Those who waive our Star Spangled Banner so blithely will eventually turn the stadium over to he Taliban.
Learn Arabic before the new refs get here.
Posted on 09/25/2016 10:34:42 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
Liberty guard Brittany Boyd sat on the bench with her head bowed in prayer during the National Anthem before a WNBA playoff game.
Hours earlier, college football players for Michigan and Michigan State, along with a group of students at North Carolina, raised their fists during the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" on Saturday.
Since 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick refused to stand for the Anthem before NFL preseason games, citing racial injustice and police brutality, his movement has slowly spread across fields and courts in the U.S. On Saturday, college and professional athletes joined together to follow his lead after a week punctuated by riots in Charlotte, N.C., and the killing of an unarmed black man in Tulsa, Okla.
This wasn't the first time Boyd sat during the anthem. She said she also did it at the last few games.
"I don't want to stand up. I choose not to stand up and I sit down and pray," the second-year guard said. "Colin and his message about social injustice going on in this country today is something I believe needs change."
The Berkeley, Calif., native had a Kaepernick jersey hanging in her locker and wore it to the arena Saturday night.
Her New York teammates stood, arms locked with their heads bowed before their WNBA playoff game with Phoenix. Mercury players Mistie Bass and Kelsey Bone kneeled, just as they had done during their first-round playoff game. Bass was inspired that younger athletes were joining an effort that until this weekend had been mostly led by the pros.
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The only openly racist people in America are black.
What did an African ever invent? Even the game of football was invented by Europeans. Where would these Africans be absent any European influence in their lives? Let them think about this—no football, no football equipment, no written language, no math, no engineering, no chemistry, no physics, no mechanized transportation (yes, Africans knew how to walk and run), and the list goes on. Where would the Africans be?
What needs to happen is a mass walk-off of ALL security personnel when thus happens.
Volunteer cops should just simply go home.
Oh, Crap. MSU is my Alma Mater. The school was so good to me. except for my parents and my church, they made me what I am today. My long-time agent, David Lindsay said it was the best thing on my resume, besides my work record, of course.
Prayer in school!!! Clutch my pearls.
More sports to boycott.
Fine with me.
Demand politics are kept out of non-political things.
Freedom of religion and freedom of political expression are both 1st amendment issues. Yet they’ve driven religion out. Either they all go or they all stay because the 1st amendment protects all of them.
The hypocritical inconsistency is staggering.
Agree. Universities are for study, not for sports. Now their studies are just leftist indoctrination. And sports has become mental meth for a whole lot of American men, keeping their minds off of real things. Sad and bad for our once-great nation.
These fools are not standing to recognize the Obama regime. They are protesting their own government that gives them goodies.
Watching PGA Tour Championship today—haven’t seen one of those guys go wacko—yet... :-)
Those WNBA protests will influence tens of tens of people.
Give them all guns and one magazine. Tell them then to put their bodies where their mouths are. Then we can get to the business of ending the phenomenon.
Walk out of the stadium and demand a refund... Stop attending the games and let owners know why... Stop watching the games, if you haven't already done so (lower ratings will hit advertisers, then stations, then teams)...
Management and coaches can bench the players (or dismiss for cause, if the contract has the "behavior / harm clause") no matter how "valuable" they are, which will result in them losing value next season — now some professional players may not care because they are "rich enough" already, but for most and for college / school players it will be an irreparable career hit.
And don't call it boycott - EVERYBODY can simply "exercise their rights and freedoms," not just spoiled brats.
If the spoiled brats don't mind the hit to their pockets and their reputation by exercising their "rights and freedom" to display their politics and ingratitude instead of their sport skills, so be it.
BTW, the police can't usually walk out on the game because most of the teams are paying for "security / police protection" — either to the city, if they have a contract, or to the off-duty and/or retired police officers who often supplement their income this way and may be under contract.
WNBA players ... well, no one's heard of you, so you're probably safe.
Just before the debates. Marxists stirring up trouble, as always.
Learn Arabic before the new refs get here.
That must be some kind of Title IX violation. Priceless!
Thanks.
Frankly, university isn’t supposed to be high school. It’s supposed to be about study and work, not finding yourself and not allowing athletes there who do nothing but cause trouble, only on a more escalated scale. A huge reason major vandalism happens to surrounding houses (reasons the housing prices are so low) is because a bunch of sports fans and athletes get worked up over the games and over the frat parties and start more BS. A lot of jocks are getting involved in sexual assaults and kids have no business being there if they got in via an athletic scholarship. They do the bare minimum, drag the academic reputation down, and basically just cause trouble.
Fuel up the buses and planes Im sick of these a##es in my country and making a great living while talking sh## get the f out!
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