Sunday, September 24, 2017

Trump turns sports into a political battleground with comments on NFL and Stephen Curry


By Washington Post, Sep. 23, 2017

President Trump turned professional sports into a political battleground Friday night into Saturday, directing full-throated ire toward African American athletes who have spoken out against him and prompting a sharp rebuttal from the National Football League and several prominent sports figures, including the first Major League Baseball player to kneel during the national anthem .

In a span of roughly 12 hours, as the sports world would typically be gearing up for college football and baseball’s pennant races, Trump ensnared and agitated the most powerful sports league in North America and angered NBA superstars Stephen Curry and LeBron James. His comments set the stage for potential mass protest Sunday along NFL sidelines.


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1 comment:

  1. Since Aug 2016 when Colin first knelt in protest it has been directed to the country as a whole. It is really sad that he and the others do not recognize millions of Americans are NOT oppressors but most who are are members of the Democrat party. In places like Ferguson, Detroit, Chicago everywhere there are Democrats in control there is the highest crime and poverty. For decades the Democrats have had their chance to solve these problems and have not. So sad that they do not or cannot understand this

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