Well on the bright side the loss meant a lot less after seeing so many disrespect the anthem. Made flushing the game a whole lot easier.
Can kneeling during the anthem be bad for black student athletes???
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Everybody has their own taboos. My only problem with people's reaction to this one is I think they are letting themselves get manipulated by people who want to enrage them. He knelt because he was told that was more respectful than just sitting for the flag.
I know people who are very, very upset about the players praying on the field together because it's a public institution. I honestly don't get being that upset about anything these guys are doing. I choose to believe their hearts are in the right place.
So the people that don't like it should just be sheep and go along with the people that told him that?
Sounds you're trying to do the manipulating
What a load crap.....
Frankly bad karma in Kinnick as a result, loss. Hope players are not touching the statue on the way in.
It is correct that we have freedom of speech/expression in the USA, however it should be taboo to use that freedom of speech to attack those who provide and maintain that freedom.
One thing that everyone in the USA should share is that we want to live here. I am not an overly patriotic person and have never served in the military. But I am smart enough to know that a lot of people have faught and died so that I am able to live this life.
I will always stand for the anthem in support and respect for those who died.
No clue why I can't add a pic sometimes!!?!?
they can easily get hired at a company that hates america like nike, buzzfeed, facebook, twitter.
I'm done with them also. Watched them for over 40 years.
For the first time in many years I have very little interest in Hawkeye football. The fun is being squeezed out of life in so many ways. People of color seem to be embracing victimhood all the while participating in the American Dream. Good people white or black or yellow don't get shot by the police.
I don't think they are attacking anybody. Obviously there are many people who disagree with me.
That destruction was done by the very movement that disrespects America and those that served during the national anthem. Anyone that supports this type of anarchy can take a hike including all the Iowa players approving.
You are so done that you’re still here commenting on a paid message board. Sure.
There will never again be a coach anywhere for any school that will put a stop to kneeling. It isn't possible for them to day anything and keep their job.
By taking a knee, that clearly was a slap in the face to our service people of past and present which include my family members. I'm done supporting the U of I.
As a veteran, what I find really disgusting is when I see a flagpole in someone's yard and they are flying a Trump flag below the U.S. flag. As if somehow the Trump flag is equated with the flag that tens of thousands of veterans died for. Never before has a President or Presidential candidate needed his own f'n flag. If anyone is proud of a so-called secondary U.S. flag but don't like players kneeling, your priorities are f'k up in a major way.
Honestly. I think my future possible employer would be impressed at the length of my leg stands. They would know they were gettin the real deal .
Does the same thing go for Biden flags or is it just Trump flags that you get all pi$$y about. If so your priorities are just as f'k up. And yes I'm also a veteran.
You really wanna have this conversation? I don't see a hundred Biden pickup trucks with Biden flags trying to run a Trump bus off the road like what happened in Texas. Try again.
But it's not equated if the Trump flag is flying below the US flag. I would think you would know that as a veteran. Let me know if you see someone flying a t Trump flag above the US flag.
Thank you, answered like a true brain dead MAGAt. Yep, it's ok for a hundred pickups to try to run a bus off the road. I hope you're not a father because I pity your kids. God knows what you are teaching them.
Who gives a shit if it's below or above. A Trump rag doesn't belong on the same flag pole with the U.S flag. But I understand that's too f'n complicated for you to understand.
Says the idiot who stands behind rioting, looting, beating the shit and shooting trump supporters. Your the one who backs this behavior, dip
This is absolutely not true. Lots of good people have been shot by the police over the years.
Breonna Taylor is one of the most recent examples. Sleeping in her own home when plainclothes police(that means not in uniform) barged in with a no knock warrant while not having body cams on them for some reason. Her boyfriend tried to defend from what he thought were illegal intruders and she was shot 6 times. He fired 1 bullet, they fired over 30. She was a licensed EMT working as a technician in an emergency room. She did nothing illegal.
Was she not a good person? Because you said good people don't get shot by the police and she sure as shit was shot by the police.
