Posted on 09/27/2017 11:12:38 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
It's unclear if college football players this Saturday will follow the lead of players across the National Football League who protested by kneeling or locking arms during the national anthem before games Sunday and Monday. But this week has already seen multiple instances of students, faculty and staff taking a knee in an effort to replicate former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s original protest, which started last year and is aimed at protesting racism and police brutality.
Sunday’s protests were one of the inspirations for Dana Greene Jr., a graduate student at Michigan, to take a knee in front of an American flag on campus Tuesday, in a protest that drew hundreds of others throughout the day who knelt in solidarity with him.
As Greene woke up Tuesday, scientists and researchers at Michigan and across the country were taking a knee as part of a separate but similar protest. The scientists posted pictures of themselves and their colleagues protesting and kneeling in solidarity with people of color.
Though students and faculty have taken a knee on campuses across the country over the past few days, the reason college sports teams haven’t taken up the protest widely often comes down to logistics.
Rutgers University hasn’t been the site of any noted protests, either, though head coach Chris Ash said that players could, in theory, protest during the national anthem if they so chose.
On the other hand, East Carolina University mandated last year that marching band members had to stand during the playing of the national anthem. The order came after some members took a knee on the field while performing.
Colorado Christian University, a private institution in Lakewood, Colo., reiterated its stance against protests during the anthem Tuesday, underscoring the partisan divide that surrounds Kaepernick and his actions.
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You know all colleges (except for perhaps the service academies) will assume the Dorkbama position for their future football felons.
There is not a single ball among the admin and leadership staffs.
What a bunch of idiots. They all appear a bit long in the tooth to be students
Isn’t kneeling to the flag kind of like bowing down to the flag?
Seems like sitting is more of protest, they can’t even get that right
"Researchers"?
Government paid researchers.
Hope I'm wrong.
Let them. We can start a list and send our kids to better colleges!
Were these taxpayer funded government employees at work and on the job when they made this protest?
This kind of empty, narcissistic gestures is tailor-made for this crowd. They love this crap - they can pretend they’re making a difference without expending any real capital or energy to do so. What a bunch of losers.
Somebody needs to hand out MAGA kneepads. :)
However, I am stunned that the Michigan STEM groups would succomb to inferior logic coupled to belief in lies.
I would be very wary of any “research” coming from those clowns.
Does anyone understand that federal law defines how one is to behave during the national anthem?
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/36/301
No, I didn’t think so
It’s no surprise that America-hating Marxist/fascist progressives would trample on our flag. They’re just showing their true communist colors.
What if TAXPAYERS decide to take a Knee when it comes to Funding Higher Education and in PROTEST Refuse to PAY!!!
Union of Concerned Scientists? Nuff said.
Most college football teams don’t come out onto the field until after the National Anthem is played, so this shouldn’t amount to much.
I agree, 100%. Watching mostly black males kneeling before their symbol of their dominant white male oppressor smacks of slaves being subservient or submissive to their masters.
The mostly black kneelers have no idea how totally WEAK it makes them look. BUT THEN AGAIN, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 'SEEMINGLY MANLY' MALES WHO ADORE SHOES, EXPENSIVE CLOTHES, JEWELRY AND EMOTION-DRIVEN ACTIONS JUST LIKE FEMALES.
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