How to Protest Without Offending White People

[rogue emissary]

By, Michael Harriot
http://www.theroot.com/how-to-protest-without-offending-white-people-1818770022

Many people were surprised when President Donald Trump suggested that NFL team owners fire players who quietly choose to sit out the national anthem before games, but I was not one of them.

Even though they thought they’d solved the anthem problem by blackballing protest starter Colin Kaepernick, the residual insolence displayed by the players roiled white people to no end because their protest was so disrespectful—not to a 250-year-old cloth logo or a Francis Scott Key bar song. Taking a knee is disrespectful to whiteness. It is not that white people can’t understand Kaepernick’s point of view; it’s that—to them—any other point of view is nonexistent.

For future reference, we have put together this handy-dandy checklist for designing a protest that white people will find inoffensive and respectable. . . .

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Be invisible, no shit.

[GaryCnf]

2. One thing to remember

Kaepernick is not getting the whip for disrespecting the flag. He's not getting it because Republicans hate free speech.

He's getting it for "disrespecting" cops and the racist criminal justice system that arms and empowers them.

[irisblue]

3. yeah well not gonna work...thanks Rouge for the post. Good on you