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 ...
This coming from a newspaper in Chicago where 2 to 3 dozen black teenagers are gunned down by other blacks every weekend.
Whether the finger on the trigger is black or white, you’re just as dead.
Even a lib like this idiot writer knows that if he’s ever mugged it’ll like be by potential Sons of Obama. Somehow libs can’t seem to connect the arrests of “so many young black men” with the crimes they commit.
The first one to mention race is the racist.
Stevie “@ssless Chaps” Chapman weighs in on his jockstrap-sniffing fetish...
Not only whites...but close. We may be only 75%-80% of the population but we're 95% of the patriots.
Why is Steve Chapman a racist?
Standards ingrained by daddies.
This idiot had to go back FIFTY-ONE years to try to prove a point.
Pathetic.
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He's too busy gargling his favorite dish - "NFL Oysters".
He doesn't swallow. It's a "catch and release" thingee with little Stevie...
Why do elites oppose blacks having diverse political opinions?
Why do Blacks Oppose Family,Decency,Morality,Virtue,Law and Order, and just doing the right thiong???
Of the 520 Blacks killed so far this year in Chicago, 9 were killed by the police. One might assume that the majority of those 9 were justified, but Black Lives Matter would never admit that fact.
Some say Chapped@ss was a "bottom" for 0bama at Chicago's "Man Country"...
That is nothing but a damnable lie. Blacks are thousands of times more likely to be assaulted, injured or murdered by another black than they are by the police. Just a damned lie.
The introductory garden path paragraphs make no sense.
The author is suggesting that Sample A answering a question on Topic B in 1966 is equivalent to Sample C answering a question on Topic D in 2017?!?! Completely illogical. One might as well say ‘because some people like chicken they all like steak also.’
The standard of writing in today’s media is horrid butnthe standard of editing is worse.
YES, That's it!
[Author is delusional.]
He’s apparently a Chicago liberal, so yeah......
Wait, that's exactly what this is about.
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