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Hey, did you know the flag isn't yours just because you served? It's just as much mine as is it is yours. Hell, it's just as much Kaepernick's. Who's spreading this anti-American idea that the flag is a symbol of vets?
Its not about who they are, yes they are overpaid 'prima donnas' but you cannot dispute the amount of influence they hold, they literally have everyone talking about this now, even those who do not even watch sports, so its really about the amount of people they can reach instead of their actual job or title. I keep hearing people say "no one cares what an overpaid athlete thinks or does", but thats not true at all, in fact MANY MANY people do care, the proof of that is evident.
Besides that, I do support 'taking a knee'...its not very patriotic imo, to show any kind of respect or honor a tyrannical Govt.
You're misinterpreting that bolded quote...no one respects the opinion of people that are overpaid prima donnas that are disrespecting the country that has allowed them to become rich and famous and disrespecting the fans that have paid large sums of money to see them perform....these guys are being used by race manipulators and Leftist propaganda manipulators (kind of like what slave owners did) to their detriment.
My question is what would be more effective to combat biased policing? Trying to reach out to people and rationally discuss issues? Or kneel while the anthem is playing and call the country oppressive, or set towns on fire and surround a mayor's house making threats over a verdict that has already been reached, on a crime that happened in 2011 that the Obama/Holder Department of Justice had already investigated and found nothing? I couldn't think of a more effective way to not get what you want.
The black community needs more black police officers. That is the only solution. And start with some of these retired black football players joining the police force, patrolling the city streets in the black majority neighborhoods to see what it's really like to be a police officer in these areas. And then give feedback as to how to make things better.
It's all well and good to criticize our police officers from afar. Instead, blacks and even white liberals need to roll up their sleeves and make the effort to walk a few miles in a police officer's shoes to see what it's really like to try to keep the peace in these poor neighborhoods.
“The majority of people I hear opening their mouths ― they didn’t put a uniform on their back … So how dare you disrespect those who have been shot for freedom of speech by telling people to shut up?” shared Williams,
The black community needs more black police officers. That is the only solution. And start with some of these retired black football players joining the police force, patrolling the city streets in the black majority neighborhoods to see what it's really like to be a police officer in these areas. And then give feedback as to how to make things better.
It's all well and good to criticize our police officers from afar. Instead, blacks and even white liberals need to roll up their sleeves and make the effort to walk a few miles in a police officer's shoes to see what it's really like to try to keep the peace in these poor neighborhoods.
I'd argue that it's to the point that the black community can ONLY be policed by black police officers.
In the minds of many blacks--any confrontation between a white police officer and a black citizen automatically includes implicit bias. It's ALWAYS the leading scapegoat. For some odd reason, alot of black folks think they should never be considered suspects or charged with a crime by a white police officer regardless of the situation or circumstances; the incident with Michael Bennett being detained in Vegas is a clear cut example of that.
The impetus is that race is always the mitigating factor when the cop is white and the citizen is black. To explain otherwise is condoning "racism." In order to to get around that, (and the many law suits and destruction of public property, the riots and libel claims towards police officers) the only other answer is to strictly use black cops to police black neighborhoods. There's no other way around it.
The black community needs more black police officers. That is the only solution. And start with some of these retired black football players joining the police force, patrolling the city streets in the black majority neighborhoods to see what it's really like to be a police officer in these areas. And then give feedback as to how to make things better.
It's all well and good to criticize our police officers from afar. Instead, blacks and even white liberals need to roll up their sleeves and make the effort to walk a few miles in a police officer's shoes to see what it's really like to try to keep the peace in these poor neighborhoods.
what!???? NO the white and black and green and blue-- all need to treat each other EQUALYYYYYYYYYYYYY:sma ck:
Who else finds it disingenuous that the same people who support a person's right to display an ideological symbol that represents a person's right to challenge the constitution and the American flag are the most vocal when the same thing is done by other people with their own symbolic gestures to challenge the constitution and America?
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Failed? I see hundreds of players, coaches, and owners linking arms. Who knows where it will end, but it sure got a new life over the weekend. The protest was on its way out in 2017, but Trump revived it.
Projection as usual. Just who do you think it's backfiring on?
yall could have just ignored Kaepernick. But now you have whole teams doing it and speaking out on police brutality. You couldn't just do your little ritual and let somebody quietly kneel, now you're acting like people who a kneeling are acting crazy. You've had the option to ignore it all along, but breaking the spirit of blacks, all the way down to an individual, is so important to yall.
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