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Third graders take a knee n the field...

Good you would step up.

As your sins coach what opinions of yours do you think you passed on to the kids?
Work hard, play fair, success comes to those that work for it, nothing is given to you. That's what I passed on.
 
Work hard, play fair, success comes to those that work for it, nothing is given to you. That's what I passed on.

Do you think the coach in question taught his team that also? He just added I more lessons about standing up (or kneeling)for what you believe in?

I'm not sure how I would react if it easy kids coach, but I would hope I wouldn't pull my son or ask for his job. At least not before telling the coach I want my child to stand and seeing how it was handled
 
Why do you say it's a school function?

Most pee wee leagues I know of are community organized. Socialistic organizations don't usually start till late middle or high school another 4 years or so for these kids.

If it's a club then I don't have an issue with it. The "3rd graders" part seemed to imply a school function to me.
 
Parents talking/telling their kids something vs school faculty? Hmmm....something tells me you're good at this false comparison thing.

Nice try the school had the parents permission.
 
Nice try the school had the parents permission.

It turns out it was a club, not a school event, so no problems. That aside, it wouldn't matter if the parents had the parents' permission if it actually was a school event, it's not their place, full stop.
 
I'd pull my kid out off the team, and then demand the coach be fired for trying to project his political activism on young impressionable children.

But the parents of the children that participated were aligned. Why is their desire to influence their children's political upbringing any less valid than yours when you pulled your kid out? And if it's not, what did the guy do wrong, exactly? It was a gesture of support for a civil issue anyway, not a political one.
 
Do you think the coach in question taught his team that also? He just added I more lessons about standing up (or kneeling)for what you believe in?

I'm not sure how I would react if it easy kids coach, but I would hope I wouldn't pull my son or ask for his job. At least not before telling the coach I want my child to stand and seeing how it was handled

He taught them a lie.
 
But the parents of the children that participated were aligned. Why is their desire to influence their children's political upbringing any less valid than yours when you pulled your kid out? And if it's not, what did the guy do wrong, exactly? It was a gesture of support for a civil issue anyway, not a political one.

That's says nothing good about those parents or the state of the national culture.
 
Third graders don't know their ass from macaroni unless someone tells them.

The idea of a third-grade ball team engaging in political protest at a game is ridiculous, and should be ridiculed.
 
I agree with Jehovah’s Witnesses that we shouldn’t participate in any nationalistic and patriotic rituals. Their religious reasons for having this position are quite solid. The true kingdom and government is the Messianic one which will be based in Jerusalem its eternal capital. The Messiah will come and dash all other nations with an iron rod like the breaking of pottery, that includes the United States. It is a kind of idolatry to pledge allegiance to the flag, stand up for the national anthem or celebrate the 4th of July. It is said that “patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel” and that is absolutely true. I refuse to participate in any ‘civic duty’ or display of patriotism. My libertarian philosophy furthermore persuades me that the State is to be constantly suspected and kept at bay, never celebrated. The state is a necessary evil for the administration of law and order. Its functions should be kept to the bare minimum because if it becomes too powerful and too large it will only be to the detriment of personal liberty and freedom.
 
The entire football team, made up of third graders, took a knee at their school football game. The coach says he had the support of all the parents and was, of course, protected by the First Amendment. A little boy interviewed was asked why and he said, paraphrased, "Because black people are being murdered and nobody's going to jail."

Young football players kneel during national anthem in protest | WSB-TV

Would you, as a parent, support the coach's decision? Are the parents right? Is the coach right to engineer this demonstration?

Awe. That's sweet. Black people are being murdered and nobody's going to jail. Doees the interviewed child understand that Blacks are murdered by Blacks at an incredible rate and that that is the greatest problem in this respect that the country has? But Blacks let this happen in their communities, while selling the theme song of Black Lives Matter to children and mobs. It is a disgrace. But worse, it imbeds a victim culture in the hearts and minds of Blacks that harms them and perrpetuates their lack of success.
 
That's says nothing good about those parents or the state of the national culture.

Oh stop, says you. So, if parents don't do it exactly the way you like, politically, they're bad parents, and the nation is going to hell in a handbasket? Is that what you're actually saying? Hopefully that's not the messaging you're passing onto your kid.
 
I didn't realise you were raising children to think like Islamic Terrorists.

Nope, i dont agree with throwing people with a mental issue off tall buildings! Get them help not ignore their mental issue and call them normal and brave
 
I have lost track of most of the people who brainwashed me during my childhood. I forgive them all. At least none of them raped me. My dad, currently in his 80s, still tries to brainwash me.

Kentucky, when compared with most of the other states, IMO, has a disproportionate number of aspiring Brainwashers. Watch out!

