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2016-09-23 Home Front: Culture Wars

Texas Volleyball Team Takes Knee for Anthem

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Posted by Besoeker 2016-09-23 03:22|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 I think "African-Americans" beginning to grasp that "their" African-American Potus will be gone soon, and none of their expectations of his reign materialized.

Not going to argue whether these expectations were realistic, or whose fault it is. The important fact, expectations failed to materialize.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-09-23 06:05|| 2016-09-23 06:05|| Front Page Top

#2 And just how many left after this happened?

Posted by gorb 2016-09-23 09:33|| 2016-09-23 09:33|| Front Page Top

#3 @#1: Yup. These "protests" should be re-framed as expressions of unfulfilled expectations.

Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2016-09-23 09:58|| 2016-09-23 09:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Please, STOP referring to blacks as African Americans. This lends an undeserved legitimacy to nonsense appellation. It would be a good idea to refrain from using any form of hyphenation when referring to minorities. Taken further, people should not use the PC preferred euphemisms like "gay" when referring to homosexuals. Stop playing their game, it is counter productive.

Posted by Spinesing Gray3122 2016-09-23 10:37|| 2016-09-23 10:37|| Front Page Top

#5 If my family had imigrated from say Algeria, wouldn't I be "African-American". I may have Danish and Irish in my backround but I don't refer to myself as a Danish-American

Posted by Cheaderhead 2016-09-23 11:12|| 2016-09-23 11:12|| Front Page Top

#6 I prefer 'Anglo-American' to 'White' but I don't get much chance to use it.

Posted by Skidmark 2016-09-23 11:54|| 2016-09-23 11:54|| Front Page Top

#7 If my family had imigrated from say Algeria, wouldn't I be "African-American".

I suppose you could make these inane arguments, but why? I have a co-worker from Nigeria, he's very dismissive of American blacks calling themselves African Americans. Says they have no right.

He and his family are Naturalized and his policy is that he is an American, Africa has nothing to do with it.

Posted by Spinesing Gray3122 2016-09-23 12:18|| 2016-09-23 12:18|| Front Page Top

#8 We have sports to get away from exactly this.
Liberals corrupt everything.

Posted by newc 2016-09-23 13:50|| 2016-09-23 13:50|| Front Page Top

#9 We ~~have~~ had sports to get away from exactly this.

That's more like it...

Posted by Raj 2016-09-23 16:04|| 2016-09-23 16:04|| Front Page Top

#10 They can get on both knees and blow me
a kiss

Posted by Regular joe 2016-09-23 16:55|| 2016-09-23 16:55|| Front Page Top

#11 Not only were expectations unfulfilled but the black community took a step backwards in almost every data set during the first black President's two terms. That's gotta be a tough pill to swallow.

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-09-23 16:59|| 2016-09-23 16:59|| Front Page Top

#12 I'm gonna start referring to these "protesters" as "Whiny shit stains".

Posted by DarthVader 2016-09-23 17:26|| 2016-09-23 17:26|| Front Page Top

#13 Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas, #11 rj.

Posted by Barbara 2016-09-23 18:05|| 2016-09-23 18:05|| Front Page Top

#14 We ~~have~~ had sports to get away from exactly this.

Make them pay. NFL ratings are down vs last season's week 1 and 2 across the board.

Posted by Crusader 2016-09-23 21:47|| 2016-09-23 21:47|| Front Page Top

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