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Kneeling, Raising Fists, and Other Political Expressions Banned at Tokyo Olympics

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President Trump Continues to Stoke Division With Kneeling Issue

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The NHL Sees Its First Kneeling Player During the Anthem in Support of BLM

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NBA Players Join Wave of Protesters, Kneeling During the Anthem

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Bring In the Firing Squad: Columnist has the Sad Because Team Does Not Place Hands Over Heart During Anthem

In a column that is heavy on outrage, but short on reading comprehension, Caiden Cowger laments that the members of the Huntington Higlanders girls high school basketball team did not place their hand…

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Deflection And Derailment Tactics

 Deflection & Derailment Tactics   Below are the six most common deflection and derailment tactics/arguments detractors use in order to shift the attention away from the anti-Black racism…

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Professional Sports (2016)

  American Heroes: Professional Sports Select Year: 2016 • 2017 • 2018 2016 Select:   NFL  •  NWSL  •  WNBA  •  USA Swimming National Football League …

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Middle Schools/Community Sports

American Heroes: Middle School Sports Name Protest Date Significant Notes Unknown Student Body 6 Unnamed Students September 2, 2016 SOURCE Knelt du…

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High Schools (2016)

  American Heroes: High School Sports Name Protest Date Significant Notes Brunswick High School Brunswick, Ohio Football Rodney Axson September 2,…

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Other Events/Everyday People

American Heroes: Other Events / Everyday People Name Protest Date Significant Notes Unnamed U.S. Navy sailor Naval Air Station Pensacola Pensacola, Florida ~August…

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College Sports

American Heroes: College Sports Name Protest Date Significant Notes Volleyball Jade Berry September 7, 2016 SOURCE Knelt during the national anthe…

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According to this Huffington Post Contributor, Slave Colin Kaepernick needs to Mind His Place

This Huffington Post contributor is clearly distraught over this entire Colin Kaepernick situation as evidenced in his piece, subtly entitled, “Colin Kaepernick is a Punk Who Needs to be Silenced.”  S…

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Retired Military Officer Wants NFL to Force Negro Respect for AUTHORI-TAH!!!

This article by retired Air Force Colonel Edward Pernotto is one of the more absurd and fascist-lite pieces of writing in the entire anthem protest discourse.  Pernotto starts out by extolling his gra…

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To Sing or Not to Sing: The (Misguided) Angst of Black Anthem Performance

This piece by Michael Cooper describes the angst felt by Metropolitan Opera tenor Lawrence Brownlee when Brownlee was asked to sing the Star Spangler Banner for a Jets-Ravens game.  Brownlee describes…

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NBA Players Join Wave of Protesters, Kneeling During the Anthem

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Formula One & Its Top Drivers, Including Lewis Hamilton, Join Kneeling Protest Against Racism

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