Off Topic · Off Topic: six months later, do people who voted for Trump still support this guy? (page 50)
arkrud wrote:nixluva wrote:Knickoftime wrote:nixluva wrote:Knickoftime wrote:martin wrote:People respond to you all the time and you BARELY EVER RESPOND.That's not true. He responds to black people all the time and tells them they've never experienced racism. And apparently that's okay.
I think perhaps BRIGGS has a lack of perspective which isn't uncommon for a large swath of the country. As i've pointed out many times the vast majority of AA's still live in the former Slave States. Even after the Great Migration of AA's to cities in the North. Most of the Majority of average Americans only have a very minimal and slanted view of what life is like for many AA's in this country. The vestiges of Segregation and Redlining having clustered many AA's together in mostly Black neighborhoods.
In Connecticut for instance they have about 470,000 AA's which ranks 23rd among all states. There are over 46 Million AA's in the country. There are about 29 States where the percentage of AA's is in the single digits. 19 States with less than 5% of the population being AA. So there are a LOT of Americans who simply don't have any frame of reference when it comes to living and working with AA's and being able to say they have some deep sense of the many similarities we all share. Especially when the bifurcated News Media tends to show AA's in a certain negative light. This is to say nothing of the Urban vs Rural divide as well.
You're more generous than I Nix. I grew up and live, white in New Jersey in homogeneous communities. It is borderline sociopathic to tell anyone what they have or have not experienced. These particular circumstances just makes it worse.
There was a distinct advantage to keeping AA's separate from White Society over the years. It allowed the Majority to be fed lies about AA's and cast them as the OTHER, which suited the needs of the Wealthy who needed cheap Black Labor. This was to the disadvantage of Poor Whites who couldn't compete with cheap Black Labor. This is also done with Hispanics of course.
Anytime Poor Whites and Blacks came together, there were those who fomented divisions to keep this from happening. As i've said this was not an accident. That's what makes our current politics so sad. We still have a small group of people doing the same dirty tricks to create division. ALL the American Poor and Middle Class need to be UNITED but things like the Kaepernick Protest are used to sow division cuz it works. This is why there's been so little progress on Race Relations in this country. IMO Trump has been playing on this in a very craven way for years!
So why the protests are not directed at this "small group of people" but at all OTHER people including pure and some symbols which are universal for this OTHERS?
Why not to identify the common enemy and attack exactly them together?
I'm sorry but I don't fully understand your post. The Protests are done to DRAW ATTENTION to the injustices and inequality. They are done so that the AVERAGE American can be made aware of things that are wrong but may not directly affect them. If you live in a community that doesn't SEE the atrocities then you would not know exactly how bad it is.
The Civil Rights Movement staged public protests to draw attention to the horrors of Segregation and Jim Crow. If they never stood up and protested things would never have changed because it didn't affect the Majority of White America. They could go about their lives just fine with the way things were. Just as unequal Justice and Law Enforcement practices that disproportionately impacted AA's and Hispanics would've just continued without protests.
I think you know full well that you can't allow a Minority group to be treated unfairly and have negative propaganda spread in an effort to make them seem LESS HUMAN!!! I think you know exactly what i'm saying and for some reason you don't apply this to the plight of minorities in this country.
nixluva wrote:arkrud wrote:nixluva wrote:Knickoftime wrote:nixluva wrote:Knickoftime wrote:martin wrote:People respond to you all the time and you BARELY EVER RESPOND.That's not true. He responds to black people all the time and tells them they've never experienced racism. And apparently that's okay.
I think perhaps BRIGGS has a lack of perspective which isn't uncommon for a large swath of the country. As i've pointed out many times the vast majority of AA's still live in the former Slave States. Even after the Great Migration of AA's to cities in the North. Most of the Majority of average Americans only have a very minimal and slanted view of what life is like for many AA's in this country. The vestiges of Segregation and Redlining having clustered many AA's together in mostly Black neighborhoods.
In Connecticut for instance they have about 470,000 AA's which ranks 23rd among all states. There are over 46 Million AA's in the country. There are about 29 States where the percentage of AA's is in the single digits. 19 States with less than 5% of the population being AA. So there are a LOT of Americans who simply don't have any frame of reference when it comes to living and working with AA's and being able to say they have some deep sense of the many similarities we all share. Especially when the bifurcated News Media tends to show AA's in a certain negative light. This is to say nothing of the Urban vs Rural divide as well.
