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Beatles.

Flavius — Sat, 17 Sep 2016 15:26:42 +0000

In reply to Not quite sure who said "You

Beatles.

I thought about that

Richard Day — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 19:40:00 +0000

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I thought about that 'kneeling thing'.

How the hell do you attack kneeling?

The fist in the air thingy, now that is monumental.

But the team spirit comes into play.

The right says: but these bastards make tens of millions?

Do the Wallstreeters begin their day singing God Bless America?

This is so well done Peracles, I commend you.

Yeah, there's also the

Michael Maiello — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 16:27:31 +0000

In reply to Brooks is more interested in

Yeah, there's also the tendency here to meet every complaint from a black person with, "don't register your dissatisfaction like that!" Yes, let's not talk about your grievances, let's talk about how to can acceptably talk about your grievances instead. By the way, there is no acceptable way for you to talk about your grievances, sorry!

Brooks is more interested in

rmrd0000 — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 13:57:16 +0000

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Brooks is more interested in "order" rather than justice. Taking a knee disrupts the "natural" flow of things.If only Kaepernick wouldn't take a knee, we would all be working together to solve our social ills. Kaepernick is the problem, not the people supporting politicians who block programs aimed at improving the situation.Brooks, and many others believe that if only we didn't bring attention to problems, we could solve the problems we ignore or dismiss.

When Michael Brown's autopsy was released, the response was to focus on the fact that the autopsy could not prove that his hands were raised. The focus was on the phrase "Hands Up Don't shoot" as a fallacy. The police abuse and the use of black citizens as an ATM was ignored. When Freddie Gray died in a police van, the response was that the police officers did not engage in criminal activity, not the police abuse noted in the DOJ report. Objections to the police abuse in Ferguson and Baltimore had been raised peacefully. Those objections were ignored. Kaepernick 's protest will be ignored by people like Brooks who find no reason to detail what changes he thinks should occur and how he thinks change should be accomplished. Brooks just says Kaepernick is the problem

Brooks should read King's "Letter From a Birmingham Jail". The message is the moderate whites who want order over justice are the problem.

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.”

Oh. my. god. I almost feel

Michael Maiello — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 13:22:17 +0000

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Oh. my. god. I almost feel embarrassed for him.

Not quite sure who said "You

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 06:53:35 +0000

In reply to I should say that this is a

Not quite sure who said "You gotta admit it's getting better." or who that refers to. In the long run I'm an optimist, even though as Keynes notes in the long run we're all dead anyway.

I should say that this is a

Flavius — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 03:46:13 +0000

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I should say that this is a well crafted piece of writing. Congratulations.

But.

You gotta admit it's getting better.

Lot's of things are bad. But better than they once were. Blacks didn't have to wrestle with whether to stand during the national anthem in 1920. They weren't on the field.

I won't go on. You've had your say. Well done. I only agree in part but I admire all of it.

To me... not playing along

Michael Maiello — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 01:06:20 +0000

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To me... not playing along with the flag/anthem masquerade is adaptation. Anyone who doesn't like it can help their heroes fix it.

I don't know if that's quite

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 00:23:17 +0000

In reply to Well written, Peracles. I

I don't know if that's quite it. There will never be a perfect country or perfect response. Just adapt.

Well written, Peracles. I

Michael Maiello — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 21:23:58 +0000

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Well written, Peracles. I suppose the anger at sports figures deciding to protest the anthem was predictable and, as usual, it's predictably misplaced. If you want your athletes to stand enthusiastically for the flag and anthem, make a better country for them to live in.