Oh be real...
They say that they protest the higher likelihood that blacks are shot at the hands of law enforcement -- only we know that's not true -- based on the Harvard study, which indicated blacks were at no greater risk of being shot than whites.
It's a false narrative.
Based on "the Harvard study"? LOL, what nonsense. You're obviously another conservative who informs him/herself by watching, rather than reading. So let me tell you a few things about that "Harvard study":
1. First, it wasn't a study. It was an unpublished working paper written by a guy (Roland Frye) who happens to also hold a faculty position at Harvard (currently suspended pending sexual harrassment allegations, btw). But again, it was just a working paper. The difference between the a working paper and a peer-reviewed "study" is akin to the difference between a doctor and a medical student. Ultimately, that working paper from a couple of years ago was discredited due to faulty methology and lack a basic transparency (he refused to reveal who funded his work...and HUGE no-no and red-flag in academic circles); and was never peer-reviewed and never published in an academic journal. This was an independently (and secretly) funded paper from a Harvard faculty member. Neither Harvard, nor ANY other credible research university would EVER allow it's name to be connected to such shoddy work. Clearly, you wouldn't know the whole story of your "Harvard study", because it wasn't covered by the conservative fake news media. They gave you the original headline (with big help from the NYTimes), and that was all you needed, right?
2. If you'd ever bothered the READ Frye's actual
working paper, you would have noted that Frye's conclusions were based almost entirely on voluntary statements submitted by the police officers involved in violenct acts primarily in two cities (Houston and NYC)....HARDLY the best source for impartial information. Even Frye, himself, never intended to imply that his results and conclusions be applied to the rest of the country. He stated so, clearly, within the text of the paper, itself.
3. In fact, Frye (whose field of expertise as a tenured Harvard Professor is completely unrelated to police violence) began his paper with a stunningly ignorant asssumption (i.e. that his paper was the first research of it's kind dealing with racial disparities in police violence) which basically discredited his work.
4. There already exists (quite literally) scores of peer-reviewed, credible academic studies on this issue, EVERY ONE of which has demonstrated an increased prevalence of police violence and unarmed shootings against blacks as compared to white in this country.
Example.
Example.
Example..
Example.. Example.
But, not all black players kneel -- and those who don't can be quite vocal as to why they don't kneel -- because it's disrespectful.
LOL, no one cares what you think,nor what you
think others think. You just can't get that essential reality through your head, for some reason. The unfortunate truth, for you, is that THEY (i.e. the protesters themselves) are the only people who get to decide why they are protesting, and what the protest means to them. The feelings of people like you (and everyone else like you) don't matter. Sorry.
So, yeah, I get to draw the assumptions that I draw, based on the facts at hand.
:lamo Only in your own "precious" mind. That's about all. You already demonstrated that your idea of "facts" tends to have little relation to THE facts.
During Obama's term, we saw a lot of anti-American sentiment develop in certain segments of society.
Yes we did. The Tea Party people were chief among them. They, along with the rest of their fake patriot allies really showed their true colors during the Obama era.
Now we have a president who doesn't support those kinds of shenanigans -- but the simple fact is -- the majority of Americans think the kneelers are wrong to do what they're doing. You're in the minority.
More alternative reality nonsense. Most Americans disagree with you and your ilk. Most Americans agree that silent, kneeling protests are NOT unpatriotic, and are NOT disrespectful. But again, it really doesn't matter what you people think about this.
), but he would definitely, without any question in my mind, be one of the best backups. No doubt here that they blackballed him.
