Seems to me, when you kneel, you are worshiping the one you kneel before. Am I missing something, or have the players been tricked to think they are protesting the flag and the National Anthem, when they are actually worshiping the flag and the National Anthem?
The NFL has used patriotism as part of its marketing since the 1950s. Now, people are learning that it was all just that – marketing scat. Just push the button on your TV remote if that upsets you. Go to the back yard and toss a football around with your kids, snuggle your baby (big or small), take a walk, read a book or watch a good movie. The NFL and the TV networks will notice soon enough.
Employers can’t punish employees for “concerted activity for mutual aid”
The real issue in the anthem protest cases is whether the players’ actions constitute “concerted activity for mutual aid or protection,” which is what federal labor law protects. ….
First, race discrimination — and certainly the acute kind that manifests as police violence — affects the targets of that discrimination across all spheres of their lives. Police violence directed at African-American men may happen away from the workplace, but that can’t mean that police violence has no impact on African-American men at work. Indeed, the idea that police violence, and other forms of race discrimination, can somehow be cabined away from work, just because that discrimination occurs away from work, is false. ….
Second, the NFL and the agreement the league has with the players stresses repeatedly that being an NFL player involves more than what happens on the field. ….
In other words, the job of being a football player involves much more of what in many other occupations might be classified as non-work or non-employment matters.
Third, although all the protesters have solid protection from labor law for the reasons I’ve outlined, it would be even more blatantly illegal to bench anthem protesters in cases in which they are taking a knee as a means of showing support for teammates threatened with discipline for their actions….
One final note. Even if anthem protests are protected by federal labor law, the players’ collective bargaining agreement could, in theory, waive their right to engage in them. …
According to the 3/5th compromise, black people only counted partially as people. So if you are on your knee, 3/5th of you is standing. I don’t see the problem. In fact, Frederick Douglass said yesterday that America is always good, and holy, and correct even when half it’s citizen have somehow gotten their head inextricably jammed up an unexpected sphincter.
ajmsdca over 6 years ago
Well, no players, no game. No game, no television money. No television money, no obscene profits. And what do they all want? Obscene profits
drivingfuriously Premium Member over 6 years ago
Seems to me, when you kneel, you are worshiping the one you kneel before. Am I missing something, or have the players been tricked to think they are protesting the flag and the National Anthem, when they are actually worshiping the flag and the National Anthem?
bob.gaston45 over 6 years ago
The NFL has used patriotism as part of its marketing since the 1950s. Now, people are learning that it was all just that – marketing scat. Just push the button on your TV remote if that upsets you. Go to the back yard and toss a football around with your kids, snuggle your baby (big or small), take a walk, read a book or watch a good movie. The NFL and the TV networks will notice soon enough.
Silly Season over 6 years ago
https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/10/14/16473534/benching-nfl-players-taking-knee-illegal-labor-law
Employers can’t punish employees for “concerted activity for mutual aid”
The real issue in the anthem protest cases is whether the players’ actions constitute “concerted activity for mutual aid or protection,” which is what federal labor law protects. ….
First, race discrimination — and certainly the acute kind that manifests as police violence — affects the targets of that discrimination across all spheres of their lives. Police violence directed at African-American men may happen away from the workplace, but that can’t mean that police violence has no impact on African-American men at work. Indeed, the idea that police violence, and other forms of race discrimination, can somehow be cabined away from work, just because that discrimination occurs away from work, is false. ….
Second, the NFL and the agreement the league has with the players stresses repeatedly that being an NFL player involves more than what happens on the field. ….
In other words, the job of being a football player involves much more of what in many other occupations might be classified as non-work or non-employment matters.
Third, although all the protesters have solid protection from labor law for the reasons I’ve outlined, it would be even more blatantly illegal to bench anthem protesters in cases in which they are taking a knee as a means of showing support for teammates threatened with discipline for their actions….
One final note. Even if anthem protests are protected by federal labor law, the players’ collective bargaining agreement could, in theory, waive their right to engage in them. …
Mr. Blawt over 6 years ago
Yeah right. Owners are not kissing anything on the players.
Daryl over 6 years ago
According to the 3/5th compromise, black people only counted partially as people. So if you are on your knee, 3/5th of you is standing. I don’t see the problem. In fact, Frederick Douglass said yesterday that America is always good, and holy, and correct even when half it’s citizen have somehow gotten their head inextricably jammed up an unexpected sphincter.