re: "I will be taking a knee every game in high school this season." - Kayvon Thibodeaux

I’m basically parroting what Fells is saying but housing, education and interactions with the criminal justice system where I would start as well.

I was going to let this thread go but the double talk is all too common. I’m serious as a black man.. the whole police thing really goes both ways. If we look at the numbers more whites are killed by police. If we look at the jail a lot of it goes back to our culture. When we have lil Wayne and build statues of Michael brown as our role models that’s a problem within. We don’t have enough solid role models and the ones we have get called Uncle Tom or trying to be white. Its our fault that 81% of our home’s lack a father figure. I almost went to a SWAC school (Jackson State) but the whole tour was us vs the whites. It was overwhelming and no better than the ones we call racist. If we really want to go forward and grow we have to do it from within. Not the left telling us to do it this way and the media pumping it Look at the black on black crime and murders just last week in chi town. Sorry but we are giving our kids excuses and not solutions. It’s building a weaker generation.

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There are plenty of people who protest our wars.

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Athletes? I'd like to think so. That just don't get as many clicks as the police brutality stuff. It's a damn shame but true. Clicks and follows are all that matter now days.

Why does it have to be athletes? Everybody picks their on causes. Michael J Foxx cares about Parkinson's because he has it. No one tells him hey you should focus on cancer that kills way more people.

Give me an example of one of these role models that's being called an Uncle Tom. Also what does any of what you said about what's going on in Chicago have to do with unarmed people being killed by cops or the school systems in black communities not being as good as others?

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I was going to let this thread go but the double talk is all too common. I’m serious as a black man.. the whole police thing really goes both ways. If we look at the numbers more whites are killed by police. If we look at the jail a lot of it goes back to our culture. When we have lil Wayne and build statues of Michael brown as our role models that’s a problem within. We don’t have enough solid role models and the ones we have get called Uncle Tom or trying to be white. Its our fault that 81% of our home’s lack a father figure. I almost went to a SWAC school (Jackson State) but the whole tour was us vs the whites. It was overwhelming and no better than the ones we call racist. If we really want to go forward and grow we have to do it from within. Not the left telling us to do it this way and the media pumping it Look at the black on black crime and murders just last week in chi town. Sorry but we are giving our kids excuses and not solutions. It’s building a weaker generation.

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I just find this odd. I have found plenty of great black role models in my life. The idea that entertainers are the end all and be all of the black experience isn't true. I also had role models that weren't black. That 81% number is inaccurate. About 37% of African American live in homes with a single mother LINK. I think that too high but it definitely isn't 4/5 black children don't have father figures. What does jail have to do with our culture? I don't understand that at all. Chicago is not every city and this give the insinuation that to live in a predominately black neighborhood or city is to live somewhere inherently dangerous which is not true.

These are taking simple calls to improve certain areas of society and taking it to extremes for no apparent reason.

Looking at ways to make our flagship universities more representative of their over all populations, providing better resources for public schools in minority areas, making housing and wages equatiable, and improving our criminal justice system is not giving anyone excuses. It makes society better for everyone.

Crybabies are protesting about everything now. I hope he doesn’t choose Alabama.

Crybabies? That's what's wrong with America. Instead of trying to understand where people are coming from people say shite like that.

I'm pretty sure I have said nothing controversial. That is what is confusing sometimes.

Are you a white man (or whatever pronoun you go by) trying to identify as black man?
Or is it just white guilt maybe?