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Kaepernick’s protest is as American as that flag
ESPN The Undefeated ^ | August 29, 2016 | Domonique Foxworth

Posted on 08/29/2016 12:17:18 PM PDT by C19fan

I am just as much an American as I am a Foxworth.

My son and his future sons will be as much Foxworths and Americans as I am. And my father is and his father was and so on. But my bloodline in this nation can be traced back to before America was even a country — when my ancestors were neither American nor Foxworths.

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


TOPICS: Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: anthem; kaepernick; oldglory; patriotism
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To: C19fan

....isn’t there a bunch of things ESPN has refused to air?


61 posted on 08/29/2016 1:53:52 PM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: C19fan

Dear Dominique Foxworth at ESPN,

Your exclamation of ‘bloodline’, ends with the mohammedan slavers on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.

Your usage of the term ‘American’, for some overpaid ignorant fool who craps on all his and your ‘bruthas’ who have died for that flag, really defines YOU as a ‘grabastic piece of lizardspit’.


62 posted on 08/29/2016 2:05:31 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: C19fan
Yes, [Kaepernick] speaks for you, too, white folks. Whether he intends to or not. Yes, he speaks for soldiers who have died in defense of this country and veterans of war who suffer back at home without the support they have more than earned.--Dominique Foxworth

Hey, Foxworth!

Here's someone who stands and speaks with a voice like thunder vs. Kappy's chipmunk squeak.


63 posted on 08/29/2016 2:06:49 PM PDT by henbane
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To: Terry L Smith

Today, I had an unusual experience. We live in a small condo community and have a beautiful American flag and pole at the entrance. Two of the stripes were torn and separating from each other. I was asked to sew and repair it which I did. I took incredible care and did the best job I could, I felt reverent while I mended it and honestly thought of all the sacrifices throughout history for the flag. Included in my thoughts were the slaves and their endurance as well as spirit.. I thought of the stripes I was sewing back together to make it whole again, not damaged but repaired.........if only it was that easy.


64 posted on 08/29/2016 2:22:48 PM PDT by Toespi
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Knick is perfectly free to display his stupidity and ignorance. He should quit football and join blm, or nation of islam, or new black panthers, or rainbow coalition, or nan, or Isis-that bastion of muslim social justice. Why limit your stupidity to dissing the NA and the USA? Don’t place boundaries on your stupidity! I’m perfectly free to think of him as an ignorant whiny a hole as well. Good riddance.


65 posted on 08/29/2016 2:23:17 PM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: C19fan

Agreed, as far as the excerpt went. The ungrateful traitor is entitled as an American to express his stupidity as he did. We are entitled to express our outrage as we are. The loser’s team is entitled to decide whether to get rid of a player who wasn’t worth much anyways or accept the loss of substantial revenue from viewers and fans. This is all American, including the natural consequences of expressing disloyalty to the greatest country in the history of the world.


66 posted on 08/29/2016 2:34:36 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: C19fan

Kaepernick’s protest is as American as that flag

...

I agree, but our disgust at his behavior and poor reasoning is more American.


67 posted on 08/29/2016 2:37:50 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: C19fan
I'm still waiting for this genius to explain who exactly are being oppressed and by whom. Yes, I know he's vaguely referring to his race and possibly other so-called minorities like LGBTQxyz types. Does he not see how this country is bending over backwards to accomodate their wishes?

The only oppression I see being committed is by their inner-city liberal/socialist/racist leaders. Yes, some very few LEO's over-react and in many cases lose their jobs and/or are prosecuted and even jailed - good if warranted.

If he's buying into the BLM whining about Martin in Florida, Brown in Fergueson, and Gray in Baltimore, he's either ill-informed or refuses to look at the facts. They were all highly scrutinized by a black Attorney General and found NOTHING to hang them so as to satisfy the blood lust of BLM and A-Holes like him.

Zimmerman was self-defense; the cop with so-called gentle giant Brown was self-defense; 4 of the 5 cops in Baltimore have been acquitted regarding Gray's death. Expect the final cop to also be acquitted. I have not seen race relations this bad since Rodney King in 1991?

Where was the one that the cops took down some un-cooperative street vendor and everyone screamed "choke hold"? I watched that video numerous times and saw NO choke hold, as I was trained with it while Shore Patrol in the Navy. As they took him down, one cop just happened to have part of his arm around the back of the neck. Hardly a choke hold. The fat dipshit died from a heart attack.

68 posted on 08/29/2016 2:43:16 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Plus LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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To: Moonman62

This ungrateful clod can do or say whatever he wants. I choose to not give the NFL a penny of $$$ or watch their PC crapola. As to this ingrate, he is a complete subhuman loser.


69 posted on 08/29/2016 2:44:46 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: henbane

That photo has always choked me up. I’m so grateful for men like him. I was proud to give them a ride on my amphib ship back when. Yes, I was a lowly sea-going bellhop and proud to carry their bags and fuel their awaiting helos. I have never had a greater honor nor privilege.


70 posted on 08/29/2016 2:49:29 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Plus LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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To: C19fan

Where was this author when the NFL wouldn’t let the Cowboys put stickers on their helmets honoring the police?


71 posted on 08/29/2016 2:50:59 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: C19fan

my bloodline in this nation can be traced back to before America was even a country —

also...

so what does that have to do with anything...

My ancestors arrived in this country as early as 1623 and I am a veteran and an immigrant...

but I honor the flag of my country and I would not be disrespectful to the National Anthem or the flag...


72 posted on 08/29/2016 2:52:21 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: C19fan
But my bloodline in this nation can be traced back to before America was even a country

So is mine. And I disagree. The player was on a game field, which society has recognized is a non-political arena. If the player wanted to make a statement, he could have held a press conference, he could have pulled a Kayne West and taken over the MTV (what a joke nowadays) awards with a rant, he could have got his sentiment across in many other ways. Politicizing sports is not the way to make a point.

73 posted on 08/29/2016 2:53:18 PM PDT by blueplum ((March 11, 2016 - the day the First Amendment died?))
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To: Terry L Smith
"... who craps on all his and your ‘bruthas’ who have died for that flag,"

Excellent point. Bet he has NO idea how many "bruthas" have died in our various wars against true oppression. Someone should ask him what the "Red Tail Squadron" was.

74 posted on 08/29/2016 2:54:54 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Plus LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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To: C19fan

Bull. Shit.


75 posted on 08/29/2016 4:13:44 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: C19fan

Kaepernick is supposed to be playing professional football, he’s not supposed to be playing politics.


76 posted on 08/29/2016 4:30:53 PM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent (EEe)
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To: C19fan

No. No its not American in any way. He was at work being paid by his empoyer. He partiipates like everyone else or his ass should really sit for the season. He can protest all he wants on his own time but not on others!


77 posted on 08/29/2016 4:33:47 PM PDT by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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To: C19fan
Kaepernick’s protest is as American as that flag

Fine!!! In that case, I am no less American by telling him where he can shove his stupid protest!

78 posted on 08/29/2016 4:55:05 PM PDT by SkiKnee
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To: Awgie
Excellent book!

Also, "Eternity in Their Hearts" is amazing!

"He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart" - Ecclesiastes 3:11

"Who belong to Eternity, stranded in Time and weary of struggling with Sin." - Joy in the Journey - Michael Card

79 posted on 08/29/2016 4:59:19 PM PDT by BwanaNdege
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To: C19fan

But this hypocrite wouldn’t say that about waving the Dixie Flag.


80 posted on 08/29/2016 4:59:19 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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