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Black Savior Becomes A Saint — Plans To Lead NFL’s National Kneeling Protest
Barack Obama says “Enough is enough…it’s time for me to heed America’s call and get under Trump’s skin, starting this Sunday”
Former President Barack Obama, in an audacious move that surprised an entire nation, signed a mid-season contract with the New Orleans Saints on Thursday to play “sideline protest quarterback,” a position the team created especially for him.
The deal pays the former commander in chief just $1 for the season. But it guarantees Mr. Obama a powerful forum in which to enter the national debate about police violence against African-Americans, one that has been distorted by President Trump and turned into a meaningless controversy about standing for the national anthem.
“While I’m not the activist athlete I used to be,” said Mr. Obama on Thursday night, “I can still outmaneuver Donald Trump on a range of issues — actually, on all of them — and the time has come for me to get off the political sidelines and into the game. I can’t let this…