KLAMarine said:
>You made the claim, I trust you to be the best person to find the source. I thank you for providing the source but I'm confused. You mentioned in an earlier post that Kaepernick "put himself in direct risk to be sure the aid got to its desired destination". May I ask on how he put himself in direct risk? >I wholeheartedly agree, the man is free to advocate as he pleases. May I suggest, however, if the man's activism involves securing donations from people for worthwhile causes, he cast a wider net? Would it not be ideal to demonstrate that police brutality affects a great many people across many varying skin tones? >Are you accusing me of attempting to slander Kaepernick? I made no such attempt. If I have, point it out so that I may apologize profusely for it was not my intention. >A noble cause but I'm not sure his efforts are always what's best...
1. I always try to provide sources for my claims. I expect the same of others. Also, I'm more of a Bing person actually. 2. I think it best Kaepernick use a better term than 'lynching' then. 'Shooting' would be much more informative and accurate. |
1) If you read the link you would see that Kaepernick went, himself, with the relief aid to Somalia. Somalia is one of the most dangerous places on Earth. He put himself in direct risk.
2) No, you may not suggest anything. You either get out there and do your diligence or you let that man do his positive work to the best of his abilities. This is what amazes me about people like you, that you believe someone doing as much as he has should do even more; the way you think it should be done, while you sit at a computer desk or phone and try to take away from his efforts and accomplishments. Total nonsense. You do not get a say in how he does things so long as what he is doing is legal and positive.
3) Yes, I am accusing you of slandering him. When you say something to the effect of, "no love for white people" in reference to Kaepernick as though he has expressed a disposition with white people, you are, in fact, attempting to slander him. Since he was adopted by white parents and is half white himself, I would have to assume he has some love for white people. To assert otherwise, on any level, is scandalous.
4) I have yet to find one humanitarian that did not have people like you chirping in the background. Gandhi had the British and some subgroups of India. Jesus had the Romans and Jews. Martin Luther King Jr. had basically all of the southern white Americans, Muhammad Ali the same. Those people all ended up on the wrong side of history. They all spit the same rhetoric you are spitting today. That means, you will end up on the wrong side of this discussion and history. And that is not what I want to see. I wish everyone could go beyond their selfishness and their ego and their pride and help the person next to them. And I am not just speaking on race related issues, either. When women wanted equal treatment, people like you were opposed it. Same with homosexuals. And the arguments have never changed, "If they do this, why don't they do this or consider this or care about that"... same dumb, tragic, pathetic rhetoric. It is the 1950's all over again. It is the 1900's all over again. It is 33 ad all over again. I will never understand the logic behind it, I will never understand how people can be so awful, and I will never understand why people will try so hard to continue being so awful. The one thing I do know is, nothing changes unless those with the power to incite change use that power. Slavery in the United States was never going to end if people did not fight over it. And the Jim Crow era would still be here today if the marches and movements did not take place. To grow into something better requires the process of rebellion. However, in the case of civics, the process does not have to be painful; rather, pride, ego, and selfishness, make the process far more difficult than it should be. Should black and brown people be getting killed by police at an alarming rate? No. Then why would anyone decide to stand against the people that point that out and wish for it to change? Selfishness and pride.
Sorry for the rant.
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