Posted on 09/27/2017 12:51:37 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
In a poll, whites were asked whether the NFL players kneeling in protest during the national anthem are helping or hurting the cause of racial justice. No fewer than 85 percent said they are hurting it.
Clearly, this offense to the anthem and the American flag is the worst possible way to change minds. Blacks need to find a less divisive means to register their discontent.
Oh, wait. I’ve got that wrong. Those figures don’t come from a new poll. They come from a survey taken in 1966 asking whites whether “the demonstrations by Negroes on civil rights have helped more or hurt more in the advancement of Negro rights.”
In many respects, the country has changed a lot since then — partly because of those unpopular demonstrations. What has not changed is that whites generally resent organized efforts by African-Americans to raise grievances and seek change.
Detractors demand to know how such highly paid athletes have the nerve to question a country that has rewarded them so richly. They could ask the same question about Donald Trump — who owes his wealth to a nation that his inaugural address depicted in nightmarish terms.
Trump can insulate himself from the dangers he sees. But these players are as much at risk from bad cops as other black men. A GenForward poll last year found that only 26 percent of young adult African-Americans trust police to do the right thing, compared with 73 percent of their white peers. Small wonder that Colin Kaepernick and other black athletes want to draw attention to what they regard as a mortal danger.
Are there better ways for them to make their point? Maybe so. But it wouldn’t make much difference. To many whites, the only good black protest is no black protest.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Why do whites oppose the NFL protests?....................Because they are on OUR dime!.................
Why do liberal blacks protest whites?
The predictable dismissal of objection as racism. I know some black veterans who would be happy to discuss the issue with the author. They’re not happy.
Is it really ONLY whites who love America?
REALLY?
Whites oppose the NFL protests because whites oppose all forms of racial bigotry and ignorance. Even black ignorance.
Why do ALL BLACKS support it? Frame it that way, Partisan Mediia Shill a-hole from kill-capital Chicago. Thanks Oldeconomybuyer.
Why do whites oppose the protests?
Because we have been lectured on our inherent evil for the last eight or nine years, and we are sick and tired of it.
Author is delusional.
We’re tired of whiney children constantly demanding more?
Well...because we’re white, of course.
Or, so they say, and say, and say...
Chapman is a white Chicago liberal. He ought to be focusing his efforts on deterring the weekly shootings on the South and West Sides of the city but you won’t find him there.
Oh BS. This is just more race baiting by the chicago tribune to sell papers and foment a race war on behalf of the DNC.
This twit seems to forget that many whites were ready and willing to stand with them in regards to police brutality. But then we were told it’s only a black thing and you need not apply.
Now they call it a black protest and wonder why other races aren’t joining in?
BS.
And those demonstrations were done on the football field before a game, by disrespecting the flag?
No.... I didn't think so, but you creeps keep on stirring - you'll think of something.
I feel for the hard working black person who is more hated than a rich white man by their own.
Why is Steve Chapman an ignorant, race-baiting liberal dumbass?
Wait, what? Whites are... racists??!! I’ve never heard that before! It explains EVERYTHING.
And I do mean EVERYTHING.
/sarc
Why do blacks, who hate America, insist on staying here?
That’s the question that SHOULD be being asked.
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