NFL player sits for US National Anthem but stands for Mexico's National Anthem.

Erykah Badu takes a knee for Colin Kaepernick during the Soul Train Awards .. gets a standing ovation from the audience.

Erykah Badu got things started off the right way as host of the 2017 Soul Train Awards.

Appearing on stage just after a high-energy performance from Lady of Soul Award honorees SWV, Ms. Badu walked to the center of the stage and immediately took a knee, before sharing brief words of praise for former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick.

"Kaep we appreciate you giving your life," she said, as she kneeled. "Giving up your dream because you believe in us."

The beloved songstress remained on one knee while delivering a few more remarks to open the show, as audience members raised their fists in a display of solidarity. Badu closed out the segment with a few not-so-thinly veiled jabs at Donald Trump and his consistently poor decision-making since becoming President.

Kaepernick has gained the support of many in and outside of the Hollywood community after spending 2017 leading a selfless, revolutionary campaign calling for an end to systemic oppression and disregard for communities of color in America.

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https://www.essence.com/entertainment/erykah-badu-kneels-kaepernick-soul-train-awards
 
Soul Train Awards and Erykah Badu? Next....that used to be an amazing awards show, btw.
Most of the awards shows were. Now, not so much. A great performance here and there, but the majority of those shows aren't worth watching anymore....
 
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TOP said:
Soul Train Awards and Erykah Badu? Next....that used to be an amazing awards show, btw.
Most of the awards shows were. Now, not so much. A great performance here and there, but the majority of those shows aren't worth watching anymore....
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I wonder if your pal there would take a knee to this?
 
Eagle Eye said:
I wonder if your pal there would take a knee to this?
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As I have often said before, he's got a one track mind.
What will make a difference in when it comes to improving inner city communities and inequality and systematic oppression and whatever else the kneeling and sitting is supposed to "change", the only thing that will ultimately make a difference, is people coming together and working for those changes.
I thought this guy worked with "at risk" middle schoolers. I have to wonder what "suggestions" he offers when it comes to "fighting this fight"...
It's pretty hard for thing to lift kids up and improve the world when our "role models" and too many people are still talking about "those white people" and "those black people".../
 
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NASCAR owners side with Trump, say they will fire drivers who protest national anthem
http://www.businessinsider.com/nascar-trump-fire-drivers-protest-anthem-2017-9

'I don't think it can recover': what's behind Nascar's nosedive?
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2016/sep/16/nascar-decline-struggles-auto-racing
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Easy to promise goods you'd never have to deliver. It's apparent Trump's crowd wouldn't peacefully protest if they were being led into gas chambers
and Nascar may as well be Hitler Youth camp. Point being, they are going to salute regardless of any injustice visited by power. They are power sycophants
by heritage. They feel they are the entitled class of whites even though they are suffering in education, jobs, prospects, womens rights....

Just be the jingoism party and you have that group. Wrap a flag around ... whatever, play rock you like a hurricane at a blue angels show, (credit Groening) that's quite enough.


All that said, I'm talking about some real salt of the earth people here in these comments. They are simply being duped. It's sad.
 
TOP said:
As I have often said before, he's got a one track mind.
What will make a difference in when it comes to improving inner city communities and inequality and systematic oppression and whatever else the kneeling and sitting is supposed to "change", the only thing that will ultimately make a difference, is people coming together and working for those changes.
I thought this guy worked with "at risk" middle schoolers. I have to wonder what "suggestions" he offers when it comes to "fighting this fight"...
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I honestly don't understand why these lefties can't get it through their heads that kneeling for the anthem does nothing but piss people off. I agree that the problems of inner cities needs to be fixed. But the only people who can do that are the voters in the stats and cities that have the problems. As to inequality and systematic oppression I'm not sure that will ever be cured. We have laws on the books now but they still exist in some areas.
 
Micawber said:
Easy to promise goods you'd never have to deliver. It's apparent Trump's crowd wouldn't peacefully protest if they were being led into gas chambers
and Nascar may as well be Hitler Youth camp. Point being, they are going to salute regardless of any injustice visited by power. They are power sycophants
by heritage. They feel they are the entitled class of whites even though they are suffering in education, jobs, prospects, womens rights....

