hello america!!! let's just assume i'm upset at the high prices they charge in the stores in the hood...
if i were to visit you at your grandma's house & i entered without taking my hat off (which i know to do out of respect), would i be disrespecting the house??? would i be disrespecting your grandma??? would i be disrespecting you???
would you allow me to stay in the house after i explained to you & your grandma that i wasn't going to remove my hat until the prices went down???
i think we all know where this is going---disrespect, whether intended or not, is still disrespect PERIOD!!! furthermore, i'd probably be removed from your grandma's house by force if i didn't leave on my own volition---you already know...
colin kaepernick's action by refusing to stand for the playing of our national anthem was willful disrespect from the onset---he's the one that said "i'm not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people & people of color'---what seems to be lost on everybody is that opening statement directed at the flag &, no amount of 'spin' can alter that fact---&, those that have taken to kneeling &/or sitting during the playing of our anthem are continuing that disrespect regardless of the reason (short of a medical or mental one)...
look, going into your grandma's house would have been the wrong 'platform' for me to protest just as the nfl sidelines are/were for kaepernick & his follower's...
the more i look into kaepernick, the more disappointed i am that he did what he did where he did it---there are reports that he's never-ever registered to vote READ HERE & hey, how can you effect 'change' if you never-ever voted for change??? &, although he has done some good with his money, he's also done some bad CLICK HERE...
not to be unfair to kaepernick, here's his own website & you can judge it/him for yourselves---
http://kaepernick7.com/million-dollar-pledge/...
everybody wants to talk about the respect/not disrespect & kaepernick's reasons for his protest seem to have taken up a back-shelf space---i will be the first to admit, he has some very valid points that we need to address but, i'll also be the first to tell you that police brutality against people of color is not the primary one &, i've addressed this & other issues in previous blogs &, i will continue to so in the future---NO, CHECK THAT & READ THIS & then tell me our problem is with the police...
the social injustice/racial discrimination towards people of color goes a hell of a lot deeper than blaming our police &, i'll address it in a very near blog...
