There were some people decades ago who risked life and limb to get out in the streets and call attention to racial injustice. They braved police swinging clubs, biting dogs and high pressure water cannons. Many of those people were poor and felt they had nothing to lose. Most Americans salute those people to this day. But there is a new breed of fair weather protestors who use the right to protest as self- aggrandizement and attention grabbing. They risk nothing and put nothing on the line. They just drape themselves with the appropriated stolen valor of the people who actually made it possible for them to live a privileged life that most Americans will never see. They kneel and put one hand in the air all for show. Colin Kaepernick is an example and he is a spoiled embarrassment to the sports world. He is not alone as the bandwagon is beginning to get crowded. Its disgusting but we allow it because our constitution protects it. If Kaepernick and the rest really want to make a difference let them donate their salaries to the poor and disadvantaged and spend the rest of their lives living on minimum wage. You wont see that because these people are frauds. Its easy to be a fraud in these times; its a lot harder to actually do something useful.
