(09-27-2017, 12:03 AM)MalabarJag Wrote:

(09-26-2017, 10:25 PM)JackCity Wrote: Well the protest was centered around police brutality so I guess they got that one right. Why not have a very simply rule that body cams must be mandatory? More so than a gun or any other piece of equipment. At very least it would help some of those contentious cases..

The cowboys knelt before the anthem and stood when it was played and were resoundly booed and criticized for doing so by their fans. So let's not pretend this is all about the flag and the anthem. The players are protesting because they love the country not because they hate it, but that's how it's being spun by idiots.

As jj pointed out, if the message is misconstrued by 75% of the population, then it's a stupid way to protest. And that's assuming that they were actually protesting police brutality and not the United States. Kaep in particular was extolling the Castro government as being better than the US, so there has been an anti-American factor in the protests.

The National Anthem, the Federal government, and the US military have no control over whether or not a cop turns bad. Most of these cases occurred in cities run by socialist Democrats, hardly the ones who would be expected to be complicit in hiring racists as cops. Even those most ardently concerned with racism or police brutality aren't going to make the right hires 100% of the time.

The Cowboys were booed because the fans thought they were going to kneel throughout the anthem, since they did it right before the anthem. If they weren't trying to sow confusion they could have taken a knee and then stood 5 minutes before the anthem, not 5 seconds.

This whole protest thing has been completely confusing and when people are confused, the point you are trying make via the protest, is completely lost. Therefore it was pointless. 99% of the problem was that Colin Kaepernick is a poor spokesman for any issue. He was a backup QB who thinks he was better than what he actually was on the field and priced himself out of the market. The Che Guevara and Fidel Castro shirts, as well as the pig socks, (where they were dressed like cops), turned a lot of people off. He appears to be some kind of trouble maker. You can't come at people like that. When people saw his antics, they formed an immediate opinion and refused to listen to the rest of the message. Kaepernick is directly responsible for the message getting lost. If he would have been more subtle and respectful, maybe Trump wouldn't have added his opinion, (that nobody asked for) and this thing wouldn't have turned into such a fiasco.

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