08-30-2016, 09:40 PM
(08-30-2016, 01:56 PM)bengalguy71 Wrote: I haven't seen anything in any rooms here, about Kap's national anthem stunt.
Yes, he's getting negative criticism, but also, amazing to me, a lot of support as well.
1. Will any Bengals be foolish enough to follow suit?
2. Will Brown/Lewis tolerate it?
1. I could not care less.
2. Yes, Brown and Lewis are adults and they will say players have a right to their opinions.
On a related note, I saw a long diatribe from a veteran who said any veteran who would condemn Kaepernick was not worthy of wearing the uniform. That is what the military fights for, per that veteran and many other veterans and civilians: freedom.
In many other countries this dissent would not be tolerated. America is (allegedly) different because we have freedom. Ironic when "patriots" want us to be more like a gulag or dictatorship. North Korea today would not tolerate Kaepernick's behavior. China probably wouldn't either. Germany or Italy in the late 1930's to mid 1940's? No way. Many of "them Moslem countries" today like Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Iraq would not be cool with it. We are supposed to be different here. Irony chock full of iron like I have never seen...
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.