Posted on 10/17/2017 1:25:15 PM PDT by markomalley
American swimmer Anthony Ervin has joined the growing number of athletes to kneel during the national anthem, taking a knee Sunday after he anchored Team USA’s mixed 200-meter medley relay team during a meet in Brazil.
Ervin tweeted out what appears to be an explanation on Monday morning:
As noted by Swim Swam, Ervin’s father is a black Vietnam veteran while his white mother is of Jewish descent. At the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney, Ervin became the first U.S. swimmer of African American descent to win Olympic swimming gold. Sixteen years later in Rio, he became the oldest swimmer in history to win an Olympic gold medal, winning the 50 freestyle at the age of 35.
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The upcoming Winter Olympics are going to interesting. How many American gold medalists will take a knee during the playing of the National Anthem?
Should be AY! CarAmba!...
Kick him off the team, NOW.
Olymics for me are already on shaky grounds.
That would be the final nail in my "interest" coffin...
So, Sammy Davis Jr takes a knee. Who knew!
Wait - I thought Judaism was a religion, not a genetic clade.
Could Dad the African have changed his race like a religion?!
I guess we'd all have to ask Racheal Dolezal.
Monkey see, monkey do.
Shades of John Carlos & Tommie Smith.
See what happened to them after their protest at the 68 Olympics.
Send him over to swim on NK’s team. Last one in the water gets eaten by Kim’s dogs.
“Shades of John Carlos & Tommie Smith.
See what happened to them after their protest at the 68 Olympics.”
This is a different country...
Heck, we will probably see raised fists...
What AMERICANS who insist on attending and following the Olympics need to do is root for athletes from other countries and boo the athletes who represent the “evil” and “rasis” America. Give the America-hating, kneelers a good dose of their own medicine.
” Wait - I thought Judaism was a religion, not a genetic clade. Could Dad the African have changed his race like a religion?!”
His mother is Jewish, ergo he is Jewish under the Law, whether he likes it or not. Father picks the tribe (or no tribe, in this case).
It’s basically what areligious Reform Jewish people call themselves before the next generation ceases to be Jewish in any meaningful way.
Which reminds me of a joke:
Q: What’s the difference between Donald Trump and a Reform Jew?
A: Donald Trump’s grandchildren are Jewish.
The left just digs their hole deeper and deeper.
There is no point in explaining it to them—they are just too stupid to “get it”.
It’s time to get out of the PROFESSIONAL SPORTS BUSINESS and get with the program of MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.
So the puke punk spits on him.
Black and Jewish...double Liberal Whammy!
Talk about stealing valor from your family to cover yourself in victimhood!
” Ima kneel for blacks, jews, Vietnam, nazis, the holocaust and because itsa rasist country that gave me opportunity to earn a gold medal!”
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