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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: wardamneagle

“Who’s ya daddy?”

That is why you see so many hyphenated double last names among black kids today. “Who is your daddy” is a tough question. Fathers Day is a day of mass confusion where they come from.


81 posted on 09/30/2017 10:54:31 AM PDT by forgotten man
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To: doug from upland

Good one.

I’ve said “Shiela Jacka$$ Lee” so many times I have to think hard to remember how she spells it.


82 posted on 09/30/2017 11:47:38 AM PDT by zipper (In their heart of hearts, every Democrat is a communist)
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To: Snickering Hound

Obamas sons....why did I know that would be the case!!!


83 posted on 09/30/2017 12:31:50 PM PDT by ontap
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To: Rebelbase
Isn’t the single index finger point an islamic thing?

Why yes; yes it is.


84 posted on 09/30/2017 2:12:17 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (I was not elected to continue a failed system. I was elected to change it. --Donald J. Trump)
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To: Albion Wilde

Except he looks like he’s about to break into some jazz, song and tap-dance, ala Sammy Davis Jr.


85 posted on 09/30/2017 2:20:28 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: freefdny; matthew fuller; gunsequalfreedom; onedoug; MayflowerMadam; kagnew; HP8753

See post 84.


86 posted on 09/30/2017 2:20:45 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (I was not elected to continue a failed system. I was elected to change it. --Donald J. Trump)
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To: Snickering Hound

Well I’ll be damned...... they are not white supremacists.

No scholarships for them


87 posted on 09/30/2017 2:45:26 PM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yep, it was/is.... a total lie.


88 posted on 10/03/2017 9:54:28 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: doug from upland

Good one!


89 posted on 10/03/2017 9:56:00 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: doug from upland

That’s a toss up.


90 posted on 10/03/2017 9:57:29 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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