Through all of it, I think my own question is:
What the hell are they protesting?
The Declaration? The Constitution? The Amendments?
The Flag?
The Anthem?
Military flyovers?
The White majority who have been tarred as unrepentent racists with no redeeming features?
Or is it a diva who was benched and decided to pick scabs?
Injustice? Let’s talk. But let’s talk about BOTH sides views and the reality of facts, not feelings.
Impossible with the left.
I’m switching to Euro soccer.
They are protesting black oppression or minority oppression.
Post Civil Rights Era the white people provided them with opportunity and financial incentives/advantages to improve their circumstances. Affirmative Action, Desegregation, collegiate minority quotas, advantages over the Caucasian person, mandatory bank investments in urban and ghetto areas, small business loans, home loans, welfare, medical, etc.
Then their lot still did not seem to improve. In fact, in many, many ways it became worse. Society as a whole still did not understand the ‘why’ of it. Soon some black people said, ‘white man stop interfering with our ‘culture’ we’ll do it ourselves. You don’t understand our struggle. So, in many ways we stepped aside. Things still did not improve for the black person.
Here we are today with white people looking on and still wondering...what the problem is? Now we’re told it is systemic racism or that racism or white privilege etc. And the white people don’t seem to recall all that has already been attempted for the black man.
In fact, with all that has been done to lift up the black race ...under a normal societal culture one just might ask, what is indeed wrong and why it isn’t working? Is it the ‘white privilege’ that oppresses the black race or is it their own black culture? Honestly, the white race doesn’t understand.
What we do understand is America cannot go on this way. We do understand that all races must have a fair opportunity to succeed here and in many ways the nation offers those incentives and opportunities. So many immigrants have come to this country poor, broke, and turn around in this land or opportunity and succeed.
Where is the success of the black race?