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Iowa high school baseball team kneels during national anthem to start season
Fox News ^ | June 16 2020 | David Aaro

Posted on 06/16/2020 7:03:25 AM PDT by knighthawk

An Iowa high school baseball team started its season on Monday by kneeling during the national anthem in support of Black Lives Matter and racial injustice, according to multiple reports.

All of the Roosevelt Roughriders players linked arms and were seen kneeling as "The Star-Spangled Banner" echoed through Principal Park in Des Moines ahead of the team's first game against Ankeny Centennial.

“[We have a] lot of diversity, and a lot of people of color," a Roosevelt senior outfielder told Des Moines WHO 13. “We’re just trying to show our appreciation, and it’s about social justice."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: anthem; blacksupremacy; desmoines; education; highschool; iowa; kneeling; obamasfault; roosevelt; roughriders; sports
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To: euram

OK folks. Looks like the new normal.

All rise , now all kneel for the anthem.

America swirling around the drain.

Almost rid of our, America’s history now we must all bow to the social justice BS.


41 posted on 06/16/2020 7:23:21 AM PDT by JayAr36 (Do you want to be a subject or a citizen.)
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To: knighthawk

42 posted on 06/16/2020 7:24:16 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: ilgipper

We don’t know what the cop did or didn’t do. There hasn’t been a trial with discovery, cross examination of evidence, etc.


43 posted on 06/16/2020 7:24:22 AM PDT by bankwalker (groupthink kills ...)
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To: knighthawk

Maybe we ought to hijack “kneeling”. eg “we are kneeling before God” at a game or event. If everybody did it, the kneel would mean nothing to the Left.


44 posted on 06/16/2020 7:25:18 AM PDT by ncpatriot
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To: simpson96
Forgot to add this from the story, as a laughable caption to the picture:

“[We have a] lot of diversity, and a lot of people of color," a Roosevelt senior outfielder told Des Moines WHO 13

45 posted on 06/16/2020 7:27:28 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: LouAvul

Which begs the question, when was the inflection point? Was it when the bible was removed from our schools? Was it when Eisenhower appointed the far left Earl Warren to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court? Or, maybe it was during the radical era of the 1960’s.


46 posted on 06/16/2020 7:28:11 AM PDT by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: butlerweave

Brainwashed jackasses all. The coaches and umps should have walked off the field.


47 posted on 06/16/2020 7:28:50 AM PDT by alstewartfan (One day he just washed up on the shores of his regrets. May his soul rest in peace. Al S.)
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To: deport

Should’ve put a boot in their ass.
It’s the American way...


48 posted on 06/16/2020 7:29:04 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Mr. N. Wolfe

Why did teachers submit when Bibles were banished? I’ll never understand.


49 posted on 06/16/2020 7:30:00 AM PDT by alstewartfan (One day he just washed up on the shores of his regrets. May his soul rest in peace. Al S.)
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To: simpson96

Looks like more players on the field than spectators in the stands.


50 posted on 06/16/2020 7:31:35 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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To: knighthawk

And they have no idea what Black Lives Matter really means.


51 posted on 06/16/2020 7:31:59 AM PDT by lewislynn (THE PROBLEM IS NOT YOUR COLOR...THE PROBLEM IS YOUR ATTITUDE)
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To: All

Hah! I can’t wait for their property to be destroyed like the queen of Olympia’s.


52 posted on 06/16/2020 7:34:43 AM PDT by ssfromla
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To: knighthawk

Kids who think Facebook and Twitter are the real world.


53 posted on 06/16/2020 7:35:13 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: ilgipper
This Minneapolis cop literally has destroyed America
What flavor was the Kool-Aid you drank?
54 posted on 06/16/2020 7:37:41 AM PDT by lewislynn (THE PROBLEM IS NOT YOUR COLOR...THE PROBLEM IS YOUR ATTITUDE)
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To: knighthawk

Easily predictable. This stuff will permeate all sports that have any percentage of blacks involved. Pop Warner right on up to pro.


55 posted on 06/16/2020 7:38:08 AM PDT by Sir Bangaz Cracka (Slamming dat white cracka'a head into dat sidewalk causin he be scared)
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To: Jeff Chandler
In my area it's pretty much understood that high school sports will be shut down at least through the end of the school year due to the COVID-19 restrictions.

It's being presented as a "safety measure," but I suspect that school budget cuts are the real reason for it.

I wouldn't be surprised if many of these high school sports never come back.

56 posted on 06/16/2020 7:49:02 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("We're human beings ... we're not f#%&ing animals." -- Dennis Rodman, 6/1/2020)
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To: OpusatFR
If China walked into the US today...the majority of those protesting and their supporters would look up from their phones, shrug and go back to texting.

Eeeerrrrr! I wish you were wrong..

57 posted on 06/16/2020 7:49:05 AM PDT by Thommas
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To: thesharkboy

. . . OR SENT TO RE-EDUCATION CAMPS.


58 posted on 06/16/2020 7:49:52 AM PDT by MrChips ("To wisdom belongs the apprehension of eternal things." - St. Augustine)
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To: thesharkboy

Better to die on your feet, than to live on your knees.


59 posted on 06/16/2020 7:53:42 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: knighthawk

I guess we won’t be hearing an announcer saying “Please stand for the National Anthem” for much longer.


60 posted on 06/16/2020 7:54:57 AM PDT by truthkeeper (All Trump Has Going for Him is the Votes)
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