>Extra security has been added near the statue of retired Ravens star Ray Lewis at M&T Bank Stadium after he joined current players Sunday in kneeling during the national anthem, provoking calls to remove the likeness.
>As of mid-afternoon Wednesday, more than 36,000 people had signed an online petition on change.org that advocates for the removal of the Lewis statue “because of his refusal to stand during the National Anthem.
>“That song honors our country and our veterans who fought for it,” the petition reads. “To kneel during it is disrespectful, regardless of what you are protesting.”
>Given recent statue-related protests and vandalism, the Maryland Stadium Authority didn't wait until this Sunday's game against the Pittsburgh Steelers to take precautions.
>“There is additional security at the statue plaza at this time," said Rachelina Bonacci, a spokesperson for the authority, which is the team’s stadium landlord.
>On Sunday, Lewis — who retired from the NFL after the 2012 season — knelt on both knees alongside a group of current Ravens as the anthem was played before the team’s game against the Jacksonville Jaguars in London.
I hope the great american 2nd civil war begins there underneath that nigs statue.
Brody Foster
Nah, we just have a bunch of pussies who figured out they could get lots of attention on social media by acting offended over everything and now its getting out of control.
Who would have thought that the internet would ruin democracy?
Jose Gonzalez
This whole anthem thing is starting to border on the absurd
Aaron Hill
The petition is over 43,000 now and the guy who started it is being interviewed on Baltimore news tomorrow.
Yeah it's been a farce for decades. All were doing is tearing apart the charade.
Julian Cook
Lets not remove it cuz he's a muderer but because he isn't Patriotic. People are fuckin stupid
Jayden Nelson
Yeah but he killed two black people so it doesn't really count in America
Leo Robinson
Democracy is a deeply flawed system. You elect someone who makes promises and can't keep them. Patrician political system is fascism.
John Brooks
B-but if you take down the statue of a famous person, you're rewriting history!
Hunter Evans
Go back to being dead De Gaulle.
In regards to the statue, the internet warriors behind this petition wouldn't have the balls to try and tear down or deface the statue themselves. Also it would also blow up the false narrative that was just created that this isn't about race if you go attacking a statue of a black man.
Henry Campbell
This nigger stabbed a guy, why the hell did they give him a statue in the first place
Jayden Powell
>the internet warriors behind this petition wouldn't have the balls to try and tear down or deface the statue themselves maybe they are civilised individuals instead of animals belonging to a national geographic documentary
Hunter Russell
representative democracy is the way to go, but election by voting is rigged, sortition is the way to choose officials
Carson Sanders
Nigs and Cuck Whites getting a taste of their own medicine.
Kayden Bailey
Ought to replace it with a ref making a DPI call
Adam Morris
allegedly stabbed
and two guys
truly the mvp of Flacco era.
Connor Mitchell
only good post
Sebastian Campbell
>10,000 Old Bays >tearing anything down o im laffin
Christopher Morris
t. Old Bay
Brody Wilson
Good, the ravens aren’t old enough to have a real statue depicted a real legend
Jace Cox
>commits murder >gets a statue >takes a knee >the city wants to tear the statue down
Oh go fuck yourselves
Jason Wood
Ravens fans or Sup Forums posters trying to provoke a reaction?
Samuel White
>To kneel during it is disrespectful, regardless of what you are protesting.”
The height of ignorance.
Gavin Baker
Isn't it ironic, don't you think?
Brayden Peterson
Democracy was ruined when non landowners voted
Ian Watson
>team is called ravens >group of ravens is murder >be surprised with the murders
Isaac Parker
>Canadians talking politics Don't you some more dope to smoke you delusional, sheltered faggots.
Daniel Cruz
That's the point, half-wit. The niggers tearing down white monuments received no penalty, let's see how they handle it.
Jason Nelson
Ignorance is ignoring what the flag stands for, and the fact that they're working for the NATIONAL Football League making millions from American citizens.
Brayden Taylor
Gonna find every player who ever sat and try to whipe him from the history books? Because the USA actually finds being a murderer (or rapist, or anything) as acceptable if you're a good athlete, but not kneeling during the anthem. Hurricane Charles killed a bunch of people, was proved guilty twice and got a Bob Dylan song which resulted in his "heroic" release before the end of his life anyway. Why? He was a good athlete and the system is supposedly racist.
Jack Adams
You mean the confederate monuments? The confederacy being the enemy of the US
Isaac Collins
the confederacy is as much as us as the north
Logan Walker
Now, after they rejoined the Union; not when they were the Confederacy, a separate country. And yet they can't make a good argument for it, despite Ray Lewis being human trash they're still on the kneeling thing their news masters demand.
Jeremiah Jenkins
...
Joshua Carter
the north was also a separate country than the us
Henry James
The Confederate states were not the enemy, the Union needed the agricultural benefits at the time, and still do. The tearing down of Confederate monuments wasn't about erasing the past, they wanted to (and still do) erase western culture.
