It hits blacks on various levels - they're brutalized in the streets, and then when they try to complain a la Rodney King or Ferguson, they're too "violent",, and when they find a peaceful way to protest that can't just be ignored, there's a new version of First Amendment that applies just to them, tied to a new "patriotic" litmus test, much as Jim Crow laws used bizarre literacy tests to retroactively define their voting rights before the more modern practice of gerrymandering and voter repression.

Of course Kap is protesting police brutality, but at heart he probably is protesting too the "sit down and shut up", "aren't you people all on welfare anyway?", "check your rights at the door" (to America) attitudes.

The unironical call to majority black football teams to respect those American traditions that whites hold self-evident, and to proclaim the kneeling as having nothing to do with race, was simply bizarroworld for the trumpteenth time.

Nevertheless, it's even more bizarro that a majority of Americans haven't seen the rampant number of police beatings and killings and just risen up themselves to demand it get toned down, that police learn to calm tense situations and not aggravate them, that police learn to think before firing a taser or a gun, that having a badge is not carte blanche to beat someone with impunity.

If nothing else, the white Australian woman killed in the street by a cop after she called 911 to report a disturbance should make it clear that these fuckers are a menace to everyone, and while I greatly appreciate them doing their job when they do it right, it's not really a situation where a Gentleman's C is acceptable while bodies are lying dead and bruised in the street, and any objection is treated as "obstruction of justice". This kind of "justice" is a mockery of our democracy and the jingoistic flag, anthem and "support the troops" bullshit that's used to defend the indefensable.

Trump also doesn't seem to realize the origins of everything from the British backwards V for "fuck you" taken presumably from Agincourt to the Colonialists "Don't Tread on Me" and other slogans of resistance. All he can think of is his clever "You're Fired", which I guarantee you will be the fuck you heard round the world more than his victory once he goes down. #TakeAKnee. He stoops to conquer. Effing brilliant.