I have lived in a number of states but never in the south. I have never owned a confederate flag or anything with a picture of the confederate flag on it. It doesn't have any meaning for me at all, but I still did not like the idea of liberals pushing to get it removed. Not because I thought screw you, but because I do not trust them and wondered what would they go for next. Once they got the flag they screamed racism to get their way and went after statues and are trying to wipe away history. This is the main reason I would never agree with any of their new gun laws. I don't have any semi auto guns, no large clips, nothing that would affect me, but if they got just one gun law change it would be just like the confederate flag and they would be screaming for more.
Well now the players are offended by what the owner of the Texans said about not letting the inmates run the prison. The puritans are all offended like half of them are not straight up thugs. They are slowly cutting their own throats and need to shut up.
The professional athletes do not make sympathetic figures. They have been given far greater opportunities and wealth than the majority of Americans will ever realize so most just see them as rich drama queens. Most Americans that understand the basis of these protests know that there are racial issues out there and that the Obama administration helped fuel additional racial tension but my problem is that the poster children they are using for these protests were absolutely in the wrong. They are, in most cases, defending people which were involved in criminal activity. The crux of the issue is fairness, until that movement admits the mistakes of the ones that they are using as examples of unjust treatment we are not going to move forward to the real issues at the root of racial tension. I would also agree that the media and politicians are using the issue for their financial or political gain. An analogy that seems appropriate is the way that unions protect their members irregardless of whether they are right or wrong. While I understand and agree that unions have played a necessary role in fighting for and workers receiving better working conditions and pay they have morphed into institutions more interested in dues and power in more recent years. Case in point, A company had an individual employed as a truck driver on the road that failed a random drug/alcohol screening. The employee was discharged, union filed grievance for the employee, employee and union went to mediation with mediator telling company to put the employee back to work after he completed rehab with all back pay with the stipulation that if he ever had another incident that the company could fire him. Fast forward, the employee failed another drug screening. Company discharged him, union filed grievance, company says he had another drug incident and prior mediation dictates course of action, union disagrees and takes to court. Goes all the way to supreme court with Ruth Bader Ginsberg ruling that the company had not done enough to rehabilitate the individual and that the company had to put him back to work with back pay for all the years that it took to litigate. Now bear in mind this guy was an over the road truck driver which was using drugs and probably working impaired on roads that you and I drive on. Now if the driver is involved in an accident the company is responsible and will be sued to the full extent allowed even though they tried to take appropriate action. The individual has no responsibility for his own actions. The BLM movement is similar in that no matter what that individual did he was not wrong, it was the system or circumstances that made him that way therefore his is not responsible for his actions and others should not treat him unjustly. Society is responsible for their criminal behavior so they should be overlooked when other people are harmed. Until they look in the mirror and do some self-examination their movement loses credibility with society in general.
