What's your take on Colin Kaepernicks refusal to stand for National Anthem
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Rob Roy
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The Sixers and Celtics had some really intense games. I always thought the Celtics needed to acquire Caldwell Jones to anchor their defense, but they got Robert Parish instead and that didn't work out too bad for them.
SaitouMichiko
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I stopped saying the pledge of allegiance when I was around 11 years old, I wasn't sure why I did it, I was in the midst of a rebellious stage. And I'm glad I stopped so long ago and I still don't do it to this day, the national anthem is no acception.
We are a country that likes to promote the whole "freedom of speech" shit until it triggers us or makes us uncomfortable. I can't stand that sort of behavior. It's his right To do as he pleases, we aren't nazis. We shouldn't be chastised for excerscising our freedoms. Many veterans stand with him as well. My father, a retired chief in the Navy, does too.
We are a country that likes to promote the whole "freedom of speech" shit until it triggers us or makes us uncomfortable. I can't stand that sort of behavior. It's his right To do as he pleases, we aren't nazis. We shouldn't be chastised for excerscising our freedoms. Many veterans stand with him as well. My father, a retired chief in the Navy, does too.
testiclees
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It was crazy intense btw the doc and larry bird.
Back in the 80's I was working at a restaurant in Philly and I took a break to check out the pouring rain storm. Here comes this tall black dude in a dark business suit , jogging down the street to duck into the restaurant and get out of the rain. It was Dr. J he was cool as hell.
Rob Roy
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I saw Dr. J play in the ABA with Dr. K. Larry Kenon back when the 'fros were running wild in the early '70s.
...We've all lost a little vertical lift since those days though.
testiclees
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Lol, i forgot when I went to sports camp for Bball in the 70's Dr J came to our camp and gave a short talk, then he played a lil one on one with our coach using that red white and blue ball. none of us had ever been on the court with anyone who could jump so high. We had no idea what we were witnessing!
LOl when those fro's were running wild I saw billy preston playing keyboards for the stones with the hugest fro ever.
testiclees
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A month ago, before Kaepernick sat out the anthem, his jerseys were hardly selling at all. And that makes sense, as he was a backup quarterback coming off a terrible year whom the 49ers would have traded if they had been able to find any team willing to take his $11.9 million guaranteed salary.
But now that Kaepernick has spoken out against police brutality, a lot of people want to show their support. And putting Kaepernick’s name on your back is an easy way to do that.
OddBall1st
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Improvement, and quick. Who`s help`n you ?
tampee
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My take is it should not even be news worthy.His salary is what we should be discussing guy gets millions and we are growing illegal plants just so we can feed our families and live a somewhat decent life. This guy plays a few games a year and is treated like royalty.
Their is a problem with this society people cry when a famous person dies but Syrian civilians getting killed in yet another failed drone strike nobody gives a good god damn.
#poorpeopledon'tmatter
Their is a problem with this society people cry when a famous person dies but Syrian civilians getting killed in yet another failed drone strike nobody gives a good god damn.
#poorpeopledon'tmatter
Afgan King
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It's a distraction that the media is using to make us not realize they are illegally building a pipeline, the Pentagon lost 6.5 trillion and get a year to prepare before audit, and a couple others(I just took a half gram Dab and can't remember jackshit) It's sad tho people care more about disagreeing with someones first amendment right over all these other events. I believe what they are called is "sheep" lol too stoned right now lol
testiclees
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witless and flaccid, your signature style
OddBall1st
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Do you often worry about flatuous ? Especially when sitting. What does a testicle go through at that moment of a windy forecast ?
