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White Athletes Still Standing For The Anthem Are Standing For White Supremacy
The Huffington Post ^ | September 25, 2017 | Jesse Benn

Posted on 09/26/2017 7:40:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

This is the problem of privilege. It skews our ability to grasp what the world looks like outside our view.

The absence of white athletes kneeling for the anthem Sunday was a particularly illustrative moment in white privilege.

See, for white athletes the anthem and American flag do represent freedom, liberty and whatever other amorphous American values one might ascribe these symbols. So, from their view, kneeling would be disrespectful to the privileges a white supremacist nation affords them.

We’ve all heard the typical argument against kneeling. “Kneeling during the anthem disrespects the flag and the soldiers who fought for your right to protest and blah blah blah patriotism!”

Now, I’m not going to spend much time with the most obvious counter, but it’s worth stating. In the fairytale we Americans tell ourselves where soldiers fight wars for freedom and not imperial conquests, the story says they’re fighting for someone’s right to protest, not the opposite. So using the troops as a cudgel against protest wholly misunderstands even our own national fairytale.

So, that’s obvious enough, but what I’m talking about is this. If white athletes can’t fathom kneeling because they feel soldiers fought for their rights and blah blah blah patriotism, it’s because they are treated as full citizens and afforded those rights they imagine soldiers fought for. Interpreting their own experience as something more universal, they struggle to understand why anyone should kneel. Indeed, for them, the anthem and American flag represent promises fulfilled....

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KEYWORDS: benn; blacks; football; jessebenn; killwhitey; traitor; trump; violentresistance; whites
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If it’s gay and it’s ghetto then it’s good that’s the new American Way.

Forget mom and pop and apple pie, the red white and blue they can all say goodbye.

If it’s gay and it’s good oh and it’s good...


41 posted on 09/26/2017 8:00:58 PM PDT by Awgie (Truth is always stranger than fiction.)
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To: i get it

Noticed that too. Comments section on liberal websites are either heavily moderated or utterly gone. On conservative websites? Open and actually free to all. Especially Disqus; those disappear quickly from liberal websites.


42 posted on 09/26/2017 8:02:07 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

So let me get this straight: Everything about this country, it’s history, it’s flag, it’s anthem, etc. stands for White Supremacy? Well, maybe there’s a reason for that.
The solution is really quite easy. Just take some of those millions in whitey dollars and move your nasty black azz to a Black Supremacy country. May I suggest Zimbabwe for starters. Problem solved. We’re happy you’re gone, you’re happy in a place where you’re Supreme.....whooo, wait, what, what??? No????? Oh, you like those big old whitety dollars too much??? Well, IF you’re not gonna put your money where ya nasty mouth is, then shut ta hell up, respect the country, honor the Anthem and flag. Otherwise, get to hell outta our country.


43 posted on 09/26/2017 8:02:57 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: hardspunned

When/if they start to see dozens of lost endorsements?


44 posted on 09/26/2017 8:04:15 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Let’s just give all of our belongings, property, savings, everything we have, to BLM.


45 posted on 09/26/2017 8:04:44 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
White Athletes Still Standing For The Anthem Are Standing For White Supremacy

That's terrible. In fact it's deplorable! There's only one thing to do...

Boycott the NFL and all of its sponsors!

46 posted on 09/26/2017 8:06:15 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Kneeling is historically a symbolic pledge of allegiance to Royalty.


47 posted on 09/26/2017 8:06:20 PM PDT by Ozark Tom
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Racism has lost its punch so now the term is White Supremacy. It will lose its punch steadily and will never attain the power that RACIST!! once had. For one thing White Europeans built the country and none of the people calling names would care to live in any other country.


48 posted on 09/26/2017 8:06:38 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Never heard of this puke


49 posted on 09/26/2017 8:06:39 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: a fool in paradise

Certainly seems to be the legacy of Barack Hussein Obama.
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The Kenyanesian Usurpation should never have happened.

He is not a natural born citizen.


50 posted on 09/26/2017 8:07:08 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
All we have to do is invite the American people to read this tripe. There's no better way for them to see who the Enemy is than when that Enemy—speaking from within its alternate reality "bubble"—exposes itself as the most breathtakingly ignorant creatures to be walking the face of the earth.

"The poor bastards—they have us surrounded!"

The teachable moments—what it means to be American—are going to be coming fast and furious in the next 13 months leading up to the 2018 midterms.

These pathetic fools are obsessed with America's flaws—past and present—and consequently, they totally miss the fact that the flag and the anthem stand for our ideals and our pursuit of unity and perfection. It is our exceptional positive potential that unites We the People, not our sins and missteps—which can only divide us.

These poor souls really couldn't be more misguided and mistaken. Their hateful, twisted vision of America and their rejection of the Patriot's Dream it represents—the dream "that sees beyond the years"—must never be allowed to prevail. God forbid. This insidious Enemy must be defeated—whatever the cost...

51 posted on 09/26/2017 8:10:21 PM PDT by sargon ("If we were in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, the Left would protest for zombies' rights.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

All those kneeling are affirming the superiority of others.


52 posted on 09/26/2017 8:11:10 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

His prior history with Communists, terrorists, and black nationalists should have tanked him in the primaries.


53 posted on 09/26/2017 8:12:10 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And the Marxist/fascist America-hating left doubles down on stupid.


54 posted on 09/26/2017 8:12:50 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Are they still being paid to stand for the Anthem as an aide to military recruitment?


55 posted on 09/26/2017 8:14:02 PM PDT by Ozark Tom
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Everyone else can have “pride”.

They spin whites with “pride” as “supremacy”.

But I also reject the idiotic socialist premise altogether.


56 posted on 09/26/2017 8:15:12 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

People of all races stand because they are FREE MEN!
Some blacks kneel because they still have a SLAVE MENTALITY and know they are still slaves to the Democratic Party.

As an old cartoon from many years ago showed a black kneeling before his Democratic Massah,
“You may owns my body but my soul belongs to,ah,to, ah, to youall Massah!”


57 posted on 09/26/2017 8:21:11 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: sargon

Beautifully said and I believe your predictions will be proven true.


58 posted on 09/26/2017 8:21:47 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: sargon

Whatever the cost...yes.


59 posted on 09/26/2017 8:24:07 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Goal of the disruption is: destroy football, since the libs hate it anyway? It surely seems as if only THEIR free speech matters to them. Funny about that.


60 posted on 09/26/2017 8:30:12 PM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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