Tomi Lahren: “It started with Colin Kaepernick, it has spread, it has infected the league - I would like to ask these players, what exactly are you kneeling for and why have you chosen the flag and the anthem to do it?”
To answer Tomi's extremely dense and dim-witted question, Kaepernick said this around a year ago and was blackballed by the NFL for it:
“Specifically it’s police brutality. Cops are getting paid leave, for killing people and not being held accountable ― that’s not right.”
(A year ago and she and Fox News are still clueless after all that time covering Colin Kaepernick and the NFL protests hundreds of times this past year? Pretty much every player who’s knelt has been asked about why they’re protesting, so in fact, it would be really easy to check on. Never mind thousands of articles.)
How did the NYPD react to this accusation? Hundreds of NYPD officers took a knee in solidarity. (
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/nypd-cops-rally-support-colin-kaepernick-brooklyn-article-1.3425792) Why didn't Fox News attack them as being unpatriotic?
Are the thousands of veterans speaking out on social media about how these protesters have a right to take a knee not valid? (
http://abcnews.go.com/US/veterans-knee-support-national-anthem-protests/story?id=50075609) Can't Fox News hear them? Most have said they served to protect the rights of Free Speech and peaceful protest. Why aren't they unpatriotic?
The inspiration to take knee was from Green Beret, Nate Boyer: "First thing Colin said when we met was: ‘I want you to know, I appreciate your service more than anything.’ I expressed to him maybe there’s a different way to demonstrate than sitting down, where you’re showing more respect for those that lay down their lives for what that flag and anthem stands for. I suggested kneeling." Can you grasp that Tomi?
Football is a game. People watch game that take them away for the mundane world they live in most of the time. To bring politic in the game take it out of the entertainment business. Therefore I have quit watching NFL football. An I say good riddance.
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