Because that is exactly what the agitators want. They are trying to discredit the movement on one way or another for their own benefit. The people aren't having it any more. If you are not on board with this movement...well you arent gonna like the coming months.
But he cant deal with it... and he sees that. This is just as much self preservation than anything else. I have found Brees to be a decent man but he clearly kind of stepped in it.
I agree Hart2chesson. Maybe, it was the timing of the statement, but either way it's his opinion and didn't mean it in a disrespectful way. This entire situation has turned into a shitstorm. Personally, I don't support George Floyd (as a person) and how a lot of people are uplifting him as a martyr..He has a lengthy criminal history and held a pregnant women at gunpoint (gun placed on her stomach). Might I add, he put himself in a position with the police by committing a crime and being under the influence of drugs. He shouldn't had been murdered by the police officer and I hope the police officer gets convicted for his crime and all the officers involved as well. However, my point is you have to hold yourself accountable and not put yourself in bad situation.I do support the change of Police using excessive force towards everyone. This isn't a isolated issue, this an issue that impacts everyone in the US. Candace Owens brings up many great points surrounding the George Floyd situation, you can find her take on youtube.
Right, because the right has absolutely no outlets for its speech. I guess
Exactly. Why apologize for feeling a certain way, it's not prejudice or racist on how he feels. He simply feels like people should respect the flag. What's wrong with that opinion?
I don’t have a problem with it. If that’s what he believe then it’s on him. Just like I believe any black person that stands for the flag or proudly join the armed forces is sick in the head. It makes no sense to me. That’s my opinion though.
What you're asking doesn't make sense. You can't ask to separate race out of an argument that fundamentally about race. Now I didnt make the comment, but he obviously is referring to the same argument Muhammed Ali made...which was, why am I gonna go fight the Viet Cong overseas when you (the collective you) are my oppressors here. That is pretty extreme in my view but I understand the sentiment.
I don't disagree with you. But he is still playing, and he did apologize because he realized that his own views, beliefs, decisions on the matter were possibly going to interfere with his own happiness, prosperity or legacy. I'm sure he feels strongly about the flag still, but he was at least forced to stop and think about his own actions...even if for this moment...which honestly is the point of all you're seeing. I commend him for apologizing
They shouldn’t join because it’s pretty obvious America doesn’t respect black lives. You do realize black people weren’t looked at as people at one point. Then after slavery they built prisons just to lock us up. Why would you fight for a country that put your ancestors through the worst thing ever on earth? No country has treated such a large group of people worse. So HELL NO I wouldn’t recommend a black person fighting for this country. When we get paid our debt then we might consider it. Even at then HELL NO
Don’t let me get on the wealth gap. A white man with a just a high school diploma make almost as much as a black man with a college degree. Black people are lower of all races when it comes to wealth. I wonder why
I don't know you've noticed but there are thousands of people protesting in the streets due to racial inequalities in the justice system. Just because YOU don't believe it and it isn't affecting YOU doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
You are black? Okay then, I have some questions
Obvious how?
Wasn't that a very long time ago?
Aren't prisons just for criminals?
But why would that history then impact now?
What do you want to have happen that would pay off said debt?
The Dude's post was spot on. Also, I saw the Dude's question about prisons. I am going to wade in a little bit. After the end of slavery, white southerners conspired to arrest their black neighbors, many on trumped up charges, and put them in chain gangs so that they ended up doing the same work they had done as slaves. There is a feeling in this country that prisons are disproportionately used as punishment for black people, while those same laws are not enforced as stringently when the defendants are white. The big example is the war on drugs. Drug treatment has been dismissed, ridiculed and underfunded, until white suburban kids started getting addicted. Now the paradigm has shifted. That shift has not gone unnoticed in communities of color.
I don't know how to do that but that is a red herring. This is bigger than this single act upon this man. It is about all the others that came before and those that are sure to come. The police treat us differently. They treat our children differently. I've lived this my whole life so you telling me doesn't exist is pretty laughable. But as to the extent of Chauvin...I dont know what his real motivations are...but we aren't going stand to for being killed in the streets for any reason.
Of course, the power dynamic can't be divorced from race. He could think he could get away with what he was doing because no one would be too concerned as it was being done to a person of color.