You're more generous than I Nix. I grew up and live, white in New Jersey in homogeneous communities. It is borderline sociopathic to tell anyone what they have or have not experienced. These particular circumstances just makes it worse.
There was a distinct advantage to keeping AA's separate from White Society over the years. It allowed the Majority to be fed lies about AA's and cast them as the OTHER, which suited the needs of the Wealthy who needed cheap Black Labor. This was to the disadvantage of Poor Whites who couldn't compete with cheap Black Labor. This is also done with Hispanics of course.
Anytime Poor Whites and Blacks came together, there were those who fomented divisions to keep this from happening. As i've said this was not an accident. That's what makes our current politics so sad. We still have a small group of people doing the same dirty tricks to create division. ALL the American Poor and Middle Class need to be UNITED but things like the Kaepernick Protest are used to sow division cuz it works. This is why there's been so little progress on Race Relations in this country. IMO Trump has been playing on this in a very craven way for years!
So why the protests are not directed at this "small group of people" but at all OTHER people including pure and some symbols which are universal for this OTHERS?
Why not to identify the common enemy and attack exactly them together?I'm sorry but I don't fully understand your post. The Protests are done to DRAW ATTENTION to the injustices and inequality. They are done so that the AVERAGE American can be made aware of things that are wrong but may not directly affect them. If you live in a community that doesn't SEE the atrocities then you would not know exactly how bad it is.
The Civil Rights Movement staged public protests to draw attention to the horrors of Segregation and Jim Crow. If they never stood up and protested things would never have changed because it didn't affect the Majority of White America. They could go about their lives just fine with the way things were. Just as unequal Justice and Law Enforcement practices that disproportionately impacted AA's and Hispanics would've just continued without protests.
I think you know full well that you can't allow a Minority group to be treated unfairly and have negative propaganda spread in an effort to make them seem LESS HUMAN!!! I think you know exactly what i'm saying and for some reason you don't apply this to the plight of minorities in this country.
To make it simple - my question is why the protest cannot be done the way it is not offending to people who are not responsible for the thing protest is about?
Why not just make a speech after the anthem against police brutality, white supremacists, practices used to discriminate black Americans in Southern states and such?
Like Step Curry need to address the crowd at season opening about the season and such, instead he will talk about this issues out of script.
Do you think offending many people and make them choose between solidarity with fellow Americans of other race and patriotism is better attention grabber?
How it is better that being Trump? Same tactics.
arkrud wrote:nixluva wrote:arkrud wrote:nixluva wrote:Knickoftime wrote:nixluva wrote:Knickoftime wrote:martin wrote:People respond to you all the time and you BARELY EVER RESPOND.That's not true. He responds to black people all the time and tells them they've never experienced racism. And apparently that's okay.
I think perhaps BRIGGS has a lack of perspective which isn't uncommon for a large swath of the country. As i've pointed out many times the vast majority of AA's still live in the former Slave States. Even after the Great Migration of AA's to cities in the North. Most of the Majority of average Americans only have a very minimal and slanted view of what life is like for many AA's in this country. The vestiges of Segregation and Redlining having clustered many AA's together in mostly Black neighborhoods.
In Connecticut for instance they have about 470,000 AA's which ranks 23rd among all states. There are over 46 Million AA's in the country. There are about 29 States where the percentage of AA's is in the single digits. 19 States with less than 5% of the population being AA. So there are a LOT of Americans who simply don't have any frame of reference when it comes to living and working with AA's and being able to say they have some deep sense of the many similarities we all share. Especially when the bifurcated News Media tends to show AA's in a certain negative light. This is to say nothing of the Urban vs Rural divide as well.
You're more generous than I Nix. I grew up and live, white in New Jersey in homogeneous communities. It is borderline sociopathic to tell anyone what they have or have not experienced. These particular circumstances just makes it worse.
There was a distinct advantage to keeping AA's separate from White Society over the years. It allowed the Majority to be fed lies about AA's and cast them as the OTHER, which suited the needs of the Wealthy who needed cheap Black Labor. This was to the disadvantage of Poor Whites who couldn't compete with cheap Black Labor. This is also done with Hispanics of course.
