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Originally Posted by whell

So, you think its OK for a person to engage in free speech any time, any place, anywhere? You think its just fine to dispense with any and all time, manner and place restrictions on speech? "Kap and his kneeling colleagues" should be able to take a knee between plays on the field if they think that's the right time to stage a protest?
You want to keep making this a matter of race. Its ain't. Its about the right time and the wrong time to vent your spleen, and "Kap and his kneeling colleagues" have it wrong.

The ridiculous Whell strawman lives. If players took a knee in the midst of play, their teammates and owners would mete out appropriate disapproval and punishment. They took a knee before the game with the apparent approval of teammates and ownership to first protest racial injustice and then Trump's cynical hijacking of the issue in Huntsville. Big difference. In any event, it's none of Trump's business and a president telling a business owner who to fire/punish is simply out of bounds.

And I also have to say that you trying to draw some kind of screwy moral equivalence between folks taking a moment of silence for those innocents shot dead in Vegas and the deeds of Kap and his kneeling colleagues" is really sick shit. You apparently lack any degree of proportion, respect, understanding and compassion for those who were killed.

You're gonna have a hard time convincing me that Trump and Republicans care about the dead in Vegas as they reflexively dodge any and all questions or actions about reasonable (and legal) gun control supported by an overwhelming majority of Americans. And yes, this is about race. Trump hijacked a protest about racial injustice and morphed it into an issue of the flag and the anthem (after having equivocated on the KKK and NeoNazis). You probably believe that the march over the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma was a protest against bridges.