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Offline Machiavelli

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Entire Indiana Fever Team Kneels During Anthem Before Playoff Game
« on: September 22, 2016, 04:42:29 pm »
Jonah Engel Bromwich
The New York Times
September 21, 2016

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The latest round of athlete protests during the playing of the national anthem came Wednesday against the backdrop of recent fatal shootings of black men by the police in Tulsa, Okla., and Charlotte, N.C.

Before a win-or-go-home W.N.B.A. playoff game against the Phoenix Mercury in Indianapolis on Wednesday, every Indiana Fever player knelt and linked arms as the national anthem played.

They were joined by two Mercury players, Mistie Bass and Kelsey Bone. The other Mercury players remained standing.

Even given the high stakes of the game, Fever Coach Stephanie White told her players that she had been proud to see what she characterized as an important gesture.

"I'm proud of y'all for doing that together, being in that together," she said, according to ESPN. "That's big. That's big. It's bigger than basketball, right? Bigger than basketball."
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Re: Entire Indiana Fever Team Kneels During Anthem Before Playoff Game
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2016, 04:58:02 pm »
Otter: I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part!

Bluto: We're just the guys to do it.
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Re: Entire Indiana Fever Team Kneels During Anthem Before Playoff Game
« Reply #2 on: September 24, 2016, 12:10:11 am »
Quote from: andy58-in-nh on September 22, 2016, 04:58:02 pm
Otter: I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part!

Bluto: We're just the guys to do it.
Here's a bunch of athletes in a league that has to be subsidized to exist doing their best to irritate their paltry fan base.  If the NBA didn't subsidize them, these players would have to try and use their Womyn's Studies and Black Studies degrees to try and find a job somewhere. Keep it up girls, maybe you can protest yourselves out of a job.
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