It is your right to take that stance and my post wasn't meant to be geared towards people with your thought process. We can debate all we want about whether politics should be in sports or not, but my post was simply about the folks who claim kneeling is disrespectful but yelling "Bison" isn't.
You seem to be more of the "I just dont want to deal with it" ilk, which isn't what my post was meant for!
98% of people don't know that is considered disrespectful. People who yell or kneel do know their actions can be considered disrespectful. And kneelers are doing it solely for political purposes.
All three scenarios are different, it's disingenuous to claim or imply they are the same.
Kneeling for injustice and police brutality. Quick question in regard to that issue: If 80% of the prison population in the U.S. is of people of color, would it not be statistically possible that 20% of the time its a white person being beaten by a rogue cop or officers? Please, while taking a knee give that a bit of thought.
I don't think you get to call anyone naive after this post.
nearly 1 in 10 homicides in america is by law enforcement, and that only includes incidents before jail. Once you get to jail, we make extensive use of torture in the form of solitary confinement, even without conviction. Some parts of the country (hello Louisiana!) have turned their prison systems into large scale slavery, which is legal for prisoners under our constitutions. We imprison more people than any other country. Lack of fathers is not the problem, and there is only a 'lack of fathers' because we put so many in jail for petty crap like possession. Lack of 'faith' is definitely not the problem, last I checked atheists have much lower crime rates than Christians.
Geze man, do us a favor and stay in Grand Forks. Anyways, I was at the game as well and saw the UNI players kneeling in prayer, it seems like maybe we just started the anthem a little early. I was in the North end zone and didn't see a kneeling UNI player. Had we seen him, the less than sober group I was with would have booed him and made a big scene about it.
If 9 out of 10 homicides in the country were by law enforcement we wouldn't have 3 million people in our U.S. prison system either. Over 400 people were shot in Chicago over 4th of July weekend 2017, I don't think bad cops were the problem!!!
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The high percentage of minorities being incarcerated has much to do with decades of oppression which lead to poverty. It's frightening that the civil rights movement was a recent as the 1960s. Poverty more times than not takes many generations to go away. Not everyone obviously but it's something many people don't have to deal with
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