Athletes Protesting the Anthem are Hypocrites or Worse

by Mark Angelides

All of these NFL players and now MLB players who are protesting the symbols and institutions of the United States are at best hypocrites and at worst liars. They have every right to protest any perceived insult or unfairness that they think exists, and I have the right to call the liars and hypocrites for it…It is after all my opinion…and it appears that opinion is all that counts nowadays. If you’re wondering why I use the specific term hypocrite or liar, let me explain.
They say they are protesting because of injustice, institutionalized racism and inequality. But let’s look at these in the cold light of reality.
If there is in fact institutionalized racism, then by its very nature it is institutionalized and has been around for a long time (in fact, as the term would suggest, since the creation of these institutions). So why is that they are only now protesting them? Did the racism become “more institutionalized” or is it that these masters of brainpower hadn’t been informed by the MSM that they were racist? If they were not aware, then clearly it can’t be a particularly pervasive racism, and if they were aware, why didn’t they protest before?
If these institutions are racist now, then they were racist under Barack Obama. It’s simple logic! So their lack of protest (until it becomes popular within the media to bash the US) marks them out as not only hypocrites but complicit in keeping quiet about the abuses they “surely” knew were happening.
And what of inequality? I agree absolutely that there is inequality, but it is not based on race, it is based on poverty. Why can’t they see that it is not black people that are being held down but poor people? Those without money are being denied access to opportunity and access to influence…they are playing into the hands of race haters and bigots by buying this nonsense.
And injustice? Well the actual figures show that there is a like for like impact of policing on people regardless of race. Black folk are not disproportionately targeted; they are proportionately targeted based on the areas in which they live. Again, this is about poverty, not race. A poor white kid and a poor black kid are going to equally screwed over by a system that hates them for their poverty, not because of their skin colour.
So I say again. They are either hypocrites because they let these “terrible things” continue without a murmur from 2008 to 2016, or they don’t believe in them, in which case they are liars. And yet again, “progressive politics” has divided us. All in the name of keeping us blind form the very real class war that is happening right now.

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31 thoughts on “Athletes Protesting the Anthem are Hypocrites or Worse”

  1. The Anthem glorifies war. “The bombs bursting in air..” War is organized and legalized murder. Why would anyone support mass murder by men, other than Psychopaths…

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      • …if you are implying that The War of Northern Aggression was fought over slavery…you are badly misinformed. Wars are fought for bankers, kings, queens and the elite….
        War Pimps
        Filling in the void, of a totally empty mind.
        One tries to look forward, for hollow-souls this blind.
        How can they continue, lost in their belief?
        Of government that rules, yet provides no fair relief?
        Do they not see the crimes, the murder and the theft?
        All done in their name, while stealing all that’s left.
        They take all that they can, because the Empire is falling.
        War is all they have left, a sociopathic-calling.
        Fans of war just cheer, from the shadows and the light.
        Knowing they won’t bleed, or have to join the fight.
        War-Pimps is what they are, for others to die in their place.
        They scream and yell for war, while hiding their cowardly face.
        RJ O’Guillory –

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    • Oh stop with being irrational and dispensing with logic and history. Wars have existed in some form since the inception of mankind and there is no moral high ground in failing to respond in kind to aggression.

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    • Brit bombs,cannons and rockets firing on Fort McHenry. These idiots did stand for God Save The Queen adding insult to injury. Very interesting. Maybe they should move to merry ole England.

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  2. the athletes are hypocrites? Why ? could it be they have learned how to be from the actions of their government?
    Bombing for humanitarian reasons and other lies?
    My God USA…wake up! North Korea is not the threat to the world, although they are behaving stupidly, the whole world sees the US as the threat.
    Stand up all you beautiful people of USA…say NO to their wars…

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  3. The disrespectful NFL monkeys are simply mindless tools used by their Jewish “owners”
    to further attempt to divide the nation and provide a distraction
    from the previous eight years of runaway lawlessness under Obama.

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  4. This is just another communist inspired attack upon America….and the stupid NFL players fall for their sheet every time….just like the actors in Hollywood have fallen into the same communist trap. It’s all jew run….from the team owners to the Hollywood producers…..and they don’t want to piss off their owners, now do they? The celebs think their individual political views are to be shared with their fans in hopes that they too will embrace communism and turn against America.

