The article by Harris and Barrett does a great job outlining the stances and viewpoints taken by Fredrick Douglass and Colin Kaepernick. Before and after reading this article, my opinion of Kaepernick is still that he is not some great American patriot. While it is his 1st Amendment right not to stand during the National Anthem of the greatest country to ever exist, it is a matter of respect. And that is what I find he lacks. The American Flag and the National Anthem are not a symbol of whites vs. blacks. They are a symbol of all the patriots who have died serving this country both domestically and overseas. Our troops have been to Hell and back to fight the War on Terror and here Kaepernick is adding fuel to the fire that BLM has made in their "War on Race" within our own country. Are there still social injustices and racism against blacks and other minorities in this country? Obviously, I'm not saying that there isn't. It all started with slavery and slavery was around for thousands of years and all peoples have been enslaved by another at one point or any other. Let's not forget about the 500,000 Irish that were killed by the English and the 300,000 Irish that were sold as slaves to the West Indies, and the colonies. http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-irish-slave-trade-the-forgotten-white-slaves/31076 Kaepernick speaks out on the widely reported police violence on blacks when he states, "There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder." The police violence on blacks which the media has been blowing up has been made an excuse for hundreds of professional rioters to come out and burn businesses, cars, savagely assault and mutilate whites and call for the assassination of police in their infamous Ra-Ra of "Pigs in a blanket, fry them like bacon". It does not matter who you are, what race you are or whether you are actually dangerous or not(they usually are), if you pull something that resembles a gun at a officer of the law than they are allowed and told to shoot you. The police are people just like you the reader and me the writer, if they have to shoot someone, that is going to stain their consciousness the rest of their lives. I am a first-responder. I'm currently in between contracts but I do NOT get a bullet proof vest or a gun, yet I am expected to walk into a drug den with a bunch of wired addicts and schizophrenics if need be to do my job and all the police hate that is floating around in the country rubs off on us too, because we operate along side the police. I come from a long line of Chicago and Cook County police officers and they all say the same thing. Nobody wants to do their job because they are afraid of media backlash if something were to go down. And if something were to go down, than the circus would come to town and we'd have the same anarchy as was seen in Ferguson, Baltimore, Baton Rouge, Milwaukee and Charlotte. Kaepernick is not some great American patriot. He insults the people who protect him and his 1st Amendment right to freedom of speech and only fuels the fire that is currently dividing in our great country.
Saturday, October 29, 2016
Colin Kaepernick's National Anthem Protest and Frederick Douglass's Article Reflections.
The article by Harris and Barrett does a great job outlining the stances and viewpoints taken by Fredrick Douglass and Colin Kaepernick. Before and after reading this article, my opinion of Kaepernick is still that he is not some great American patriot. While it is his 1st Amendment right not to stand during the National Anthem of the greatest country to ever exist, it is a matter of respect. And that is what I find he lacks. The American Flag and the National Anthem are not a symbol of whites vs. blacks. They are a symbol of all the patriots who have died serving this country both domestically and overseas. Our troops have been to Hell and back to fight the War on Terror and here Kaepernick is adding fuel to the fire that BLM has made in their "War on Race" within our own country. Are there still social injustices and racism against blacks and other minorities in this country? Obviously, I'm not saying that there isn't. It all started with slavery and slavery was around for thousands of years and all peoples have been enslaved by another at one point or any other. Let's not forget about the 500,000 Irish that were killed by the English and the 300,000 Irish that were sold as slaves to the West Indies, and the colonies. http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-irish-slave-trade-the-forgotten-white-slaves/31076 Kaepernick speaks out on the widely reported police violence on blacks when he states, "There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder." The police violence on blacks which the media has been blowing up has been made an excuse for hundreds of professional rioters to come out and burn businesses, cars, savagely assault and mutilate whites and call for the assassination of police in their infamous Ra-Ra of "Pigs in a blanket, fry them like bacon". It does not matter who you are, what race you are or whether you are actually dangerous or not(they usually are), if you pull something that resembles a gun at a officer of the law than they are allowed and told to shoot you. The police are people just like you the reader and me the writer, if they have to shoot someone, that is going to stain their consciousness the rest of their lives. I am a first-responder. I'm currently in between contracts but I do NOT get a bullet proof vest or a gun, yet I am expected to walk into a drug den with a bunch of wired addicts and schizophrenics if need be to do my job and all the police hate that is floating around in the country rubs off on us too, because we operate along side the police. I come from a long line of Chicago and Cook County police officers and they all say the same thing. Nobody wants to do their job because they are afraid of media backlash if something were to go down. And if something were to go down, than the circus would come to town and we'd have the same anarchy as was seen in Ferguson, Baltimore, Baton Rouge, Milwaukee and Charlotte. Kaepernick is not some great American patriot. He insults the people who protect him and his 1st Amendment right to freedom of speech and only fuels the fire that is currently dividing in our great country.
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You have a lot of passion in your thinking, here!
ReplyDeleteI see that your family history and your personal history compel you to this disposition. I get it.
I wonder if there is any room to consider that the National Anthem is a cultural ritual, and that our freedom to choose our level of participation is one of the great aspects of this great country -- if not the very greatest?
I appreciate and value your passion. I hope you see some value in the reading. Thanks, Ryan.