Anytime Poor Whites and Blacks came together, there were those who fomented divisions to keep this from happening. As i've said this was not an accident. That's what makes our current politics so sad. We still have a small group of people doing the same dirty tricks to create division. ALL the American Poor and Middle Class need to be UNITED but things like the Kaepernick Protest are used to sow division cuz it works. This is why there's been so little progress on Race Relations in this country. IMO Trump has been playing on this in a very craven way for years!
So why the protests are not directed at this "small group of people" but at all OTHER people including pure and some symbols which are universal for this OTHERS?
Why not to identify the common enemy and attack exactly them together?I'm sorry but I don't fully understand your post. The Protests are done to DRAW ATTENTION to the injustices and inequality. They are done so that the AVERAGE American can be made aware of things that are wrong but may not directly affect them. If you live in a community that doesn't SEE the atrocities then you would not know exactly how bad it is.
The Civil Rights Movement staged public protests to draw attention to the horrors of Segregation and Jim Crow. If they never stood up and protested things would never have changed because it didn't affect the Majority of White America. They could go about their lives just fine with the way things were. Just as unequal Justice and Law Enforcement practices that disproportionately impacted AA's and Hispanics would've just continued without protests.
I think you know full well that you can't allow a Minority group to be treated unfairly and have negative propaganda spread in an effort to make them seem LESS HUMAN!!! I think you know exactly what i'm saying and for some reason you don't apply this to the plight of minorities in this country.
To make it simple - my question is why the protest cannot be done the way it is not offending to people who are not responsible for the thing protest is about?
Why not just make a speech after the anthem against police brutality, white supremacists, practices used to discriminate black Americans in Southern states and such?
Like Step Curry need to address the crowd at season opening about the season and such, instead he will talk about this issues out of script.
Do you think offending many people and make them choose between solidarity with fellow Americans of other race and patriotism is better attention grabber?
How it is better that being Trump? Same tactics.
Make a speech after the anthem?! What if Rosa Parks wrote a letter to the bus company complaining that she was made to give up her seat and move to the back of the bus? Think the bus boycotts tale place after the well -written letter? Hell no!!! The point of a protest is to make people uncomfortable...Its gets the point across. Everyone is talking about the protests even those who dont follow sports. I will admit, though,the point of the protests in its origins have gotten lost...now its about going against trump and his ignorant comments...
Uptown wrote:arkrud wrote:nixluva wrote:arkrud wrote:nixluva wrote:Knickoftime wrote:nixluva wrote:Knickoftime wrote:martin wrote:People respond to you all the time and you BARELY EVER RESPOND.That's not true. He responds to black people all the time and tells them they've never experienced racism. And apparently that's okay.
I think perhaps BRIGGS has a lack of perspective which isn't uncommon for a large swath of the country. As i've pointed out many times the vast majority of AA's still live in the former Slave States. Even after the Great Migration of AA's to cities in the North. Most of the Majority of average Americans only have a very minimal and slanted view of what life is like for many AA's in this country. The vestiges of Segregation and Redlining having clustered many AA's together in mostly Black neighborhoods.
In Connecticut for instance they have about 470,000 AA's which ranks 23rd among all states. There are over 46 Million AA's in the country. There are about 29 States where the percentage of AA's is in the single digits. 19 States with less than 5% of the population being AA. So there are a LOT of Americans who simply don't have any frame of reference when it comes to living and working with AA's and being able to say they have some deep sense of the many similarities we all share. Especially when the bifurcated News Media tends to show AA's in a certain negative light. This is to say nothing of the Urban vs Rural divide as well.
You're more generous than I Nix. I grew up and live, white in New Jersey in homogeneous communities. It is borderline sociopathic to tell anyone what they have or have not experienced. These particular circumstances just makes it worse.
There was a distinct advantage to keeping AA's separate from White Society over the years. It allowed the Majority to be fed lies about AA's and cast them as the OTHER, which suited the needs of the Wealthy who needed cheap Black Labor. This was to the disadvantage of Poor Whites who couldn't compete with cheap Black Labor. This is also done with Hispanics of course.
