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Joel Ward Pens Heartfelt Message, Explains Why He Won't Kneel During Anthem
NBC Bay Area ^ | 9/28

Posted on 09/28/2017 8:04:27 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: nickcarraway

As the players stand there during the National Anthem, they should imagine they are standing in front of many soldiers, fully dressed in combat gear, ready for action, possibly facing death that day.


21 posted on 09/28/2017 8:27:18 PM PDT by Slyfox (Are you tired of winning yet?)
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To: Aria

that’s what i don’t get..where are they getting this garbage??...those so called “high profile” shootings were all adjudicated...they gotta admit that they got a problem with authority...not to mention a terrible inferiority complex...god,we’ve all bent over backwards the last 50 years. Get tired of it after awhile.


22 posted on 09/28/2017 8:33:21 PM PDT by basalt (.)
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To: dp0622
Dam, I would become a real fat man if I could eat Italian and Sicilian food all the time.

There are quite a few around Iron Mountain Michigan and the super clubs up there serve both. When I go back home we always head out to those places. I feel like hell for hours after.

Cant find great food like that ANYWHERE in AZ or VEGAS. ANYWHERE.

Oh they claim that this place serves it and that place is a good Italian place. I went to them and I swear they open up a can and warm it up and claim its good. PUKE!

Good spaghetti is served with a sausage on top of it and thats the way I like it.

23 posted on 09/28/2017 8:33:34 PM PDT by crz
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To: taterjay

ive had cops point guns at my head 3 times...once in my own driveway...everybody goes thru crazy stuff at times...


24 posted on 09/28/2017 8:37:00 PM PDT by basalt (.)
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To: crz

My kind of guy!!

Every Sunday (sometimes Saturday) is angel hair with sausage!! :)

LOVE Angel hair.

And i AM fat lol


25 posted on 09/28/2017 8:42:07 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked ouokt of office, it is WAR!)
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To: dp0622

My granddaughter visited Sicily last spring and fell in love with the place.

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26 posted on 09/28/2017 8:45:27 PM PDT by Mears
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To: nickcarraway

I know.

I just can’t imagine it - I’ve worked in the Silicon Slum for decades now, and ANY political grandstanding is just totally out of bounds and will earn you a trip to HR, possibly with a bad ending.

Don’t see where any of these guys get off politicizing their jobs, just because of their skin color.

Oh well. Rules for thee, but not for me, right?

That’s the world we live in now.


27 posted on 09/28/2017 8:47:52 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: Mears

:)

Good for her!!

It is beautiful.

Maybe 60 years ago, my friend’s father looked up at a second story window and smiled at a girl and said hello.

The father of the girl went to his father and wanted to know his intentions :)

Things have changed since then :)


28 posted on 09/28/2017 8:48:18 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked ouokt of office, it is WAR!)
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To: taterjay

I have pulled over for being white and rural. Fits drug runner profile.

I was denied a job at a majority black owned company because i wasn’t black. In advanced college courses asians judge you if your white.

And everyone is flabbergasted when they learn I can dance.

No black people want to live in my neighbor.

Many other people assume that because I am white I will work hard and support others.


29 posted on 09/28/2017 8:49:43 PM PDT by FreedomNotSafety
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To: Alberta's Child
Agreed. It's the racist liberal media idiots who will seek out any athlete "of color" (even Canadians), and hassle them if they dare speak their own mind (see P.K. Subban).

The real racists are the ones who think that all "minorities" must think alike, and are disappointed if said "minorities" decline to publicly protest against their "oppressors".

30 posted on 09/28/2017 8:49:50 PM PDT by rfp1234 (I have already previewed this composition.)
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To: nickcarraway
But his announcement came with a heartfelt message for equality and bridging the gap between communities:

Fair enough, and well spoken. Ward is doing what Kaepernick should have done - he's speaking and spreading his message, using his platform as a pro athlete. He's not disrespecting the US flag, the one symbol which any American on any side of any issue should be able to get behind, and because he's not doing that, far more people will listen to him with open minds.
31 posted on 09/28/2017 8:50:07 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: nickcarraway

When the movie Black Men Can’t Skate or Swim we can talk.


32 posted on 09/28/2017 8:51:44 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: dp0622

“Things have changed since then :)”


They sure have-——nothing,absolutely nothing,is out of bounds today.

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33 posted on 09/28/2017 8:54:05 PM PDT by Mears
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To: nickcarraway

Who cares...he’s a Canuck.


34 posted on 09/28/2017 8:56:27 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Mears

Great :(

I’ve not been there in many years and the small towns were still quite old fashioned.

Sad to hear it.


35 posted on 09/28/2017 8:58:19 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked ouokt of office, it is WAR!)
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To: WalterSkinner

PK is likely much better anyway—though I don’t follow the west much, so I can’t say for sure.

Do you have a link to his statement?


36 posted on 09/28/2017 9:05:37 PM PDT by Hieronymus (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton)
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To: dp0622

I wasn’t referring to Sicily,I meant the world in general.

My granddaughter certainly didn’t share any escapades with me——she just raved about the beauty of the place,the food,and the beaches. I’m sure she was a complete angel while there. :-)

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37 posted on 09/28/2017 9:05:44 PM PDT by Mears
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To: dp0622

Effn A.

Ravs with white sauce, red sauce you name it! Cheese and Meat, or both. And a nice glass of wine.

Steak and spaghetti or chicken an spaghetti.

Gotta get back up there and go to Romonelli’s or Bartoletti’s, or the TNT. And thats just three places.

BTW, all those places make their own spaghetti or noodles and ravs, etc. Aint no store bought stuff there.


38 posted on 09/28/2017 9:13:00 PM PDT by crz
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To: Hieronymus

https://www.sbnation.com/2017/9/27/16374140/pk-subban-national-anthem-protests-nhl-donald-trump
This is the one I came across. Quote is at the very end


39 posted on 09/28/2017 9:14:46 PM PDT by ebersole
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Good grief... the bogus meme in a different form.


40 posted on 09/28/2017 9:18:50 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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