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Biden kneels at White House celebration of WNBA champs Seattle Storm
The Grio via Yahoo ^ | 8/23/21 | April Ryan

Posted on 08/24/2021 2:10:09 AM PDT by Libloather

Latasha Brown, co-founder of Black Voters Matter, said the president’s possible gesture was admirable, but “we cannot just have symbolic progress.”

President Joe Biden got down on one knee in the East Room during the celebration of the 2021 WNBA champions Seattle Storm, on the eve of the vote on the John Lewis Voting Rights Act in the House and days before the anniversary of the March on Washington.

While the WNBA has been at the forefront of professional basketball when it comes to issues of social justice and police reform, this is not the first time the president gotten down on one knee with a sports organization. One photo cited by a White House source pointed to a picture with the Los Angeles Dodgers, celebrating their Major League Baseball championship.

Latasha Brown, co-founder of Black Voters Matter, said the president’s possible gesture was admirable. However, Brown cautioned “we cannot just have symbolic progress.”

Cliff Albright, co-founder and executive director of Black Voters Matter, said their focus remains on “passing comprehensive police reform on policy and voting rights,” and getting the president to recognize “that the filibuster has metaphorically had a knee on us for a long time.”

The House is poised to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act on Tuesday. South Carolina Congressman and House Majority Whip James Clyburn is expecting the bill to also pass in the Senate despite the filibuster still being in play in that chamber. The filibuster has been the delay tactic in getting voting rights passed in the Senate thus far.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; History; Local News; Sports
KEYWORDS: biden; blm; dementia; disgusting; knee; nba; seattle; wnba
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To: Libloather

It’ll be sweet if the WNBA folds.


21 posted on 08/24/2021 3:24:06 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Libloather

WNBA equals basketball on welfare.

They could survive for a nanosecond without NBA financial support.

They should be on their knees to the NBA.


22 posted on 08/24/2021 3:45:47 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: All

WNBA: This is merely symbolic.

So, get off your knees and begin to kiss our asses.


23 posted on 08/24/2021 3:48:36 AM PDT by rbmillerjr
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To: dp0622

Good to see you!


24 posted on 08/24/2021 3:57:01 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: HYPOCRACY

I didn’t see comment #4. But something tells I would probably agree with it.


25 posted on 08/24/2021 3:57:34 AM PDT by Blennos ( )
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To: Libloather

It’s a good thing he didn’t call them a bunch of “nappy headed ho’s”.


26 posted on 08/24/2021 3:58:36 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Chickensoup

Hey thanks man

Same here. :)


27 posted on 08/24/2021 3:59:37 AM PDT by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: digger48

Paesano!!!!


28 posted on 08/24/2021 4:01:03 AM PDT by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: SMM48

Thanks man.

I’m shocked how many noticed :)

I’m honored.


29 posted on 08/24/2021 4:01:43 AM PDT by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: navymom1

Hi good to see you :)

It was a LONG time ago and it was WELL deserved and I don’t want to remind anyone!

I’ve been mostly behaved for a long time :)

The second time was for cursing and I deserved to get kicked off for a week.

I cleaned up my act.

I still curse like a sailor too often at home and I need to work on that.

Why didn’t the civil war break out after the successful COUP!!

Dark Days Navymom.


30 posted on 08/24/2021 4:08:00 AM PDT by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: V K Lee

I was 32 when I joined in 2000.

GOD it seems like a million lifetimes a go.

Now 53 :(

Got a lot of 90ish aunts and uncles dropping or getting severe dementia.

They lived long, good lives.

But it’s scary because it means my generation is next!!

Hope you have been well FRiend


31 posted on 08/24/2021 4:09:17 AM PDT by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: dp0622

I was wondering where you went. Welcome back. 👍


32 posted on 08/24/2021 4:40:12 AM PDT by Mark17 (Air Traffic Controller, retired. Father of US Air Force 1st Lieutenant, and trained combat pilot )
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To: dp0622

Dark Days indeed. I told Arnold Schwarzenegger, in a post he’ll never read, or his people will never read, to go to hell, and a poster here would have thought I’d committed a mortal sin, nuked half the Eastern seaboard, took out Taco Tuesdays at Applebees and basically reeked death and destruction all in one sweep of my keyboard. People need to get a grip.

Anyway, cuss all you like. It’s dark days and they deserve it.


33 posted on 08/24/2021 4:41:28 AM PDT by navymom1
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To: Libloather

LOL. What a jackass.


34 posted on 08/24/2021 4:42:19 AM PDT by navymom1
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To: dp0622

Good to see you’re still on this side of the sod!

Welcome back.


35 posted on 08/24/2021 4:45:33 AM PDT by 2111USMC (Aim Small Miss Small)
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To: Libloather

WHAT A FREAKING FREAKING STUPID THING TO DO!


36 posted on 08/24/2021 4:45:47 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: dp0622
Seems like yesterday it was 2001 and I was a 33 year old lad ready to take over the business world in NYC.

For me, seems like yesterday was 1998 and I was a 36 year old Conservative living in the Chicagoland area and I felt like I was alone until I found FR!

So many of the greats "back in the day" have moved onto other things, are no longer with us on this earth or got tired of the fight. Glad you're still here.

37 posted on 08/24/2021 4:46:03 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Libloather

I think I’ll throw up...


38 posted on 08/24/2021 4:46:51 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Libloather

Here is an image from the continuing saga of “As the Stomach Turns.”


39 posted on 08/24/2021 4:47:12 AM PDT by Blennos ( )
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To: dp0622

My old relatives live a very long time because they have a purpose in life—tormenting caregivers!


40 posted on 08/24/2021 4:53:24 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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