Why We Protest

It becomes easy to criticize people that you never thought much of in the first place because pre-concieved ideas will never make one right in your eyes no matter what they may do. I'm reminded of the story of the young man who was drowning in the lake and a man paddled his row out and rescued him. The rescued man, instead of thanking him criticized him saying, "Why did bring this boat. Can't you swim?" The protest of the American flag by African Americans will never seem right in the eyes of some whites because America has historically NEVER been kind to Black folks. And so in the eyes of many "patriotic" whites, who have never experienced racial insults or discrimination, the pre-concieved attitudes towards black protest is insulting. My father, who was the only black employee at Rockwell Manufacturing in the 70's at the time told me of racial slurs, particularly the term "spook" that he often had to endured from fellow employees because they thought it was good clean fun. And because he often swallowed the insults well he was considered a "good colored guy" My father was not a football player with a national stage, but what if he protested the racial taunts of his fellow employees? He would have been considered unappreciative, uppity, militant, ungreatful to have job, lazy... all of the sterotypes that go along with a Black man in America who protests what is unfair treatment that his fellow white employees would never endure. Look at this Catch-22. If he called his fellow employees  names like CRACKER, REDNECK, HONKY. He would have been fired. Yet he endured names like SPOOK, COON, NIGRA THE COLORED GUY and it was all considered fun. It is easy to call a man an SOB as our President had so eloquently stated because of preconcieved attitudes, but have any of my White Evangelical Christian (WEC), who consider Trump a godsend and protesting unpatriotic ever truly considered why we protest? No one has spit on the flag, burned the flag, walked on the flag. We have locked arms, kneeled, took a seat. We have not rioted, burned communities, attacked, we have made silent, non-aggressive non-violent protested because of violent, aggressive actions against us. Why are we so wrong?