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Shannon Sharpe: American Flag is a ‘Racist,’ ‘Peace of Cloth’ ‘Nobody Fights For’
The Politistick ^ | 09/29/17 | Matthew K. Burke

Posted on 09/30/2017 6:08:29 AM PDT by Enlightened1

The co-host of FN1’s Undisputed, former NFL player Shannon Sharpe, went on a hateful rant on Friday in regards to the anti-American NFL National Anthem protests, angrily arguing that the American flag is no big deal anyway, that it’s just a “piece of cloth” that “nobody fights for” and that it’s a symbol that’s somehow “racist” to boot.

“The flag, you see, to a lot of people, symbols, patriotism but what does that symbol actually mean?” Sharpe asked stunned co-host Skip Bayless. “What does — what does – okay — you keep telling me that the flag means so much and it’s opportunity and freedom and liberty. Okay. Can you honestly say that everybody in America has freedom and liberties and opportunity?”

“No,” Bayless calmly answered.

“Well, if you can’t can’t answer that, then we have a problem and we would like to have it addressed,” Sharpe shouted.

Shannon Sharpe, a former NFL tight end who spent all but two of his 12 seasons with the Denver Broncos, continued his hateful rant against the flag:

“And stop trying to sweep it under the rug. But, see, as long as you paint that narrative, oh, it’s the Anthem, I can’t — no — anybody that does something to the Anthem — well, we know what the anthem was originally written for and who it was written by, okay? The flag, okay? We understand what the flag? What does it represent?

When did this narrative come to be that the military and the police own the flag and only them? I can go buy a flag and I can hang it up in my backyard. We need to stop this, Skip. We need to — the flag is a piece of cloth and nobody fights for a piece...”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CouCcE1cbes

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cloth; flag; ignorantasshole; nfl; oldglory; racist; shannonsharpe; thugculture
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To: Enlightened1

Simas Kudirka was a Lithuanian sailor who in 1970 jumped from a Soviet ship onto a US Coast Guard cutter seeking asylum in the US, but the cutter’s idiot skipper returned him to the Soviets, who put him in the Gulag. However, it turned out he had US citizenship, so a few years later, he was released and came to the US.

I once heard him give a speech in which he made an offer to anti-American protesters that he would purchase a one-way ticket to the Communist country of their choice if they would agree to “live there, be happy, and don’t come back.” Shannon Sharpe ought to take him up on that offer.


41 posted on 09/30/2017 6:57:09 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Enlightened1

The problem is black people like him, and the whites who pay him.


42 posted on 09/30/2017 6:57:23 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
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To: Enlightened1

Have we finally found someone as stupid as Maxine Waters?


43 posted on 09/30/2017 6:59:51 AM PDT by FrankR (On the knees is not a good place to be...a man on the knees is only half a man.....)
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To: Enlightened1

Shannon Sharpe is another multimillionaire NFL brat who never served in the military - the ungrateful moron has no clue.


44 posted on 09/30/2017 6:59:52 AM PDT by Lions Gate
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To: Enlightened1

Shannon Sharpe's college thesis on American History...

45 posted on 09/30/2017 7:02:23 AM PDT by Geronimo (God Bless America and President Donald J. Trump...)
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To: Enlightened1

Keeping the “N” word relevant...


46 posted on 09/30/2017 7:04:45 AM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: Enlightened1

Sharpe was always mouthy on the field too.


47 posted on 09/30/2017 7:08:51 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: Enlightened1; BlueStateRightist

I knew he was a worm years ago when he called for NFL punishments to be meted out by a panel of some sort that had plenty of “African-americans” on it, as if a white man wasn’t capable of dealing with the issue.

By African americans I think he meant negroes, by the way.


48 posted on 09/30/2017 7:09:16 AM PDT by Lord Casselreagh
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To: Enlightened1
Shannon Sharpe: American Flag is a ‘Racist,’ ‘Peace of Cloth’ ‘Nobody Fights For’

Shannon Sharpe is a racist piece of crap, who is not worth fighting for.

(Didn't they teach spelling and grammar in "college"?)

49 posted on 09/30/2017 7:09:30 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: jch10
If flags don’t mean anything, why was the Confederate flag outlawed?

Excellent point, and this should be thrown back into their faces at every opportunity.
50 posted on 09/30/2017 7:10:34 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: Enlightened1

We need more interviews like this, makes for some interesting political commercials in the future....I love it when ignorant sport personalities talk....


51 posted on 09/30/2017 7:10:47 AM PDT by wild74
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To: Enlightened1

Another reason not to support the NFL in any way.


52 posted on 09/30/2017 7:13:41 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (I don't want better government; I want much less of it.)
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To: Enlightened1

FIRE THIS SOB


53 posted on 09/30/2017 7:14:24 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("I am SpartaLee" Hey, NFL, why didn't you any of you bold guys hire Kaepernick? #GoodbyeGoodell)
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To: Enlightened1

54 posted on 09/30/2017 7:14:41 AM PDT by red-dawg (I want a statue of TRUMP in my city.)
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To: Enlightened1

Knucklehead Sharpe


55 posted on 09/30/2017 7:15:37 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: Enlightened1

Gn back to Africa, Sharpe.

5.56mm


56 posted on 09/30/2017 7:16:09 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: patriotspride

Excellent comment, Patriots Pride


57 posted on 09/30/2017 7:16:32 AM PDT by poconopundit (CNN is... Corruption News Neglected)
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To: M Kehoe

Go.

5.56mm


58 posted on 09/30/2017 7:16:53 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Enlightened1

The truth behind the keepers. They fake patriotism while desecrating patriotic icons. The hate portrayed by BLM is showing through. I pray that it’s not a majority view of black Americans.


59 posted on 09/30/2017 7:16:56 AM PDT by Spok
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To: Enlightened1

Another nail the BLM/NFL coffin. Keep it up morons.


60 posted on 09/30/2017 7:17:04 AM PDT by JayAr36 (Just watching the demise of America.)
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