interesting perspective
Colin Kaepernick was maneuvered into kneeling by his own doing?
I don't understand how that works
It is an interesting point that you bring up
When Trump decided to pick this fight (something we all know he loves to do, especially when he thinks he can bully someone) there were only about 10 players kneeling
The next weekend there were ~ 200 or 250 so maybe Trump is the one who maneuvered them into kneeling
Do you think people who protest the kneeling would be any less riled up if they stood with their fists in the air and maybe wearing a black glove?
btw - the sit ins had nothing to do with just "sitting"
They could have sat in the park if it was just about sitting
They served a purpose and many of them were arrested and it was just because they happened to be sitting
Not Colin but the others. And Trump should have stayed out of it. Yet, he is doing what Obama was accused of doing.
At this point, people will be riled up either way. People got riled up when players had taken a knee before the anthem. But, if they stand and raised their fist, people cannot say that they are being disrespectful, because people used to do the Bellamy salute the flag during the Pledge of Allegiance.
You can't be that dense to what Malcolm was saying. He was saying that it was form of weakness. Which it is.
The success was what? Yes, many were arrested for staging sit ins of white establishments that wouldn't serve them.
Here is the full quote:
Rather than to force our way into someone else's restaurant or public place that they have established, we should get our own. Once we have our own, we're respected for the fact that we can create our own. That's equality right there.
Also, read the paragraph above the one you posted (from Malcolm X's 1964 speech The Ballot or The Bullet), it gives more context to what you posted
Malcolm was ahead of his time. In regards to the second part of the quote I posted, he has echoed what many before him have said. Even Thomas Sowell has said this now.
