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Title: Slurs shouted, police called after players kneel during national anthem, Pa. coach says
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Penn Live
URL Source: http://www.pennlive.com/news/2016/1 ... l_slurs_shouted_police_ca.html
Published: Oct 11, 2016
Author: Colin Deppen
Post Date: 2016-10-14 10:09:39 by misterwhite
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Views: 3387
Comments: 8
BETHEL PARK — A youth football coach claims racial slurs rang out from the stands during a game in this majority white Pittsburgh suburb over the weekend, after members of his mostly black team took a knee during the national anthem, sparking outrage and even a police response. The coach, Marcus Burkley Sr., told WPXI-TV that three of his players took a knee during the anthem, just as National Football League players recently have in a controversial attempt to call attention to systemic racism in the U.S. "Once they took a knee, you see cameras and people taking pictures. And out of nowhere you hear, 'If the little N-word(s) want to take a knee, they shouldn't be able to play," Burkley said in an interview with the TV station that aired Tuesday. The coach went on to tell WPXI that in addition to racial slurs coming from a select few in the stands on Saturday, his 12- and 13-year-old players also heard them from opposing players on the field. He later told PennLive that referees also assessed his team more than 200 penalty yards during the game, often without an explanation or after dropping flags before contact had even been made. Lastly, Burkley said his Woodland Hills team members were even denied service at a concession stand after being told the food inside was reserved for Bethel Park fans only. It's not clear if this was in response to the anthem protest, however. At one point, police were called to stand guard on the field and keep the peace, WPXI reports. Burkley later told PennLive that the home team had made the call amid growing tension in the crowd. An after-hours attempt by PennLive to confirm this with local police on Tuesday was unsuccessful, as was an attempt to reach a Bethel Park Junior Football League official for comment. And while Burkley's team ultimately won the game, the coach said they were just "glad to get out of there." "It was bad," he told PennLive by phone on Tuesday. "It was sad and scary that kids were subjected to this. ... I didn't sleep that night." In a Facebook message posted Sunday, Burkley called the episode a learning experience for his players, saying they had gotten "a taste of what this cold society can sometimes dish out." He went on to thank "the parents and fans who endured last night's game," and said, "We still got work to do! It's bigger than football!" His post has been viewed hundreds of times in the days since. And while most of the comments have been positive, a since deleted remark revealed some of the same anger purportedly directed at the coach and his players during the game. "You're letting 12-year-old kids kneel during the national anthem?? you have no respect for the country you live in. ill buy you a first class ticket to North Korea and you can tell me just how bad it is here," one commenter wrote. That same sentiment has greeted professional athletes choosing not to stand for the anthem, and is now being seen with child and high school athletes nationwide who have decided to follow their lead. The critics often argue that the move degrades the sacrifices of military service members and the police. But in other cases, the cause of the outrage seems to be less about the statement than about the types of people making it. In a New York Daily News report from last month, reporter Shaun King, whose work focuses heavily on issues of race in America, said youth football players in Texas were threatened with lynching after taking a knee during the anthem there. "April Parkerson, whose son plays on the team said, 'Our children are receiving death threats from people saying things like hang those monkeys, they should've died on 9/11, and they're going to kill each other anyway,'" King wrote. Alabama football announcer: You should be shot for not standing for national anthem The announcer of the Friday night football game at McKenzie High School in Alabama's Butler County had something to say to those who may choose not to stand for the national anthem. Similar stories have been reported with youth and high school football leagues from Virginia to San Francisco and Las Vegas, where a local sports columnist last month questioned whether it was possible for kids so young to fully grasp the meaning of such a loaded statement and gesture. In Woodland Hills, coach Burkley thinks it is, and he was standing by his players' actions in the face of mounting blowback on Tuesday. "They did this, the same three kids did this earlier in the season and it shocked me then," Burkley said, adding that he had been given no prior notice by the team. "But we didn't have