The rationale for the professional players who refuse to stand for the national anthem is claimed to be that they are protesting police killing of blacks. If so, their reasoning is based on a flawed set of facts.
Walter E. Williams has a piece titled Blacks vs. Police cites research which says that in 2017 roughly 22% of people killed by police were blacks. (For those reliant on quotas, that's too high. But the numbers alone don't really prove anything about police attitudes toward blacks.)
Dr. Williams takes it further, or rather narrower, by focusing on Chicago where there have been 533 murders and 2,880 shootings so far in 2017 of which fewer than 13% have been solved. He suggest that crimes of black vs. black might be a better focus of concern.
I would suggest a focus on the educational system that appears to fail black significantly. Professional sports shouldn't be the only avenue for success for black people.
Anyway, regarding the kneeling as a form of protest at football, those guys are entertainers who don't entertain me. So they can do what they want.
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4:10 PM 10/13/2017
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