Will we see players kneel?

[Shake n Blake]

(09-25-2017, 10:26 AM)WeezyBengal Wrote: With all due respect, your uncle died for this country protecting the rights and freedoms that these players are exhibiting. THATS what makes America great. People have the freedom to do this and to stand up for what they believe in. 

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. 

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. 

KKK members have the right to burn flags and hold their rallies. Respecting those freedoms doesn't mean we have to approve or pay money to go see it.

I agree that the message has been completely lost, not that I agreed with the message in the first place. A few (mostly) accidents and a few bad apples in a nation of 323 million people
(47 million black folks) and 1.1 million officers is not worth the constant state of paranoia and fear that's being promoted.

(09-25-2017, 11:11 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: 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? 

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.

If it wasn't disrespectful, they wouldn't have chosen the anthem as their platform in the first place. They wanted maximum impact/exposure/backlash.

(09-25-2017, 11:39 AM)WeezyBengal Wrote: What about "the right to kneel should be reason enough to kneel". 

(09-25-2017, 12:17 PM)GMDino Wrote: Actually it was pigs with cop hats on.

But anyway...

That explanation is a load of crap. A PC response to quell backlash for something he knew was immature and did anyway. 

Such immature behavior (that demonizes ALL cops) is yet another reason not to respect him and also makes it easy to question his true cause.

Finding a BS way to defend that behavior only made him look worse. He should've just owned up to it and called it what it was: a stupid decision.