This thread is 100% irony. Some of you think you “know” what McCoy is saying…Funny.
McCoy is saying that Blacks are disparately mistreated by cops; but the average person is an easily influenced sheep or an equivocator that ignores the mistreatment [He’s lived it, he knows it is true!]. But adds football is not the proper venue for this protest, because of the “chaos” is causes. What is ambiguous is whether McCoy objects to the football venue because a football venue is inappropriate or is he implying this venue is an inappropriate because if you don’t dance just right for elites that think they know what is going on, you’ll lose your job.
Let’s stop for a moment and think like intelligent adults here. Why should this issue cause “chaos?”
Here are some uncontroverted facts we all [should] KNOW! There is a LONG history in this nation of minorities being lynched and mistreated directly by police or by private citizens and paramilitary organizations and the police were 100% unconcerned. Sherriff Joe Arpaio, after the presentation of evidence, was ordered by a federal judge to stop his illegal and racist behavior and he flat out REFUSES to follow the law. We have another judge, after the presentation of evidence, finding Stop and Frisk disparately targeted minorities. In 10 minutes you can find 10 videos on you tube of Blacks getting assassinated by cops and you’ll find none of white people assassinated. The innocence project in convictions they have overturned found that Black’s are 7x more likely to be falsely convicted of murder than whites. Per capita we have a whole bunch more minorities claiming they have been stopped, harassed, beat during encounters with the popo. In Charlottesville, the with Nazi’s marching with torches there was “a police presence;” and one Nazi drew his firearm IN A CROWD and shot at the feet of a Black guy, and then walked past a line of State Police [Democracynow.org], who did NOTHING. When BLM marched in Ferguson there was a military presence, it looked like Fallujah.
More facts: we have our “president” pardoning the racist oath flouting cowardly Arpaio. He also told a large gathering of cops that it’s okay to rough up 😇 arrestees. Oh and the cops applauded and cheered trump’s disgraceful comments.
Given this uncontroverted evidence; there can only be three kinds of people: (1) those that KNOW Black’s are disparately mistreated by cops with governmental support or indifference; (2) Those that hold open the possibility this is happening; or (3) racists that are okay with it or complete morons. There are too many documented examples to prove the negative; one would need to one by one explain away most of these examples [and thousands not listed] as justifiable behavior by cops. Surely, any person or media outlet portending to assert this is not happening is a person void of scholarship or a dog whistling racist.
Sociopaths don’t have empathy; one needs empathy to understand this! Imagine the disenfranchisement felt amongst minorities who believe [whether happening or not] that they are targeted and or mistreated by cops and the President of the United States acts with complete indifference, ratification and/or encouragement of more of this Un-American unconstitutional traitorous lawlessness.
So why the chaos? If it is happening, this is national disgrace and no silly game should proceed when those players are subject to execution or mistreatment when they leave the stadium. Every owner and teammate should be fully support a player’s right to protest this crap, even if they’d chose a different method.
The Constitution is littered with safeguards to prevent our government from harming its citizens, the ultimate safeguard in Amendment #2. Our weapons must never be confiscated so we can take those guns and assault a government that would act as bad as King George. On this subject, the Trump government’s support to Arpaio and head knocking by cops is as disgraceful as anything King George had done.
It could be argued singing an anthem to a government doing this; equates to an “American” in 1775 singing fealty to “his nation” [lorded over by King George]. So what if this is 100% happening, what should the response be? I think protest causing drama and chaos is appropriate because this is hyper wrong, amoral and it undermines our security. And don’t forget, today Blacks are the target, tomorrow they may target a group to which YOU belong.
Lastly, what is more Un-American: Kapernick controversially exercising his absolute Constitutionally guaranteed right to peacefully protest or those looking to undermine a fundamental component of our democracy by ridiculing, attacking and/or or reveling in consequences suffered by an American exercising one of his absolute rights?