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Outrage Mounts Over Refusal of NFL Quarterback to Stand for National Anthem
Newsmax.com ^ | Sunday, 28 Aug 2016 11:31 AM | Eric Mack

Posted on 08/28/2016 2:22:21 PM PDT by drewh

Rep. Pete King shot back on Sunday.

"Colin Kaepernick's refusal to stand for the national anthem is entirely wrong," King, a Republican Representative from the second district, said in an email statement. "It is also an indicator of how low our cultural standards have been degraded that anyone is actually supporting this behavior.

". . . Having an NFL quarterback insult our flag by refusing to stand during the playing of the 'Star Spangled Banner,' adds neither honesty nor intelligence to that debate."

King added Kaepernick's claims of black oppression are overstated and, more controversially, self-inflicted.

"Kaepernick charges that America 'oppresses black people and people of color' even though America has elected and re-elected an African-American President and in the previous eight years of the Bush Administration both Secretaries of State (Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice) were African-American," King said. "And in Kaepernick's NFL the large majority of players are African-American.

"If he is referring to violence against African-Americans, that comes primarily from within the black community itself. If he is reciting the fraudulent Black Lives Matter theme that police are targeting African-Americans, then he is clearly wrong and misguided.

King added America's immigration is a sign of strength in the racial debate.

New York Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz, a black Puerto Rican American, chided his fellow NFL player for making it personal and racial.

"Regardless of how you feel about the things that are going on in America today and the things that are going on across the world with gun violence and things like that: You've got to respect the flag and stand up with your teammates," Cruz told USA Today's Lorenzo Reyes.

"It's bigger than just you." !

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


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To: drewh

Blacks are 13% of the US population but I swear I see a much higher percentage as actors, sports figures, sportscasters, newscasters, politicians, progressives, and and rabble rousers.


61 posted on 08/28/2016 5:11:38 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: drewh

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Kaepernick needs to be sent packing.

He refuses to acknowledge all of the undeserved benefits he has received solely due to his race, including his adoption by a well to do white family.

Time to cut him loose.
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62 posted on 08/28/2016 5:26:07 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: RightGeek

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Image was the wrong way to post this.


63 posted on 08/28/2016 5:26:07 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: drewh; All
FIRE KAP NOW!!!

#FireKapNow

64 posted on 08/28/2016 5:39:44 PM PDT by goldbux (When you're odd the odds are with you.)
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To: drewh

Hope Kap paid cash for his great big SF mansion. His paychecks may be quite a bit smaller if he bought it on a 30 year mortgage like the rest of us......He might not be able to keep up the payments-—AND the Calif taxes—1.25% +++ of the purchase price, with 2% increases every year.


65 posted on 08/28/2016 6:30:27 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Thank You Rush

**** “That was the first VCR tape I ever bought..the story always stayed with me as well as Woods and Belushi’s acting...” ****

Just watched the pre-views... Never, I could not finish the pre-views...
It is the period, not the acting.


66 posted on 08/29/2016 1:34:00 AM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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To: ZOOKER

yup, it’s a free country, for him and for all of us (we hope it still is!)

I know it’s too much to hope for, but it would be great if tv viewership and stadium attendance would plummet for any games this anti-patriotic a-hole is involved with. He may not be starting more games anyway, his career has been in the toilet for a while.


67 posted on 08/29/2016 1:43:34 AM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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To: Redwood71

send the POS to Canada, then....


68 posted on 08/29/2016 1:47:31 AM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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To: Enchante

Canada won’t take him. As a support for the NFL, the CFL won’t hire any player from the NFL that exhibits any behavior inconsistent with the NFL ideals. So, he has no where to go, literally.

red


69 posted on 08/29/2016 6:35:24 AM PDT by Redwood71
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To: drewh
"Colin Kaepernick's refusal to stand for the national anthem is entirely wrong," King, a Republican Representative from the second district, said in an email statement. "It is also an indicator of how low our cultural standards have been degraded that anyone is actually supporting this behavior.
". . . Having an NFL quarterback insult our flag by refusing to stand during the playing of the 'Star Spangled Banner,' adds neither honesty nor intelligence to that debate."

This issue puzzled me for a couple of reasons.
The first is that Colin does not look obviously Black.
The second is that what would drive him to this weird behavior? If he were white, is it white guilt?
If he sees himself as Black, what's his beef?

So I dug deeper.
The facts make him a male Michelle Obama, "for the first time, proud of his country...
The rest of the story makes him a world class ingrate and an insult to his White adoptive family.

Nothing else needs be said.
Judge for yourself :

"Kaepernick was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Heidi Russo, a 19-year-old woman who was single and destitute at the time. His birth father, an African American, was out of the picture before he was born.[1][2][3] Russo placed her son for adoption with Rick and Teresa Kaepernick, a white couple who had two children...

70 posted on 08/29/2016 9:25:59 AM PDT by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: RightGeek
Ask me why I gave up thugball permanently in all its varieties in the mid 80s...
71 posted on 08/29/2016 9:29:30 AM PDT by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: Donglalinger
Can anyone explain to me the meaning of the gesture those admirable red-blooded patriotic Americans are doing?

I must lead a really sheltered life.

72 posted on 08/29/2016 10:22:22 AM PDT by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: ColdOne

This country gave him everything and he spits all over it. That’s the way slimes behave.


73 posted on 08/29/2016 10:23:54 AM PDT by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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To: drewh

Can his ass! Wouldn’t want to pay some jackass in US dollars that flag represents!


74 posted on 08/29/2016 10:28:49 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: StormEye
How long will white Americans put up with outlandish lie and defamation?

Just as Eleanor Roosevelt famously said, "No one can make you feel guilty without your consent," which I had intuitively lived before learning the words, this loser ingrate has zero effect on me. Doesn't even generate pity.

Thugball is soooooo last century!

That this clown, making himself rich playing a game, impresses me not one whit.

75 posted on 08/29/2016 10:57:44 AM PDT by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: publius911

Just kissing his bicep because he is so strong


76 posted on 08/29/2016 11:41:24 AM PDT by Donglalinger
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