I think it's important to realize that Trump's father was KKK and he also has the same point of view as his Dad. His Dad was arrested in a KKK demonstration beating up Catholic Cops in New York in the 1920s. So, Trump's point of view didn't come "out of thin air" so we have a KKK sympathizer in the White House. Does this mean 40% of the U.S. is KKK? No. It means they haven't studied the issue enough to fully understand it. Blacks aren't against the flag or soldiers they are protesting treatment of black U.S. citizens by police officers nationwide and that's all.
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The NFL players who have been kneeling during the national anthem as a way to protest …
The NFL Protesters Are Getting Their Message Across
Even if many Americans still don’t like how they’re doing it.
The
NFL players who have been kneeling during the national anthem as a way
to protest police brutality aren’t winning any new fans, a new HuffPost/YouGov poll finds. But they are, increasingly, making their point to the public.
Asked
to identify from a list the main reason for the players are protesting
from a list, a 57 percent majority of Americans surveyed said it was in
response to “police violence.” That’s up from 48 percent in a HuffPost/YouGov poll taken in late September. (Respondents were allowed to select multiple options.)
The
percentage of self-described football fans who say they believe the
protests are meant to target police violence has risen to 66 percent, a
13-point increase.
Just
26 percent of the public now considers the protests to be in large part
against President Donald Trump, down from 40 percent in the previous
survey. As before, relatively few ― 14 percent in the latest poll, and
12 percent in September ― agree with the Trump administration’s assertions that the protests are aimed at the American flag.
Notably,
even people who don’t support the protests have grown more likely to
see them as a response to police violence. And Trump voters, who in late
September were more likely to see the protests as anti-Trump than
anything else, also now say they’re mostly about police brutality.
Americans’
overall opinions of the protests and Trump’s response to them have
remained both unsparing and basically stagnant, according to the poll.
They say, 49 percent to 36 percent, that the protests are inappropriate,
effectively unchanged from the earlier survey.
A
52 percent majority currently disapproves of Trump’s response to the
protests, with 38 percent approving. In the previous poll, those numbers
stood at 54 percent and 36 percent, respectively.
The public takes a more positive view of the actions of Vice President Mike Pence, who left an NFL game
between the Indianapolis Colts and the San Francisco 49ers last weekend
after several 49ers players knelt during the anthem. Forty-five percent
of those polled approve of Pence’s decision to leave the game, with 41
percent disapproving.
Pence said in a tweet that he would “not dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers, our Flag, or our National Anthem.” The walkout reportedly may have cost taxpayers more than $88,000.
The
HuffPost/YouGov poll is just one of several surveys to ask Americans to
weigh in on the protests in recent weeks, and other surveys have shown a
range of opinions.
Most find the protests themselves to be unpopular: In a CNN poll, for instance, respondents said by a 6-point margin that the athletes protesting were “doing the wrong thing.” In an HBO Real Sports/Marist poll, a slim majority favored requiring professional athletes to stand for the anthem.
One survey by USA Today and Suffolk University,
however, found relatively strong support, with 51 percent calling the
protests appropriate, and just 42 percent believing they were
inappropriate. That poll, unlike others, gave respondents a cue about the stated purpose of the protests, describing them as “bringing attention to police brutality and racial injustice.”
“A
plurality of Americans don’t like the NFL protests — at least if they
aren’t told what the players’ goals are,” FiveThirtyEight’s Kathryn
Casteel wrote, summing up the latest polls.
That’s not too surprising: Americans don’t tend to like protests
in general. But even though the athletes kneeling in protest aren’t
winning over the public’s hearts, they seem to gotten their attention.
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