Thursday, October 5, 2017
What does it take for people to "kneel"
Since 2016 we have seen Kaepernick take a knee for the racial issues he believes there are in the united states. But why did only a couple of people support him in his decision, But now we have recently seen that pretty much everyone is protesting because of what Donald Trump said. We see that NFL owners were targeted by Trumps remarks. And I'm not sure if it was the remarks towards the NFL owners or towards the players that sparked the protest in the NFL games. But the real question is why has it taken so long for players to finally step up and give their opinion about the injustice in America, did people not support the protest when Kaepernick did it because he wasn't that relevant at the time or was it because he was kneeling alone and everyone was afraid of what would happen to them. It kind of relates to the incident that happened in the documentary that we just saw about the guy that knew that his friend raped and killed a 7yr old girl, But the truth is that we are no different because nobody wants to take responsibility for what is happening, Because no one wants to be "that guy". We live in a bubble that is our "comfort zone" and once we think we have it good we do anything to stay there and not risk or chances of leaving our bubble or of "looking bad in front of others". Because we care so much about our social status, but like the man in the documentary said, "hero's are people that do the right thing even though nobody else wants to", and that's what Kaepernick did and that's why he's a hero in todays injustice American world. Because he sparked the national anthem protests.
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The people who have the guts to stand alone and do the right thing are seen a heroes. It's not easy being a hero, if it was, everyone would do it. Only a few people can do it because most of us don't want to be singled out and criticized. The reality is that most of us are followers and wouldn't be able to stand alone for something we believe in. We may say we would, but when the situation arises, we just follow the crowd. That is why Kaepernick has become a hero, because he stood for his believes and took everything that people threw his way. Then followers realized what he was for and followed him in his pursuit of justice.
ReplyDeleteI think it's really interesting how you compare the two situations. Because you say that the only reason the football players finally knelt was because they had lots more on their side? Does this mean that if David Cash had been in a group and one of his other friends had told his other friend to stop David would have stepped in too? I think we can compare this to the documentary on human behavior except that these instances go against that. In the studies conducted by Bosley, where people were more likely to speak up if they were the only ones who knew what was happening. This should have applied to David's Cash case but he didn't. In the case of the football players, it's possible that everyone else assumed that would step up as well when Kaepernick was mostly alone. It wasn't until it became part of conforming with everyone else that other players started doing it.
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