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Re: News
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08/30/16 03:55 PM
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With Colin Kap's public stance on the American flag in the news, reporters dug up excerpt of Jackie Robinson's autobiography. Published the year of his death,1972. He wrote that he cannot stand and sing the anthem.He cannot salute the flag. http://www.snopes.com/jackie-robinson-anthem/@Yates, here is picture of Jackie Robinson, Army 2nd Lt. Jackie Robinson 
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Re: News
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08/30/16 03:59 PM
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Again,serious topic but did Rodney Harrison actually say that Colin Kaepernick isn't Black?  http://www.theroot.com/blog/the-grapevin...-hes-not-black/“I tell you this, I’m a black man. And Colin Kaepernick—he’s not black,” Harrison said. “He cannot understand what I face and what other young black men and black people face, or people of color face, on a every single [day] basis. When you walk in a grocery store and you might have $2,000 or $3,000 in your pocket and you go up in to a Foot Locker and they’re looking at you like you about to steal something. “You know, I don’t think he faces those type of things that we face on a daily basis,” he continued. “I’m not saying he has to be black, but I’m saying his heart is in the right place, but even with what he’s doing, he still doesn’t understand the injustices as a black man, or people of color; that’s what I’m saying,” Harrison said. === I wonder if Harrison would know who this man is if shown a photo?  *By the way, it is NOT Cesar Romero, the guy who played Joker in the Batman tv show.
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Re: News
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08/30/16 04:16 PM
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Rodney Harrison, doing his best to prove CTE is real.
*By the way, it is NOT Cesar Romero, the guy who played Joker in the Batman tv show.
 That killed me.
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Re: News
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08/30/16 04:49 PM
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I dont pay much attention to the news, but I was listening to the radio today and heard two things about C.K. that caught my attention. First, was that during his interview or press conference, he was wearing a shirt with castro and two other assholes that said great minds think alike. Second, he stated that he could not salute a flag that doesnt stand for which it used to. Saying that if anyone else pulled the bullshit that Hillary pulled would be in jail, let alone running for president. Even if Hilary wins and I have to go spend four-eight years in Canada, I still would salute the flag out of respect to all of our brave men and women. Statistics show, blacks arent the only ones getting shot. As far as oppression goes, lol, we have a black president. A black president, whom most likely doesnt call his black friends n#++a. Dr. Ben Carson, and the list goes on. Life is what you make of it. If you live in the USA and you cant get your shit together and succeed in life, you need to step back and regroup. Its nobody's fault but your own. For shits and giggles I will say that there is a small percentage of a percentage of people that just have sbitty luck.
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Re: News
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08/30/16 06:14 PM
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Rodney Harrison, doing his best to prove CTE is real.
*By the way, it is NOT Cesar Romero, the guy who played Joker in the Batman tv show.
That killed me. Helen, that's a good line about Harrison. CTE and TMI .He just let the world know that he walks around with thousands of dollars cash in his pockets. We will read about him getting robbed soon. Now RH is apologizing and saying that he didn't know what ethnic/racial group CK was. Harrison's story would fly if CK was a rookie. With his features, you would believe that he is any number of backgrounds. But during the Superbowl run, there were millions of stories about CK.Everybody who watched the superbowl knows his story.
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Re: News
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08/30/16 07:00 PM
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=== I wonder if Harrison would know who this man is if shown a photo? *By the way, it is NOT Cesar Romero, the guy who played Joker in the Batman tv show. I never thought of Adam Clayton Powell looking like Cesar Romero, but he sure does, LOL
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Re: News
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08/30/16 07:48 PM
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I never thought of Adam Clayton Powell looking like Cesar Romero, but he sure does, LOL F1, You would put a full 90% of Black folks who are online to shame. That's the % of Blacks online who I think wouldn't be able to name Powell from the photo, or know who he was. I tell young people, put down the hashtags and pick up a book. Brought up Powell to shame Rodney Harrison and his comments about CK not being Black. What really reveals RH's comments to be bull is the line about "CK doesn't know what Blacks or people of color go through" .Even if you weren't told that CK has a Black parent....he does look like a "person of color"
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08/30/16 09:04 PM
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=== I wonder if Harrison would know who this man is if shown a photo? *By the way, it is NOT Cesar Romero, the guy who played Joker in the Batman tv show. I never thought of Adam Clayton Powell looking like Cesar Romero, but he sure does, LOL He also bears a strong resemblance to Thurgood Marshall who was appointed this date in '67 to the Supreme Court.
