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with an active sniper- Nevermind, it was police officers.

It's not lies from their perspective. They have repeated and repeated and repeated the untrue allegations so many times that, in their minds, it is the truth.

If the shooter was Muslim, you and your crowd would have called it workplace violence.

Great reflection of the "higher degree of compassion" that the left claims to own. ( and since you are so much smarter than the rest of us, why didn't you end your question with a question mark?)

No need to define hireling. You seem to be the only who doesn't know what it is. My guess is that Mr. Keyes was upset about ANYONE who chose to fight against this country.

“The rest of the world is laughing at you,” Gary Player said, and he was only getting started. The nine-time major champion was sitting on a bench at the driving range at Chelsea Piers, where Manhattan meets the Hudson River, late Thursday afternoon. A few hours earlier, he had sat alongside former presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama to watch the opening tee shots of the Presidents Cup. Now, still playing at 81 years old, he was taking a break from hitting balls. But golf was not foremost on his mind. More than anything, he wanted to talk about America, the closest thing to home for him outside his native South Africa. “I pass by the great Statue of Liberty in a ferry today, and I say, ‘The French gave it to you for a reason: freedom of speech and respect,’” he said. “And I see that dying. I see it dying.” This was not the kind of conversation people in the golf world like to have, at least in public. In the wake of President Donald Trump’s spat with the NFL over demonstrations during the national anthem, coupled with his spat with the NBA’s Golden State Warriors, most notable golfers avoided saying anything that could offend anyone. Tiger Woods said he hoped that “things can be healed.” When the national anthem was played Thursday before the start of competition, the players stood at attention—to absolutely no one’s surprise. Their collective decision was so widely expected not because golf is a conservative sport, which it is by and large, but because its leading figures for so long have shied away from making statements of any sort that make its fans uncomfortable. In this regard, the perpetually-outspoken Player has always been an outlier. And lately, he said, he fears there is even less room for individual expression in sports. “There’s only freedom of speech if it’s politically correct,” he said. “If you say the wrong thing today, your career is ruined. The things America stood for when I first came here are gradually vanishing.” Player joined the PGA Tour in 1957. He went on to become an all-time great golfer, a fitness evangelist and the first truly international golfer. From his earliest days as a professional, he traveled the world to play in tournaments. Now, still constantly on the move for various business and charitable ventures, he says he has traveled more miles than any human in history. But his life has also been shaped by racial strife and how he responded to it. When he was younger, he made statements in support of the apartheid government in South Africa, which he said were the result of him being “brainwashed” growing up. He became a target of anti-apartheid demonstrators in the U.S., who frequently heckled him at tournaments. At the 1969 PGA Championship, which he lost by one stroke, he said demonstrators threw ice in his face and threw a phone book at him during his backswing. “These guys haven’t got to deal with a quarter of what I dealt with,” he said, referring to today’s athletes. Player later lobbied the South African government to allow Lee Elder, a black American golfer, to play in the 1971 South African PGA Championship, making it the first racially integrated event in the country’s history. He visited Nelson Mandela in prison, kissing his feet upon meeting him, and went on to become a favorite of the iconic leader. Writing about Player in an essay for Golf Digest in 2000, Mandela wrote, “Few men in our country’s history did as much to enact political changes for the better.” Player has seen the power of sports to effect social change, but said protesting during any country’s national anthem is misguided at best. “I am a big believer that you should demonstrate for your causes, but the flag and the anthem are ours—everybody’s,” Player said. “Demonstrate against your cause, against that particular cause. People get confused—why are they demonstrating?” That stance was echoed earlier in the week by Davis Love III, an assistant U.S. captain at the Presidents Cup, where the Americans built an early lead Friday as they sought to win for the seventh time in a row. Love said NFL players chose the wrong time to protest. “I think President Trump is right,” Love said on Golf Channel, adding that anyone who wants to protest can send a letter to his or her member of Congress. Player said he is most baffled by public antipathy toward Trump in general. “You have a man who is a duly elected president of America and I hear a man on television saying we will never recognize him as president. I can’t comprehend it,” Player said. “The lack of respect.” Trump enjoys a closer relationship with golf than with any other sport. In addition to owning a portfolio of 18 golf clubs, the president has played casual rounds with prominent golfers including Woods, Rory McIlroy, Ernie Els and Lexi Thompson since the election. But Player said his message was less about politics than about unity. “I hear from people all the time who can’t believe what they see on television,” he said. “They can’t believe that Americans are condemning their own country.” He added, “Anybody who lives in this country should kiss the ground every day.”

NT and BG, before you get too excited over the headline, what prompted me to write that was this. In evil America, where the system is "fixed" to the advantage of the white man, Asians have the highest average family income when comparing all races.

Tobie- since you are talking about societal contributions, please expound on what your contributions are.

I guess we will find out pretty soon. If you are right Tobie, there will be a lot more kneeling by NFL players in the future than in the past. However, if the public decides that it prefers that the players that they pay show their talent as opposed to being social engineers, this display is gonna flop just like Kaepernicks career.

Freedom? Who were they oppressed by? Must have been someone other than the USA- why isn't that ever mentioned?

No he hasn't and he wont. But in 6 to 8 months, you will be claiming that he did.

Only an "idoit" could spell man wrong.

It's definitely a "movement" but I believe a five letter word should precede movement in order to aptly describe it ( and the word is not vowel)

Many of the "enlightened" still believe that to be factual thus proving that the "more highly educated" are still very capable of being "idoits".

SOP for large percentage of lefties

You will hear no more from Big Girl on this subject as it has backfired on her. The left has been saying that it is more refined, more sophisticated, more civil,more compassionate, and more intelligent for so long that they have accepted that contention as an undeniable truth.

+100000000000000

Big Girl, there are many educated "idoits" in this world.

but I thought being rich made one evil?

It's actually pretty simple. If you are white or don't agree with her perspective/values, then there must be something wrong with you.

For the record, all of the "devisiveness" that the is mentioned by the lefties was magnified the day Mr. Kaepernick " did his thing".

That also, sir, makes you a deplorable. While we are making all of these wonderful innuendos via questions, perhaps it might be interesting to see how many voters without high school diplomas voted for Trump vs the same for Obama?

I can't answer that and neither can you. But I would sincerely advise you not to draw any conclusions ( which you obviously already have) Is this where I am supposed to ask how many of the shooters in Chicago have high school diplomas?

And we all know just how truthful, reliable, and credible the media is, right Big Girl?

What do you mean some people beg to differ? Do you mean some beg to differ by still insisting "hands up, don't shoot" was the truth. The stats given by Mr. Riley speak volumes and I want you to tell me how someone "begs to differ" with those numbers/statistics. Do you assume that every time someone protests that the protest is legitimate and well founded and based upon facts?