I agree with the statement, but you are getting pretty close to ‘no true scotsman’ territory. Here’s why:
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What have YOU done, big fella?
Lol @ how blissfully unaware you are of the irony of your comment
“REAL” ways.
He could have honored it in the lockerroom, where they can hear the anthem. By coming out, he was making a statement against his team brethren.
One thing I know about the Dallas cowboys or the state of Texas in general is that there will never be a black head coach of the Dallas Cowboys. You see how well that shit goes over at Texas Universities black coach takes over struggling program and true to form alumni and boosters are calling for his head before…
And your point is?
Yeah, most servicemen and women I know are much like the real religious folks I know—that is, they do their thing quietly and privately—they have a very live-and-let-live attitude. You don’t want to support the troops/believe in their God? That’s cool, they don’t need you to. Don’t interrupt them when they’re giving…
This is like the Inception of boycotts. “I’m boycotting Tomlin’s boycott of Trump’s boycott of......”
That’s exactly what the “Racists Northen Cotton Consumers” said everytime the southern slave owners voluntarily freed the enslaved men and women.
Yeah, I didn’t read that as “all lives matter” by any means particularly when if that’s how he truly felt, he could have let the team on the field, however they chose, and just gave a nod to the notion at the press conference.
According to the post interviews of Tomlin and Ben the players decided to stay off the sideline because there was division among them and that wasn’t what they wanted to display
Nobody really cares...
It is always the same old strategy, ignore the message, change it’s meaning and the lazy and brain dead will provide the outrage.
Except one of his players showed there was division by going out anyhow.
How many times have you had to explain or say something to a superior or to your subordinates, but it has to be plausibly deniable and low on the controversy scale, AND you have to be low key cursing them out?
“A lot of people say, ‘Why do it for the anthem? Or do it some other way.’ And the truth about that is we’ve done it other ways.” —Malcolm Jenkins - NFL Defensive Back #BlackLivesMatter.
I once dated a girl (because she, even at age 25, behaved like a not-yet-a-woman) who consistently defended Pittsburgh’s subtly-racist approaches to things (case in point: calling James Harrison a “thug” while saying Big Ben’s rape accuser “deserved it” and also believing that creating a regional bus system would…