San Francisco Chronicle storyFrom the @sfchronicle’s Santiago Mejia, here is A’s rookie Bruce Maxwell becoming the first MLB player to take a knee for the anthem: pic.twitter.com/q8QVY9hW15— Susan Slusser (@susanslusser) September 24, 2017
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Question: Does Congress have a band play The National Anthem before each session?
Or maybe a recording?
Is attendance taken each morning? Do cameras sweep the chamber(s) to make sure no one is talking during the Anthem?
I've been to court. The judge walks in, he sits down -- no music. No Pledge of Allegiance.
ALSO: I go to the movie theater, no anthem. I go to live Broadway theater (damn rare) -- no anthem. I get something at the Subway sandwich place.....no anthem.
This country is goddamn unpatriotic. Let's start with Congress! I'd like to see Nancy Pelosi take a knee....
It is? Wow. I'm out.
I SAW A SMALL SEGMENT STORY ON A NEWS SHOW ABOUT A YEAR BACK.
IT WAS RIGHT AFTER ALL THE KAPERNICK CRAP STARTED.
THE STORY WAS A BOUT A COLLEGE BASKETBALL COACH THAT CONTACTED AND ASKED ABOUT 5 - 7 VETERANS OF WAR TO ATTEND HIS TEAMS NEXT BASKETBALL GAME AND STAND ON THE COURT DURING THE PLAYING OF THE NATIONAL ANTHEM.
SOME OF THE VETS WERE VERY OLD, AND A COUPLE OF THE OTHERS WERE YOUNGER, BUT MISSING LIMBS, AND WERE WHEEL CHAIR BOUND.
THE COACH TOLD HIS TEAM, " OUR TEAM IS GOING TO STAND AND SHOW RESPECT FOR THIS FLAG AND FOR THESE VETERANS.... THEY MADE SACRIFICES FOR ALL OF US.... IT IS ABOUT THESE MEN, WHY WE STAND DURING THIS ANTHEM.... SO WE ARE GOING TO STAND STRAIGHT, NOT SAY ANYTHING, AND SHOW RESPECT FOR THESE MEN."
THE VETERANS WERE ALL THERE ON THE COURT.
IT WAS BEAUTIFUL, AND IT PUT EVERYTHING IN PROSPECTIVE.
THAT COACH HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD.
THAT IS WHY WE STAND.
I like your reasons for standing, All-Caps Anonymous. There are very good reasons to take a knee, too. They're easy to find & I won't go through them here.
Don't go, KD! That was an exaggeration for comic effect.
Your damned right, there are good reasons for NOT standing, Mustang!! I wish I could go out there and take a knee with them...meantime, I say good for Bruce Maxwell and all the others.
This is a response to a fight-picking, warmongering IDIOT who purports to be running the Big Show - - and even his big buddy, Robert Kraft, is pissed off, now.
I mean no disrespect to any veterans - - my wife works for the VA - - she has never failed to do her best to help one of them (on the tech side of things, day or night, and I have had many a cold meal at 4 AM to prove it) - - but there are other, better ways to show respect for the veterans, like pressing for better treatment of them in the workplace, and better treatment for the ones traumatized by fighting. We SHOULD take care of them - - they served us - - but the way to do it is NOT to play an un-singable, awful tune we stole from the Redcoats, in the first place, and force people to stand for it, whether they want to, or not. LB (No J)
Here's a bunch of reasons why we should be kneeling...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdHv3iVvTmY
I think we take this country for granted. Is it perfect hell no but I'd STILL rather live here than in any other country (besides Israel and perhaps New Zealand :)
Besides we watch sports as an escape from the daily realities of life the "last"thing we need or want is to yet have another venue in which this political nonsense I shoved down our throats. Just play the damn game the anthem is a few minutes long ... It ain't gonna kill you to stand for a few minutes besides you don't like a law do the work it takes to try and change it which last I checked was NOT KNEELING. I find it ironic that these same people would stand for "God save the queen" considering all the opression and the evils of colonialism caused throughout history in the name of that flag ask the Dalai Lama how he'd feel about that since these players are supposedly kneeling for those who have no voice
We just want to watch a fun game. Dear Baseball
Please don't become the NBA/NFL
...but, it's NOT political nonsense, anonymous above this - - there is a LOT to it that's not. Furthermore, this current fight was deliberately picked - - in Mississippi - - a place where jingoism resounds well - - by that fool who has been talking tought to "Little Rocket Man", so reclessly. He deliberately did that for a diversion from his problems (helth-care plan failing again, Charlottesville speech not well-received, Rocket Man & Co., Mueller & Co., Luther Strange running behind) - - you name it - - he's winning so much, we can't STAND all the winning - right??
Also, since the law (first amendment, no less) is on OUR side, what law are you encouraging us to work to change?? On the contrary, if Orange-Hair doesn't like it that other people have 1st Amendment rights, same as he does, HE can try to convince Congress to pass a law he likes better...
One more point, they have been making today: these NFL teams (and some MLB teams, as well, were offered big dollars in 2007 when Guess-Who was in office - - to put on patriotic shows. They have been shamelessly wasting our taxpayer money on this nonsense, ever since. That needs to be stopped. LB (No J)
The only place I kneel is at church in the presence of the Lord.
And Shannon Sharpe can kick rocks. A black man shot a church up today and they took him alive. A bunch of black guys are arrested everyday without incident, but the media loves to publicize every unarmed black guy that gets killed by police. Fun fact, of the black people killed by police, 3% are unarmed. Of the white people killed by police, 3% are unarmed. In the words of the Master, wowwie zowwie. Can anyone name one of those white people? Probably not, white people don't burn down cities when someone they've never met dies and thus it doesn't get the headlines. Hell, name me an Asian or Hispanic. Can't do that either. Shannon Sharpe probably believes the Dallas shooter was unjustly blown up, I mean they should have taken him into custody.
A man with CTE puts forth an argument on par with something an 8th grade debate team would. Was that video supposed to wow anyone?
Leinstery, your "fun fact" is unsourced. According to a study of police killings in 2015 published by the journal Criminology & Public Policy, fifteen per cent of black people killed were not carrying a weapon at the time, compared to six per cent of whites and 11 per cent of other minority groups.
However the notion that this ONLY STARTED happening because Cheetoh face is EVIL is ridiculous JUNK like this ha been happening almost since the beginning of this countries inception including Obama Clinton bush etc... Where was the kneeling then????
@Leinstery...you benefit from white privilege and you don't even know it...smh.
Anonymous, Colin Kaepernick started kneeling in the 2016 pre-season, when Obama was president. Many players emulated his protest yesterday in response to well-known statements the current president made last week.
Mustang> I'm with you on this!
A couple points ...
1. Many U.S. veterans approve of these protests, saying they fought so that people would have the right to do this. I know one.
2. It's possible to respect both Bruce Maxwell and Alejandro Villanueva.
You guys can take a knee with Kaepernick and disrespect our country while wearing socks that depict our police officers as pigs if you want. I'm done with the lot of you. Too bad - this used to be a fun place to hang.
Sorry to see you go--I wish people could disagree and still watch baseball together. I have to say I see no good reason for anyone to misrepresent my socks.
GUYS...LETS KEEP IT SIMPLE....
GO BACK TO THE BASKETBALL COACH, HIS PLAYERS, AND THE VETS ON MY EARLIER POST.
STAND.
NO KNEELING FOR A LOUSY MINUTE AND A HALF.
RESPECT FOR THOSE WHOSE HAVE SACRIFICED LIFE AND LIMB!
IT'S..... NOT...... ABOUT......YOU!!!!!
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