#takeaknee

[renegadeurbanmediasource]

"Shut up and dribble" has NEVER been an option for: Muhammad Ali, John Carlos, and Tommie Smith! Today it's Lebron and Kap! RESPECT

[kishoremehta]

[njsnumberonesuppstore]

This Book By David Goggins Is Awesome. I Needed To Hear Some Of His Tactics On Taking A Knee And Being Silent When The World Crashes Around You. This Also Hit Home For Me Especially Today!! Taking the time to make important decisions is crucial in ensuring that we make the right choices that align with our goals and values. When faced with a difficult decision, it's essential to avoid rushing into a conclusion. Instead, take the time to gather all the information and consider all your options. This could involve seeking advice from trusted friends and family, researching the situation, and taking time to reflect on your feelings and priorities. It may take longer to arrive at a decision this way, but the result will be a more thoughtful and well-informed choice that you can feel confident about. So If You Get A Chance Definitely Get This Amazing Book 📖 #TakeAKnee #oneseconddecision #davidgogginsmotivation #neverfinisheddavidgoggins (at North Arlington, New Jersey) https://www.instagram.com/p/CofW1OupjLF/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[crowflystraight]

Powerful. Definitely #takeaknee worthy. 💙🙏🏾💜 #JillScott​ #Queen

[yourcomedyminute]

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Social media and its ability to put a megaphone in the hands of the disadvantaged.

This week we covered the origin of Black Twitter and how significant its influence was on social justice. Black Twitter became a space of mobilization, a space to find information and raise awareness of social issues and how to bring that awareness to others.

Social media continues to evolve and with it so has activism for marginalized communities and the disadvanted. These communities have found their voices on Tik Tok, Instagram and Facebook and used these platforms to bring awareness to issues not covered by mainstream media. We have seen the rise of #MeToo, #WomensMarch, and #TakeaKnee to all promote some sort of action from those who will listen.

One clear example of this in 2024 has been the rise of boycotts and protests over the United States funding of Israel in their "war on Hamas." We have seen how quickly word can spread for "Days of Action," protests, and large-scale phone banks. One post online has the ability to unite thousands within minutes and days. The response to social injustice can be almost immediate.

Social media has become the central hub for spreading communication and has amplified these voices much like a megaphone. News and information have access to so many more people and provoke responses from those who share the same beliefs or want to support the cause. Social media has given these communities a gas pedal and a megaphone to help fuel change. It has been one of the best things about social media. Giving a voice to those who are often overlooked or silenced and not just any voice, a loud one.

[lboogie1906]

Will Packer (born April 11, 1974) is a film producer. He is the founder of Will Packer Productions and Will Packer Media. He was named the Producer of the 94th Annual Academy Awards.

He was born and raised in St. Petersburg. He graduated magna cum laude from FAMU with a BS in Electrical Engineering.

It was at FAMU that he started filmmaking with a colleague and future business partner Rob Hardy. He and Hardy produced their first film, Chocolate City for $20,000 and he helped broker a small distribution deal. He and Hardy co-founded Rainforest Films. He and Hardy’s vision was to make films that would appeal to black audiences who hadn’t seen genre films starring people like themselves.

He launched Will Packer Productions. He signed a two-year deal with Universal Television to develop new projects for the studio. He signed a three-year deal with Universal Pictures. Packer-produced films under the Will Packer Productions banner include #1 box office openers Ride Along 2, No Good Deed, Think Like a Man Too, Little, Night School, What Men Want, along with The Wedding Ringer and Girls Trip. He served as executive producer on the NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton and the mini-series Roots.

He launched Will Packer Media, a branded content and digital production company, in partnership with Discovery Communications and Universal Pictures. The company acquired digital ad firm Narrative_ to serve as the new venture’s branded content arm, WP Narrative. Will Packer Media acquire the women’s lifestyle site xoNecole.

Will Packer Media projects include the television series Ambitions and Ready to Love, Power Star Live, a 30-minute live series for Twitter, and the digital series The Baxters, produced for the LightWorkers platform. The company’s WP Narrative_ division was a Webby Award Winner and 10th Annual Shorty Award winner for its work producing the video short #TakeAKnee. WP Narrative was honored for its #BackedByAxe campaign created for Billions, winning the Clio Entertainment Awards, 10th Annual Shorty Awards, and 2018 D&AD Awards.

Central Ave, an entertainment magazine series, debuted on November 4, 2019. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #alphaphialpha

[madamlaydebug]

Maintain and reclaim your dignity Bro. Your children are watching

#NoNFL

#boycottnfl #takeaknee

#notonedown

[jazminethings]

They Took a Knee by Megan Garber

Garber’s purpose with this text is to inform us, the audience, about exactly why the NFL and their players are protesting. The intended audience are sports fans, or people who just wanted to keep up with this current event at the time. Garber is a staff writer at The Atlantic (where this article is from) and she writes about culture.

 A majority of this article uses logos. It tells us about the happenings around Colin Kaepernick’s decision and reason to kneel during the national anthem. This event caused another chain of events, with many players and teams doing their own form of protest and speaking out against Trump’s criticisms about this protest. Garber’s use of pathos occurs when she compares football to history. “Football is a sport, in the most literal of ways, about progress…” She mentions that football moves the same way that history moves: “…—a perfect pass, a surprise tackle…”“…—they race forward.” This split-second happening is Kaepernick’s taking a knee and the race forward is the #TakeAKnee hashtag, which became widespread. She elaborates on this comparison in the conclusion. Just like football, this #TakeAKnee movement is about making progress. Garber’s develops her credibility when she refutes Trump’s misrepresentation of the #TakeAKnee movement. Trump saw this movement as “disrespecting the flag” and “disrespecting the country”. Garber claims that Trump was misrepresenting the whole situation. She mentions that the players aren’t protesting the national anthem or the flag, but they are protesting all the injustices happening to people of color. 