Anytime Poor Whites and Blacks came together, there were those who fomented divisions to keep this from happening. As i've said this was not an accident. That's what makes our current politics so sad. We still have a small group of people doing the same dirty tricks to create division. ALL the American Poor and Middle Class need to be UNITED but things like the Kaepernick Protest are used to sow division cuz it works. This is why there's been so little progress on Race Relations in this country. IMO Trump has been playing on this in a very craven way for years!
So why the protests are not directed at this "small group of people" but at all OTHER people including pure and some symbols which are universal for this OTHERS?
Why not to identify the common enemy and attack exactly them together?I'm sorry but I don't fully understand your post. The Protests are done to DRAW ATTENTION to the injustices and inequality. They are done so that the AVERAGE American can be made aware of things that are wrong but may not directly affect them. If you live in a community that doesn't SEE the atrocities then you would not know exactly how bad it is.
The Civil Rights Movement staged public protests to draw attention to the horrors of Segregation and Jim Crow. If they never stood up and protested things would never have changed because it didn't affect the Majority of White America. They could go about their lives just fine with the way things were. Just as unequal Justice and Law Enforcement practices that disproportionately impacted AA's and Hispanics would've just continued without protests.
I think you know full well that you can't allow a Minority group to be treated unfairly and have negative propaganda spread in an effort to make them seem LESS HUMAN!!! I think you know exactly what i'm saying and for some reason you don't apply this to the plight of minorities in this country.
To make it simple - my question is why the protest cannot be done the way it is not offending to people who are not responsible for the thing protest is about?
Why not just make a speech after the anthem against police brutality, white supremacists, practices used to discriminate black Americans in Southern states and such?
Like Step Curry need to address the crowd at season opening about the season and such, instead he will talk about this issues out of script.
Do you think offending many people and make them choose between solidarity with fellow Americans of other race and patriotism is better attention grabber?
How it is better that being Trump? Same tactics.Make a speech after the anthem?! What if Rosa Parks wrote a letter to the bus company complaining that she was made to give up her seat and move to the back of the bus? Think the bus boycotts tale place after the well -written letter? Hell no!!! The point of a protest is to make people uncomfortable...Its gets the point across. Everyone is talking about the protests even those who dont follow sports. I will admit, though,the point of the protests in its origins have gotten lost...now its about going against trump and his ignorant comments...
This was bound to happen because every platform can be used by many people.
Kollin used it, now Trump used it.
Now everyone can use it and put any kind of message of hate into it.
Sport is the platform to unite people of all kind of live.
And using it to divide even for a good course is counterproductive.
arkrud wrote:nixluva wrote:arkrud wrote:nixluva wrote:Knickoftime wrote:nixluva wrote:Knickoftime wrote:martin wrote:People respond to you all the time and you BARELY EVER RESPOND.That's not true. He responds to black people all the time and tells them they've never experienced racism. And apparently that's okay.
I think perhaps BRIGGS has a lack of perspective which isn't uncommon for a large swath of the country. As i've pointed out many times the vast majority of AA's still live in the former Slave States. Even after the Great Migration of AA's to cities in the North. Most of the Majority of average Americans only have a very minimal and slanted view of what life is like for many AA's in this country. The vestiges of Segregation and Redlining having clustered many AA's together in mostly Black neighborhoods.
In Connecticut for instance they have about 470,000 AA's which ranks 23rd among all states. There are over 46 Million AA's in the country. There are about 29 States where the percentage of AA's is in the single digits. 19 States with less than 5% of the population being AA. So there are a LOT of Americans who simply don't have any frame of reference when it comes to living and working with AA's and being able to say they have some deep sense of the many similarities we all share. Especially when the bifurcated News Media tends to show AA's in a certain negative light. This is to say nothing of the Urban vs Rural divide as well.
You're more generous than I Nix. I grew up and live, white in New Jersey in homogeneous communities. It is borderline sociopathic to tell anyone what they have or have not experienced. These particular circumstances just makes it worse.
There was a distinct advantage to keeping AA's separate from White Society over the years. It allowed the Majority to be fed lies about AA's and cast them as the OTHER, which suited the needs of the Wealthy who needed cheap Black Labor. This was to the disadvantage of Poor Whites who couldn't compete with cheap Black Labor. This is also done with Hispanics of course.