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08/30/16 11:21 PM
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California lawmakers pass rape bill inspired by Stanford case Under current state law, those convicted of certain sex crimes such as rape by force and aggravated sexual assault of a child are ineligible for probation or a suspended sentence and must serve prison time. AB 2888 would amend the law to create the same punishment for those convicted of rape, sodomy, penetration with a foreign object and oral sex if the victim was unconscious or incapable of giving consent due to intoxication. The bill passed the state Assembly unanimously by a 66-0 vote and is now in Governor Jerry Brown’s hands. Co-auther of the legislation Democratic Assemblyman Bill Dod said in a written statement, “This bill is about more than sentencing, it’s about supporting victims and changing the culture on our college campuses to help prevent future crimes.” http://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-rape-bill-idUSKCN1142G9
All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
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08/31/16 12:17 AM
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Again,serious topic but did Rodney Harrison actually say that Colin Kaepernick isn't Black? http://www.theroot.com/blog/the-grapevin...-hes-not-black/“I tell you this, I’m a black man. And Colin Kaepernick—he’s not black,” Harrison said. “He cannot understand what I face and what other young black men and black people face, or people of color face, on a every single [day] basis. When you walk in a grocery store and you might have $2,000 or $3,000 in your pocket and you go up in to a Foot Locker and they’re looking at you like you about to steal something. “You know, I don’t think he faces those type of things that we face on a daily basis,” he continued. “I’m not saying he has to be black, but I’m saying his heart is in the right place, but even with what he’s doing, he still doesn’t understand the injustices as a black man, or people of color; that’s what I’m saying,” Harrison said. === I wonder if Harrison would know who this man is if shown a photo? *By the way, it is NOT Cesar Romero, the guy who played Joker in the Batman tv show. I thought this picture was of Walt Disney
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Re: News
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08/31/16 04:25 AM
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While on the topic of "The Star Spangled Banner," it turns out that there's a verse in the original version of the song that there was a third stanza that wishes for the killing of the slaves who fought for the British because their blood would wash away their "foul footstep's pollution." "And where is that band who so vauntingly swore, That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion A home and a Country should leave us no more? Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave, And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave." During the War of 1812, the British offered freedom to slaves if they would fight for their side. Many took up the offer. Francis Scott Key went to a British ship to lead a prisoner exchange, but because he saw too much they held him prisoner while bombarding Baltimore. Many of those who Key saw were ex-slaves who went to the other side. During the presidency of Woodrow Wilson in 1916 he pushed for it to be the national anthem. The offending verse was removed by a committee. President Herbert Hoover made the cleaned-up version gave it official approval about fifteen years later. Stories about the original version started sprouting in 2014, then more in July 2016. It should be pointed out that the song had verses re-written to support abolitionism too, so people were always changing it until the current version from 1931. http://www.theroot.com/articles/history/...ational-anthem/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-stand-star-spangled-banner-article-1.2770075https://theintercept.com/2016/08/28/coli...ion-of-slavery/http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/29/arts/m...years.html?_r=0 It turns out there's another interpretation that may be the accurate one. One of the causes of the War of 1812 was that the British Navy basically "stole" American men and forced them to work on their ships, something called "impressment". The slang phrase for men who were impressed was "slaves." The did actually become slaves since they were kidnapped, forced to work for nothing, and if they refused they could be hanged. So the verse in question may not have been about mass murdering black slaves to switched from the USA to Britain, but white males who were impressed into the British Navy. http://www.snopes.com/2016/08/29/star-spangled-banner-and-slavery/http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-08-30/historians-disagree-whether-star-spangled-banner-racistInterestingly, ex-slave turned abolitionist Frederick Douglas LOVED the Star Spangled Banner: http://dailysignal.com/2016/08/29/unlike...pangled-banner/
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Re: News
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09/01/16 04:34 PM
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considering his personal situation and history, he doesn't have much justification for thinking the way he apparently does. For example? What do you know about Colin Kaepernick's history? an orphan that made it to the nfl doesn't sound like a cautionary tale ivyleague is more mad at black people that he never sees than people in utah buying children off the internet for god only knows what reason
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Re: News
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09/02/16 08:11 PM
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Seems like Rice has more sense than Kaepernick ever will. Way more talent too. Really? You think Jerry Rice is more talented than Colin Kaepernick? Jerry Rice being arguably the greatest receiver of all time? I'll go a step further and say that Jerry Rice is better than just about anyone playing the game today, or anyone whose ever played, for that matter. I think Jerry Rice is more talented than Tom Brady, too, but Brady still has the right to position his "Make America Great Again" cap in camera view for locker room interviews.