this kind of a reaction at that stadium." Burkley said at the following practice, he pressed the boys to explain themselves. "I said 'What's your reason behind taking the knee?' I said, 'Don't do it just because it's a fad.'" The coach said he was taken aback when the players responded with an eloquent invocation of the police killings of unarmed African Americans and the killing of Tamir Rice in Cleveland by officers who mistook his pellet gun for a real one. The players told Burkley that Rice was their age when he died, and that because of that they needed to speak out. "Tamir Rice was a 12 year old and we're still 12 year olds," Burkley recalled them saying. "The ones who took a knee did so because they feel African Americans are not being treated equally," he added. "And I didn't take a knee with them, but I told them 'I'll back you 100 percent if we receive any backlash,' and I knew we would." Burkley said while he's encountered some racism throughout his life, he's never seen anything like Saturday night. And while some of his own players disagreed with their teammates' decision to take a knee during the anthem, he said they did so respectfully. There are 26 kids on the team's roster. All are African American. "One of my kids said 'I'm not taking a knee coach, 'cause my grandfather was in Vietnam.' And I said 'That's fine.'" But while there are plenty of critics, the coach's supporters are often just as vocal, if not more so. Online, many thanked Burkley for taking a stand, or at least for allowing his players to. And others defended the team's right to protest, calling the act as quintessentially American as football itself.
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#1. To: misterwhite (#0)
Well, thats good kid. That is commendable. As to the other "kids", are they going to "take a knee" when some rabid ghetto ape guns down some cop? I kinda doubt it. Si vis pacem, para bellum Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."Theodore Roosevelt-1907. I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -- General Douglas MacArthur
Hey, coach. The "learning experience" here is that actions have consequences. Idiot. Your players want to take a knee during the National Anthem? They are free to do so. Just as we are free to tell the little niggers to go home. They are very lucky nothing worse happened. I'm tired of people pissing on this country. I'm even more tired of ignorant assholes who don't know WTF they're talking about pissing on this country. Do they really care about black lives? The go to Chicago's south side and do something about the daily slaughter that's going on there.
The team that took the knees won.
I read that. And they won despite the fact that the refs were throwing flags against the team even before the infractions took place. Something like 200 yards of penalties. Oh, well. Life is not like the movies.
20 And God spoke all these words: 2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 3 “You shall have no other gods before[a] me. 4 “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments. www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+20 Pledge allegiance to God first. After that, your beloved Obama and the state, Reince Prebus, or whatever. The communist inspired pledge of allegiance was modified to add the word God, near the end. The players are correct to kneel to God, rather than to start off with worshiping the state. Pledge of Allegiance. Then shouldn't we all? I mean, if it's correct? Save your bullshit for others. The players knelt to protest police shootings -- which account for <1% of all black shootings.
Even if they did it for the "wrong" reasons, they still did the right thing. You're free to do as you like, but not to force others. Save your BS for your progressive statist comrades. I didn't force others to do shit. In my post #2 I even said they were free to do it. I'm saying that if these ignorant dickwads choose to protest -- as part of their team and during a game -- they need to understand there are consequences.
" "One of my kids said 'I'm not taking a knee coach, 'cause my grandfather was in Vietnam.' And I said 'That's fine.'" "
#2. To: All (#0)
"In a Facebook message posted Sunday, Burkley called the episode a learning experience for his players, saying they had gotten "a taste of what this cold society can sometimes dish out."
#3. To: misterwhite (#0)
#4. To: Vicomte13 (#3)
"The team that took the knees won."
#5. To: misterwhite, no other gods before me (#0)
(Edited)
Exodus 20New International Version (NIV)
The Ten Commandments 
Socialist youth being taught to worship the state at government school brainwashing center. 
Castle(C), Stein(G), Johnson(L)
#6. To: hondo68 (#5)
"The players are correct to kneel to God"
#7. To: misterwhite, Lincoln Marxists (#6)
(Edited)
The players knelt to protest police shootings --
Castle(C), Stein(G), Johnson(L)
#8. To: hondo68 (#7)
"You're free to do as you like, but not to force others."
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