Respect for the flag is a small issue. So is standing for the National Anthem but for the people who really hate America they think standing for two minutes while the national anthem is played is too high a price to pay for their Liberty.
Colin Kaepernick, some of the black players and their friends who cannot stand the country should be grateful they have the freedom to disrespect their homeland. Try it in Cuba, Zimbawbe or China where you may get shot.
Of course most of the kneelers wouldn’t do it in church but at an NFL game they are proud to show their disrespect for their country. In Nashville two teams, the Seattle Seahawks and the Tennessee Titans refused to appear on the field until after the Star Spangled Banner was over. “We will not stand for the injustice that has plagued people of this color in this country,” Seattle players said in a statement just prior to kickoff. They did not list the injustice or the oppression . Are we supposed to guess what the alleged oppression is? Is it the death of the black criminal Michael Brown? If so it was Brown who was attacking a police officer. that makes the black guy the oppressor, not the white cop who was attacked. Brown even reached into the police car and slugged the white officer. That’s oppressive, not the shooting which was self-defense.
Around 13 per cent of Americans are black, according to the latest estimates from the US Census Bureau.
And yes, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, black offenders committed 52 per cent of homicides recorded in the data between 1980 and 2008. Only 45 per cent of the offenders were white. Homicide is a broader category than “murder” but let’s not split hairs. Read the statistics HERE. Here’s the bottom line. If black people are oppressed it’s mostly by other black people yet the “Kneelers” are trying to trick us into accepting . . . Who knows what we are supposed to accept. These protests are simply attempting to misdirect the statistics of crime. They are dishonest kids who grew up and who play sports, not intellectuals.
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