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EricHiggin said:

The problem with Kap isn't even that he's disrespecting the flag or anthem or Country if you want to take it that far. The problem is that it's being seen by the people, mostly on the right, that he's doing something really wrong to try and make a minor right. As far as the right is concerned, Kap could have done basically anything at this same level of negativity and it wouldn't change the way they see his protest.

Now Kaps point in a way is that he had to do something like this to gain enough media attention to get the message out to a large enough audience, but the people are saying he should have done it in another more tasteful way. Even if the problem was being suppressed and was bad enough that it required what he did, then they should have all been able to turn a blind eye to the wrongdoing and help make things right, but they haven't.

The fact that the people are mostly aware of the deeper meaning behind this, and still don't care, means the issue wasn't a big enough problem to warrant what he did. That's also not to say the issue is worthless either. This just makes the right even angrier when more players join and continue to kneel, instead of handling the reason for the protest in a different way after seeing they aren't making the progress they hoped to make.

Actually Kap was not looking for media attention when he first started this journey.  The media was looking for something and found Kap.  When this first started, Kap was just sitting on the bench during the anthem.  A journalist noticed him sitting on the bench during the anthem and asked him why and he explained that he could not stand for during the anthem when there was injustice still going on in America.  At this time no one even noticed him sitting on the bench during the anthem or even cared until one journalist made it into a story.

At BOLDED:  Not sure what you mean by this.  Just because someone decide to protest doesn't mean people will just turn the way they think and jump on board.  Any protest takes years to come to any type of conclusion or no conclusion.  This is not a right or left situation it's an institution type of situation.  Black people have been saying they have been abused by the police for years way before Kap and definitely way before camera phones came on the scene.  It was ignored then and it still ignored now even when evidence is presented.  Just like with the Civil rights marches and protest during the 60s, nothing is going to get noticed or changed unless the protest has staying power, raises awareness and does not get side tracked by dumb stuff (violence would be a key which I am sure some detractors would love to happen).  This is not a sprint its a marathon.  As we have shone plenty of times, people always say protest a different way even during the Civil Rights times.  The key is to continue to protest and continue to add that tension which is needed for change.