Going to White House was a great honor until you showed up!

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Bruce Maxwell first MLB player to kneel during national anthem

Mark Townsend
Big League Stew
Sep 23, 2017


Bruce Maxwell of the Oakland Athletics became the first MLB player to kneel during the national anthem prior to Saturday’s game against Texas Rangers.

criticized players behind the NFL’s national anthem protests." data-reactid="17">According to A’s manager Bob Melvin, the rookie catcher had been considering kneeling for awhile and was moved to do so in light of President Trump’s comments on Friday night, where he criticized players behind the NFL’s national anthem protests.

That was clearly the case, as Mark Canha had his hand on Maxwell’s shoulder throughout and immediately embraced him Maxwell upon the anthem’s conclusion.


Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle notes that Maxwell ripped President Trump in an Instagram post early on Saturday. The message contained some profane language, but can be viewed by clicking here.


On Twitter, Maxwell suggested we would start seeing athletes from other sports join in the protest against racial injustice. He then took that step himself, placing his hand over his heart while kneeling alongside his teammates.

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Stevie Wonder Took A Knee On Stage At Global Citizen Festival

“Tonight I’m taking a knee for America.”

Living music legend Stevie Wonder has officially joined the protest against Donald Trump when he took a knee during his headlining set at Global Citizen Festival in New York. Wonder was joined on stage by his son Kwame Morris, who knelt close beside him.


"Tonight I'm taking a knee for America, but not just one knee... I'm taking both knees," he said. "Both knees in prayer for our planet, our future, our leaders of the world, and I quote 'Amen.' I wanted to say that prayer before I serve you my musical meal."

The crowd reacted with a loud roar of applause. (Not a single boo could be heard.) This move follows suit with the recent wave of backlash against Trump after he stated that NFL players should be fired for kneeling during the national anthem. Watch Wonder's act of solidarity in the video, above.



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We know how a Dotard Pig/horrible president responds.This is how a class act/Great President responds.



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Trump Ranted About Kneeling NFL Players. Obama Praised ‘Their Right’ To Protest.

By Sam Levine

Trump’s denunciation of protesting athletes contrasts with Obama’s nuanced view.

As President Donald Trump’s criticism of athletes who kneel during the national anthem receives widespread condemnation, it’s worth taking a look at how then-President Barack Obama addressed protesting sports figures last year.

Trump said Friday that any athlete like former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who knelt during the national anthem at NFL games last season to protest police brutality, was a “son of a bitch” who should be fired, unleashing a storm of criticism from NFL players, the league and others.

Almost exactly a year ago, Obama offered a nuanced insight into Kaepernick’s protests.

“Well, as I’ve said before, I believe that us honoring our flag and our anthem is part of what binds us together as a nation,” Obama said during a CNN town hall in September 2016. “But I also always try to remind folks that part of what makes this country special is that we respect people’s rights to have a different opinion. We fight sometimes so that people can do things that we disagree with ... As long as they’re doing it within the law, then we can voice our opinion objecting to it, but it’s also their right.”

″I think that it’s also important for us to recognize that sometimes out of these controversies, we start getting into a conversation, and I want everybody to listen to each other,” Obama continued. “I want Mr. Kaepernick and others who are on a knee, I want them to listen to the pain that that may cause somebody who, for example, had a spouse or a child who was killed in combat, and why it hurts them to see somebody not standing. But I also want people to think about the pain that he may be expressing about somebody who’s lost a loved one that they think was unfairly shot.”

Last year, Trump told Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly that Kaepernick’s protests were “bad for the spirit of the country,” but that the quarterback had a right to the expression.

Read Obama’s full remarks during the CNN town hall below:

Well, as I’ve said before, I believe that us honoring our flag and our anthem is part of what binds us together as a nation. And I think that for me, for my family, for those who work in the White House, we recognize what it means to us, but also what it means to the men and women who are fighting on our behalf. But I’m also always trying to remind folks that part of what makes this country special is that we respect people’s rights to have a different opinion and to make different decisions about how they want to express their concerns. And the test of our fidelity to our constitution, the freedom of speech, to our bill of rights, is not when it’s easy, but when it’s hard.

We fight sometimes so that people can do things that we disagree with. But that’s what freedom means in this country. And so my hope would be that as this debate surfaces, we’re always reminding ourselves that in a democracy like ours, there are going to be a lot of folks who do stuff that we just don’t agree with. But as long as they’re doing it within the law, then we can voice our opinion objecting to it, but it’s also their right.

And I think that it’s also important for us to recognize that sometimes out of these controversies, we start getting into a conversation, and I want everybody to listen to each other. So I want Mr. Kaepernick and others who are on a knee, I want them to listen to the pain that that may cause somebody who, for example, had a spouse or a child who was killed in combat, and why it hurts them to see somebody not standing. But I also want people to think about the pain that he may be expressing about somebody who’s lost a loved one that they think was unfairly shot.

And one of the things that I always say about American democracy is, it can be frustrating, but it’s the best system we’ve got. The only way that we make it work is to see each other, listen to each other, try to be respectful of each other, not just go into separate corners, and I do hope that anybody who’s trying to express any political view of any sort understands that they do so under the blanket of protection of our men and women in uniform, and that that appreciation of that sacrifice is never lost.




 
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Kobe Bryant Criticizes Donald Trump for Causing 'Division and Anger'


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Mike Chiari
September 23, 2017

Legendary former Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant criticized President Donald Trump in a tweet on Saturday.

Bryant specifically expressed doubt regarding Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan:

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Bryant's comments came on the heels of Trump making headlines for uninviting the Golden State Warriors' Stephen Curry to the White House and criticizing NFL players who protest during the national anthem.
 
Promising promotion after molesting all those women wasn't ''bad for the spirit of the country''.

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Last year, Trump told Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly that Kaepernick’s protests were “bad for the spirit of the country.”
 
Trump still digging LOL!!!!!!!


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Donald Trump Repeats Call For NFL Boycott To Stop Anthem Protests

Under fire, the president characteristically digs in.

By Daniel Marans

In a pair of early-morning tweets, President Donald Trump once again encouraged football fans to boycott the NFL if the league does not “fire or suspend” players who kneel during the national anthem to protest racism.

Trump argued that if fans take coordinated action, they “will see change take place fast.”



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He went on to argue that the protests were partially responsible for what he asserted was declining public interest in NFL games.

With the Twitter posts, Trump’s escalated his public campaign against the protests by athletes that he began with comments at a political rally in Alabama on Friday. “Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, ‘Get that son of a bitch off the field right now, he’s fired?’” Trump said at the gathering.

His comments prompted an outpouring of criticism of Trump from several NFL players. And on Sunday the owner of one of the league’s most successful franchises joined that chorus. The New England Patriots ― the reigning Super Bowl champions ― released a statement from owner Robert Kraft, a friend and supporter of Trump’s, condemning Trump’s attacks.

“I am deeply disappointed by the tone of the comments made by the president on Friday,” Kraft said. “I am proud to be associate with so many players who make such tremendous contributions in positively impacting our communities.”

Kraft added that he backed the rights of players “to peacefully affect social change and raise awareness in a manner that they feel is most impactful.”


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A billion people watch football during the season

111 million watched The Superbowl

63 million voted for Trump

NFL > Dotard Trump.
 
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