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Bree Newsome: You Dont Own BlackPeople (Original Post) sheshe2 Sep 2017 OP
+40,695,277! Ken Burch Sep 2017 #1
Thank you Ken nt sheshe2 Sep 2017 #3
Nice GaryCnf Sep 2017 #9
Idiot Dotard Knows God Damn Well It's Not About The Flag.. Grassy Knoll Sep 2017 #2
I do love the name Dotard. sheshe2 Sep 2017 #4
Incredibly insightful rurallib Sep 2017 #5
I have no frigging clue, rurallib. sheshe2 Sep 2017 #8
It goes back to WW I Gore1FL Sep 2017 #11
To enforce compliance Bettie Sep 2017 #15
Very good thread and meaningful words. Madam45for2923 Sep 2017 #6
Bree is awesome, Madam45. sheshe2 Sep 2017 #7
For any half wayers GaryCnf Sep 2017 #10
Go, girl! K&R. nt tblue37 Sep 2017 #12
Bree Newsome... Lucky Luciano Sep 2017 #13
Bree is an amazing lady Gothmog Sep 2017 #14
Love this comment: CrispyQ Sep 2017 #16
This exactly! sheshe2 Sep 2017 #18
Awesome dalton99a Sep 2017 #17
K&R ismnotwasm Sep 2017 #19

Grassy Knoll

(10,118 posts)
2. Idiot Dotard Knows God Damn Well It's Not About The Flag..
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 09:08 PM
Sep 2017

..It's All About His Racism, And His Fear Of Losing Cult Leader Status.

Gore1FL

(21,130 posts)
11. It goes back to WW I
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 10:43 PM
Sep 2017

Which doesn't give me much hope of "God Bless America" at MLB games going away in my lifetime.

I don't know why we need nationalistic pageantry at athletic events.

Bettie

(16,104 posts)
15. To enforce compliance
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 09:53 AM
Sep 2017

the more little things we do automatically becasue they are expected, the more big things we (as a rule, not all of us) accept as things we must comply with.

 

GaryCnf

(1,399 posts)
10. For any half wayers
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 09:58 PM
Sep 2017

It's not about free speech either.

If a person can't check their privilege at the door and stand against the institutional racism that infects every aspect of American life they aren't standing with Kaepernick.

CrispyQ

(36,462 posts)
16. Love this comment:
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 12:00 PM
Sep 2017

...which is why no one has ever been up in arms about folks buying hot dogs & popcorn when anthem is playing...

The media/GOP are masters at changing the narrative. She nailed it that that is exactly what they are doing - take the focus from the WHY they are protesting, and put it on the WAY they are protesting. I unfriended a networking acquaintance this morning. She posted a picture of a group of soldiers, on their knees, aiming their guns at something, with the text, "This is what real men look like when they take a knee." Yeah, as they're about ready to kill someone. And she is a Christian. One of the vocal ones. Goes to a church that hates gays.

From another DU post. Don't let them forget WHAT is all about.



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