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NFL: Social justice issues raised by Kaepernick 'deserve our attention and action'
The Hill ^ | 09/04/18 | Michael Burke

Posted on 09/04/2018 1:53:23 PM PDT by detective

The National Football League on Tuesday said the social justice issues raised by former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick “deserve our attention and action.”

“The National Football League believes in dialogue, understanding and unity,” Jocelyn Moore, the NFL's executive vice president of communications and public affairs, said in a statement. “We embrace the role and responsibility of everyone involved with this game to promote meaningful, positive change in our communities. The social justice issues that Colin and other professional athletes have raised deserve our attention and action.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: colinkaepernick; formernflqb; kaepernick; nfl; nike; nofansleft
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To: detective

Yes, they do! But not during the National Anthem at your stinking games.


41 posted on 09/04/2018 2:34:53 PM PDT by Paradox (Don't call them mainstream, there is nothing mainstream about the MSM.)
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To: detective

I take it the NFL is leaving the football/entertainment business and getting into the SJW biz. Good luck with that.


42 posted on 09/04/2018 2:36:15 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: detective

OK. Let’s give it attention. Deaths from police shootings and unwarranted police violence are down dramatically over the past several decades. Are we going to talk about that, or are we going to pretend that we live in a fantasy land where police are all racists looking to hunt young black men, who are all innocently minding their own business when they are shot?


43 posted on 09/04/2018 2:44:03 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: chief lee runamok

Only if they’re more interested in stealing Nike’s than shooting up the place.


44 posted on 09/04/2018 2:44:46 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: detective
“Chicago”

Hey Humberdic, Nike, NFL, fluck off until you act like you really give a crap. That will be when you get your ass to Chicago and make a difference. Black on Black oppression, hatred and racism is rampant.

45 posted on 09/04/2018 2:45:38 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: detective; Grampa Dave; Travis McGee; onyx

46 posted on 09/04/2018 2:45:57 PM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: detective

Good lord but these people in the NFL league office are tone deaf.


47 posted on 09/04/2018 2:51:42 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Russians couldnt have done a better job destroying sacred American institutions than Democrats have)
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To: detective

NFL out of the USA.


48 posted on 09/04/2018 2:52:02 PM PDT by Vision (Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped)
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To: detective

so the NFL position is, despite the concrete evidence there is no disparity in police arrests of blacks, they still have to push hate and racism by catering to a racially confused player who couldn’t make the cut in fair competition against those he considers his own peers and who turned his own failure into an attack on America in general? Alrighty then. Bye NFL.


49 posted on 09/04/2018 2:56:23 PM PDT by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: detective

The only statement he made was wearing socks with pigs dressed as cops on them.

That does not deserve our attention.

Walk away from Nike.

.


50 posted on 09/04/2018 2:57:01 PM PDT by bobk333
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To: detective

We do not turn on a football game to get politicized. We wanted to watch football. For that reason, I no longer am interested in the NFL and I no longer watch or pay any attention. Let Nike have Colin Kaepernick! Let’s wait and see how long they put up with that clown.


51 posted on 09/04/2018 3:05:18 PM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent (.)
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To: detective

If someone says, “let’s have a discussion on something that deserves our attention and action,” I will probably listen. However, if he starts with insulting my wife or my mother, I won’t care what his later point is, even in the event that I somehow hear that point against my will. The discussion was over at the insult.

The NFL protestors started by insulting our flag, our anthem, our military, our country, and our ancestors. I had friends who died in uniform. I was done listening to the losers whine before they even failed to settle on what they were protesting. I’m not listening to their explanations for their rudeness, nor am I listening to anything else NFL. I’m thrilled that the NFL is suffering from their self-inflicted Colin cancer, and I hope Nike will die along with the treasonous league he used to lose for.


52 posted on 09/04/2018 3:31:51 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: detective

FK the NFL
FK their players
FK their managers
FK the team owners
FK “Professional” football altogether
And
FK the SOBs who still watch the damn spectacle.

I’ll never watch an NFL game for as long as I live.
I hope the entire franchise collapses
I hope every professional football stadium in the U.S. closes, and is torn down.


53 posted on 09/04/2018 3:50:06 PM PDT by JME_FAN (If you lived here, you'd be home by now.)
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To: dainbramaged

Over 90% of black murder victims are killed by their own kind.


The numbers are similar for all races. For the most part we kill the people we know.


54 posted on 09/04/2018 3:55:49 PM PDT by BobbyBelle
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To: BenLurkin

She hit him first. Equal rights, equal fights.


55 posted on 09/04/2018 4:12:04 PM PDT by nonliberal (Sent from a payphone in a whorehouse in Mexico)
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To: BenLurkin

She hit him first. Equal rights, equal fights.


56 posted on 09/04/2018 4:12:05 PM PDT by nonliberal (Sent from a payphone in a whorehouse in Mexico)
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To: detective

The NFL is now a Democratic Party PAC.


57 posted on 09/04/2018 4:14:15 PM PDT by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: detective
“The National Football League believes in dialogue, understanding and unity,” Jocelyn Moore, the NFL's executive vice president of communications and public affairs, said in a statement.

Jocelyn Moore:

Prior to joining the NFL, Moore was a Managing Director in The Glover Park Group's Government Affairs Division and co-led the firm's Health & Wellness practice. Before GPG, Moore had a 15-year career in the United States Senate, including roles as Deputy Staff Director of the Senate Finance Committee, Deputy Chief of Staff and Policy Director for Senator Ron Wyden, and Legislative Director for Senator John D. Rockefeller IV.

Moore began her career in the office of her home state Senator Zell Miller and later worked as a senior policy advisor to Senator Bob Graham. She is a two-time graduate of the University of Florida.

58 posted on 09/04/2018 4:19:53 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: detective

No. The game of football deserves your attention and action.

Leave the baloney to the government.

Buttwipes who only crave attention can get all they need from the fans.

As for ‘discrimination’ it’s a fatuous joke coming from some guy who’s receiving tens of millions of dollars to play a children’s game with a little ball.


59 posted on 09/04/2018 4:32:01 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Covenantor

K loves Fidel and Che, who killed a lot of innocent blacks and other people of color!

60 posted on 09/04/2018 6:23:29 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Out of about 6 million people in the DC area, Trump is the only one not colluding with anyone!!!)
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