Just be the jingoism party and you have that group. Wrap a flag around ... whatever, play rock you like a hurricane at a blue angels show, (credit Groening) that's quite enough.


All that said, I'm talking about some real salt of the earth people here in these comments. They are simply being duped. It's sad.
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"Easy to promise goods you'd never have to deliver." .. Well said.

I agree with all that .. but what is most significant within the context of this issue is that even after the Heil Hitler salute to Trump, NASCAR suffers far more than the NFL. Truth is that all major sports are struggling to refine their product to fit todays viewing habits .. AND, the sycophants that you so apply described are shrinking. NASCAR may never recover.

What's really sad is their fear of the future based on their own strange sense of inferiority. Without that privileged, what will life be worth?
 
TOP said:
Soul Train Awards and Erykah Badu? Next....that used to be an amazing awards show, btw.
Most of the awards shows were. Now, not so much. A great performance here and there, but the majority of those shows aren't worth watching anymore....
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Bitter Old Lady Eats Sour Grapes and Stomps Dainty Size 10s -- film at 11 on Fox News
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
He's saying you're righteous, EE is not so much.
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If calling a woman other than your wife your girlfriend is your idea of righteous then the Pope is a Baptist.
girl·friend
ˈɡərlˌfrend/Submit
noun
a regular female companion with whom a person has a romantic or sexual relationship.

So OW are you saying Mason is your boyfriend?
 
Eagle Eye said:
If calling a woman other than your wife your girlfriend is your idea of righteous then the Pope is a Baptist.
girl·friend
ˈɡərlˌfrend/Submit
noun
a regular female companion with whom a person has a romantic or sexual relationship.

So OW are you saying Mason is your boyfriend?
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Oh look, yet another lame ass attempt to start some shit. You and Toxic really need to get a life.

You often quote from Wikipedia so we'll presume that you find it a credible source. Here you go:

"A girlfriend is a female friend or acquaintance, often a regular female companion with whom one is platonic, romantically or sexually involved.[1][2]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girlfriend

Platonic: "Platonic love (often lower-cased as platonic[1]) is a term used for a type of love that is non-sexual. It is named after Plato, though the philosopher never used the term himself."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_love

And from your source, above:
"pla·ton·ic
pləˈtänik/
adjective
adjective: platonic

(of love or friendship) intimate and affectionate but not sexual.
"their relationship is purely platonic"
synonyms: nonsexual, nonphysical, chaste; More"

There you go, enough Acme Attention Troll Crumbs(tm) for you today.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
Oh look, yet another lame ass attempt to start some shit. You and Toxic really need to get a life.

You often quote from Wikipedia so we'll presume that you find it a credible source. Here you go:

"A girlfriend is a female friend or acquaintance, often a regular female companion with whom one is platonic, romantically or sexually involved.[1][2]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girlfriend

Platonic: "Platonic love (often lower-cased as platonic[1]) is a term used for a type of love that is non-sexual. It is named after Plato, though the philosopher never used the term himself."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_love

And from your source, above:
"pla·ton·ic
pləˈtänik/
adjective
adjective: platonic

(of love or friendship) intimate and affectionate but not sexual.
"their relationship is purely platonic"
synonyms: nonsexual, nonphysical, chaste; More"

There you go, enough Acme Attention Troll Crumbs(tm) for you today.
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Oh how quickly the mood swings, if you were younger I would think you were suffering from PMS. On second thought you suffer from permanent PMS. Sorry dear but the accepted definition of a girlfriend when referring to a man and woman is one of a romantic nature. Two women are girlfriends no romance involved. So I must have hit a little to close to home. LOL
 
TOP said:
She's just what those two dream of "recruiting"...their dream come true. Maybe they'll be able to move on now...back to the abandoned GRCP:)
(unfortunate thing is that they are everything that she hates....she's going to be devastated....)
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Might as well not get your hopes up,we won't move on.
" Can't we all just get along":-( :-) :-( :-) :-
 
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