National Anthem Protests - thenewamerican.com
Excerpt from this article:
"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."
