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Originally Posted by Bryan_Wilson
Thoughts on the Cowboys kneeling before and standing during the flag? I personally thought it was a great "let's find common ground" approach and should be largely viewed as a success. However early indications from twitter and polls show only about 30~ish share the view and 50~ish say no kneeling at all should be done and 20~ish saying it's pointless if it's not during. Some going as far as to say they are disavowing the Cowboys as their team after decades of viewership. Again showing to me that this country thrives on controversy and division more than unity no matter what hashtag or arm locking is being displayed.
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It wasn't a protest, it was a publicity stunt... The NFL hijacked the message of racial inequality and made it all about "unity" -- as if football players kneeling together is what this was all about. It's basically the equivalent of "all lives matter" -- it completely ignores the plea from the black community to be treated as equal human beings and makes it all about everyone else.
So there was no actual protest, but they still ended up pissing off the "respect the troops" crowd -- when you try to please everybody, you usually end up pleasing nobody.