Posted on 08/28/2020 12:19:28 PM PDT by knighthawk
Tennessee Titans quarterback Ryan Tannehill joined his teammates Thursday in skipping practice to protest the shooting of Jacob Blake and offered his opinion about the U.S.
Tannehill, who recently signed a four-year, $118-million contract extension that will pay him at least $17.5 million in 2020 alone, said the U.S. was founded “upon racist ideas.”
“These systematic oppressions have been going on for a long time. Hundreds of years, this country was founded upon racist ideas with slaves being brought here from the day of foundation. And those ideas have persisted throughout the last hundreds of years and it’s going to take time until we can get those all out. We’re tired of it,” Tannehill said alongside teammate Kelvin Byard.
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I am soooooooo over the NFL.
He’s about as bright as all the other pigskin-humpers, isn’t he?
I’ve ignored sports all my life, so I have nothing to take away from these people.
Are there enough BLM and Antifa-affiliated fans to support those numbers?
Yeah this is gonna go over real well with your average Tennessean.
America’s founding had nothing to do with Black people, or people of any race. It was a dispute between two groups of Englishmen, both of which had slavery at the time, as did the rest of the world. It wasn’t about race, it was about wanting to have local control, not be governed by an empire 3000 miles away. Slavery wasn’t an issue until the victorious new country decided to write a Constitution, and then, it was set up to be phased out. That didn’t happen, of course, which is why we had to fight a civil war and lose 500,000 lives.
The founding of the US was one of the most momentous and glorious events in the history of the world. Go to hell, leftists!
for some reason you left out “then we paid them to multiply”.
Apparently schools no longer teach about the founding of the nation, the Declaration of Independence, that the Constitution protects people from the government (not visa versus) and how the government operates with clear separation of branches with oversight. Back in the old days every student received a booklet containing the Declaration and Constitution to keep.
Suggestion: find a society that you are convinced is not built on racist principles, and become a citizen of there instead.
This is what college graduates these days?
NFL...
No
Fundamental
Literates
Where morons get paid exponentially higher than their IQ’s.
Pushed the button before mentioning that this was W.E.B. DuBois did, leaving the US to move to socialist Ghana in the 1950s. At least he put his money where his mouth was.
Hey Ryan Tannehill- it’s being discovered that possibly more white people were slaves than blacks- and there were plenty of black slave owners AND black slave traders-
Mind giving us any examples today of ‘systemic oppression’?
“...slaves being brought here from the day of foundation...”
Great question!
And, I’ll add....with no games, or, at least no attendance....WTHeck are these owners getting the $$$$$ to fund these very high dollar contracts??
I really can’t stand Stupid Rich People. You cain’t fix Stupid.
Here in the 21st Century failing to educate in the mind too. A double whammy.
So much ignorance, so little time...
The US still has slavery. It is called the Democrat plantation. It will continue until the blacks can be convinced to leave the plantation. Someone whose job was telling them that would have long term job security.
Another athlete with the IQ of a kumquat.
Lao Tzu said, in "The Art of War" "When your enemy is committing suicide sit back and enjoy the popcorn".
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