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SpokenTruth said:

KLAMarine said:

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...

A shirt like this one?

That's a little more like it.

Machiavellian said:

KLAMarine said:

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...

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.

At the same time, it's advisable one not potentially alienate people they may be trying to reach. Going too extreme on a protest could cost one sympathy points.

Additionally, kneeling during the anthem could confuse people and shift the discussion from police brutality to freedom of speech or some other topic which might not have been Kaepernick's original intent. Yes there's more talk but perhaps not the sort of talk originally desired.

SpokenTruth said:

PortisheadBiscuit said:

That's an outright lie, Serena has never walked off the court. And she has no more history of "bullying" officials than Nadal, Djokovic, Kryrios, Murray. Even Federer who can do no wrong in the eyes of many has had run-ins with officials. Let's not exaggerate here 

A black woman has to be quieter, stir up less trouble, and act proper on a level different from her white, male contemporaries lest they labeled the angry, black woman by indignant, white men.

How do you reason?