My post on my FaceBook "friends" accounts who are angry with players

[bitterross]

I'm about to get unfriended and a lot of hate I bet. I keep posting this on people's facebook when I see them complaining about the NFL and the players.



Now that everyone is ticked off and talking about it. Can we discuss why this all began in the first place? It wasn't because a bunch of players just decided to show disrespect to the flag. Which, by the way, is not just a symbol of our service men and women. It is, as Terry Bradshaw said, as symbol of the ideals of our country.

The idea behind the protests has nothing to do with a lack of support for our troops. It has everything to do with the racism that still exists in our country. The fact that African Americans still suffer injustice at the hands of the police and the court system on a regular basis. It is probably difficult for them to stand in respect of a symbol of something they feel they are not really a part of and from which they are intentionally excluded.

I am sure my post will not be appreciated but there it is anyway.

[Leith]

1. hair furor Is Deliberately Changing the Message

It isn't the flag they are protesting. It's the treatment certain people get in the country under the flag.

Just like dolt45 switched the reason for wanting confederate statues taken down (from not honoring traitors to the country to slave owners), he is changing the reason for the protests by football players and their supporters. It's because even he can't defend the indefensible, so he changes it.

It's a dirty trick and we can NOT let him get away with it.

[smirkymonkey]

7. Exactly this!

It makes me sick! He has no capacity for empathy or understanding - he is just using this as red meat for his deplorable base and they are so stupid and hateful, it works on them.

[meadowlark5]

2. Oh my the trump-flakes are so outraged

I was reading the comments of one FB article about it and there were a bunch of patriotic deplorables dog piling on someone who said people should be more outraged about the reason why they are kneeling instead of the kneeling. Deplorables were actually asking in frustration, "what is their issues"? They are outraged and don't even know the reason behind this protest. They've been told by Fox News and the deplorable in chief to be outraged - so they are. Sheesh.

[Grammy23]

3. They just cannot see what is right in front of them.

They are blinded by their ignorance and racism. Oh, they will be very quick to tell you they work with "blacks" who are good, decent people. They may attend church or have neighbors who are African American who are not the problem. It's those OTHER ones who are bad, the lazy criminals who are out to steal their stuff and rape their wimmen.

They have NO CLUE what it is like to walk around in brown or black skin and quite honestly, most of us who are not of that ethnic background don't either. The difference for some of us is we can read the statistics that tell the story of injustice and intolerance they live with every.single.day. We believe them when they say they have been stopped by the police countless times for no discernible reason other than the color of their skin. We know they are not making it up when they tell about being treated differently when they go in an upscale store.

Many years ago there was book written by a white man who took a medication that turned his skin dark. It was called Black Like Me. He did this experiment long enough to find out that living in the skin of a dark hued man is no picnic and in some cases is downright deadly. Some of these people living in their safe, white skin might benefit from trying that experiment---if they dared. I have a feeling some might be surprised but if they are honest, they should already know how their fellow white friends, neighbors and co-workers will respond.

[gratuitous]

4. They make it about something else to excuse themselves

Dr. King pegged them decades ago, while sitting in the Birmingham jail:

"You deplore the demonstrations taking place in Birmingham. But your statement, I am sorry to say, fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations. I am sure that none of you would want to rest content with the superficial kind of social analysis that deals merely with effects and does not grapple with underlying causes. It is unfortunate that demonstrations are taking place in Birmingham, but it is even more unfortunate that the city's white power structure left the Negro community with no alternative."

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

[Duppers]

5. Add the graphic in this OP

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029629625

[raven mad]

6. I'd be happy to "friend" you. My FB page is easy -

Karen Matthews.

Anyone who unfriends me wasn't welcome to begin with, and your post is so good.