“Let him try. It won’t happen”. It’s wonderful how people can HATE a man they have never even heard speak. “The cause he was going for, fine by me – but don’t do it in that fashion”, Isner said. “For him doing it in that way really irked me”.
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Gabbert and Kaepernick are competing for San Francisco’s starting QB job. I defended his right to speak his mind, just as I’ll defend Kaepernick’s right to sit during the anthem.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said he was confident President Barack Obama is aware of Kaepernick’s actions, but hadn’t spoken directly with the president about it. “That’s what he’s done, and even as objectionable as we find his perspective, he certainly is entitled to express it”.
In an interview Monday evening on NFL Total Access, Brown said that he didn’t necessarily support Kaepernick’s refusal to stand for “The Star-Spangled Banner”, but he was “with him 100 percent” regarding the overall message.
Steelers left tackle Alejandro Villanueva, who played at Army and served in Afghanistan before forging a job in the National Football League, said he agrees that the U.S.
I won’t and can’t say there’s any unanimous thought in any locker room, but I would say the main theme of yesterday was that the players appreciated that Kaepernick addressed the team, addressed all questions from them and the media and that his position was principled and determined.
While many of Kaepernick’s comments have been within the identity politics framework promoted by the Clinton campaign and such groups like Black Lives Matter that deliberately seek to hide the class character of police violence, the athlete has nevertheless been subjected to rabid denunciations aimed at silencing any political dissent.
” This is the United States of America you should be happy to be here if not, pack your crap and go, ” said Rick Chervinski when asked about the 49ers decision.
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Donald Trump has joined the growing chorus of discontent towards Colin Kaepernick and his decision to sit down during the USA national anthem. “Voltaire so eloquently stated, “I may not agree with what you say, but I’ll defend it until death your right to say it, ‘” Harbaugh told ESPN.com”. That’s the unfortunate part of it, you can’t ever stand against the flag and things like that, a lot of people sacrifice and things like that for it, but there is also a deeper meaning to what he did. You see all these pictures of these veterans that have no legs and they’re standing up [from] their wheelchair.