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09/05/16 12:31 AM
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A lot of people in their 90s are capable of expressing opinions, and have good memories. I'm glad you brought up black WW2 veterans. It would be nice to hear from the few of them still around regarding this issue, and other things. Like I said, they have good memories and would do well with interview questions, but the race baiters aren't interested in interviewing them or doing news stories. They don't care about any WW2 vets thoughts, black,white, or native americans. That being said, how many 80 year olds have instagram, twitter, or facebook accounts? Going out on a limb to say NONE that they handle on their own.
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09/05/16 12:37 AM
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Seems like Rice has more sense than Kaepernick ever will. Way more talent too. Really? You think Jerry Rice is more talented than Colin Kaepernick? Jerry Rice being arguably the greatest receiver of all time? I'll go a step further and say that Jerry Rice is better than just about anyone playing the game today, or anyone whose ever played, for that matter. I think Jerry Rice is more talented than Tom Brady, too, but Brady still has the right to position his "Make America Great Again" cap in camera view for locker room interviews. You know why Jerry Rice was so great? and I am partial because Jerry Rice is from a hardworking Mississippi family. His dad was a hardworking bricklayer. He was poor like we all were and his dad brought his family up from the bootstraps. Jerry developed his hand strength from his dad tossing bricks to him to catch.Didn't take hand outs and would've turned them down if offered as all proud hardworking Mississippians do.That is why Rice criticized Kap. All hardworking people from Miss. are ingrained with that spirit.
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My grandfather was a WW2 vet. The Pacific. I guarantee you he would support Kaepernick's right to protest. When Gramps went to the hospital in late 2002 for the last time, he had on a cap that said "Selected Not Elected", in reference to Bush stealing the 2000 election. Still remember my dad bringing his clothes home after he was no longer with us, neatly folded, with that cap on top. I'm not sure if you could call gramps a liberal, but he was definitely a Democrat. He was a leader in like 3 unions. Anyhow, since you brought up WW2 vets, I figured I'd share. I figured you might be interested. You're welcome.
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With Colin Kap's public stance on the American flag in the news, reporters dug up excerpt of Jackie Robinson's autobiography. Published the year of his death,1972. He wrote that he cannot stand and sing the anthem.He cannot salute the flag. http://www.snopes.com/jackie-robinson-anthem/@Yates, here is picture of Jackie Robinson, Army 2nd Lt. Jackie Robinson Cannot stand sing the anthem before the Civil Rights Movement and desegregation doesn't equate to not standing when you're a mixed QB raised in Mid-upper class suburbia making millions a year. Don't you dare disgrace the injustice and hell Jackie Robinson went through to break the barrier. Kap isn't a pimple on Jackie Robinson's ass.You should be ashamed to compare the 2. It's pathetic. Hate to hit you with facts, but if you want to protest that is ok. Protest against the main predator of black lives, if they matter as much as you say they do. In the year 2015. Police kill 258 black people, no matter the circumstance. that is horrible and unacceptable. Even more horrible, black killed by other black people....................almost 6,000 black people in 2015 were killed by other black people.??? WTF? Address the real problem first. 6 thousand of black citizens are killed by other black citizens. Why not address those 6 thousand lost first then go after the 258 killed by police? Doesn't make sense. Only makes sense if you want to stir up racism in this country for your own selfish gains.
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