I'm not an original Kentuckian. Something you probably don't realize because Kentucky is considered a "red state" is that for many decades, including when I first moved here up to just recently, Kentucky was a diehard blue state, except for federal elections. It was Democratic as far as the eye could see with Democratic mayors, Democratic governors, and a Democratic controlled state legislature. It is only over the last few years that people have thrown the Democrats out and taken over the governorship and the state legislature. I've had my fill of Democratic brainwashing and over these last few years the voting public has wised up to their BS.
 
I agree with Jehovah’s Witnesses that we shouldn’t participate in any nationalistic and patriotic rituals. Their religious reasons for having this position are quite solid. The true kingdom and government is the Messianic one which will be based in Jerusalem its eternal capital. The Messiah will come and dash all other nations with an iron rod like the breaking of pottery, that includes the United States. It is a kind of idolatry to pledge allegiance to the flag, stand up for the national anthem or celebrate the 4th of July. It is said that “patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel” and that is absolutely true. I refuse to participate in any ‘civic duty’ or display of patriotism. My libertarian philosophy furthermore persuades me that the State is to be constantly suspected and kept at bay, never celebrated. The state is a necessary evil for the administration of law and order. Its functions should be kept to the bare minimum because if it becomes too powerful and too large it will only be to the detriment of personal liberty and freedom.

Lol, what an absolute load of hogwash, poppycock, and balderdash.
 
Oh stop, says you. So, if parents don't do it exactly the way you like, politically, they're bad parents, and the nation is going to hell in a handbasket? Is that what you're actually saying? Hopefully that's not the messaging you're passing onto your kid.

If parents teach their kids "black people are being murdered, and nobody's going to jail", then yes, they are bad parents. This is irrefutable. Might as well teach them "kill whitey". :roll:
 
If parents teach their kids "black people are being murdered, and nobody's going to jail", then yes, they are bad parents. This is irrefutable. Might as well teach them "kill whitey". :roll:

You'll pardon me if, based on your input on this subject, I don't give a rat's ass what your definition of "bad parents" is in this context... lol... Also, I think you need to look up the definition of irrefutable, I think you're using it wrong.
 
I'm not an original Kentuckian. Something you probably don't realize because Kentucky is considered a "red state" is that for many decades, including when I first moved here up to just recently, Kentucky was a diehard blue state, except for federal elections. It was Democratic as far as the eye could see with Democratic mayors, Democratic governors, and a Democratic controlled state legislature. It is only over the last few years that people have thrown the Democrats out and taken over the governorship and the state legislature. I've had my fill of Democratic brainwashing and over these last few years the voting public has wised up to their BS.

"Kentucky Democrats" are not real Democrats. A perfect example is that bitch who refused to do her job issuing marriage licenses because she claimed it violated her religious beliefs. She's a perfect example of a "Kentucky Republican".
 
Greetings, AlbqOwl. :2wave:

Well said, and I totally agree! :thumbs: Back in by-gone days when I was in grade school, we were taught to recite the Pledge of Allegiance before any other "learning" took place in the classroom.

I well remember atheist Madalyn O'Hair's lawsuit about prayer in school, which she won, but loyalty to flag and country have little or nothing to do with religion, IMO. She met a gruesome death at a later time - she was once called the "most hated woman in America," but when did honoring our country's flag become something that was not politically correct? And who decided that?

How many thousands upon thousands of our young men have given their lives for our country - many of them black - and children today are being taught to disrespect that? :bs is my response to that wrong!

BS indeed. I just can't imagine the depth of hatred for country, flag, honor, etc. that would cause a person to refuse to respect protocol during the National Anthem. I sincerely and honestly wish all such people would move to a country more to their liking and leave this one to us terrible people who understand the fortunes, effort, risk of life, and loss of life that has made our liberties and blessings possible and that has corrected and is still correcting past wrongs. And to teach the children to share such hatred is in my opinion so terribly wrong that it borders on criminal.

The Founding Fathers knew we were human and capable of error and that there would be mistakes made and it would be necessary to correct those mistakes. But our country and flag represents all that is honorable in that it allows we the people to correct our mistakes and improve and get better with each passing generation.
 
Lol, what an absolute load of hogwash, poppycock, and balderdash.

Lol “Hogwash” only British losers say that. Now instead of giving your useless remarks why don’t you actually refute what I said?
 
this has no place in this setting.

what happens to the one or the few who refuse to participate in such a political statement? you kind of guess that one.
 
what lie?

“I felt like it was a good teaching moment for me to circle the team and have a meeting,” he said.

Gooden said he spoke with his team about that and other situations that have taken place recently in the United States and explained why free agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick and others have knelt during the anthem in protest.

“One of the kids asked, ‘Can we do that?’ I said, ‘As long as we know why we’re doing it, I don’t have a problem with any of it,'” he said.
 
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