Black coach offended by flag with Trump on it

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  1. Pants

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    ???
     
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    what are the bounds of appropriateness at high school sporting events? and how exactly is a banner supporting the president inappropriate?
     
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    I stand corrected although being offended over a political sign is still a sign of intellectual weakness. I disliked Obama a lot but I didn't get offended one bit if someone was wearing something promoting Obama of which I saw countless in public venues. If someone is offended because someone else is expressing their views, they are the problem not the person expressing their views.
     
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    More I think about it, it's obvious what happened here. During the Obama Administration, kids from city schools brought Obama signs and banners, likely had murals all over their gym walls, no one said anything, no one hid in the locker room, not newsworthy (and it's not), but they were used to taunt the suburban white school and that annoyed people... because taunting with -anything- annoys people. OF COURSE we will never see the whole truth of this part of the story.

    Now, several years later, shoe is on the other foot, somebody remembered the taunting with Obama signs, and a single Trump sign is unfurled. Tittybaby coach can't handle it, it becomes some kind of dog whistle racial issue, and here we are with a nonevent made into some kind of "thing" due to a completely lopsided sense of balance, faux outrage and victim culure in this country.

    Of course there is no hard evidence of this, but I would wager in Vegas on this being how this came to be.
     
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    A rather disingenuous question but, okay, I'll play along...

    I think that high school sporting events - and college too, for that matter - should be about the players, the school and the game. Not about politics. From either side.

    As for this particular banner? Unless they display this particular banner at every sporting event, against every team, I would say that its presence is self explanatory.
     
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    so you certainly condemn this...

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    and this...

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    and of course this...

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    Are you confusing politics with social activism?
     
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    Did they play and if so who won the game????Inquiring minds want to know.
     
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    how is social activism not political? and if you'll argue it's not, why is social activism appropriate but political activism or sloganeering is not?
     
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    Guess you missed the part where the coach was also offended by kids wearing American flag clothes.
     
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    Very true. The coach should never have condemned the kids for having a Trump flag and wearing clothes honoring the American flag.
     
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    Per the US Flag code, wearing a flag on your body in the form of clothing is a sign of disrespect to the flag. Ain't surprise you don't know this.
     
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    The kids in question were not wearing actual American flags per the code so your point is moot.
     
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    good point but look at what's been president for the past 2 years. A confirmed liar for starters and it looks like his ability to complete his first term in office is questionable at best
     
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    Each person is different and makes his/her own decisions in life.
     
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    How do you really know they hate white america? What is white america?
     
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    if the company tolerates it, that's their choice.
     
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    Whatever objections I may or may not have does not matter in the big picture of things; what objections the players may or may not have do matter.
     
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    your opinion is duly noted.
     
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    In this particular case extrapolation and conjecture as to motive is not only appropriate but obvious. The coach who complained about a trump banner and American flag based clothing also kept his players in the locker room during the anthem. Not to difficult to connect the dots here.
     
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    Just agreeing with your previous post.

     
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    The Roosevelt coach makes a good point when he objects to politics at a high school basketball game.
     
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    concession accepted.
     
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    So maybe he shouldn't sequester his players in the locker room during the national anthem
     

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