re: Former Alabama player Quinton Dial showing off his patriotic side tonight

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Of course he was but his tactic of taking the high road bore long term fruit. Eventually much of middle America couldn't help but look at him as the good guy. Its why you don't say you are anti-police and wear pig cop socks to a professional football practice.

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"There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality....

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering." MLK