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NASCAR which Trump likes to point to for its patriotism was down 17% last year.

so much for that narrative.

 -k

NASCAR which Trump likes to point to for its patriotism was down 17% last year.

Pssst.  All sports are losing audience...

The notion that the cops should be able to act as an extrajudicial execution squad is pretty opposite to the kind of conservatism I thought you stood for.

 -k

It's a recognition of human nature. I've seen countless videos of violent police interaction with people - especially blacks, but not only them. There are damned few where the civilian was polite and cooperative and was subjected to violence.

And calling Chris Rock's statement support of an 'extrajudicial execution' is kind of an exaggeration, don't you think?

My point about BLM is the same as in the cite in post #780, which pointed out that the only reason more Blacks are shot - percentage wise - than Whites is more Blacks are involved in violent crime - percentage wise - than whites.

There IS a problem with police training in the US and in Canada. They are taught to 'take command' and they are far more militaristic than they need to be or used to be. They are often far quicker to grab people instead of talking to them. They feel threatened much more easily, and when threatened go for their guns too quickly. But this is a universal issue, not a Black rights issue. Some shootings are definitely unjustified, and I say it when I see it. The Walter Scott shooting is probably the most famous involving Black Americans, but the shooting of Justine Damond was even more outrageous and indefensible, and didn't cause any riots because she was white.

We people believe in freedom of speech. It's actually one of the things that soldiers fought for.

Everyone has the right to freedom of speech. That does not imply you can spout off at work. No employer anywhere allows that.

When my family moved to Ottawa from the west, sometime around 1998, I was quite taken aback at the degree of overt nationalism on display. I hadn't seen anything like that when I lived in Edmonton or Vancouver or Victoria.  I don't see such nationalism in Kim City, or when I visit Edmonton or Vancouver. Except briefly during the Vancouver Olympics, when everybody was all amped up about all the gold medals. I can't speak for the rest of Ontario, but I definitely think Ottawa is different from the west in terms of nationalism.

Chretien's Liberals didn't give a **** about western Canada. The patriotism propaganda was aimed at Quebec, and the Ottawa area got a pile of it simply because we have a lot of French, are the capital, and are on the borders of Quebec. Actually, if you listen to the government the capital is called Ottawa-Gatineau, and they do their best to ship a lot of jobs and money into Gatineau.

It's a recognition of human nature. I've seen countless videos of violent police interaction with people - especially blacks, but not only them. There are damned few where the civilian was polite and cooperative and was subjected to violence.

And calling Chris Rock's statement support of an 'extrajudicial execution' is kind of an exaggeration, don't you think?

My point about BLM is the same as in the cite in post #780, which pointed out that the only reason more Blacks are shot - percentage wise - than Whites is more Blacks are involved in violent crime - percentage wise - than whites.

There IS a problem with police training in the US and in Canada. They are taught to 'take command' and they are far more militaristic than they need to be or used to be. They are often far quicker to grab people instead of talking to them. They feel threatened much more easily, and when threatened go for their guns too quickly. But this is a universal issue, not a Black rights issue. Some shootings are definitely unjustified, and I say it when I see it. The Walter Scott shooting is probably the most famous involving Black Americans, but the shooting of Justine Damond was even more outrageous and indefensible, and didn't cause any riots because she was white.

Was she the woman shot by the "pet project" black immigrant cop?  Not much coverage, I don't know why!  I seem to remember a blurb on the TV about her though!  Was her family ever invited to the UN, Whitehouse or DNC? 

Apparently they do allow free speech at the nfl since a number of owners have locked arms with their players during the anthem.

The owners are between a rock and a hard place. Many of their highly skilled players are Black, and the mass media is wholly on whatever side Trump is not on. At the same time, when boos are raining down from the stands in your own stadium you'd be wise to stop bringing politics into your business.

We're clearly talking about 2 different issues here; one I have some amount of support for and the other I don't support at all.  I don't think I'm all that different from millions of other people.  You people want full support of both issues, for what logical reason, no one can answer.  Sorry, but how one approaches a situation directly correlates with how much success you'll have.

There aren't two issues. There's one issue that black football players were bringing attention to. That's it. This other "issue" you're talking about is bullshit made up by racists to dismiss black activism, just like "all lives matter," and you've bought it hook, line, and sinker.