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Here's a text 's worth reading or watching. And if you don't think white privilege is a fact, you don't understand America. They, and all of us, should protest how black Americans are treated in this country. It's a dog whistle to the racists among us to say otherwise. They are respecting the best thing about America. The young, black athletes are not disrespecting America or the military by taking a knee during the anthem. And he did not die so that you can decide who is a patriot and who loves America more. Carroll Meir will be 18 years old forever. My best friend in high school was killed in Vietnam. I served in the military during the Vietnam War. And college kids in the 60's had no right to protest an immoral war. Young, black Americans should have gone to a different college and found a different lunch counter. Watch these 3 minutes from Dallas sportscaster Dale Hansen talking about what Trump doesnt understand about the national anthem and the right to protest. Martin Luther King should have marched across a different bridge. But not this protest, and there's the problem: The opinion that any protest you don't agree with is a protest that should be stopped.

One of the best was from Dallas sports anchor Dale Hansen, who deftly cut to the core of the matter in a short monologue:ĭonald Trump has said he supports a peaceful protest because it's an American's right. And there were many takes, from political commentators and sports journalists alike. Naturally, NFL players took exception to this and over the weekend, many many more players kneeled, sat, or no-showed during the anthem.

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In the air, Luck threw for 23,671 yards and posted 1,590 rushing yards and 14 rushing touchdowns.Late last week, Donald Trump called any NFL player who kneels during the national anthem protesting police brutality a 'son of a bitch' (recall that this is the President of the United States we're talking about here) and said they should be fired (Ha! He said his catchphrase! From that TV show!).

#DALE HANSEN UNPLUGGED TRUMP PROFESSIONAL#

In his professional career, Luck threw 171 touchdown passes and had an overall completion rate of 60.8 percent. In his first three seasons, he led the team to three straight NFL playoff appearances and two AFC South division titles. Luck was the number one pick in the 2012 NFL Draft and began his career as the Colts' play-caller. 'I might be as stupid as so many of you tell me I am, but I have never been that stupid.' 'Football fans who will cheer the player who beats up a woman or drives drunk and kills people, who will cheer the player who uses illegal drugs, and who will cheer the player who cheats to win will boo a 29-year-old man who has been in constant pain for four years because he chooses his life over money,' he said. Hansen, who has been a fixture at WFAA since 1983, also panned the NFL's issues with domestic violence and drug use. 'But a lot of them go to football games everywhere too.' 'Some people are just too stupid to breathe the same air we breathe, and a lot of them live in Indiana,' Hansen added later. and fans at the Colts game Saturday night actually booed him as he walked off the field.' So he decides to walk away while he still can. Hansen referred to some of those in his segment, saying, 'Luck has a long list of injuries from playing this game: a concussion, a lacerated kidney, torn cartilage in a shoulder that kept him out a year, rib and ankle injuries too. The list of injuries are significant for Luck, including a concussion, a lacerated kidney and a shoulder injury that required surgery in the offseason and prevented him from playing in 2017. the only way forward for me is to remove myself from football,' Luck said. 'I haven't been able to live the life I want to live. In a post-game press conference, Luck told reporters that he didn't make the decision lightly, but felt it was the best choice given a career riddled with injuries. 'How stupid do you have to be? How bad does your life have to be that you think booing Andrew Luck or even criticizing him, as some guy on FOX did, is somehow the right response?,' Hansen asked during the segment, just a portion of his monologue that supported Luck's decision. Luck announced his retirement from the NFL on August 25. Andrew Luck #12 of the Indianapolis Colts in action during the Colts training camp at Grand Park on Augin Westfield, Indiana.

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