Exactly! "Fight for social change but to it in ways that offend nobody and are tame!" Start a youth league!Yup. I'm not accusing anyone here of this, but it seems that people want protests that are easy to ignore.
The First Amendment is there to protect, not popular speech, but unpopular speech. Why? Because the Founders understood that democracy requires that its citizens should be able to speak truth to power in unpopular ways
We need to be thanking MRI and the other black athletes for doing this. It has to be hard to be a highly visible black person in sports as you are being pushed by more radical and violent types to take a stand with them or be accused of being a lackey for the white establishment. Most African Americans want PEACEFUL social change. But they also don't just want to work within the system as if it is business as usual.
The only other option is peaceful civil disobedience. That was the path of Ghandi and MLK.
Read Thoreau on civil disobedience and why it is sometimes necessary.
And remember... MLK was also accused of being a showboating grandstander
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