Also why NFL Players Kneel; #BlindPatriotism is not Patriotism at all.
It's cultish to blindly go along with absolutely anything 'your country' promotes; especially when we, supposedly have a 'say' in what this country promotes; rather than allow one another to 'discuss' the country, several members of our nation just want 'certain members' to be quiet and accept it!!
Accept Police Brutality & Harassment;
Accept Environmental Racism; and like it;
Accept Gentrification and take Less money than you Deserve to move -
Accept Voting Manipulation aka Gerrymandering and don't bring up Dr. King and that whole Voters Rights Act, which helped prevent ... Gerrymandering ..... and while all of this is going on, get ready to show respect to the flag, and the anthem as it plays, and the crowd sings about a Nation that isn't treating blacks as equals, .... still .... making the entire nation worse for it; imo...
https://twitter.com/ceoofkti/status/1039271349762416640
- ceoofkti
We keep wanting to look at 'ourselves' as great - and I say We, because even though there are racial tensions, plenty of people still claim America as home. Plenty of people from all racial make ups want this nation to be a better place; but frankly the 'majority' continues to feel the threat of that "majority power" slip away; and their fighting back, takes us steps Back ... instead of forward.
Many of them are unwilling to Let go of Ideas that Create Negative Peace
... which is 'more devoted to order' than to justice. This negative peace, as Dr. King talked about, is 'absent of tension' but also, absent of justice; Where as, there is Positive Peace, which is possible, yet, not without Tension .... The Tension is us 'debating' over NFL players taking a knee, WHILE the Flint Water Crisis, continues .... The Tension, is conservatives burning up their Nike's ... over support of athletes protesting the national anthem....
It's the Tension that 'eventually' may bring about the Positive Peace we all seek - again, as Dr. King stated, the fate of black people, is tied to the fate of this nation. White America, at large, has failed to realize this. The Negative Peace we are currently enduring cannot have a 'positive outcome' ....
Asking blacks to shut up and be silent, in the face of injustice is not a positive path. Thinking America can continue to force black people to love America, in spite of America not showing love to black people, will not end, positively.