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Originally Posted by finnbow
Trump's cynical effort to hijack Kaepernick's message and morph it into a wedge issue worked perfectly on you. Kap and his kneeling colleagues picked the time and place to maximize eyeballs on their issue and knelt silently and legally (and kneeling is universally considered a gesture of reverence).
Your complaint rings like "Those uppity ni....rs should know their place" and shouldn't do anything that upsets white people's sensibilities when they protest racial injustice (as well as our Bigot-in-Chief's threatening and cynical comments). I guess you think they should protest at a time and in a place that will protect white folks from having to hear their message.
So, it's OK for GOP Congresscritters to take a moment of silence as their sole response to the Las Vegas massacre (instead of having a needed debate on gun laws), but it's not OK for black athletes to take a moment of silence to protest racial injustice (while the very same Congress fails to take necessary action on criminal justice reform)? It seems to me that the black athletes are the brave, patriotic ones and your GOP Congresscritters are the cowards.
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There you go again, trying putting words in my mouth. Please keep your hate to yourself.
Sure, "Kap and his kneeling colleagues" picked their place of work - certainly during a time when the TV cameras would be on - do make their statement. You think that is just a fine time and place to do it. Let's stipulate that for a minute, for the sake of discussion.
Now, since you like to put words in other folks mouths, I'll return the favor:
So, you think its OK for a person to engage in free speech any time, any place, anywhere? You think its just fine to dispense with any and all time, manner and place restrictions on speech? "Kap and his kneeling colleagues" should be able to take a knee between plays on the field if they think that's the right time to stage a protest? Lots of eyes would be on them for sure. You think they should take a knee in the parking lot driveway after the game while folks are trying to exit the stadium if they think that's the right time and place to stage a protest? They'd get plenty of eyes, and probably quite a few middle fingers, in both cases.
You want to keep making this a matter of race. Its ain't. Its about the right time and the wrong time to vent your spleen, and "Kap and his kneeling colleagues" have it wrong.
And I also have to say that you trying to draw some kind of screwy moral equivalence between folks taking a moment of silence for those innocents shot dead in Vegas and the deeds of Kap and his kneeling colleagues" is really sick shit. You apparently lack any degree of proportion, respect, understanding and compassion for those who were killed.
You can keep going in circles with me on this and try to put more words in my mouth if you want, but you'll keep getting the same consistent answer.