Good points. That said, with all these protests going on, I'm wondering who the target audiences are supposed to be? The government alone? Hmmm. I still believe change happens in the heart, and that begins in the home, our local (trusted) communities and in our educational systems. As I pointed out elsewhere, I'm super pleased that players such as Damon are taking their messages to the communities. Need to be more white boys doing it, as well. Kids don't forget this stuff.
Never said that at all. I said, as a whole, parents need to be teaching their kids. Outside of that, our local communities. Outside of that, our educational systems. Outside of that, role models. Charles Barkley can say all he wants on the subject, but kids DO look up to these guys.
you did say taking a knee for taking a knee's sake....watering down what he did and alluded that wealthy athletes don't do enough...hence my retort
What I said was, rather than simply taking a knee, why not model what it stands for....especially since you have all the material and time resources to do anything you want to do in life? Kids want to emulate these guys. Take them to a higher ground.
It is why I asked. This take is weird to me in so many ways though. Just because someone now has a a multi-million dollar salary, does not mean they are automatically more privileged. There are many articles about Damien on how he didn't grow up privileged. "Taking a knee to take a knee's sake"? You aren't recognizing WHY they are taking a knee, and that is what confuses me.
@ABM Black Lives Matter introduced this years ago. They are trying to do other things besides just protest. It's well worth the time to read. https://www.joincampaignzero.org/#vision
Charles Barkley is more of a role model to our children than our elected officials? Aren't the latter supposed to be the leaders? You are seriously pointing your finger at the wrong people.
Wait, what??? You state you don’t read an entire thread before you post, yet you suggest others should do so??? How very ABM. And a troll dumps turds in a punch bowl for no other reason than to get a reaction they can laugh at. Exactly what you’ve done since your “return”
Professional athletes are a highly recognized entity. Such as movie and/or rock stars, as it were. I'm simply advocating that these NFL players use their platform in a means beyond taking a knee at any given football game. OK, so they take a knee. How does that effect social change in and of itself. These guys are effective role models. They're not average Joe's on the streets of our nation's cities.
It generates a reaction to blind patriotism in face of human injustice...so much so that people not in the business of football are talking about a guy they might have never known about outside of his protest...I'm not a football fan myself...but I sure know who he is and why he took a knee. It's affecting social change right now...as I've said...he'll be in history books for civil rights..not football accomplishments
Not at all. However, look at all that our elected officials have done over the past number of decades. Not a whole lot of progress in that regard. That said, though, community townhall meetings/workshops, led by our local elected officials sounds like a pretty novel idea.
Human injustice has been around for centuries. When did this so-called blind patriotism show up? Is this simply a Trump-induced phenomenon?
Who ever said anything against community townhall meetings/workgroups? I just don't understand how anyone is able to tell another person how to PEACEFULLY prostest.
So do I. It's embarrassing that he's been shamed into apologizing. I'd tell these offended assholes to go play in traffic.
....the people throwing a shit flip because Brees dares to have an opinion other than the one they want him to have?
give me a break......you are doing the Amway salesman thing again....fishing with questions...make a statement and stand by it.....a condescending question at that....is it simply a Trump induced phenomenon..? No..(As if you didn't know that or know I knew that)..Trump didn't invent white privilege...he just enables it with his words and you get to swallow that with your vote and feel however you feel about it...stay with me here....you really want to isolate racial profiling in defense of bad behavior? Talk about boorish post we need to move on from...yours here was a doozy and you should consider that "blind partisanship" tag closely...it applies...Harvey Weinstein didn't invent sexual harrassment either but hey....he's certainly guilty of it...try dealing with tangibles here...it's not a mystery...human injustice has been around for centuries so that makes it somehow...ok? Unimportant? Blown out of proportion? The truth IS the truth