2 Dozen Players Kneel During Anthem at Jags-Ravens Game in London

"Useful Idiot" is a technical political term. Look it up. They have been fooled by all this fake news about an epidemic of police targeting blacks, when statistics show blacks are less likely to get shot by police than whites and far more likely to get shot by other blacks in general.

This whole focus on white racism is crap. It isn't there. It's all made up. Blacks aren't being held back... at least not by whites. America is overwhelmingly populated by good decent tolerant people. If the accusations were true and whites really hated minorities as much as the SJWs would have us believe, then all minorities would have been killed, enslaved, or driven out of the country by now. That didn't happen and it isn't happening so anyone who believes it has earned the label "Useful Idiot".

If you want an example of what real bigotry looks like then check into how Islamic dominated countries treat their Christian and Jewish populations. That isn't happening here.

Real Murica wrote:

America hating leftists wrote:

Boycott the NFL!!!!

Yeah, right. What else are Republicans going to do with their Sundays? Just stare at the case of Bud Light they plan on drowning in all day? Discuss meaningful biblical passages with their fat wives? Pay attention to their kids?

Their TVs will stay off for about twenty minutes.

ummmmmm Ever heard of NASCAR?

The goalposts from my original post have now moved from 1) people don't speak out against black-on-black crime to 2) these specific people don't speak out about it to 3) okay, they speak out about it but not to my liking.

Your contention that the President was focused on "lecturing white people and police and everything" further displays ignorance. Certainly he spoke to police events, just as the aforementioned black-on-black crime, but you are trying to paint a fantasy picture where he spent 8 years deriding white people and law enforcement. I think he spoke to the events that gained national attention and used a pretty balanced approach in doing so. Would you have me believe Obama doesn't stand with accountability?

further left than VIU wrote:

I do not insult you social right wingers, Disco Gary. The propaganda initiated by the majority of billionaires in US has made the white working man and woman believe Latin and black working men and women are your enemy. The majority of billionaires in US are your enemy. I want you social right wingers to unite with Latins and blacks for a better nation and a better world.

Wait, wait, wait... you mean, like the Mexican Americans and black Americans that we go to work with everyday? Have you ever been around the country? Have you ever been to the southwest? Have you ever been to the south?

I have... A LOT of folks of different skin shades working together.

You have bought into the Big Lie that those of us on the right are the cause of all the racial problems. Don't be a Useful Idiot.

25 years ago relations with hispanics was free of all this racial division. Leftist and my precious Republican Establishment joined forces to keep the border wide open while the welfare state got ever more generous. Of course this is unsustainable and the people in power knew that. They knew we on the right would have to push back, and when we did they could call us racist.

It was a game they could not lose and we could not win. They counted on weak minded people who would call their neighbor a racist before demanding that our government represent its constituents and enforce our borders. Our country can come together when our own government is slandering its citizens while importing people who are being taught to hate those who are already here.

I am not causing this problem, and I can not fix it. Only the Useful Idiots can fix it because they are the real problem. Stop believing the Big Lie and see your neighbors as the decent people they have always been.

Commie's gonna dumb wrote:

further left than VIU wrote:

I do not insult you social right wingers, Disco Gary. The propaganda initiated by the majority of billionaires in US has made the white working man and woman believe Latin and black working men and women are your enemy. The majority of billionaires in US are your enemy. I want you social right wingers to unite with Latins and blacks for a better nation and a better world.

Wait, wait, wait... you mean, like the Mexican Americans and black Americans that we go to work with everyday? Have you ever been around the country? Have you ever been to the southwest? Have you ever been to the south?

I have... A LOT of folks of different skin shades working together.

Not where Gary lives

Disco Gary: I did not refer to you as a racist. I specifically stated a desire to unite white working men & women with Latin and black working men & women. "Useful Idiot" is a term then Soviet Union and now Russians use to refer to low to middle level US government employees who give them (USSR/Russia) detailed and possibly top secret information. You are misinformed I belief to the origin of said phrase.

