(06-06-2020, 12:01 PM)JagJohn Wrote:

(06-06-2020, 11:31 AM)Last42min Wrote: Police brutality, as it pertains to blacks exclusively, is a myth. We can talk about police reform, but stop propagating a lie. You ask why we give numbers, that's why. If you want to look at sentencing and certain biases, I think there's much better evidence for disparities. It's also improving. Colin Kaepernick did not kneel until he got involved with BLM, which is a socialist organization. There's a reason the kneeling HAS to be tied to the flag.

I was simply answering questions about what the kneeling is intended to accomplish, and why they choose to do it during the anthem. You believe police brutality against black people is a myth, I don't. I lack the energy and motivation to get back into that debate again; we are not going to change each other's minds. You're right about the sentencing and other biases in the system, and certainly that is a basis for the protests too. I don't believe for a second that Kaepernick is expressly motivated by pushing a socialist agenda on America, and neither are the vast majority of people who support his protests. I see where the idea is coming from though; some ideas that are proposed to combat racial inequality have socialist ideals at the heart of them. Again, you see that as some dark conspiracy to turn America into Venezuela, I absolutely do not.