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In the end the true person has been revealed! The guy will will be fired from the team after this!
Another athlete can fill his spot and the dumb guy loses his job, money etc and can kneel church after he wants to change his life or join BLM and become a bigger fool.
I was skeptical from when I read his background comments about discrimination while growing up in Alabama - especially for a guy who is hardly recognizable as Black. But, I though, maybe it happened. Cut the guy some slack. Then I was skeptical about the "wouldn't serve me" story. That happens to cops sometimes, but not ordinary civilians. Civilians get ridiculed by dimwits at Starbucks and Hardees, but in the end they get their hamburgers.
Now I think there is actually something wrong with him. Chip on his shoulder; jerk, and all that, but something ain't right with Maxwell.
My baseball team would consist of guys who are assets in the dugout as well as on the field, so Maxwell would not be on the 25 man roster. "Games are won on the field; pennants are won in the dugout."
"Harvest, Alabama." That's the type of place I would expect something like that to happen LOL.
This is not a big deal at all. Very proud of the baseball player with a military family background for taking a knee, and I also commend him for putting his hand over his heart as a nice gesture.
That said, I also fully support the server's right to not want to serve him.
This is a non-story, IMO. Doubt I'll hear about it outside this thread on City-Data.
The server has no right to refuse service. He can quit his job and walk out before serving him, but the only one with the actual right to refuse service is the owner.
That being said, what’s the point of these protests? Why take a knee for the National Anthem? If they want to protest, do it on their own time. Protests in this way are actually detrimental to their cause. If done right, I think most people could agree that there’s a lot of bias and discrimination in police interactions. If people reach out and do it in a nice way instead of blocking freeways and chanting about frying pigs like bacon, or **** off the customer base of the organization that makes players millionaires, or refusing to serve people who come to the restaurant you work at (and this happens frequently to police), then you aren’t winning anyone over to your side.
There’s a reason MLK was more effective than the Black Panthers or Malcom X. People are more persuaded by clear peaceful means than by guerrilla tactics.
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