Landon Thompson
>news masters I was at my 75 year-old grandmother's house last night, and she was watching the NBC Nightly News segments. I saw no mention of the NFL.
NFL fans are pissed because the players refuse to respect the people that pay their salaries, and make it about race, instead of about nationalism. The players are poorly educated and I imagine know very little about basic economics in this country.
Ian Lewis
>Democracy
America is a Republic you mongrel
Charles Sanders
...
Jayden Smith
This
Jack Jones
Not mutually exclusive my friend
Xavier Thomas
Right wingers don't actually tear anything down or protest effectively, Baltimore has nothing to worry about.
All the statues being taken down recently were done by the left. Right doesn't have the balls.
Jordan Flores
>niggers tear down Jefferson Davis >tear down Stonewall Jackson >tear down Robert E Lee >tear down Thomas Jefferson >tear down George Washington >tear down Abraham Lincoln
>continue to eat fried chicken made by a white guy who cosplayed as a Confederate colonel FINGER LICKIN FINGER LICKIN FINGER LICKIN FINGER LICKIN
GOOOOOOOOD
Landon Martin
>erase western culture >muh culture of cheaply made bronze statues erected during the 1910's and civil rights movements to intimidate negroes
fuck off back to your containment board, faggot.
Jaxson Moore
real meal for five bucks real meal for five bucks real meal for five bucks real meal for five bucks real meal for five bucks
Owen Harris
He's right. You're nothing more than an ISIS nigger.
Evan Rogers
>intimidate 10% of the population >memorialize the people who died so that 100% of future generations will remember them So is the purpose of the MLK memorial to intimidate white people?
Elijah Adams
Yeah what the flag stands for is freedom you dope. Freedom to stand or sit or do whatever the fuck you want. Forced nationalism is just fascism, move to fucking North Korea if you want the country to be forced to participate in nationalist displays.
Andrew Cox
You're right, they're more into burning shit like books or Beatles records.
Daniel Lopez
If you want people to remember this stuff, put it in a fucking museum. There was never any call to erect hundreds of cheaply made statues all over the south until Jim Crow and the Civil Rights movement.
Robert Long
>the flag stands for freedom No it doesn't. It stands for America. In 1798 we passed the Alien and Sedition Act under John Adams, who was THE lawyer among the Founding Fathers.
Angel Wilson
TAKE A FUCKIN KNEEE HJAHAHAHAHAHAJAHAJHAHAHAJAH
Jace Bennett
ANSWER MY FUCKING QUESTION ABOUT MLK'S STATUE RIGHT NOW, YOU FUCKING COWARD
Austin Davis
The two aren't comparable you alt right fuck wit.
Henry Turner
If Ray Lewis ever writes a book then we'll have trouble. For now they're just going to douse lighter fluid on their Ravens jerseys and whine on youtube about how the mean man wasn't forced to stand up for our magical song.
Which they only started doing in 2009 after the military paid the NFL millions of dollars for patriotic displays.
Carson Clark
In 2017, you think monuments are meant to intimidate.
Explain how it's different. Explain how Barack Obama wasn't trying to intimidate white people with this shit. Just look at the scowl and posture: it's meant to be a display of power, like the Colossus.
You're a liar and a hypocrite.
Tyler Mitchell
Didn't they have to modify the text on some MLK statues because the blacks had lost the ability to understand his beautiful use of language?
>civil rights movement to further the education and standing in society of an oppressed class >50 years later have to change the plaques into ooga booga speak so the people he fought to advance can read it
Poor MLK, Malcom X was right all along.
Justin Barnes
is this what one of the statues that was torn down actually looked like?
embarassing tbqh
Thomas Garcia
You mean rebellious anti-american monuments?
Henry Lopez
>2009 Who was president at the time? Oh yeah, the nigger.
That's what this is all about. Niggers realized they were not going to have a nigger in the White House anymore, with Hillary and Trump running. So in Obama's year, they turned to BLM and kneeling for the anthem. But from 2009 to 2014, niggers were all about patriotism, so long as you mentioned Obama to them first.
Wyatt Garcia
So America ISNT about freedom? Is that what you're saying? Lmao the mental gymnastics you fuckers have to pull just to be counter culture. It must get exhausting
Julian Jones
Congratulations on >getting both btfo >resorting to ad homs >reddit spacing I hope you enjoy your stay here on spee, and hope that the upcoming race war crushes your baboon skull underfoot
Robert Baker
My fellow burgers are triggered by absolutely everything these days. I blame the internet.
Aiden Long
GEORGIA GOLD
Carson Harris
>implying KFC is food eaten by white people. Only the sides are tolerable. Black people eat popeyes or make their own.
Dominic Hughes
>land of the free
James Wood
tearing down statues is becoming more American than baseball
Colton Young
>hurr hurr i'm the alt right, watch me be purposefully obtuse!
