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Originally posted by darthfuster:

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Originally posted by dusty3030:

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Originally posted by 12131:
Brainwashing them as early as possible, using them as pawns. This is what commies do.

Bingo.

This isn't a new phenomenon.

And, the current champion.

On Cold and Chicago morn another little child is born... in the ghetto
And his momma cries.

There is a football coach that would "take a knee" on the football field and pray. First Amendmet issue. What happened?

"A three-judge panel ruled the Bremerton School District was justified in suspending Coach Joe Kennedy after he took a knee and prayed silently at midfield after football games.

"When Kennedy kneeled and prayed on the fifty-yard line immediately after games while in view of students and parents, he spoke as a public employee, not as a private citizen, and his speech therefore was constitutionally unprotected," the 9th Circuit wrote."

It follows that the other coach is a public employee and his speech was constitutionally unprotected. However, this is the 9th Circuit (AKA "the Loony Left") so the decision would be the opposite.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion...t-pray-on-field.html

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Originally posted by toms:

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Originally posted by parabellum:
It's not the kids, it's the coach.

Yes sir. You nailed it.

Yep, old saying, "Attitude reflects coaching."

You occasionally come across players who defy their coaches, but teams that exhibit good or bad sportsmanship are reflections of their coaches.

If my kid was on that team the coach and I would have a little come to Jesus chat.

Hereeeee comet ... Comet.... Comet.....

many many years ago when I was 8, I lived in an inner city.

My playground was back alleys 10' wide and made of concrete.

If I could have looked into the future and seen these kids, with their uniforms, helmets, grass field, coach, - I would have thought they were the luckiest kids in the world.

But they dishonor our flag, anthem, and country.

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Originally posted by iron chef:

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Originally posted by toms:

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Originally posted by parabellum:
It's not the kids, it's the coach.

Yes sir. You nailed it.

Yep, old saying, "Attitude reflects coaching."

You occasionally come across players who defy their coaches, but teams that exhibit good or bad sportsmanship are reflections of their coaches.

This could have very well been a small group of parents of influential players who staged this as their own personal protest. Kids do as their friends do. It "MAY" have had nothing to do with the coach, and he may have been as surprised as anyone if he didn't see this coming.

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Originally posted by Rightwire:
This could have very well been a small group of parents of influential players who staged this as their own personal protest. Kids do as their friends do. It "MAY" have had nothing to do with the coach, and he may have been as surprised as anyone if he didn't see this coming.

It could have been, but it wasn't.

8-year-old Cahokia football team kneels during anthem ahead of recent game

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

The coach said he spoke to them about that and other situations that have happened in our country. He then explained why former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick started kneeling during the anthem.

“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.’”'

Here's the stick. Who is killing "black people" in this country with few arrests? Yes, it is other black people and a bankrupt hood rat culture of "snitches get stitches". Folks, the numbers just don't lie.

The largest part of the problem has nothing to do with the deaths. It is the ignorance that is being spread to advance an agenda, and the poisoning of souls that is occurring. Crappernick and the whole BLM movement is about money, not justice. These kids are an unfortunate side effect of that struggle for money and power.

I hate Illinois Hitlerjugend.

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Originally posted by iron chef:

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Originally posted by Rightwire:
This could have very well been a small group of parents of influential players who staged this as their own personal protest. Kids do as their friends do. It "MAY" have had nothing to do with the coach, and he may have been as surprised as anyone if he didn't see this coming.

It could have been, but it wasn't.

8-year-old Cahokia football team kneels during anthem ahead of recent game

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

The coach said he spoke to them about that and other situations that have happened in our country. He then explained why former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick started kneeling during the anthem.

“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.’”'

I stand corrected, thanks for the information.

A youth athletic coach should never bring his personal feelings, politics, agendas, etc to the players. Every. This guy needs to understand that he's there to coach sports, not become part of a national debate

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Originally posted by Rightwire:

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Originally posted by iron chef:

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Originally posted by Rightwire:
This could have very well been a small group of parents of influential players who staged this as their own personal protest. Kids do as their friends do. It "MAY" have had nothing to do with the coach, and he may have been as surprised as anyone if he didn't see this coming.

It could have been, but it wasn't.

8-year-old Cahokia football team kneels during anthem ahead of recent game

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

The coach said he spoke to them about that and other situations that have happened in our country. He then explained why former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick started kneeling during the anthem.

“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.’”'

I stand corrected, thanks for the information.

A youth athletic coach should never bring his personal feelings, politics, agendas, etc to the players. Every. This guy needs to understand that he's there to coach sports, not become part of a national debate

Exactly... If he were a better coach, he could have used the "teaching moment" to respond to his players' question but also to teach them to check their egos and politics at the door. It's disgusting, b/c youth sports might be the only chance these kids have to participate in an uncorrupted sporting organization.

At 8 those kids should be focused on learning the game and playing as a team.

Throwing your political ideas in as a coach has no room at all. I bet most of the kids don't understand the issue at all.

When I was 8 playing sports I just wanted to play and be part of the team. I didn't even know what protesting was.