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. Ive got that wrong. Those figures dont 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 wouldnt make much difference. To many whites, the only good black protest is no black protest.
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...And all the monkeys aren’t in the zoo
Every day you meet quite a few
So you see it’s all up to you
You can be better than you are
You could be swingin’ on a star...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CDs067081E
I would have agreed with you 50 years ago, but I have watched the destruction of the Black Family and White Families too at the hands of do gooder welfare pumping poverty pimps and every other liberal cause on the planet trying to give them a handout, but NEVER a Hand Up! my whole life. They have become literal economic slaves.
Yep.
Thomas Sowell, a black man, nails the reason there is so complaining.
“When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment (then) seems like discrimination.”
They don’t want equal treatment - that’s good enough for whites and Asians though - but they want to be forever first in line etc.
This is a total mystery—I thought everyone liked people who hate them. :-)
What have these football players done to help make things better other than kneeling while at work?
Kind of like asking why do blacks like watermellon so much?
I’m tired of black millionaire ball players complaining about “oppression”. The live like kings in the least racist country on earth. End black snivelege.
I don’t watch too much football and did watch that last superbowl and I happen to know that Tom Brady is white but I never knew that 95% of the Patriots are white.
Why are NFL blacks anti-American racists?
“Blacks” need to seek redress of their grievances with their ‘Rat Masters.
I’m sitting here watching the anarchists make “ethnos shall rise against ethnos” from Matthew 24 happen.
Unbelievable.
Why does the NFL employ felons?
the real question is—
Why does the NFL need to be politicized? it was apolitical for decades before libs decided to ruin it.
Put it back like it was or lose millions.
Why do whites oppose the NFL protests?
White people should have no say in anything, who the hell do they think they are? Only minorities should have a say about anything.
/liberalism
IOW: Do (male) whites still beat their wives?
As death closed their eyes, they probably were trying to apologize for the white privilege that drove Obama’s could-a-been sons to take their lives. The killers themselves were the real victims. / s
And what about the rights of the white football players that just want to play a game and get paid?
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