It stopped being clever a year ago guys.
If I had to guess, I would say you are 19 years old.
Gabriel Butler
>The second civil war will start over football It's meant to be
Justin Cox
america is literally coming apart at the seams
Jose Bennett
I believe this is one of the statues that is still up... for now.
But yeah, these things were cheaply made for a few hundred bucks and put up everywhere. In that most recent video of one of these statues being taken down by counter protesters you'll notice it crumples on impact like a paper cup. These things are mass produced garbage that our government tricked idiot rednecks into assigning value and meaning to.
Lucas Richardson
this is wrong though... clearly you're just using anecdotal evidence of the one in your mostly white city. If i go to the KFC that's close to black neighborhoods there is very rarely a white person in there
>or make their own lol no. they certainly won't go to the effort to make their own
Oliver Reyes
their pants aren't the only thing bursting out at the seams
Xavier Torres
>Honor muh soldiers who protect our freedom
Name ONE war or conflict post-WWII that truly put the freedom of the American people in jeopardy
Nicholas Brown
It really isnt. Most people genuinely don't give a fuck and it's a very vocal minority on either side. Most everyone here is just going to school or work and keeping it moving day to day because making sure we can pay our rent or mortgage this month is honestly 100x more important than whatever either side of this issue is mouthing off about. If you go to a KFC in a black neighborhood you'll also see the shit is damn near empty and everyone is at the Popeyes. And if you think blacks don't fry their own chicken, you've clearly never been to the south.
James Gomez
no, i havent been to the south. there is a difference between a southern nigger and a northern nigger though
William Morales
the war on the american family
Eli Baker
>reminder that this is 4chins >reminder to not take insults personally >reminder to insult everybody else using whatever you can, as offensive as possible please continue
Hudson Morales
Cold War. Your proxy wars (Vietnam, Korea) were fought in order to keep the American hegemony. If you hadn't been willing to display your power then the Soviet Union would have gained more influence.
Brody Johnson
So ready for a fucking race war. Bring it on niggers
Nicholas Campbell
By corporations and lobbyists? I’d agree with that one >implying a stalemate and a loss won us influence with anyone >implying either country would’ve launched the nukes
Colton Jackson
And you clearly haven't spent any time around either if you legitimately believe people from either group either would actually enjoy eating KFC when Popeyes is an option, or that they don't fry their own chicken.
You literally are trying to make fun of a group of people and can't even get the shit straight you are making fun of them for. Your dumb ass might as well start making jokes about the Irish Sweet Potato famine or or that Indians Pee on the sidewalks.
Brandon Mitchell
It wasn't about the nukes obviously. America clearly won the Cold War, look at what happened to the former Soviet Union, it disintegrated and imploded. The Soviets could have won the Cold War, and I don't know what would have happened but it wouldn't have been nice for the US
Logan Sullivan
>Democracy
Capitalists ruined that chance a long time ago, now they got the idiot sheep populace they wanted.
Wyatt Jones
How did any military member’s service influence us “winning” the Cold War?
Andrew Bailey
>These same faggots complain about statues of actual confirmed traitorous rebels being torn down >But a retired football player has to have his statue torn down because of a completely voluntary ritual that doesn't do anything for anyone
Wonderful well done
Nathan Ross
Sure you are, tiger. We all know of anything like that were to happen, the only result would be martial law. There will never be another civil war in this country with how armed our military is.
Gavin Rogers
That's exactly what I'm saying. America is about America: a new nation of white supremacy. You do not have freedom of speech. The Fist Amendment just says Congress cannot limit speech. But courts always limit speech (you can't commit perjury or obstruct justice or tell lies and half-truths). And companies can limit speech. And the executive branch can limit speech too.
Luis Flores
It was a display of power and proof of America's willingness to go into war. It doesn't even have to be a victory as clear as Desert Storm, even a stalemate was enough to show that the US were willing to fight. Obviously your military didn't win the Cold War alone, it was also pressure on the Soviet's economy and political influence in Europe. But you're retarded if you don't realize how your military played a major role in ensuring your victory over the Soviet Union
Tyler Jones
>America clearly won the Cold War Wrong. Marxist ideology and subversion infected America. Thinking that America actually won the Cold War is one of the big blue pills you need to vomit out.
Lincoln Clark
>tear down all the statues I don't like >be angry when someone tears down one I like fuck off, jamarquandoise
Jose Thompson
Alex shouldn’t you be selling some water filters?
John Ramirez
congrats you outed a lifelong t_d user
Nathaniel Foster
>implying blacks don't prefer Popeyes or Church's (which are both better than KFC anyways)
Landon Brown
Nobody eats kfc, hah.
John Gonzalez
Enjoying your cultural marxism there, amerilards? Time is running out to stop it.
Gavin Rodriguez
That's like saying "the UK isn't a democracy, it's a monarchy"