Posted on 02/25/2019 6:58:42 AM PST by Sir Napsalot
Eight players from the Ole Miss men's basketball team knelt during the national anthem before Saturday's home game against Georgia in response to a Confederacy rally near the arena.
Minutes before the game, both teams formed lines for the anthem. As "The Star-Spangled Banner" began, six Rebels players -- who appeared to be KJ Buffen, D.C. Davis, Brian Halums, Luis Rodriguez, Devontae Shuler and Bruce Stevens -- knelt one by one. Two more players -- appearing to be Breein Tyree and Franco Miller Jr. -- took a knee on the song's final line.
The game was being played while two pro-Confederacy groups organized a march onto the campus in Oxford, Mississippi.
"The majority of it was we saw one of our teammates doing it and we just didn't want him to be alone,'' Ole Miss scoring leader Tyree said after his team's 72-71 victory. "We're just tired of these hate groups coming to our school and portraying our campus like it's our actual university having these hate groups in our school."
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Ole Miss coach Kermit Davis said he wasn't aware beforehand that players were going to kneel.
"This was all about the hate groups that came to our community to try to spread racism and bigotry," Davis said. "It's created a lot of tension for our campus. Our players made an emotional decision to show these people they're not welcome on our campus, and we respect our players' freedom and ability to choose that.''
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“Pro-Confederacy groups” So, secessionists?
What's the problem?
So, these mensas are kneeling in protest against the USA (which defeated the CSA in a war) because someone acknowledged the CSA (the defeated foe that no longer exists?).
These people are in college?
“Kermit the coach” rails about “hate groups” on campus. The only “hate group” I see are his ungrateful negro players who dishonor America.
You kneelers - go to Libya and report back to me what happens.
The problem everywhere on campus is that any un-approved view point will be labelled ‘hate’, i.e., hate group, hate speech, hate (whatever)…
And the student athletes (their coach included) want to use their spotlight to virtue signal how pure they are, by dissing on the anthem.
Eh whatever the confederacy rally was, someone should make it clear to these ignoramuses and their indoctrinatiors that the confederacy is not represented by the flag nor the anthem
My ring tone is a robust national anthem. In some settings I let it play all the way through
My ring tone is a robust national anthem. In some settings I let it play all the way through
I doubt these stars know the difference between the USA and CSA.
If they know the difference, someone would have had to told them. Who would have done that and where? In public schools?
That's why I conclude they don't know the difference.
Kneeling = silly, but legal.
IMHO.
Protesting the Confederacy by disrespecting the American flag:
A lot of men died to free the slaves and these kneelers say to heck with them.
I agree and IMO the confederates 'won' this skirmish by triggering the anti-Americans.
If they could see the fruits of their efforts today I wonder what they would think?
So they kneeled in protest of these groups????
I kneel to no man. If they are protesting these groups, go STAND in front of those groups. That will show some real B***s. Not kneeling in a place far removed and unseen by the protesters. (But the camera videos are real good for virtue signaling.
“These people are in college?”
They are in basketball school. People around them are in college.
Yep.
You do what you do to please God not some sorry ass crybaby. Those who fought honorably on both sides in that war are today with Jesus in heaven.
What a great example of “thinking outside the box”! There are exceptions, of course, but unfortunately it seems largely true.
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