KLAMarine said:
GhaudePhaede010 said:
He donated a million of his own dollars (most of it after he was, "blackballed") and all of his previous season's jersey sales (I believe I read he was the second highest jersey in NFL that season) to charities and causes he believed to be helpful to his message. Before that and while playing, he was already giving money, without mention of it, to charities in the inner city to help improve relations between police and the citizens. He also organized, "ride through" trips where professional athletes got to ride along with Bay Area police through inner city neighborhoods in an attempt to bridge the relationship gap between police and citizen (again, before the kneeling) by having famous athletes get out and start conversations with citizens. He gave Tom Ford suits to parolees so they could look presentable when going to probation meetings and court appointments (out of his own pocket and to random people in front of the court house on many separate occasions). He set up his own charity and has raised more than a million dollars for it (after his playing days were over).
And I am not going into his political stuff while he was in college. You see, people do not realize this is a man that was always living this life. He was not always the face of things because he is religious and has stated that he was taught in the Bible that you do charity because it is right and not for notoriety.
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Usually, I'd ask for sources but I'm going to take your word for it. Certainly a charitable fellow but I still maintain there could have been better forms of raising awareness to the issue of police brutality outside of kneeling. A shirt would have been good with a chance to sell those shirts and raise money for his cause...
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When it comes to a protest, its not about making you comfortable. Most protest are there to be seen by as many people as possible. Yes, you can feel there are many different or better ways to form awareness but at the end of the day, you are talking about this issue because awareness was made this way. It continues to be a subject discussed because of where, when and how. Today you know more about the kneeling whether you choose to accept it or not then you did before and definitely a shirt would not have brought any more discussion on the topic. At the end of the day, you still may not care but at least you may be more informed about the person and their cause.
