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NFL kneelers - How about standing for school choice
The American Thinker ^ | 10/21/2017 | John Conlin

Posted on 10/23/2017 7:34:51 AM PDT by John Conlin

Hey NFL kneelers. So you are upset that far too many poor black and brown kids are getting screwed by “the system”? Me too. Although I am a person of pallor, in my business travels I’ve been to some of the toughest neighborhoods in this country. I’ve seen the reality these kids face. Far too many are literally screwed from the womb and other than a minuscule chance of making it to pro sports like you all have, the opportunity of a quality education is their one and only hope.

Yet the schools they are forced to attend are a national and moral disgrace.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: freedom; kneeling; nfl; schoolchoice
Always like to hear what the Freepers have to say! Thanks, jc
1 posted on 10/23/2017 7:34:51 AM PDT by John Conlin
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To: John Conlin
I'd like to see the neibhborhoods black NFL kneelers live in.

I'd bet the farm the vast majority of them live in vastly majority white neighborhoods.

2 posted on 10/23/2017 7:36:11 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Texas Eagle

They dont send their kids to schools where feral kids disrespect the teachers and are tolerated by weak pansy school administrators

and they dont play a sport where feral players disrespect the coaches and referees

. Well at least not for now


3 posted on 10/23/2017 7:42:44 AM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: John Conlin
Worth reading. At least the first few sentences where you will find this gem:

”Although I am a person of pallor ...”

How did I miss that? It has been in the Urban Dictionary since 2010 and must go back to a time well before that.

Clearly I need to spend more time on FR than I have been. I’m falling behind.

4 posted on 10/23/2017 7:44:50 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed. About time)
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To: John Conlin

School Choice is important - switching family incentives back to two parent families is more important:

7 Statistics You Need To Know About Black-On-Black Crime

http://www.dailywire.com/news/7441/7-statistics-you-need-know-about-black-black-crime-aaron-bandler

4. There were almost 6,000 blacks killed by other blacks in 2015.

By contrast, only 258 blacks were killed by police gunfire that year.

6. According to Riley, “Black crime rates were lower in the 1940s and 1950s, when black poverty was higher” and “racial discrimination was rampant and legal.”

If it’s not racism and poverty that are blame for the high black crime rate, then what is?

7. According to Mac Donald, “A straight line can be drawn between family breakdown and youth violence.”

As economist Thomas Sowell points out, before the 1960s “most black children were raised in two-parent families.” In 2013, over 72 percent of blacks were born out of wedlock. In Cook County –which Chicago belongs to – 79 percent of blacks were born to single mothers in 2003, while only 15 percent of whites were born to single mothers.

“Until that gap closes, the crime gap won’t close, either,” writes Mac Donald.


5 posted on 10/23/2017 7:49:32 AM PDT by GOPJ ("NFL: Now Far Left" - - Lazamataz - - Noting but Freaking Losers. DoughtyOne)
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To: John Conlin

Don’t want those kneelers going to my daughter’s private school.


6 posted on 10/23/2017 7:49:42 AM PDT by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democratt)
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To: John Conlin

They won’t even stop pulling this cr@p overseas. They did again this weekend in the UK.

The NFL can’t finish circling the bowl fast enough for me now.

The entire damn league can go to HADES.


7 posted on 10/23/2017 7:51:47 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: John Conlin
Public education in a country as rich and free as America, is not only a national disgrace but an international one as well!

We are seemingly locked in a system that forces the American public into a “one size fits all - period!”

Americans would never tolerate being forced to buy one brand of car, in white because the government said so yet will stand by while the government forces their kids into failing schools, unless they are able to afford something better, or home school their children, as more and more are doing.

So long as we have a Department of (un)Education run by thug unionists, nothing is going to change!

A retired General, who was very invested in education told me more than twenty years ago, that unless or until the public schools crash and burn, no one will free these, our best resource, our children.

Having volunteered for our local symphony’s outreach program for kids, I once had a white teacher tell me in front of her mostly black second graders that “you people make the black kids sit up in the balcony while the white kids get to sit on the first floor!”

I attempted to explain to this woman, that the schools are seated in such a way as to keep the schools seated together in the auditorium but this teacher was convinced and would hear none of it.

Luckily for me, the first concert let out, while the teacher and class waited to be seated, and other volunteers ushered down scores of white kids from the balcony!

A long way to prove my point, that these precious kids are forced to spend a year with a woman who knew nothing but was unchanged in her opinions - worst of all, was and continues to be supported by the National Education Association!

8 posted on 10/23/2017 7:59:24 AM PDT by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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I agree that a lot of these kids are screwed from the womb. Back in the mid-1970s, Jesse Jackson was pushing a program (I think the acronym was PUSH) to get black families to stress education for their children. (That was before he became a race baiter.) I was hopeful that in a generation there would be a noticeable improvement but things have only gotten worse for these kids.

About that same time, Marva Collins in Chicago was so disgusted with the school her kids were in, she pulled them out and started teaching them at home. Soon she was teaching the children of friends as well. Her small school had old textbooks - but how much have the basics of math, science,English and history changed over 20 or 30 years? From the success of her students,it was clear you didn't need a lot of money to get results.

Collins was obviously a good teacher, but I think a huge part of her success was the parents who cajoled Marva into teaching their kids clearly valued education and likely passed that down to their kids and these kids likely had few disciplinary problems.

9 posted on 10/23/2017 8:29:08 AM PDT by Kipp
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To: John Conlin

People are already free to send their kids to private schools or home school if they want.


10 posted on 10/23/2017 8:30:16 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: John Conlin

How about we start with intact black families with a husband and wife who can clearly be identified as “father” and “mother” instead of some other convoluted identifier. For this to work, the ultimate choice to be made is that the females of the community reject the role of breeding sow that is so prevalent now. That’s the most powerful choice to be made and it has to start there otherwise everything else goes off the rails.


11 posted on 10/23/2017 9:34:53 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: John Conlin; All

One of the conservative leaders in the black community ex Milwaukee county Sheriff David Clarke has posed some questions and comments the MSM has spiked which should be brought to public attention. They’re in this posting in FR. His and other comments are well worth a look see.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3596032/posts


12 posted on 10/23/2017 9:55:55 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (Mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin)
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To: John Conlin

Players, stand up to the heroin trafficking in the black neighborhoods!


13 posted on 10/23/2017 10:12:31 AM PDT by jonrick46 (Trump continues to have all the right enemies.)
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