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to discuss NFL players and their ability to exercise their First Amendment rights.
According to a letter sent to the league by the NAACP, the meeting will specifically focus on Kaepernick's perceived "blackballing" by the league in light of his protests last season. It also questions the silencing of NFL players' platforms, citing Tommie Smith and John Carlos's black power salute at the 1968 Olympics, among other examples.
Kaepernick's lack of a job has raised many eyebrows throughout the offseason, particularly with the quarterbacks being signed ahead of him. Johnson penned a concern regarding Kaepernick's First Amendment rights and also strongly insinuated that his protest was the sole cause of him not being signed. An excerpt of the letter reads:
Last season, Mr. Kaepernick chose to exercise his First Amendment rights by protesting the inequitable treatment of people of color in America. By quietly taking a knee during the national anthem, he was able to shine a light on the many injustices, particularly, the disproportionate occurrences of police misconduct toward communities of color. As outlined in your office's public statement, this act of dissent is well within the National Football League's stated bylaws. Yet, as the NFL season quickly approaches, Mr. Kaepernick has spent an unprecedented amount of time as a free agent, and it is becoming increasingly apparent that this is no sheer coincidence.
"No player should be victimized and discriminated against because of his exercise of free speech -- to do so is in violation of his rights under the Constitution and the NFL's own regulations.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbssports.com ...
NAALCP...
In a just and proper world Goodell’s answer would be “you guys do know he lost his starting job BEFORE he started kneeling? And only got it back because the replacement was incredibly awful? And he wasn’t good? You guys know all that right?”
An NFL team better give me a big contract or I’ll sue the league and all the teams for age discrimination!!!!!!!
More concerned about the "rights" of millionaire black athletes and celebrities than they are about ordinary blacks getting shot up in cities run by and controlled by Democrats.
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Kap has all the free speech rights he wants. OTOH he’s responsible for what he does under his free speech rights. The government will not arrest and jail him for it (the original meaning of the 1st. Amendment).
This is like some helicopter parents going to threaten a toney preschool that didn’t admit their little snowflake.
“There’s got to be something we can work out...”
Absolutely right, GeorgiaDawg. Kaepernick is free to exercise his First Amendment rights, and he must accept the consequences. I am free to call my boss a jerk to his face, but I am not entitled to keep my job afterwards.
And I don’t want to play...I’d get killed out there...I just want to sit on the bench and spend money....
And he got a case of anal eze shipped next day to him
HEY, NAACP, THERE ARE NO 1ST AMENDMENT RIGHTS IN PRIVATE ENTERPRISE. YOU ARE EMPLOYED IN PRIVATE ENTERPRISE. GFY! (I do not often use all caps, but man these stupid bastards frost me.)
doesn’t the players union have exclusive bargaining rights for the players? if so, the naacp should be told to take a flying leap...
Since when is the NFL an arm of the government?
Watching that video makes me feel warm all over.
What employer would let ANY uniformed employee conduct a public protest while either at work or while wearing the uniform?
NONE!
If a team picks Kaepernick up, every hit on his azz will be scrutinized.
5.56mm
Maybe a record better than 2 W and 14 L in 2016 woulda helped his case.... just saying.
I meant the players are employed in private enterprise, of course.
Colin....Do it on your own time.
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