I don't get the outrage over Colin Kaepernick's refusal to stand during the National Anthem. This is his right and his view is justified. This isn't Game of Thrones or Germany in the 1930s. We don't bend the knee to the flag or our nation. They serve us and are supposed to represent equality. Clearly, they still don't.
I'm further perplexed by Donald Trump's attack on Kaepernick.Hasn't Trump been going on and on about how awful our country is... how awful it is for black people? It seems to me that they are essentially saying the same thing. At least Kaepernick is taking a principled stand and putting himself at considerable risk.
Kaepernick is using his celebrity status to take a stand on an issue that is still a deep wound in our country's soul. We are not doing a good job of addressing the fallout from slavery...even in the year 2016. I hope he is the first of many to let his voice, or silence in this case, be heard.
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Setting the accuracy or falsehoods of his statements aside, a multimillionaire is going to be the wrong spokesman for the oppression he speaks of.
Plus, while police brutality is an issue, it pales in comparison to the problems that fatherless homes in the black community causes as well as black on black crime, but those doesn't fit the preferred narrative all that well so let's go with hands up don't shoot even though hands up don't shoot didn't happen in the Mike Brown incident, let's go with it anyway.
Watching the democrat primary debates, they went on and on about institutional racism, lack of equal pay, discrimination, etc. They didn't exactly paint a rosy picture either and you know that to be true.
He certainly does have a right to say what he said and do what he did - nobody that I can see has advocated forcing him to stand for the NA, but his team is most likely going to feel it in their pocketbook. dolla dolla bill y'all.
Fatherless homes in the black community and black on black crime are a direct result of slavery as well. There is no "preferred narrative." We have to deal with the reality of the socio-economic reality of slavery because we aren't doing a good job of it right now.
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