The truth is also that your first post was a lie. To paraphrase Daniel Patrick Moynihan, you can think whatever you want of Kap (and my opinion is similar to yours on this one), but you aren't entitled to your own facts.
The problem with that position is that legal racism prevented their grandparents from having opportunity. Today's black youth have every opportunity available to them yet do not take it. Yes, they have to work harder to achieve it, but equality in starting point is not a guarantee in life or in this country. You can only complain about it not being fair for so long; at some point you have to determine simply if it's important enough for you to work for. Listen to the racist rhetoric of black inner city youth. The effects of racism that hold them back isn't the historical racism their grandparents endured but their racism towards whites and their refusal to associate and participate with whites in society. They've isolated themselves to their neighborhoods by their own racism and then blame it on racist white policies that no longer exist. So, yes, racism holds blacks back, but that racism comes from them to a great extent. That's not the position anyone wants to talk about because the media doesn't want to call inner city black youths racist so they play semantic games. They are angry, disenfranchised, etc, because it's vital to the race baiting liberals that they are victims of racism not the perpetuators of racism.
the officers in that case were arrested and charged. the officers in the tamir rice case were not. justice is not being served equitably, that is part of kaeps stance
“The new provisions target African Americans with almost surgical precision” and “impose cures for problems that did not exist,” Judge Diana Gribbon Motz wrote for the panel. “Thus the asserted justifications cannot and do not conceal the State’s true motivation.” The panel seemed to say it found the equivalent of a smoking gun. “Before enacting that law, the legislature requested data on the use, by race, of a number of voting practices,” Motz wrote. “Upon receipt of the race data, the General Assembly enacted legislation that restricted voting and registration in five different ways, all of which disproportionately affected African Americans.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...0b5844-4f72-11e6-aa14-e0c1087f7583_story.html
really hard to comprehend right? I am not asking people to agree what I said earlier, but to say there is no oppression or racism is blindly looking the other way. The differences are right there in their face and they still do not see it. That is why I said don't bother.
kaep said in his statement that hes not doing this for himself, hes speaking for people whose voices arent heard he sat during the national anthem for the first two games of the pre-season, as well. he didnt speak on it until he was asked. those arent the actions of an attention seeking whore
This lady is a fucking idiot. She also blindly said that the BLM wanted to kill every white person. Do you believe that? Shes a hot blonde though, she is doing a lot while she is still attractive. Someone will eventually overtake her. I do not fully condone what BLM does, but to say that is bullshit.
I don't even know who she is but she didn't say shit about BLM in that video. Is there something in the video you take issue with? BLM is a fucking joke.
Actually I've had multiple issues with what she's said in the past. She generalizes an entire race, and she also generalized all millennials by calling them lazy and unproductive. She has 0 value. You don't want to quote her if you want to make a statement on a subject believe me, she is awful. If you want to call someone a race baiter, she is absolutely one of them. Rory Fanning Army Veteran Ranger disagrees with you in terms of BLM. I think that specific movement does some good things, but it needs to help our inner cities as well. Have to fight ALL the fights and not just one specific one. For that, I do not call them a joke, but they need to improve on certain things big time.
She is overreacting, Kaepernick has the right to do whatever he chooses, and he actually had a point in his interview which talked about cop training which me and you both talked about before. If people want to get mad, get mad at the NFL for supporting him and not suspended or taking action. If someone is more upset about someone not standing for the national anthem then you are about innocent lives being taken by police / whomever with no consequences, then I have nothing else to say.
Is that really all you got from that video? That's not what I saw. I saw a woman who acknowledged the right, BUT STILL continued to bitch about Kaepernick exercising his right. If her point was to say he had the right to do what he wanted to do, the video should've stopped right then and there. That in itself is the issue.
I don't care what Kap does, on or off the field. He can sit, he can stand, he can do cartwheels. The cops out in SF must do the ride alongs, Kap should spend some of his bench time living the life of these cops.
Coming from the guy that not only used a shitty ass reporter as a reference, but attempted to also provide an incorrect assessment of what the reporter was trying to say. We can stop right here, cause we ain't getting anywhere. Prove me wrong in terms of what she is trying to say, I encourage it, we are after all having a MATURE conversation right?
If you had addressed a single point made in the video maybe we could discuss. Until then have fun discussing whatever it is you're blabbing about.
This guy has the influence and money to effect real meaningful change. In this Americsn's humble opinion the state of inner city black neighborhoods and the third world conditions many blacks live in is the most prudent cause. If he feels like racism is a bigger problem perpetuated by the US govt. he can sit and protest that all he wants. Again, my opinion but this is an exaggerated plight that I don see widespread evidence of. Truth be told, I don't actually believe he has any concern at all and seems, at least to me, to be looking for attention. As luck would have it, he is terrible at football and has all the time in the world to sit and ride the pine as the #2 qb.
The bolded sentences seem like a bit of a contradiction. If on average black people have to work harder than white people to achieve success, then how can you say they have every opportunity? The second and third paragraphs of your posts are a completely different topic (which I'd be happy to discuss another time) that doesn't pertain to my original point.
