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Chargers’ Russell Okung blasts NFL’s efforts on social injustice
Sporting News ^ | October 26, 2017 | Travis Durkee

Posted on 10/26/2017 4:18:18 PM PDT by EdnaMode

The NFL appears interested in social justice reform, but Chargers tackle Russell Okung isn’t buying the talk from the league office.

Okung attended the recent meeting in New York with other NFL players, owners, union and league representatives, but the lack of action since then may prompt him and others to skip next week’s scheduled meeting.

"NFL officials appear unmotivated and don't share the same sense of urgency. Increasingly, the meetings appear unproductive at best and disingenuous at worst,” Okung said (via ESPN.com). “Furthermore, the ongoing disparagement of Colin Kaepernick is a factor needing remedy for the players and public to feel heard and for real progress to be made."

Kaepernick is expected to be invited to Tuesday’s meeting in New York.

Reports before the first meeting Oct. 17 said players wanted a month dedicated to social justice. After the meeting, the NFL said it wouldn’t mandate standing for the national anthem, pledged to support programs to effect social change on the issues and Commissioner Roger Goodell and Seahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin signed a letter to Congressional leaders urging them to pass the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2017, which would reduce minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenders.

But Okung expected more.

"I thought there were concrete plans to help," Okung said. "To my dismay, that wasn't true at all. It's only remained as just talking. There hasn't been any action.

"It's disappointing, because anytime the NFL says it cares about something, like breast cancer awareness, domestic violence, concussions, it comes out in force. So far we haven't seen that."


TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: chargers; colinkaepernick; football; goodell; nfl; rogergoodell; russellokung; sandiegochargers
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To: EdnaMode

How much money has this yob given to improve the community?


21 posted on 10/26/2017 4:33:07 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: EdnaMode

How come the players have not gone out on strike yet? If they really cared, they would immediately strike!


22 posted on 10/26/2017 4:36:28 PM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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To: EdnaMode

Chuck the Fargers!


23 posted on 10/26/2017 4:38:14 PM PDT by forgotten man
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To: EdnaMode
"NFL officials appear unmotivated and don't share the same sense of urgency...

Perhaps some one in the NFL might suggest to Mr. Okung to "go his own way" if he feels that strongly about encouraging even more paying customers to become disinterested in the business that pays his salary?

24 posted on 10/26/2017 4:38:22 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: EdnaMode

Does anyone really care?


25 posted on 10/26/2017 4:38:24 PM PDT by Maudeen (This world is not my home.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Russell Okung’s parents are Nigerian immigrants. Kind of amusing that such a person who is fresh of the banana boat (in my book) is bitching about slavery and racism here. Just show how plain dumbass this NFL situation is.


26 posted on 10/26/2017 4:41:11 PM PDT by dennisw (Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it is enemy action.)
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To: EdnaMode

Hey, Russell, quit. Nobody is making you play. Just quit.


27 posted on 10/26/2017 4:42:21 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: EdnaMode

How do white people get their reputation back?


28 posted on 10/26/2017 4:42:54 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: beergarden

Is there still an “NFL” with a variety of “actors” and “thespians” parading around in costumes like they were/are important? I have been gone a few weeks and fail to have missed those who call themselves athletes.


29 posted on 10/26/2017 4:43:40 PM PDT by DaveA37
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

I hope they keep on kneeling. It’s waking more and more people up.

Die, NFL. Die.


30 posted on 10/26/2017 4:44:45 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Gay State Conservative

I have been to Africa several times as well and it’s way higher than 50% that would trade places. As one person told me I worked with ‘I want to live somewheres the poor people are fat”.


31 posted on 10/26/2017 4:46:19 PM PDT by lp boonie (Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment)
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To: EdnaMode

Yep. See what happens when you try to be “conciliatory” and “Understanding” to Alinsky-ites? It’s never enough. Ever.


32 posted on 10/26/2017 4:50:39 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: EdnaMode

‘Urgency’? What a dildo. Eight years of panacea under Obama I guess. All of a sudden its urgency. Sink in the abyss NFL!


33 posted on 10/26/2017 4:55:59 PM PDT by Lent
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To: EdnaMode
Kaepernick is expected to be invited to Tuesday’s meeting in New York.

Why? He believes his country is garbage. Why appease the diseased?

34 posted on 10/26/2017 4:56:11 PM PDT by Kudsman ( Anyone to the Right of Stalin is a Far Right Wing candidate to the Far Left Wing Media.)
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To: EdnaMode

Are these people out of their freeking minds?? Talk about killing the goose with the golden eggs.


35 posted on 10/26/2017 4:56:12 PM PDT by willk (everyone)
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To: EdnaMode

Not a hint of disloyalty at he World Series. That has my attention as I watch America’s sport, the Fall Classic.


36 posted on 10/26/2017 5:27:19 PM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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To: EdnaMode

NFL out of the USA!


37 posted on 10/26/2017 5:34:28 PM PDT by Vision (If you can't respect the Anthem, then it's time for you to find another home.)
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How about each of these social justice crybabies start the proverbial ball rolling by donating a million dollars apiece? The average NFL player makes $1.9 million per year and there are nearly 1700 players.

IF they really cared, there is $1.7 BILLION on the table that could be contributed and still leave them plenty rich. But, they don’t care about that. Instead, this is all about taking down “the man” and smacking whitey in the mouth.

I sure can’t wait until they destroy the NFL. They disgust me.


38 posted on 10/26/2017 5:44:00 PM PDT by Arkansas Toothpick
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To: SaveFerris

Keep digging stupid! You’re alreay almost at the bottom of the hole..


39 posted on 10/26/2017 5:47:45 PM PDT by Batman11 ( The USA is not an ATM!)
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To: EdnaMode

I’ve had it with these damn kneegroes.

If they don’t want to put their efforts into playing football instead of their social “just us” crap, fire them and only hire white men to play in the NFL.


40 posted on 10/26/2017 5:49:42 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation ("You can't fix America without pissing off the people who broke it".....Bill Mitchell)
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