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Local high school football players kicked off team after protest during anthem
Houston Chronicle ^
| 9-30-2017
| Adam Coleman
Posted on 09/30/2017 7:54:20 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
Two Victory & Praise Christian Academy football players were kicked off the team for protesting during the national anthem at a game Friday night.
Cedric Ingram-Lewis raised his fist while cousin Larry McCullough knelt during the anthem ahead of the team's game against Providence Classical.
After the anthem ended, head coach Ronnie Mitchem instructed them to take off their uniforms and kicked them off the team. Mitchem is a former Marine and pastor who started the church-based football program in Crosby six years ago.
Ingram-Lewis, a sophomore, said the topic of protesting had come up in the locker room before and his cousin McCullough, a senior, even announced he would kneel via social media. The coach had told players he did not want anyone to kneel, citing his service in the military.
"He told us that disrespect will not be tolerated," Lewis said, recalling the moments after the anthem ended. "He told us to take off our uniform and leave it there."
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To: Snickering Hound
Posing for a future police lineup.
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posted on
09/30/2017 8:45:02 AM PDT
by
headstamp 2
(Ignorance is reparable, stupid is forever)
To: Snickering Hound
Private school, private school rules. They are free to attend public schools. Give them a refund.
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posted on
09/30/2017 8:45:02 AM PDT
by
madison10
(Praying for President Trump and more wisdom for him)
To: smokingfrog
How long until the ACLU gets involved.
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posted on
09/30/2017 8:45:46 AM PDT
by
headstamp 2
(Ignorance is reparable, stupid is forever)
To: smokingfrog
A man with integrity and morals and ethics and who truly lives by that wouldnt have done anything like that. Well, we see where they learned it.
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posted on
09/30/2017 8:45:57 AM PDT
by
Not A Snowbird
(A year in Arizona... and I haven't burst into flames yet.)
To: Rebelbase
Yes.
They shouldn’t have even been at that school.
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posted on
09/30/2017 8:47:52 AM PDT
by
onedoug
To: Dilbert San Diego
They're practicing hand signals for their new sport, beach volleyball.
To: Snickering Hound
Hey Mom, education is the key to opportunity.
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posted on
09/30/2017 8:49:45 AM PDT
by
joshua c
(To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives)
To: Rebelbase
I think it is Islamic. Why are they in a Christian school? Bad apples spoil the whole bunch; no good can come of it.
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posted on
09/30/2017 8:49:45 AM PDT
by
MayflowerMadam
("We should fear the tyranny of the easily offended." Stossel)
To: FrdmLvr
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posted on
09/30/2017 8:49:48 AM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Screw The NFL!!!!!! My family fought for the flag!)
To: Snickering Hound
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posted on
09/30/2017 8:51:36 AM PDT
by
doug from upland
(Stand and honor the flag --- locking arms BS doesn't cut it)
To: Rebelbase
“Both intended to get football scholarships then head to the NFL.”
And I intended to be a concert pianist and rake in a bazillion dollars every year. Do these youths of color understand that only a piddly percentage of players get into the NFL. Delusional.
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posted on
09/30/2017 8:51:41 AM PDT
by
MayflowerMadam
("We should fear the tyranny of the easily offended." Stossel)
To: unixfox
Lewis’ mother, Rhonda Brady, is just another ole Black racist. She doesn’t like Coach’s actions, then she can teacher her son to act like a civilized, respectful human being. Coach is not the culprit here—its these two goons who brought their dismissal on themselves.
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posted on
09/30/2017 8:52:43 AM PDT
by
righttackle44
(Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
To: lee martell
I call ‘me worm heads or medusa
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posted on
09/30/2017 9:00:20 AM PDT
by
Maskot
(Put every dem/lib in prison...like yesterday.)
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To: Snickering Hound
Im sorry the coach will pay a price for this.
Coach should have simply substituted their positions during the game and made them watch from the sidelines as scrubs. At practice, they should have been reduced on the depth chart below the lowliest player and made to watch, rinse and repeat - until they quit.
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posted on
09/30/2017 9:06:04 AM PDT
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Sgt_Schultze
(When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
To: biggredd1
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posted on
09/30/2017 9:09:16 AM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
To: Snickering Hound
Notice the article didn’t quote their fathers. Coaches are stuck with the job of trying to discipline Black teenage boys who have been raised by nothing but mothers and grandmothers. The results are painfully obvious.
There should be a special place in Heaven for coaches who managed to do a good job of this thankless task.
To: lee martell
M.O.P.P-—R.A.G.G.——RagMop!The Ames Brothers - 1950
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posted on
09/30/2017 9:17:47 AM PDT
by
zeugma
(I live in the present due to the constraints of the Space-Time Continuum. —Hank Green)
To: Rebelbase
“Isnt the single index finger point an islamic thing?”
It sure is, they are saying that islam is #1.
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posted on
09/30/2017 9:19:43 AM PDT
by
kagnew
To: lee martell
Can somebody lend me a sharp and shiny pair of scissors? "Go to the barber shop, get that hair cut off your head."--Larry Williams
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