Trump's comments about the NFL show a lack of respect/
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:thumbsup: That and donating public monies to private organizations. That #### needs to stop.
luvmygdaughters
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Lets see...how many of the NFL players have been convicted of domestic abuse, carrying and discharging a weapon, animal cruelty...etc, but they're still making an enormous salary... How about black on black violence and children being murdered by thugs and drug addicts and the only thing they can protest is our National Anthem and our Flag??
Please, tell me what rights you are not being afforded in this country, that you feel the need to kneel or sit while its being played? You are offended by what?? Evidently, you are not so offended that you would quit the NFL and give up those nice salaries you get... for playing a game!!
Please, tell me what rights you are not being afforded in this country, that you feel the need to kneel or sit while its being played? You are offended by what?? Evidently, you are not so offended that you would quit the NFL and give up those nice salaries you get... for playing a game!!
Are you that stupid? So you defend Nazi's and wacka do christians to yell whatever crap they want in the streets but when someone silently protests the treatment of minorities in the country you get triggered? If the privilege aren't standing up for the poor and disenfranchised who is going to do it? You cry when BLM marches and you cry when pro players protest. Seems like the only people you want expressing themselves are white people huh?
Specifically, what "treatment" are these overpaid thugs protesting? How are they "standing up" for anything...and for what, exactly? What do they expect to accomplish?
How are they being mistreated? Seems to me they're making pretty damn good bank.
luvmygdaughters
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That is what I want to know!!!! What rights have been taken away or not allowed?????
#### off.
kwillia
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I've posted this before but it's time to post this again... post Ferguson, MO... The Post sought to compile a record of every fatal police shooting in the nation in 2015, something no government agency had done...
"About this story: The killing of an unarmed black man by a white police officer last year in Ferguson, Mo., ignited a national debate and exposed the federal government’s failure to track the use of deadly force by police. The Washington Post launched a comprehensive project to log every on-duty fatal shooting by police in 2015. The resulting database chronicled shootings nationwide in real time, using news reports and other public sources. The Post compiled data about each death, including the race of those killed, whether they were armed and descriptions of the events. The project revealed that police nationwide were killing more than twice as many people as the FBI had previously reported. "
Their findings...
In a year-long study, The Washington Post found that the kind of incidents that have ignited protests in many U.S. communities — most often, white police officers killing unarmed black men — represent less than 4 percent of fatal police shootings. Meanwhile, The Post found that the great majority of people who died at the hands of the police fit at least one of three categories: they were wielding weapons, they were suicidal or mentally troubled, or they ran when officers told them to halt.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/in...lly-shoot-nearly-1000/?utm_term=.fadd84db3ab7
"About this story: The killing of an unarmed black man by a white police officer last year in Ferguson, Mo., ignited a national debate and exposed the federal government’s failure to track the use of deadly force by police. The Washington Post launched a comprehensive project to log every on-duty fatal shooting by police in 2015. The resulting database chronicled shootings nationwide in real time, using news reports and other public sources. The Post compiled data about each death, including the race of those killed, whether they were armed and descriptions of the events. The project revealed that police nationwide were killing more than twice as many people as the FBI had previously reported. "
Their findings...
In a year-long study, The Washington Post found that the kind of incidents that have ignited protests in many U.S. communities — most often, white police officers killing unarmed black men — represent less than 4 percent of fatal police shootings. Meanwhile, The Post found that the great majority of people who died at the hands of the police fit at least one of three categories: they were wielding weapons, they were suicidal or mentally troubled, or they ran when officers told them to halt.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/in...lly-shoot-nearly-1000/?utm_term=.fadd84db3ab7
Basically, if they'd quit breaking the law they wouldn't be getting shot.
in the streets is where it belongs, not in the work place ....
you do not have a right to protest in your employers lobby or in the cube farm where people are trying to work .....
UNLESS your employer condones and encourages it. That is an important distinction. Starbucks employees, for example, are encouraged to engage their customers in social and political indoctrination (because they think we give a flick what some teenage barista thinks). If you work for a tech support call center and your employer encourages you to engage your callers in political debate, then it is appropriate to that workplace. At that point it's up to the caller to take their business elsewhere, which is what a number of NFL fans appear to be doing.
Yes ... if your employer condones it - still does not make it A right ....
and if some owners start pushing back, they in their rights to terminate employers ....
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luvmygdaughters
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I've posted this before but it's time to post this again... post Ferguson, MO... The Post sought to compile a record of every fatal police shooting in the nation in 2015, something no government agency had done...
"About this story: The killing of an unarmed black man by a white police officer last year in Ferguson, Mo., ignited a national debate and exposed the federal government’s failure to track the use of deadly force by police. The Washington Post launched a comprehensive project to log every on-duty fatal shooting by police in 2015. The resulting database chronicled shootings nationwide in real time, using news reports and other public sources. The Post compiled data about each death, including the race of those killed, whether they were armed and descriptions of the events. The project revealed that police nationwide were killing more than twice as many people as the FBI had previously reported. "
Their findings...
In a year-long study, The Washington Post found that the kind of incidents that have ignited protests in many U.S. communities — most often, white police officers killing unarmed black men — represent less than 4 percent of fatal police shootings. Meanwhile, The Post found that the great majority of people who died at the hands of the police fit at least one of three categories: they were wielding weapons, they were suicidal or mentally troubled, or they ran when officers told them to halt.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/in...lly-shoot-nearly-1000/?utm_term=.fadd84db3ab7
It would be interesting to see what the ratio is for black police officers to white. I mean if you have a police force of say, 50 officers and 45 of them are white officers, pretty sure the chances of you getting shot by a white officer goes up. Also, still dont get the connection between this and our flag or anthem? Why arent they protesting crime in the streets, black on black violence, kids being shot by drug dealers and thugs.
kwillia
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Really, that is the gist of my re-posting these stats.
For those who didn't read the stats... There were a total of 965 fatal shootings by cops in the US in 2015... 90 were unarmed. Those are the numbers regardless of race... and of those numbers less than 4% were unarmed black men being shot by white cops. That means all of the news reporters, talking heads, politicians, etc. have spent a lot of time making it seem like the police forces of America are gunning down innocent minorities when it is not the case at all.
The statistics do not match the outrage when you throw those numbers into the size of the U.S. population. We have 99%+ of the police force in America protecting people, regardless of their race, the best they can. They are dedicated to doing a high risk job every day.
It's media-manufactured outrage, just like that whole "Nazis marching in the streets" crap. We the Sheeple. Stats schmats. If the media tells us to get pissed and bust stuff up, by gawd that's what we're gonna do.
Hank
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Does your employer condone you surfing the web all day? Askin' for a friend...
He posts during "bathroom time", which is 6 out of every 8 hours of the day...
You probably have a lot of time to post, surf kiddie porn etc whilst stuck in the WW bridge traffic jams to often....amirite?