Posted on 01/16/2018 11:11:16 AM PST by SeekAndFind
FACTS:
In 2012 the NFL had an issue with Tim Tebow kneeling for each game to pray, they also had an issue with Tebow wearing John 3:16 as part of his eye-black to avoid glare, and made him take it off.
In 2013 the NFL fined Brandon Marshall for wearing green cleats to raise awareness for people with mental health disorders.
In 2014 Robert Griffin III (RG3) entered a post-game press conference wearing a shirt that said “Know Jesus Know Peace” but was forced to turn it inside out by an NFL uniform inspector before speaking at the podium.
In 2015 DeAngelo Williams was fined for wearing “Find the Cure” eye black for breast cancer awareness.
In 2015 William Gay was fined for wearing purple cleats to raise awareness for domestic violence. (Not that the NFL has a domestic violence problem...).
In 2016 the NFL prevented the Dallas Cowboys from wearing a decal on their helmet in honor of 5 Dallas Police officers killed in the line of duty.
In 2016 the NFL threatened to fine players who wanted to wear cleats to commemorate the 15th anniversary of 9/11.
So tell me again how the NFL supports free speech and expression, all of a sudden...
It seems quite clear based on these facts that the NFL has taken a position against any action by NFL players demonstrating RESPECT for any issue: For God, social causes such as mental health, cancer, domestic violence, for cops killed arbitrarily for being cops, for the Memory of 9/11...
But, they will allow demonstrations of DISRESPECT for our National Flag, our National Anthem, for America, and for the American People, if it will help mollify a particular Group and its supporters (such as BLM, and other leftists)
That is who and what the NFL has shown itself to be.
Dittos
It wouldn’t be a jury in a civil lawsuit. It would be an arbitration hearing before arbitrators who specialize in labor issues.
One thing I like about FreeRepublic is that you can always tell the A-holes who never had a position of managerial responsibility but somehow seem to know everything about how it’s supposed to be done from the employer’s standpoint.
It turns out that most of those malcontents and losers had more in common with Colin Kaepernick than they ever imagined.
because unlike you, I have a life. See Im back for a couple of hours so I can put your snitch ass back in place :)
Man that’s rich. A tool of the left? Look at yourself in the mirror clown and you might start laughing.
Why dont you watch hockey or rugby then? Why are you tools so persistent to watch animals knee=drop at the expense of my country?
Oh I know, you CANT, can you?
Because I’m not a hypersensitive snowflake. And I do watch hockey too. And I can separate the stupid liberal individual trying to use the scope of the NFL as their soapbox from the entity of the NFL being used as the soapbox. And if I left leftist idiots pollute what I like with their stupid ideas I’d have to boycott music television books the United States and so on. I choose instead to fight their idiocy without depriving my self of something I enjoy. You tool of the left. Just like I don’t have to boycott all of free republic just cause a dolt like you is here.
Your act of separation is actually rationalization. You accept the anti american actions because it is easier to accept than to reject
The kneegro organizers know the gullible like you will lazily roll over
And why would I care what your racist ass thinks?
Btw an idiot like kapernick is no more representative of the rest of the NFL as your racist ignorant ass is not representative of everyone on free republic.
You have consumed the Koolade.
You confuse racism with cultural analysis. The Black Jock culture has been co opted by the forces controlling Black Lives Matter and the other racist black subcultural elements
The racial politicization of football is a national travesty
And the fact your screen name sounds like a plantation owner’s name, like redneck doofus from the bayou that used to own themselves a whole bunch of kneegroes
bfl
The white men are weak and jocks, just part of the gang
Thibodeaux is a good Houston name, Texas
The Thibodeaux massacre was a racial attack mounted by white paramilitaries in Louisiana in November 1887. It followed a three-week strike by an estimated 10,000 workers against sugar cane plantations in four parishes in the critical harvest season.
Right. And and don’t forget....... they are jocks
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