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Entire Indiana Fever Team Kneels During Anthem Before Playoff Game
The New York Times ^ | September 21, 2016 | Jonah Engel Bromwich

Posted on 09/22/2016 2:20:13 PM PDT by EveningStar

The latest round of athlete protests during the playing of the national anthem came Wednesday against the backdrop of recent fatal shootings of black men by the police in Tulsa, Okla., and Charlotte, N.C.

Before a win-or-go-home W.N.B.A. playoff game against the Phoenix Mercury in Indianapolis on Wednesday, every Indiana Fever player knelt and linked arms as the national anthem played.

They were joined by two Mercury players, Mistie Bass and Kelsey Bone. The other Mercury players remained standing.

Even given the high stakes of the game, Fever Coach Stephanie White told her players that she had been proud to see what she characterized as an important gesture.

“I’m proud of y’all for doing that together, being in that together,” she said, according to ESPN. “That’s big. That’s big. It’s bigger than basketball, right? Bigger than basketball.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: athletes; basketball; indianafever; nationalanthem; wnba
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To: dp0622
They could go #### their fathers for all i’m concerned

Many of them probably already have.

21 posted on 09/22/2016 2:34:15 PM PDT by Bullish (Elect a Traitor... Get more Treason.)
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To: EveningStar

What’s a WNBA?


22 posted on 09/22/2016 2:40:39 PM PDT by headless_thompson_gunner
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To: EveningStar

Should be a big loser in Hoosier land.

On the other hand, Bobby Knight was out today campaigning for Trump.


23 posted on 09/22/2016 2:42:56 PM PDT by BeadCounter
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To: Bullish

LOL!!


24 posted on 09/22/2016 2:43:15 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: EveningStar

America is the land of the free. They’re all free to leave.


25 posted on 09/22/2016 2:48:01 PM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: EveningStar

What is the WNBA? Who is having playoffs at this time? Is this to be put in the category of, “Who cares?”


26 posted on 09/22/2016 2:57:31 PM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: EveningStar

another sports team that can GTH , we won’t patronize these jerks in any way, fashion, or manner. not one cent.


27 posted on 09/22/2016 2:58:50 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero.)
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To: BatGuano

Never mind, I see from later posts that it is a “nappy headed Hos league...who’d a thunk?


28 posted on 09/22/2016 2:59:08 PM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: EveningStar

Who??


29 posted on 09/22/2016 2:59:57 PM PDT by Nifster (Ignore all polls. Get Out The Vote)
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To: EveningStar

Shameful....but the coach’s response is ever more so.


30 posted on 09/22/2016 3:07:55 PM PDT by Girlene
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To: EveningStar

Submission to the flag. How lovely.


31 posted on 09/22/2016 3:17:29 PM PDT by Suz in AZ
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To: EveningStar

Hit them in the pocketbook. Don’t go to any more of their games.


32 posted on 09/22/2016 3:23:21 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: EveningStar

33 posted on 09/22/2016 3:23:55 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: EveningStar

The only reason we kmow this is because someone watched the tape of the game.


34 posted on 09/22/2016 3:29:28 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: EveningStar

How offended were the 50 or 60 fans in attendance?


35 posted on 09/22/2016 3:34:39 PM PDT by CommerceComet (Hillary: A unique blend of incompetence and corruption.)
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To: CommerceComet

It was their parents and a few friends.


36 posted on 09/22/2016 3:39:47 PM PDT by Toespi
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To: EveningStar

maybe we should all kneel like we are praying during the national anthem. They they will ave to stand up in protest.


37 posted on 09/22/2016 3:42:49 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (all your base are belong to us)
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To: Lizavetta

Why does the look on the only white girls face, make me think, she really does not want to be doing this, but is afraid not too.


38 posted on 09/22/2016 3:44:35 PM PDT by Ez2BRepub
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To: Army Air Corps

Do WNBA players get paid or are they volunteers?


39 posted on 09/22/2016 3:58:09 PM PDT by cgbg (Warning: This post has not been fact-checked by the Democratic National Committee.)
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To: EveningStar
Symbolism is an iffy, ambiguous thing.

What does the Confederate Battle Flag mean?

What does it mean to fly the flag upside down?

Or to kneel during the national anthem?

When a political meme spreads, what it means isn't always crystal clear.

40 posted on 09/22/2016 3:58:43 PM PDT by x
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