How calm and quiet does a protest need to be in order for it to be a peaceful protest? Colin Kaepernick literally can't stand for our presidential candidates or how our police officers get paid leave for a drive-by shooting. The truth is that the officers who murdered Tamir Rice didn't face real consequences. There was a support group to successfully bail out the Chicago police officer who shot Laquan McDonald sixteen times, fifteen of which were after he had fallen to the ground. If nothing else we should commend this football player for using his public position to speak out against the country. Of course, white people claim that their unshot-misbehaving teenagers are the ones who are under attack by America and by Colin Kaepernick.
When systematic racism is critiqued that doesn't mean while people suck. This idea that Kaepernick is rude because the 49ers owner is white, or because his parents are white makes no sense. It is possible to be grateful and constructive. Which is a wild concept to The Blaze anchor Tomi Lahren, who said Kaepernick should decline his paycheck because the owner of his football team is white. Lahren then insisted that he needs to be more appreciative of all of his white fans. Why do people want to be the victim or try to frame something as them being the persecuted one? Kaepernick is making a peaceful statement about how the US is in a bad situation racially and politically.
Here is a segment from The Blaze this week:
How often can Ted Nugent, Rush Limbaugh, and Alex Jones eviscerate our political system and be applauded but when an African American stages a peaceful protest people record videos burning his jersey. It's not even a liberal vs. conservative issue. In an interview after the game, Kaepernick said that we have a candidate running for president who deleted classified emails and if anyone else did what she did they would be in jail. It's a perfect example of irony that the people who complain about trigger warnings and PC culture are suddenly so offended and triggered by Kaepernick taking a stand (or perhaps the opposite in this scenario). Do these old men who complain about college safe spaces now need a safe space because seeing someone not stand for the national anthem made them uncomfortable.
The common rebuttable to BLM shutting down I-94 in Minnesota or the riots in Milwaukee, is that their protesting is too violent. But, clearly that is not the problem, they're just uncomfortable with the reality of modern racism.