There are a bunch of other examples that I don't have the time to detail here. I don't understand how so many people can be so intentionally blind that there are cops out there doing bad things and other cops helping to cover up those bad things. It isn't every cop and when you factor in the volume of interactions that occur with cops in the country day to day it doesn't happen with all that high of a percentage. But they still happen and the government doesn't seem to be doing much to prevent more situations from occurring. That is why people are pissed at the government and in some cases protesting the government by refusing to stand.
This isn't like Vietnam when soldiers were being spat on after coming back home. I would guess overwhelmingly that the people doing the kneeling have no problems with our military. And would in fact prefer the military over our police since our military seems to know how to interact with people in high stress situations without "fearing for their life" and shooting first. When the military was rolling through the streets of Minneapolis this summer, the protestors had zero issues with them whatsoever. Do you know why? Because they weren't firing teargas into peaceful protestors and weren't shooting bean bags, rubber bullets, or paint balls at people's faces trying to intentionally blind them like the police were. These protestors are not protesting against the military.
The flag does not belong to our military. It belongs to our country. The kneeling is a protest by citizens against their own country saying that it can do better. Both sides can be correct in this situation. Our country is one of the best places that people of color can live in the entire world. But, it can also make some changes to be an even better place for people of color to live too.
Did I say anywhere in my comment that the Minneapolis protests were completely peaceful? No. But you can't argue that there were peaceful protestors out that the police brutalized. There were also impartial reporters that were brutalized by the police too.
I said that the protestors did absolutely nothing against the military presence that was rolling through the streets because they weren't escalating the situation on the streets by shooting at protestors like the police were doing. My next door neighbor was one of the guardsmen out there on the streets. I didn't hear a single thing about protestors going after the military personnel from him. And there sure as hell wasn't anything in the news about protestors going up against the guardsmen either.
Yes there were non-peaceful protests. But the police were also firing the tear gas, rubber bullets, and bean bags and the peaceful protestors too. That is a big problem.
Which entirely explains one of the the points of my post. The protests aren't against the military, they are against the police. Kneeling isn't protesting against the military, it is protesting against the government that supports and enables the police to continue the bad things that many have been doing.
I said that the protestors did absolutely nothing against the military presence that was rolling through the streets because they weren't escalating the situation on the streets by shooting at protestors like the police were doing. My next door neighbor was one of the guardsmen out there on the streets. I didn't hear a single thing about protestors going after the military personnel from him. And there sure as hell wasn't anything in the news about protestors going up against the guardsmen either.
Yes there were non-peaceful protests. But the police were also firing the tear gas, rubber bullets, and bean bags and the peaceful protestors too. That is a big problem.
Which entirely explains one of the the points of my post. The protests aren't against the military, they are against the police. Kneeling isn't protesting against the military, it is protesting against the government that supports and enables the police to continue the bad things that many have been doing.
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If he wasn't a drug dealing criminal she's still alive. Let's not act like her death is all on the cops.
She was probably a decent person, however it seems she associated with and enabled criminals.
Should be teaching people not to associate with criminals more than teaching to hate cops
What statement does kneeling make? From what I gather, it's to spread awareness that racism is bad, and there should be equality for all. Ummm.....who TF is unaware of those two things? The people who don't believe in those two things, will not be swayed into believing in them, by kneeling. The only thing it has succeeded in doing, is creating more divide, and giving attention seekers a spotlight. I don't see anyone kneeling against heart disease, cancer, diabetes, suicide, or the stubbing of toes, but everyone is aware they are bad. This is a ridiculous form of "protest".
Freaking Trump suckers that still think Trump actually cares about you or the military. Have you forgot that he was a DRAFT DODGER? Being a silver spoon like he was allows that. But keep being outraged about the kneelers. What a bunch of Freaking Iowa hicks.
That's an intelligent, well thought out response. Your inability to argue intelligently to the contrary, speaks volumes.
You don't deserve a thoughtful reply to that hilariously stupid blabbering you put out.
Perhaps you should join the children's table. The adults are having a conversation, and you have nothing of merit to contribute.
If the adults are spewing mindless chatter like what you put out then I'm fine being at the children's table. Carry on with your doltish outlooks.
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