In general I agree that it's dangerous territory for the independent part of the press to labelling things X, Y or Z, rather than reporting fully what happened and letting the audience categorize for itself. If there's a story at the border involving drug lords, trafficking 14/15-year-old girls, capturing unknown Mexicans at an illegal crossing, abuse of civilians, and rise of crime on the US side, at what points would an opinion be "racist" vs. trying to assess and handle the situation as an adult? Labelling is often part of framing - if you get them to use your labels, you won the argument, whatever its merits. That's not what we want from news nor news analysis.

Re: another item, "My Father Stood For The Anthem, For The Same Reason That Colin Kaepernick Sits",
I just realized that we put the flag at half-mast for when special people die witthout offending "the troops" or the audience - what happens when nobody black people die at the hands of the police, or when Democracy dies? The military hasn't always been against kneeling for sacred important occasions.