09-25-2017, 11:11 AM
(09-25-2017, 10:26 AM)WeezyBengal Wrote: I am for the players kneeling. People are confused by the message being sent. The message isnt about disrespecting the flag, military, or the US, its about standing up for a racial injustice. The players themselves have come out and said its not about disrespecting the flag, its about getting their point across and standing up for this injustive. Therefore, I dont take it as disrespect.
Except it is disrespect, or else why would they stand for the UK national anthem? The UK has at least as bloody and racist past as the United States, so why stand for their anthem?
Quote:That being said, I think the players made a mistake in the method that have chosen to get their message out there. The message is being lost with the the method in which they chose to communicate the message. No one is even talking about why this was being done in the first place (racial injustice) and everyone is talking about how its disrespectful to our flag. The original message has been completely lost.
The message is being lost because it was never really the message to begin with. Kaepernick started this protest and he irrevocably tainted it with his pig cops socks, his Castro shirt/rhetoric and his racist, radical, girlfriend's tweets. Colin made this form of protest about being anti-America, it is now forever tainted in that regard and anyone with a pair of eyes and ears is aware of that. Participation in this form of protest carries that baggage now, do so knowing this.
