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[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.

[Underdog]

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.

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.

[Bryan_Wilson]

Originally Posted by Underdog

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.

Idk, I liked it personally. Yes the NFL hijacked it and made it more about the NFL and it's players than the actual issue which kneeling was representing. But let's be real, the NFL operates autonomously and without reproach on basically everything it decides on. I'm not at all surprised if this was more about the bottom line of business than about any kind of equality message. I thought it was a show of compromise more than a publicity stunt though regardless. I'm clearly in the minority though judging from what I've seen today.

[Melonhead]

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.

Publicity stunt by Jerry Jones. I viewed it as him straddling both sides of the argument. Showing unity with his team while also protecting his multi billion dollar investment.

Not surprisingly, fans were still booing the team by kneeling BEFORE the anthem (even though we know the kneel isnt about the anthem), so really no matter what black people do for a protest to draw awareness, there will always be people that are ignorant about it.