(09-23-2017, 08:58 AM)LetsBReal Wrote:

(09-23-2017, 08:52 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: He's also looking at it from a business perspective. The NFL has an image crisis right now. Millionaire players taking a knee and crying about injustice while Joe Everybody has just shelled out a few days wages to take himself and his family to watch said player perform is not the ideal business model. Is anyone else on this board allowed to take a knee in the middle of their workplace and decry American injustice while cashing a check at the end of the day which has 5 or 6 digits on the left side of the decimal point?

I'm all for protest, but like most things, there are times and places for it. I would even support occasional on-field protests, but every game and the subsequent media storm is tiring and distracting.

I go to work everyday and I'm not forced to stand for any anthem or music.  Before these protest even started beople sat during the anthem but now its a big debacle because the attention on the killings in this country was too hostile for the typical American.  Lets make it about the military and the people that died fighting for freedom instead of keeping it about the injustice in this country and "non-criminal" killings, as they are looked at, that are allowed to go on by government officials and employees. 

M entire family is military and cant just go shoot innocent people even if they look like they have a weapon when on duty.  But I guess that's because their are certain guidelines made by Americans with who can and cant shoot and who can or cant be shoot and get away with it because of excuses.

No one is being forced to stand at NFL games either. It's a demonstration of respect. While there are blatant abuses by the police, it's not as widespread and insidious as these protesters and more radical political groups would like everyone to believe. It's now become so sensationalized that simple encounters with the police are immediately framed as racial profiling in an attempt to either a) intimidate the police into retreating or b) using the race card to obfuscate a potential offense. Here's a recent local story that illustrates just that. 

Colin Kaepernick has no intention of fostering understanding and constructive dialogue. He wants to throw a ninny fit and be respected for it. That distinction is saved for reasonable mature people, not tantrum throwers.

---