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I didn't know you could "fire" a volunteer. So no, he's not out of a job. Which seems to be what a couple of you think.
Tell you what will happen, since volunteer departments generally elect their officers every year or two years. He'll remain a member of the department, likely remain on the board of directors.
So, you are defending what he said? Explain your post.
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Geez. Whether you support it or are against it, one thing is for sure: taking a knee is working. The players are drawing the attention to the issues like they wanted. The NFL has dominated the front page of the political section for the last several days.
They knelt before the anthem and then ALL stood prior to the anthem starting and through it.
You are moving the goalposts again. They DID do a protest, on the field, and Jerry participated in it. You can claim, correctly (I assume) that they stood during the anthem, but the fact remains, they made a clear statement, in solidarity with the players, not Trump, by taking the knee.
It is my OPINION that they had to come up with a way to save face for their boss, and so did he. The compromise was take the knee before, so they can stand during. But the argument that has been given is that these rich, black people don't get to have a voice because they are there to entertain us, and they don't suffer because they are overpaid, so they seem to have no rights to speak up for other Americans. That was rejected, they made the statement. They used their platform to do good for the nation, not simply to earn their ticket price.
Are you going to tell me they are in solidarity with the President? If you do, I'd have to disagree.
If the only time they kneel is when the anthem is played, then yes they are doing it to say the flag is not their flag. They're not kneeling when giving interviews after a game. They're not kneeling when they get to the register at the grocery store or when they buy gas. If their message is something other than they don't like the US, why is their kneeling message restricted to when the anthem is played? Shouldn't they be looking to convey their message at every opportunity?
Kneeling has NEVER been a sign of disrespect. Never.
Two of the first three posts were.........inaccurate.
well, that's an extremely kind way of putting it...
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