OP discussed the NFL. Are you unhappy regarding actions of NFL players Disco Gary? If so, move on! You seemed concerned about real large world issues also. Let's deal with larger issues!

If you do not like the NFL players and their non-violent protest, turn the tv off. As stated, introduce yourself to blacks and Latins and look for areas of agreement. This is LetsRun. You must like running Disco Gary. Start a conversation with Latins and blacks at a track & field meet. Look for ways to agree in said conversations. There is hope for you Disco Gary!

You just keep believing the Big Lie. I do not think there is hope for you.

Red white & blue wrote:

Alejandro Villanueva has guts. It bucked all the peer pressure and he was the only Steeler to come out of the locker room to show his love and respect for this country.

He served in Afghanistan and he knows what respect and love of country means.

Sad when it takes guts to show love and respect for country because no one else is doing that.

For the record, the rest of the team was standing in the tunnel some distance behind him. You can see this if you look at pictures taken at the right angle. No one was in the locker room, despite this being reported in many places.

NFL guys aren't typically "non-violent"...

Lol.

Way to put in the work - this is hilarious. Sad how blind most of these folks are.

The bottom line is, they are at work, do your job.

Protest all you want on your own time.

Still stands...

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(Pun intended)

peek-a-boo wrote:

Still stands...

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/4f34530ecb12e336a9dfe29c/t/57e40d2529687f17546af6d4/1474563376889/

(Pun intended)

Do you not believe we should hold the government to a higher standard than the general population?

Should the government be allowed to murder because some citizens do?

The flag should represent the constitution, not the military.

Amazing to see all of the faux outrage for peaceful protest, one of our personal liberties. It's unfortunate that there is more outrage on Letsrun for the NFL anthem protests than there was over the KKK/Nazis protestors.

Trump and his cronies have been pissing all over the constitution and flag, yet most Republicans don't seem to care. Such hypocrisy.

How about finding a real issue to be outraged about?

Red white & blue wrote:

Alejandro Villanueva has guts. It bucked all the peer pressure and he was the only Steeler to come out of the locker room to show his love and respect for this country.

He served in Afghanistan and he knows what respect and love of country means.

Sad when it takes guts to show love and respect for country because no one else is doing that.

He is 6 foot 9, 320 pounds... Who is going to try to stop him? That's a big dude.

These incidents, while tragic, are a statistical aberration, have been declining for decades, and are right in line with violent crime statistics (blacks comprise 49% of murderers, 34% of violent criminals and 30% of victims of these types of incidents). Statistically, cops are just as likely to shoot a white guy that they suspect of these crimes as they are a black guy. These are isolated incidents and do not reflect some level of institutional racism as many allege.

Macdaddy wrote:

Way to put in the work - this is hilarious. Sad how blind most of these folks are.

They're basically just closing their eyes, plugging their ears, and yelling "LALALALALALA".

peek-a-boo wrote:

Still stands...

No, it doesn't. BLM is not protesting white on black crime. BLM is protesting against minorities being killed unjustifiably by government employees and against a judicial system that routinely fails to hold these bad actors accountable.

You know, the only reason this thread exists is because Trump casually and publicly called a bunch of black athletes "sons of b*tches" for silently protesting police brutality. Everything that happened after that was a direct response to his terrible leadership. Your opinion on police brutality or "appropriate" protest methods really shouldn't matter here. In a sane world, this kind behavior from a sitting President would be far, far more deserving of scrutiny than anything Colin Kaepernick has to say.

But are Trump supporters expressing any concern about the President spending his valuable time (God knows he spent all yesterday stewing) focusing on this issue? Have any of them complained about this blatantly divisive and completely counterproductive rhetoric? No, they'd rather ignore it, pretend that these athletes are insulting "the troops" (even when everyone knows that's not the case), and cast aspersions on the intelligence and morality of the entire black community. But they're decent people.