(07-05-2020, 06:39 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(07-05-2020, 03:56 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: So having a separate "National Anthem" for a group of people based on the color of their skin is suddenly a good thing.  We used to have drinking water fountains for the same purpose.  This is supposedly "progress"?

Yes, the cannon fodder don't realize that they are demanding the re-segregation of America but they'll be very shocked when they discover what that really means for them.

You guys don't understand what's really happening.   A few decades ago, after the assassination of Dr. King, thousands of cities and towns all over the country decided to name a street after him.   Now what was that really all about?   That was a low cost way of throwing a bone to black people.  Almost purely symbolic.  Just calming people down, "Hey, we'll name a street after him.  See how much we care?"  


It's the same thing with statue removal, changing the Mississippi flag, playing the "black national anthem," and a whole lot of other cost-free, purely symbolic exercises that in the long run, are fairly meaningless.  

People who have power stay in power because they understand how to occasionally appease the masses, throw them a bone, let a little of the pressure off.  It's how you avoid an explosion.  Throw a little oil on troubled waters.  "I feel your pain."  "I'm on your side."   

So in the case of the NFL owners, they say, "We have to throw these guys a bone, get them calmed down a little, so we can get on with making money."   So they let the players kneel, and they come up with some sort of "program" to fight racial injustice, and they play the "black national anthem" one time.  These are all virtually cost-free ways of calming troubled waters so the people in power can stay in power.

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