Colin Kaepernick protests anthem due to treatment of minorities

And I'm fine with you having your fringe beliefs right alongside Kaepernick. People who are "reasonably intelligent" aren't those who fall into the "the man is holding me down" nonsense. This is 2016, not 1950, not 1850....but then again you have to expect that some people just aren't bright enough to realize that.

 

You're right man.
We should just giving all blacks and Mexicans unlimited money to make things even.

Can we call it even then?

When does this end?

 

You're delusional if you think that is a solution that reasonable people call for. I'm not sure if you're trying to be facetious, trying to straw man, or flat out failing at sarcasm, but if you want to discuss possible solutions to the disparity in opportunities and economic standings of certain socioeconomic groups (a large portion of which happen to be minorities) then we would have to start at the war on drugs. Or do you disagree with that as well?

 

What load of bull****. Minorities aren't oppressed. What moron believes this garbage?

People with victim hood mentality, these morons.

 

Wow... How insensitive can you be. Why do you think poorer areas in Houston and surrounding areas are comprised of minorities? your comment and pure ignorance doesn't event warrant a rebuttal.

 

Anyone who is reasonably intelligent and unbiased can also see that the level of oppression is not the same as it was in 1950. Doesn't mean there isn't much more work to do, because there is.

I agree with the "war on drugs." IMO does more harm to families than good of taking drugs off the streets. I liken it to the first part of Casino Royale where M is upset at Bond for killing "one bomb maker" when she is trying to go after the organization. Most of the war on drugs "casualties" are users and low level distributors.

 

So what's preventing the US Govt from going after the drug cartels?

 

These are the morons that are protesting white supremacy



No sympthy for these thugs.

 

Pointless to do with the increasing demand for drugs The next medusa cartel that shows up when you destroy one could be even worse. If you don't lower demand by punishing possession harder, supply will always be met.

 

Hah just realized I missed a few important words in my previous post. Should have been "I agree with the war on drugs stance mentioned earlier".

But to answer this question I assume you don't mean ones in foreign countries? Because really there isn't anything stopping them from going after the ones in this country. They may hide behind legalese and rights and such but IMO if they have reliable data to take one down and don't, that's completely against what their war on drugs is about.

 

Legalize mar1juana and you can make money off the taxes on that while reducing the problems this war is dealing to our inner cities.

 

Education is the key.

You have better education, you have less crimes.

You have less crimes, you have a nicer neighborhood.

You have a nicer neighborhood, you have more investments in the neighborhood.

More investment equals more jobs and more money.

More jobs and more money create incentive to further education and sense of self-esteem.

Then you have more investments, and begin on the road of prosperity.

I reason that there needs to be a meritocracy of quality teachers. Teachers that are motivated to improve their own teaching and life knowledge. The best motivation is competition of competency, which I reason that unionized labor handicaps.

In addition, teachers, especially African American teachers, are valuable because they have the potential to seed the idea that success derives from one's OWN efforts, and that to pursue self-improvement is a virtue. To ask not of others first, but oneself in the betterment of one's life.

With this spirit will African American communities can start to rise from the detriments of gang-life cycles, single uneducated mothers, drug abuse, chronic intentional unemployment, and drug abuse.

Even if racism still exists, such a community will be resilient to fend off the foes of racist policies. Their weapon would be the strongest of all: Reason and hard work.

 

The golden words of the oppressor:

The victim is not a victim because he has a victim mentality.

Re-broadcast everyday from the far right to the right. From the right to the center. From the center to the left. From the left to the far left. And then all together from America to the colonies. Same bull****, and you get nothing for it, but you propagate it for free.

If there are no victims, remember to say so when the Kochs and the Soros' and the Clintons and the Trumps and the Googles and the Apples of the world act like victims.

The empire's citizens adopt the lingo of their leaders, despite being mistreated by their leaders. Another classic sign of declining empire.

Good for Kaepernick. His fruitless sports career is not getting in the way of his principles. So many people shut up and play to get paid more.

 

The problem is the family. 57% black kids are without fathers. 72% are raised in single parent household.

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The stunt payed off, he's still on the roster.

 

Yikes, *paid off

 

I am glad that a constitutional right to protest does not lead to players getting cut. Perhaps this will encourage more players, like Jeremy Lane, to follow suit now that they won't be scared of the consequences.

 

I do laugh when people bring the Constitution up without understanding what it actually means. Having a right to free speech does not mean that you won't get fired when you say or do stupid things.....it just means you won't be imprisoned for it.

Kids these days need role models.

 

Completely agree.

Why can't a role model be someone that speaks out against injustices?

 

Kaepernick is a bigger role model now than when he was 3 weeks ago. Kids need to learn to (peacefully) fight for what they believe in. He can make a statement without breaking any rules or harming anybody.