captainfalcon777
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FBI Crime Statistics. There are over 300 million people in this country. There are also 2-3 million police encounters every year. There are only 100 people a year shot and killed by cops.
If we want to go after things that actually kill people in a significant number, let's go after heart disease, obesity, and abortion.
You want to bring awareness....start a foundation to help bring about change. Taking a knee during the anthem over an issue that can in no way be associated with that anthem is ****ing stupid.
Free speech is not 100% of the time. You can not yell fire in a theater, is a well known example. Your employer has the right to tell you to keep your protesting to those times you are not at work. Team owners have the right to tell their employees to keep their protesting off the field. If the time comes when your right to protest, whatever you want to protest to include those times you're working, and still have the right to get paid-sleeping on the job to protest something/anything will be okay. I agree with CAVPUT 100%.
They aren't disrespecting the flag, just using the platform to raise awareness to serious social injustices in our country. People should have some thicker skin geesh
If this was playing out in Iran with players in their soccer league, what would you think? The players are disrespectful, the players are heroic, or the players are insignificant? What would be be the responses from the teams and owners that you find admirable? What responses would you consider wrong?