Anytime Poor Whites and Blacks came together, there were those who fomented divisions to keep this from happening. As i've said this was not an accident. That's what makes our current politics so sad. We still have a small group of people doing the same dirty tricks to create division. ALL the American Poor and Middle Class need to be UNITED but things like the Kaepernick Protest are used to sow division cuz it works. This is why there's been so little progress on Race Relations in this country. IMO Trump has been playing on this in a very craven way for years!
So why the protests are not directed at this "small group of people" but at all OTHER people including pure and some symbols which are universal for this OTHERS?
Why not to identify the common enemy and attack exactly them together?I'm sorry but I don't fully understand your post. The Protests are done to DRAW ATTENTION to the injustices and inequality. They are done so that the AVERAGE American can be made aware of things that are wrong but may not directly affect them. If you live in a community that doesn't SEE the atrocities then you would not know exactly how bad it is.
The Civil Rights Movement staged public protests to draw attention to the horrors of Segregation and Jim Crow. If they never stood up and protested things would never have changed because it didn't affect the Majority of White America. They could go about their lives just fine with the way things were. Just as unequal Justice and Law Enforcement practices that disproportionately impacted AA's and Hispanics would've just continued without protests.
I think you know full well that you can't allow a Minority group to be treated unfairly and have negative propaganda spread in an effort to make them seem LESS HUMAN!!! I think you know exactly what i'm saying and for some reason you don't apply this to the plight of minorities in this country.
To make it simple - my question is why the protest cannot be done the way it is not offending to people who are not responsible for the thing protest is about?
Why not just make a speech after the anthem against police brutality, white supremacists, practices used to discriminate black Americans in Southern states and such?
Like Step Curry need to address the crowd at season opening about the season and such, instead he will talk about this issues out of script.
Do you think offending many people and make them choose between solidarity with fellow Americans of other race and patriotism is better attention grabber?
How it is better that being Trump? Same tactics.
Sure you have it figured out whereas Ghandi, Martin Luther King and Mandela didn't know what they were doing. You seem to be unaware of the fact that ALL FORMS of effort to bring attention to the problems with Law Enforcement and minorities have been used all along but Kaepernick's protest put it in face of the MAJORITY. They couldn't just ignore it or miss it cuz they don't look at Black or Hispanic Media!!!
The BIG LIE is that there's a form of protest that minorities could do that would be fully productive and at the same time acceptable to those who are unhappy with the form of protest.
Also I HATE the fact that rather than being offended these other Americans should seek to educate themselves about the reason for the protest. They take offense in IGNORANCE and why should that be acceptable?
Also there are those who push a false narrative of just what the protest is about. These people have their own RACIST agenda and don't really care why the protest is happening. You refuse to accept that there's STILL a very real strain of racism in this country.
nixluva wrote:arkrud wrote:nixluva wrote:arkrud wrote:nixluva wrote:Knickoftime wrote:nixluva wrote:Knickoftime wrote:martin wrote:People respond to you all the time and you BARELY EVER RESPOND.That's not true. He responds to black people all the time and tells them they've never experienced racism. And apparently that's okay.
I think perhaps BRIGGS has a lack of perspective which isn't uncommon for a large swath of the country. As i've pointed out many times the vast majority of AA's still live in the former Slave States. Even after the Great Migration of AA's to cities in the North. Most of the Majority of average Americans only have a very minimal and slanted view of what life is like for many AA's in this country. The vestiges of Segregation and Redlining having clustered many AA's together in mostly Black neighborhoods.
In Connecticut for instance they have about 470,000 AA's which ranks 23rd among all states. There are over 46 Million AA's in the country. There are about 29 States where the percentage of AA's is in the single digits. 19 States with less than 5% of the population being AA. So there are a LOT of Americans who simply don't have any frame of reference when it comes to living and working with AA's and being able to say they have some deep sense of the many similarities we all share. Especially when the bifurcated News Media tends to show AA's in a certain negative light. This is to say nothing of the Urban vs Rural divide as well.
