Posted on 09/20/2022 8:35:48 AM PDT by montag813
by Josh Ford | 24News
President David Olive of Bluefield College received news that the school’s basketball players continued to kneel during the National Anthem despite him telling them to stop immediately or face consequences.
Some players continued to kneel as they reportedly believe it’s their way to take a stand against racial injustice.
However, Olive shot back that the protesting reflects poorly on the Virginia school. He informed the team that he is suspending multiple players who refused to stop kneeling.
“The basis for my decision stemmed from my own awareness of how kneeling is perceived by some in our country, and I did not think a number of our alumni, friends, and donors of the College would view the act of kneeling during the anthem in a positive way,” Olive said in a statement.
“I have heard, and I understand the perspective of our players as to why they desire to kneel during the National Anthem. I also know this form of protest immediately shuts down a number of individuals from listening to the intended message because of their perspective regarding the flag. No individual’s sincere motives are inherently wrong.”
“But I continue to contend that we will not get to where we want AND NEED to get as a country in addressing these racial issues without making honest attempts at creating pathways that bring people together for a common cause.”
According to one source, the team was about to play a rival team when Olive let them know that he was suspending multiple players who refused to stop kneeling, which resulted in a forfeit of the game.
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I kneel to no one. Kings, principalities or governments.
I kneel only to the Lord Jesus.
You stand for the flag and national anthem. Otherwise, I’m ashamed that I protected your ass for six years.
Morons.
5.56mm
Get white players. Problem solved.
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Then you get another problem in that most
supporters don’t like a loosing team.
Looks like I need to keep wearing my Nine Line “Just Stand” t-shirt. I wore it a week or so ago and I was afraid the message might be getting dated. I see I need to keep it clean and ready for action.
Not if you get them from Europe.
Is this the same story from more than a year and a half ago, or is this another, newer, incident?
No individual’s sincere motives are inherently wrong.
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This is an untrue statement.
History is full of accounts of people with sincere motives and yet were wrong.
Who is playing basketball this early?
At this point, the kneeling doesn’t mean anything anymore. It is a worn-out fad and these fools don’t even realize that. Its only service to us is to point out the enemy.
They agree to play basketball for the school for a scholarship and they agree to abide by the rules of the college. You don’t abide you get suspended. You continue to break the rules, hit the road and jerk their scholarship.
If you want to show your ass and protest do it on your OWN TIME, the fans do not want this crap thrown in their faces and the embarrassment of a team full of angry leftist cry babies.
Six future ferals, pimps and drug dealers.
Black kids going to college. Some going for free to play a sport they would be playing for nothing anyway if they weren't in school. So mistreated.
Good for him
I see kneeling as a positive—when people get on their knees to me.
Otherwise—fuggedabouit!
Good point - its more likely slaves would kneel before the flag. Run that past these clowns and watch how fast this fad ends.
Aw, c’mon David. Let’em kneel. I’ve already eschewed all sports because of the obscenity of those inbred, single digit IQ mongrels’ lack of appreciation of what America has done for them.
No individual’s sincere motives are inherently wrong.”
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B.S.
I would expect that at least some of these people are on scholarships.
And I would suspect that all of the scholarships have some sort of ethics / code of conduct clause. And something that brings negative attention to the school would probably a violation.
It should be very easy to suggest that this was their ONE WARNING.
And that if it happens again, THEY are the ones opting out of their scholarships/ contracts.
Maybe the coach can show those kneelers this:
CNN’s @DonLemon
tells royal commentator Hilary Fordwich the royal family should pay reparations — immediately regrets it
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1572145367512190978
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