re: Former LSU safety Eric Reid joins Kaepernick protest

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feel they've been oppressed. And they have been. The 60s wasn't too long ago.

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60's weren't that long ago in some ways, but in other ways they were 50+ years ago. We've come a long way. We've had an African American President for 8 years. He won two elections in, essentially, landslide fashion. African Americans only make up about 22% of the US population, so that means O won with a lot of votes from Caucasians too. We've had African American Attorneys General for 8 years.

At some point, BLM and all those who are oppressed - those battling poverty, women, other minorities, those on the lower end of educational spectrum - need to look deeper into the cause of that continued oppression. Perhaps it can be attributed to those we continue to elect who have lied to us about the change they'll bring. Are we really better off in terms of race relations now than 8 years ago? Look at the cities struggling the most with violence, crime, poverty, education. They are lead, almost entirely, by Democrats - and have been for decades.

Oppression isn't delivered at the hands of one specific race. It's delivered by those who gain power from that oppression and, in Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit and so many other cities that is white AND black democrats who are running those cities.