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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”

Allan Ishac
3 min readOct 13, 2017

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President Obama with New Orleans players showing off the #44 jersey he’ll be wearing on Sunday. (Credti: newyork.cbslocal.com)

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.

Mr. Obama plans to be knee-deep in a national debate with the Saints on Sunday. (Credit: wandtv.com)

“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…

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Allan Ishac

Author of The Mystic In The Mews (themysticinthemews.com). Satirist. Humor writer. Former advertising creative director. Visit me at allanishac.com.