You're more generous than I Nix. I grew up and live, white in New Jersey in homogeneous communities. It is borderline sociopathic to tell anyone what they have or have not experienced. These particular circumstances just makes it worse.
There was a distinct advantage to keeping AA's separate from White Society over the years. It allowed the Majority to be fed lies about AA's and cast them as the OTHER, which suited the needs of the Wealthy who needed cheap Black Labor. This was to the disadvantage of Poor Whites who couldn't compete with cheap Black Labor. This is also done with Hispanics of course.
Anytime Poor Whites and Blacks came together, there were those who fomented divisions to keep this from happening. As i've said this was not an accident. That's what makes our current politics so sad. We still have a small group of people doing the same dirty tricks to create division. ALL the American Poor and Middle Class need to be UNITED but things like the Kaepernick Protest are used to sow division cuz it works. This is why there's been so little progress on Race Relations in this country. IMO Trump has been playing on this in a very craven way for years!
So why the protests are not directed at this "small group of people" but at all OTHER people including pure and some symbols which are universal for this OTHERS?
Why not to identify the common enemy and attack exactly them together?I'm sorry but I don't fully understand your post. The Protests are done to DRAW ATTENTION to the injustices and inequality. They are done so that the AVERAGE American can be made aware of things that are wrong but may not directly affect them. If you live in a community that doesn't SEE the atrocities then you would not know exactly how bad it is.
The Civil Rights Movement staged public protests to draw attention to the horrors of Segregation and Jim Crow. If they never stood up and protested things would never have changed because it didn't affect the Majority of White America. They could go about their lives just fine with the way things were. Just as unequal Justice and Law Enforcement practices that disproportionately impacted AA's and Hispanics would've just continued without protests.
I think you know full well that you can't allow a Minority group to be treated unfairly and have negative propaganda spread in an effort to make them seem LESS HUMAN!!! I think you know exactly what i'm saying and for some reason you don't apply this to the plight of minorities in this country.
To make it simple - my question is why the protest cannot be done the way it is not offending to people who are not responsible for the thing protest is about?
Why not just make a speech after the anthem against police brutality, white supremacists, practices used to discriminate black Americans in Southern states and such?
Like Step Curry need to address the crowd at season opening about the season and such, instead he will talk about this issues out of script.
Do you think offending many people and make them choose between solidarity with fellow Americans of other race and patriotism is better attention grabber?
How it is better that being Trump? Same tactics.Sure you have it figured out whereas Ghandi, Martin Luther King and Mandela didn't know what they were doing. You seem to be unaware of the fact that ALL FORMS of effort to bring attention to the problems with Law Enforcement and minorities have been used all along but Kaepernick's protest put it in face of the MAJORITY. They couldn't just ignore it or miss it cuz they don't look at Black or Hispanic Media!!!
The BIG LIE is that there's a form of protest that minorities could do that would be fully productive and at the same time acceptable to those who are unhappy with the form of protest.
Also I HATE the fact that rather than being offended these other Americans should seek to educate themselves about the reason for the protest. They take offense in IGNORANCE and why should that be acceptable?
Also there are those who push a false narrative of just what the protest is about. These people have their own RACIST agenda and don't really care why the protest is happening. You refuse to accept that there's STILL a very real strain of racism in this country.
You are very generous about people.
Most of them are not inclined to educate them-self regardless of their race.
The only suffering site from this attention grab will be sports and what still remained from the inter-racial harmony it creates.
arkrud wrote:nixluva wrote:arkrud wrote:nixluva wrote:arkrud wrote:nixluva wrote:Knickoftime wrote:nixluva wrote:Knickoftime wrote:martin wrote:People respond to you all the time and you BARELY EVER RESPOND.That's not true. He responds to black people all the time and tells them they've never experienced racism. And apparently that's okay.
I think perhaps BRIGGS has a lack of perspective which isn't uncommon for a large swath of the country. As i've pointed out many times the vast majority of AA's still live in the former Slave States. Even after the Great Migration of AA's to cities in the North. Most of the Majority of average Americans only have a very minimal and slanted view of what life is like for many AA's in this country. The vestiges of Segregation and Redlining having clustered many AA's together in mostly Black neighborhoods.
