Which is why he didn't go to jail.
> There's nothing wrong with dis respecting the national anthem
Sure, it isn't illegal, but that doesn't mean individuals can't be offended by it. To many, the national anthem carries significant meaning.
There is lies the whole point of doing it. If it was meaningless to people it would have no impact as protest.
And the reason why Kaepernick's kneeling is silly is that black-on-black crime is orders of magnitude more of a problem for the black community than police shootings of young black males. Black males committed 52% of all homicides between 1980-2013, despite comprising only ~6% of the population. That's almost an 8.5x per capita murder multiplier.
There's also evidence that in lethal force situations, police are more likely to shoot whites than blacks (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/13/why-a...). In less-than-lethal situations, it may be the case the minorities are treated more roughly, but that's not what BLM is about. It's a movement which is confused about statistics, and which I suspect is sublimating a more generalized anger about the West and a relatively low position on civilization's status hierarchy into an emotionally charged topic that they think has good optics.
I expect this post will get me banned, because applying logic to identity politics is taboo in 2017. #JamesDamoreMatters
From the abstract of the paper referenced in article: ...On the most extreme use of force – officer-involved shootings – we find no racial differences in either the raw data or when contextual factors are taken into account.
The Reconstruction era following the Civil War saw African Americans distribute themselves across the entire country. We have census data to prove this. They lived and worked in every county and nearly every city. They owned homes and they worked hard for their living. Now 15 years earlier whites were pissed off at the Chinese for taking railroad jobs so they violently expelled them from their homes and jobs causing them to aggregate into cities which now have Chinatowns. This was considered socially acceptable because they were mostly illegal immigrants.
After those 15 years had passed whites started blaming blacks for their problems, the economy, etc and with the rise of the KKK into powerful cultural force and worming their way into politics unchallenged by the extremely racist Presidents Harding and Coolidge, the whites were emboldened to do the same to blacks. The whites expelled them from entire classes of jobs. They were lynched, their houses burned, and they were run out of towns. Municipalities created ordinances to prevent any blacks from living there to "protect their culture and way of life". The African Americans congregated in large cities encompassing entire neighborhoods/districts and that's where they stayed because whites were too afraid to go on their violent rampages where they may be outnumbered. This behavior however was largely absent in the old South.
In 1921 in Tulsa OK whites went on a rampage to eradicate blacks from their city. They even took airplanes and dropped dynamite on their communities. It's the only recorded air raid on lower 48 US soil. The whites failed as there were too many. The black community persisted there and still exists.
Whites caused this problem. They forced them to huddle together in ghettos. They kept them poor by taking away from their jobs and creating unions that wouldn't permit their membership (fun fact: blacks were allowed in the NFL until 1933).
This is the result 100 years later. Stop rewriting history. Read a book.
It's more of a problem with American culture in general, possibly simply a problem with the poor .. and systematic racism has pushed/kept black people in the poor and lower classes.
author's an a-hole