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  5. I’m so done with these nobody’s that get paid millions of dollars for what?
    To protest? The national anthem was there before Trump, will be there after Trump, so what is the problem?
    Look around the half empty stadiums, they must be all empty and lets see how these lowlifes, unAmerican traitor scumbags will make their millions. TV, ESPN was turned off long time ago.
    Good luck assholes!

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  6. it seems this is the latest way to get attention for those craving it.yes they are hypocrites of the worst sort. the time to protest something they do not like is not while on their jobs.

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  7. “Athletes Protesting the Anthem are Hypocrites or Worse’
    The words of an idiot, at best.
    Since when is anyone not entitled to peacefully protest?
    And an elected President who declares otherwise is the biggest idiot of all.

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  8. DEMAND your politicians Take away the TAX breaks the PAIDtriots live off.
    The parasites have been living like Communists off American TAXPAYERS for decades.
    No more Taxpayer funded stadiums or tax breaks.
    They even had to be BRIBED to pretend to love America:
    http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhOp2WAWT8vsDYXQ12
    NFL RULES!! The specific rule pertaining to the national anthem is found on pages A62-63 of the league rulebook. It states:
    The National Anthem must be played prior to every NFL game, and all players must be on the sideline for the National Anthem.
    “During the National Anthem, players on the field and bench area should stand at attention, face the flag, hold helmets in their left hand, and refrain from talking. The home team should ensure that the American flag is in good condition. It should be pointed out to players and coaches that we continue to be judged by the public in this area of respect for the flag and our country. Failure to be on the field by the start of the National Anthem may result in discipline, such as fines, suspensions, and/or the forfeiture of draft choice(s) for violations of the above, including first offenses.”
    The Cleveland Browns, owned by Jimmy Haslam we’re allowed to take a knee once again during the National Anthem @ Indianapolis. Pilot and Flying J truckstops are owned by Haslam. Two patriots call for a boycott of these truckstops.

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  9. Why are they not protesting their “brothers” in Africa who sold them to the Slavers?
    Tear down ALL the holocaust museums & Synagogues ……
    You must buy and read the Nation of Islam’s book, “The Secret Relationship Between Black and Jews”. It outlines how the jews funded, managed and ran the North and South American slave trade. Every comment is backed by facts – ironically, mostly ALL from jewish sources. You can watch brief videos on Minister Louis Farrakhan.
    https://youtu.be/Ut7I75Q_-zA a good summation
    Jews were behind the Transatlantic Slave Trade… The names of Jewish Slave Ships and their owners: The “Abigail -Caracoa” – Aaron Lopez, Moses Levy, Jacob Crown, Isaac Levy, Nathan Simpson – “The Nassau” – Moses Levy The “Four Sisters” – Moses Levy The “Anne” and The “Eliza” – Justus Bosch and John Abrams The “Prudent Betty” – Henry Cruger and Jacob Phoenix The “Hester” – Mordeci and David Gomez The “Elizabeth” – Mordecai and David Gomez The “Antigua” – Nathan Marston and Abram Lyell The “Betsy” – Wm. De Woolf The “Polly” – James De Woolf The “White Horse” – Jan De Sweevts the “Expedition” – John and Jacob Roosevelt the “Charlotte” – Moses and Sam Levy – “The Franks” Jacob Franks Moses and Sam Levy Jacob Rader Marcus – “All through the eighteenth century, into the early nineteenth, Jews in the North were to own black servants; in the South, the few plantations owned by Jews were tilled with slave labor. In 1820, over 75 percent of all -Jewish- families in Charleston, Richmond, and Savannah owned slaves, employed as domestic servants; almost 40 percent of all -Jewish- householders in the United States owned one slave or more. There were no protests against slavery as such by Jews in the South, where they were always outnumbered at least 100 to 1….But very few Jews anywhere in the United States protested against chattel slavery on moral grounds.” United States Jewry, 1776-1985 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989), p. 586.

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  10. http://nflarrest.com/#ByTeam Arrests by Team
    http://freebeacon.com/culture/highest-paid-nfl-players-who-protested-national-anthem-on-sunday/
    Highest paid NFL Players
    By the looks of these “team members” they have a very bad case of do what ever the F I want and get paid
    millions to play a freaking kid’s game.
    These people need to grow up and act like adults and REAL role models….not spoiled rotten brats.
    If you are paid to ‘entertain” then you need to live up to what you are paid to do and leave your personal
    politics at home.

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