Good. Kaepernick’s protest is doing what he wants it to. He’s getting a shit tonne of attention for doing the right thing here.

But it’s white people that need to talk about race. We’re the ones holding back the conversation saying “nope, slavery is over! black people can vote! Kaep is rich, not oppressed!”Chris Rock has a stand up bit where he says (paraphrase) his kids have the best chance to succeed, not because of him and his success, but…

You write great stuff most of the time. But this is tripe:

Holy shit - this is just a straight forward informative post explaining the answer to an interesting question. Well done.

What just floors me- and it shouldn’t, I should be used to it, but it does, is that there are two instant reactions I see from a certain group of people whenever these tragedies happen: