Posted on 08/28/2020 12:19:28 PM PDT by knighthawk
Tennessee Titans quarterback Ryan Tannehill joined his teammates Thursday in skipping practice to protest the shooting of Jacob Blake and offered his opinion about the U.S.
Tannehill, who recently signed a four-year, $118-million contract extension that will pay him at least $17.5 million in 2020 alone, said the U.S. was founded “upon racist ideas.”
“These systematic oppressions have been going on for a long time. Hundreds of years, this country was founded upon racist ideas with slaves being brought here from the day of foundation. And those ideas have persisted throughout the last hundreds of years and it’s going to take time until we can get those all out. We’re tired of it,” Tannehill said alongside teammate Kelvin Byard.
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This kid doesn’t know squat just like 80% of his contemporaries!
Just saw a story that only 20% of the NBA is even registered to vote.
Sports teams exist due to CORPORATE WELFARE. Taxpayers build these arenas and stadums with tax dollar funding.
Ticking off the people who pay your salary?
Not smart.
I’m boycotting the NFL, NBA, and MLB.
Will do the same of college sports if they allow this nonsense.
It’s just easier to repeat the narrative.
“The quarterback did not list any examples.”
another assh0le speaks up ....
Oh look. The idiot can memorize force-fed marxist propaganda and repeat it. How cute.
Cancel pro sports.
First we tolerate millions of low IQ people. Bad idea.
Then they get delusions of adequacy.
Now they blame us for myths made up on leftist news media that our great nation was a hoax and founded on lies.
The nation that allowed them to prosper and have more freedom than any other in the world today.
So the tolerance was a bad idea.
Wow, and I thought dumb jock was just an expression. These people are certifiable. What country didn’t have slavery at some time and some still do. The US has bent over backwards since the sixties to promote the interests of blacks. So tired of this crap.
I’m so tired of this. Saw where Matt Forte is dissing Brian Urlacher for telling the true. I now lost all respect for Forte and gained a huge amount for Urlacher.
Absolutely agree - no NFL, no NBA, no MLB, and no college sports if this idiocy translates to college sports too. These folk are entertainers, mental midgets.
Shut up and throw the football!.....
Oh, I forgot.
You CAN’T!....................
Get the heck out of here if you dislike this country so much.
The Critical Theory pandemic is worse than the Black Plauge, German Measals, Polio, Spanish Flu, and Covid-19 combined.
i think these people are full of shit. If it were really so bad, they’d leave.
they just want power and more money.
Separately, if it were so bad we wouldn’t have so many trying to get here.
they are completely full of shit.
telling me i’m racist just b/c i’m white is no different than telling a black person he’s lazy just b/c he’s black. Both are false, prejudicial, and racist.
Given the absence of black quarterbacks early on, one could argue just as easily that "the NFL was founded upon racist ideas." Guess this fine, upstanding 'Man of Principle' ought to quit in protest, rather than get paid a zillion bucks a year by a racist employer...
(What a hypocrite! ;^)
Freedom is ‘racism’?
Freedom of religion is ‘racism’?
Freedom of association is ‘racism’?
Freedom from heavy taxes is ‘racism’?
The dumb box of rocks jock needs to play in China to learn the definitions of what freedom & racism really is.
Regular Einstein, he is...
Slaves were bought from African slave traders. Slavery is still legal in 5 countries in Africa and the Middle East. We abolished slavery in the 19th Century.
I would add misspelling pandemics too, sorry German Measles
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