Yeah, the “master/slave” and “gladiator” analogies don’t exactly hold up for me. It’s too simplistic and not really what’s going on here.

“Two white men told The Root that they respected the protest and even understood why some of the players were kneeling but didn’t want to talk about why dozens of folks gathered at NFL headquarters to protest the NFL national anthem rule.

Because they all knew and nobody cared about anyone but themselves? I hope that if faced with a situation like this or like Penn State, that i would make a stink about it until they fired me (whereupon I would make a worse stink), or something was done. I know it’s not that simple. But it should be.

Yes.

Wrong. It would be a huge embarrassment. I hope it happens.

And where is that? The point is to use their celebrity to make an impact: namely that YOU have to think about the issue. The right place and time for protest is where the most impact can be made.

“Fuck you and your entire family.” So you think now my kid will shoot people soon? How about all the kids that don’t.

Plz, ever-weakening fourth estate, ride these fuckers til they get to hell.

Typical “sports ball is silly” argument. Go find a knitting site.

Damn good caddy, though.

This whole site is fucking retarded.

Why no NFL offers? Fake news! Sad.

Every time we look these people uncork another bottle of despicable. I’m not sure if we just haven’t reached the bottom yet or if there is no bottom.

What’s that logic?

In our current reality, it would seem so.

Ah. They aren’t worried about 25 years from now.

I just think it’s cool that they are called hamburgers.

Yeah we shouldn’t let Jackie Robinson play. Someone might call him some mean names or something.

Where, oh where, are the goddam stars for this? Is everyone happy with the outcome of the Iraq mission that was “accomplished”? It fucking buried us. We even found out later that the U.K. And the US colluded to hide the fact that they already knew there were no WMDs and barreled ahead anyway.

It’s a shame it’s even still standing there. Fuck the talking point.