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Originally Posted by chuck
That's easy - McNair made it plain that he did not want his players kneeling or sitting, and up until this week they hadn't. But once he went full idiot, kneeling was the tidiest, simplest way for the players to let McNair know that they were protesting HIM and his comments and his attitudes.
I'm not trying to change anyone's mind on this but to me it is no stretch at all. Citizens of the United States are meant to receive equal protection under the law. It's in the constitution. It's really not all that ambiguous. It is clear that not everyone receives equal protection under the law, and if someone wants to protest this, making a peaceful protest during the national anthem strikes me as the perfect time to do so, especially if they asume a posture of supplication or submission such as kneeling.
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But the federal government is huge and nameless and faceless. When the anthem protests started the federal government was actively working against local police corruption through the civil rights department, the FBI, and the justice department led by the AG. The federal government is the one who comes in and tries to make it right when local cops violate civil rights and local and state prosecutors allow them to. The federal government is the least racist arm of the government by a mile. The problem with police is shameful but absolutely not a federal problem. The anthem protest was chosen by a guy who beyond doubt is anti-america.
Then this year Trump goes after the players and it goes from 5 guys to 100 protesting, and they all just adopt the anthem as their protest. They aren't even protesting police treatment at this point, they are protesting Donald Trump. They would have been smart to adopt a different protest that was specific to him and would have rallied widespread support compared to an anthem protest. The anthem protest obviously gets fake patriots angry, but they would get angry no matter what form of protest black men chose. But there are also lots of real patriots and military veterans who would be natural allies to a protest that didn't take place during the anthem. It would have been smart to choose such a protest.