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Awareness -> RE: Arrogant, Entitled, Cry-Baby, and Coward (9/13/2016 12:44:19 PM)
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A couple of points.
First, the right to protest is part of the package of rights guaranteed by the US constitution. People fail to understand that while the flag is a symbol, that's pretty much all it is. It symbolises America and mythologising the flag takes away from the fact that it is simply a representation of the country itself. Men didn't die for the fucking flag, they died for America, for the people that make up the nation.
There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that in many aspects, America has lost its way. It's become an increasingly secular society devoted to the pursuit of the almighty dollar at any cost. Remember, the entire foundation of the Republic - it's entire ethos - is to protect the minority from the majority. That is the quintessential difference between a democracy and a republic and America is currently failing as a republic.
Kaepernik is protesting the failure of the American republic. America is failing its African American citizens. And not to put too fine a point on it, increasingly it's failing its men and boys.
You're outraged by an mixed-race African American protesting the flag, but are you outraged at the laws which put so many African Americans in prison for trivial offenses, while the white motherfuckers who caused the financial crisis and resulted in millions of lost homes and jobs got away scot-free?
Are you outraged at the profiteering of the firearm manufacturers who stoke fears using the NRA so more of you buy guns you don't fucking need? Are you outraged at the 32,500 handgun deaths a year caused by the proliferation of firearms in the populace?
Are you outraged at the corruption of your representatives who do the bidding of big corporations? Are you outraged at trade agreements written by those same corporations which screw over the average American?
Are you outraged at the NFL which makes fucking billions per year but insists that cities have to build stadiums they can't afford? (That's YOUR tax dollars at work, by the way - subsidising a multi-billion dollar corporation which exploits the players, the fans and the cities stupid enough to host its games).
Are you outraged at the fucking NCAA exploiting the living fuck out of college athletes and making billions while the athletes get fucking nothing?
No. You're outraged at a sole African-American making a symbolic protest. Your outrage, dude, is a fucking failure of perspective. You're like a Republican that rages against the evils of Mexicans and single mothers while approving billions of dollars in tax-breaks and other corporate welfare.
There's a lot of issues in America which should stoke your outrage, but this is not fucking one of them.
And second: It's fucking football. It's a sport, a game. It doesn't fucking matter at all.
Again. Some FUCKING perspective would be useful, here.
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