4 student athletes in Lansing, including the team’s starting QB, will be benched for PLANNING to take a knee.http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/sports/high-school/2017/10/05/lansing-catholic-national-anthem/737139001/ …
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Michael Lynn III, the team captain & starting quarterback, on being benched, “I am a young black man in America. This feels like oppression”pic.twitter.com/pdaNVXIcm7
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Punishment for peaceful political expression is the cornerstone of an authoritarian government or institution.
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Shameful, on the school's behalf, but he WILL overcome.
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Everything he said was right on. Kudos to this young man! I hope great things will come his way, despite the school's oppressive stance.
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It is oppression.
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"If you are comfortable with my oppression, then you are my oppressor" -A. Philip Randolph
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#Liberty#Democracy#Freedom Death by a thousand cuts.#WhiteSupremacists will kill#FreedomofSpeech for#POC then outright murder of#POCpic.twitter.com/H9IyT05NqS
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It is.
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This makes me angry & sad.
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The stars of the team should take a knee so the team loses and we’ll see about all that money the school gets from such talent.
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It is oppression and it must be stopped by any means necessary.
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what a well-spoken young man...he's right, it is oppression. That school has a reputation for being uppity though so I'm not too surprised
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doesn't really seem very religious to lie to young ppl this way either....
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