Hookabelly
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to me the pledge of allegiance is sort of an oxymoron. If you pledge allegiance to the USA, then you are pledging that we are a free nation with rights to publicly stand and recite it or not right? So why do people continue to get so bent about this outward display of perceived loyalty. It's meaningless. I'm sure there are plenty of felons in prison who stood for it and plenty of people walking the streets who stood for it and have no regard for their country. It's kind of antiquated IMO.
testiclees
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Illinois Enema Bandit
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your ignorance about citizen concealed carry is glaring,exactly how many examples do you want of how wrong that nonsensical statement you made is?
here's 1 of many examples showing a " defensive " use of a concealed carry,its also an example of how full of shit your comment " most are dead before they get their gun out of its holster" is.
don't like that because the criminal was killed? how bout a home defense situation
don't like that one because the homeowner could have hurt somebody well let's see an armed carjacker get blown away from an undrawn weapon
do u want more examples of how full of shit your " Wyatt Earp " BS is ?
the only morons running around playing shoot em up Wyatt Earp style are gangbangers & street thugs,as in people with illegal weapons,not cpl permit carry citizens
Illinois Enema Bandit
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here's the real Ku Klux Klan Senator you support with all your efforts,quotes below
Ku Klux Klan
In the early 1940s, Byrd recruited 150 of his friends and associates to create a new chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in Sophia, West Virginia.[12][13]
According to Byrd, a Klan official told him, "You have a talent for leadership, Bob ... The country needs young men like you in the leadership of the nation." Byrd later recalled, "Suddenly lights flashed in my mind! Someone important had recognized my abilities! I was only 23 or 24 years old, and the thought of a political career had never really hit me. But strike me that night, it did."[19] Byrd became a recruiter and leader of his chapter.[13] When it came time to elect the top officer (Exalted Cyclops) in the local Klan unit, Byrd won unanimously.[13]
In December 1944, Byrd wrote to segregationist Mississippi Senator Theodore G. Bilbo:
I shall never fight in the armed forces with a negro by my side ... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glorytrampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.
— Robert C. Byrd, in a letter to Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D-MS), 1944[13][20]
In 1946, Byrd wrote a letter to a Grand Wizard stating, "The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia and in every state in the nation.
end quote
Or how about your KKK heros famous 14 hour record setting filibuster of the 1964 civil rights bill you know as the big lie era where he also opposed the voting rights act in 1965 ? quote below
Byrd joined with Democratic senators to filibuster the Civil Rights Act of 1964,[32]personally filibustering the bill for 14 hours.Despite an 83-day filibuster in the Senate, both parties in Congress voted overwhelmingly in favor of the Act, and President Johnson signed the bill into law.[34]Byrd also opposed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 .END QUOTE
let's jump ahead & see your KKK hero's actions against black judges being appointed to SCOTUS ,quote below
Byrd was the only senator to vote against appointing both Thurgood Marshall andClarence Thomas to the United States Supreme Court, the only two African-Americannominees. In Marshall's case, Byrd asked FBI DirectorJ. Edgar Hoover to look into the possibility that Marshall had either connections to communists or a communist past.[60]END QUOTE
yes sir buckkk your choice of politicians to defend sure has a lot of KKK involvement spanning 50 years
your " less than a year " bullshit fully debunked,pipsqueek
UncleBuck
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thanks for debunking yourself, kkkiddo.
unless, of course, you have some evidence to show that he was in the klan in the 1990s while he was earning a 100% rating with the NAACP of course. i'll leave that door open for you. as of now, you haven't even shown one decade of onvolvement.
so your claim of "5 decades of involvement" has been refuted thoroughly by you. thanks.
anyhoo, why is the KKK endorsing and supporting trump right now? and why are multiple white supremacy hate groups also supporting him? why did trump choose a white supremacist to be one of his delegates?
thanks, kkkiddo.
unless, of course, you have some evidence to show that he was in the klan in the 1990s while he was earning a 100% rating with the NAACP of course. i'll leave that door open for you. as of now, you haven't even shown one decade of onvolvement.
so your claim of "5 decades of involvement" has been refuted thoroughly by you. thanks.
anyhoo, why is the KKK endorsing and supporting trump right now? and why are multiple white supremacy hate groups also supporting him? why did trump choose a white supremacist to be one of his delegates?
thanks, kkkiddo.
Illinois Enema Bandit
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derp
