National Anthem Protests

National Anthem Protests - thenewamerican.com

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"In fact, while the controversy has centered on the playing of 'The Star-Spangled Banner,' it has been somewhat overlooked that Kaepernick’s problem is really with the entire country. Kaepernick was alluding to incidents in which black criminal suspects have been shot by police officers — particularly white officers — such as the situation in Ferguson, Missouri, where a white officer had shot a young black man who was allegedly surrendering with his arms up in the air while pleading, 'Don’t shoot!'— giving birth to the 'Hands up, don’t shoot!' mantra used in protests after the event. A grand jury refused to indict the white officer when multiple witnesses — almost all African-American — and forensic evidence disputed that claim, as did a U.S. Justice Department report.
The reality is that 93 percent of black homicide victims are murdered by other blacks, and most of the rest are killed by Hispanics."