In Connecticut for instance they have about 470,000 AA's which ranks 23rd among all states. There are over 46 Million AA's in the country. There are about 29 States where the percentage of AA's is in the single digits. 19 States with less than 5% of the population being AA. So there are a LOT of Americans who simply don't have any frame of reference when it comes to living and working with AA's and being able to say they have some deep sense of the many similarities we all share. Especially when the bifurcated News Media tends to show AA's in a certain negative light. This is to say nothing of the Urban vs Rural divide as well.
You're more generous than I Nix. I grew up and live, white in New Jersey in homogeneous communities. It is borderline sociopathic to tell anyone what they have or have not experienced. These particular circumstances just makes it worse.
There was a distinct advantage to keeping AA's separate from White Society over the years. It allowed the Majority to be fed lies about AA's and cast them as the OTHER, which suited the needs of the Wealthy who needed cheap Black Labor. This was to the disadvantage of Poor Whites who couldn't compete with cheap Black Labor. This is also done with Hispanics of course.
Anytime Poor Whites and Blacks came together, there were those who fomented divisions to keep this from happening. As i've said this was not an accident. That's what makes our current politics so sad. We still have a small group of people doing the same dirty tricks to create division. ALL the American Poor and Middle Class need to be UNITED but things like the Kaepernick Protest are used to sow division cuz it works. This is why there's been so little progress on Race Relations in this country. IMO Trump has been playing on this in a very craven way for years!
So why the protests are not directed at this "small group of people" but at all OTHER people including pure and some symbols which are universal for this OTHERS?
Why not to identify the common enemy and attack exactly them together?I'm sorry but I don't fully understand your post. The Protests are done to DRAW ATTENTION to the injustices and inequality. They are done so that the AVERAGE American can be made aware of things that are wrong but may not directly affect them. If you live in a community that doesn't SEE the atrocities then you would not know exactly how bad it is.
The Civil Rights Movement staged public protests to draw attention to the horrors of Segregation and Jim Crow. If they never stood up and protested things would never have changed because it didn't affect the Majority of White America. They could go about their lives just fine with the way things were. Just as unequal Justice and Law Enforcement practices that disproportionately impacted AA's and Hispanics would've just continued without protests.
I think you know full well that you can't allow a Minority group to be treated unfairly and have negative propaganda spread in an effort to make them seem LESS HUMAN!!! I think you know exactly what i'm saying and for some reason you don't apply this to the plight of minorities in this country.
To make it simple - my question is why the protest cannot be done the way it is not offending to people who are not responsible for the thing protest is about?
Why not just make a speech after the anthem against police brutality, white supremacists, practices used to discriminate black Americans in Southern states and such?
Like Step Curry need to address the crowd at season opening about the season and such, instead he will talk about this issues out of script.
Do you think offending many people and make them choose between solidarity with fellow Americans of other race and patriotism is better attention grabber?
How it is better that being Trump? Same tactics.Sure you have it figured out whereas Ghandi, Martin Luther King and Mandela didn't know what they were doing. You seem to be unaware of the fact that ALL FORMS of effort to bring attention to the problems with Law Enforcement and minorities have been used all along but Kaepernick's protest put it in face of the MAJORITY. They couldn't just ignore it or miss it cuz they don't look at Black or Hispanic Media!!!
The BIG LIE is that there's a form of protest that minorities could do that would be fully productive and at the same time acceptable to those who are unhappy with the form of protest.
Also I HATE the fact that rather than being offended these other Americans should seek to educate themselves about the reason for the protest. They take offense in IGNORANCE and why should that be acceptable?
Also there are those who push a false narrative of just what the protest is about. These people have their own RACIST agenda and don't really care why the protest is happening. You refuse to accept that there's STILL a very real strain of racism in this country.
You are very generous about people.
Most of them are not inclined to educate them-self regardless of their race.
The only suffering site from this attention grab will be sports and what still remained from the inter-racial harmony it creates.
So why should this be the problem of the minorities protesting if some of the Majority population is uninterested in the reasons for the protests?
Why should this apathy stop the rightful efforts to educate and bring attention to the moral failings of this country?
This country holds itself out as an example to the world but it's been the persistent efforts and protests of its oppressed minorities that have helped this country live up to its highest ideals!!!
We help make America more American!!!