(06-06-2020, 11:34 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote:

(06-06-2020, 11:14 AM)JagJohn Wrote: To answer both your questions in the simplest way possible, kneeling during the anthem is a protest against racism and police brutality. The goal is to raise awareness of these issues. Obviously, if you want to raise awareness about issues, you want your message to reach as many people as possible. Doing it during the anthem achieved that goal, in a peaceful manner.

The act of kneeling itself will not fix anything. The process of raising awareness of the issues is the starting point to actually having a national conversation about these issues, which, in turn, can lead to concrete changes being made to address these issues. Whether you like it or not, whether you think the issues are real and meaningful or not, that process has now begun in America.

Dude, all kneeling did was piss people off and blackball Kaepernick.

What finally got people's attention was George Floyd dying for over 8 minutes for all the world to see. It has made people see this problem in a way that nothing else comes close to. 

Kaep and the others who kneeled did nothing to start the process, the brutal murder of a man did.

I disagree. I'm not saying Kaepernick changed anything immediately by kneeling, but that act of protest started a conversation in America, albeit, as you say, by pissing many people off. But that conversation was started. The murder of George Floyd then brought the issue into a much sharper focus and, hopefully, will be remembered as a turning point in the battle for real equality in America.

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