Throughout this text, there are links that are put on certain words/phrases that go to other The Atlantic articles, tweets, etc. These links help give more context to the situation. The text and the argument does its job of informing me about the situation and making me think about it.

[theconcealedweapon]

[njsnumberonesuppstore]

This Book By David Goggins Is Awesome. I Needed To Hear Some Of His Tactics On Taking A Knee And Being Silent When The World Crashes Around You. This Also Hit Home For Me Especially Today!! Taking the time to make important decisions is crucial in ensuring that we make the right choices that align with our goals and values. When faced with a difficult decision, it's essential to avoid rushing into a conclusion. Instead, take the time to gather all the information and consider all your options. This could involve seeking advice from trusted friends and family, researching the situation, and taking time to reflect on your feelings and priorities. It may take longer to arrive at a decision this way, but the result will be a more thoughtful and well-informed choice that you can feel confident about. So If You Get A Chance Definitely Get This Amazing Book 📖 #TakeAKnee #oneseconddecision #davidgogginsmotivation #neverfinishedbullies (at North Arlington, New Jersey) https://www.instagram.com/p/CofVtTxuMDu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[odinsblog]

“Colin Kaepernick was right about us, white America.”

“He was right to kneel because when he did, he fully exposed us.

He exposed us as we became viscerally disgusted, not by the reckless disregard of black lives, but by the earnest and open declaration of black grief at their premature passing.

He exposed us when we felt it was our right to tell another human being how to express their personal freedoms, during an anthem supposedly devoted to celebrating those personal freedoms.

He exposed us when we treasured flags and songs over flesh and blood; when we repeatedly ignored dissenting facts in order to hold on to our easy and lazy outrage.

He exposed us when we chose to listen to the words of a divisive white President over athletes of color, as to their motives and intentions.

He exposed us as we had the stratospheric nerve to lecture him about the right way for him to protest as a citizen of this country.

He exposed us when we chastised him for the manner in which he expressed his freedom, because it was a little too “free” for us.

He exposed us as we saw all of these things, and still remained silent.

And he’s exposing us now, those of us who are  burning shoes and cutting up socks and boycotting Nike—because a strong man of color who will not be shamed into silence or allow us to make the rules, still makes our blood boil—which is the most telling and tragic truth of all.

Privilege is a terrible disease, because it is invisible to those most fully afflicted with it. When most deeply in the throes of the heart sickness, they cannot see themselves, or the reality of the moment. They do not require data to be disgusted or truth to craft the narrative of their suffering.

They simply feel fear, even when it is unfounded; oppression, even when there is none; offensive, even when they have no cause.

If you’re seething right now, this is a symptom.

If you’re still doubling down on some imagined defense of “America” while simultaneously seeking to deny people of color America’s most elemental liberties—you’re proving Colin Kaepernick right.

If you’re still refusing to believe the player’s voices over the one in your head or in a President’s tweets or in an angry country singer’s rants—you’re showing why Kaepernick was correct to protest from the very beginning.

You’re confirming the very reason his knee first hit the turf two-year ago: because too many white people want to go through life undisturbed by any reality of their advantages.

They will do anything not to be inconvenienced by the ugly realities of a system that they are the greatest beneficiaries of.

They will be profoundly pissed off when a person of color intrudes on their entertainment with a dose of sobering truth about life and death.

They will follow the most convoluted, nonsensical thought lines, if this allows them to quiet marginalized people and to evade culpability for their own prejudices toward those marginalized people.

It isn’t surprising that the folks so violently shaken by Colin Kaepernick, profess to defend a freedom they don’t like him exercising.

They’re the same ones saying that they love both America—and a draft-dodging, Russian-beholden, POW-belittling President.

They’re the same people who say they want to rewind and reclaim America’s “greatness”, while ignoring how much suffering and injustice that supposed greatness created for so many.

They’re the same people who claim allegiance to both Jesus and to Donald Trump.

Cognitive dissonance doesn’t register when you’re white and terrified of losing your dominance.

By kneeling, Colin Kaepernick let us do the work for him.

He didn’t need to belabor the point, he just let us show ourselves.

He allowed white America’s responses to reveal who we are.

He saw something ugly in us that we didn’t and still don’t want to see.

And he was right.”

COLIN KAEPERNICK WAS RIGHT, by John Pavlovitz

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A PREVIEW OF YOUR COMEDY MINUTE WITH BUBS #StandUp #Comedian #Wisconsin #Iowa #Friday #Work #NFL #Football #Stop #TakeAKnee #Bears #Jersey #Packers #Country #Problem #Outside #Heckling #Arguing #Talking #Awkward #Good #DaBears #Cheeseheads #Live #Stream #Humor #Comedy #Funny 

This is just a clip from the interview with Bubs. The full interview premieres October 17th at 7:00 PM (EST) 

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[asaconservative]

As a conservative who believes in free speech, I'm outraged that a special snowflake who's this easily offended managed to become president. Being offended doesn't make you right. People have the right to express themselves without coddling your fragile feelings. If you don't like it, move to another country where they don't value free speech and where dissent is punished.

[starrcarter-things]

THANK YOU! WE STAY TOGTHER!