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President Trump’s comments on professional football players taking the knee caused a firestorm in the media. However, the pushback from the establishment press and sports world  seems to have fizzled out pretty quickly. Why did this happen? I suspect that the reason is that large portions of the population are now rejecting the narrative of black victimization at the hands of white racism that is gospel to the establishment. Seen in this light, taking the knee was little more than a dodge to avoid the real issues. Whether by intention or accident, President Trump stumbled upon this, exposing  a major a rift between elite opinion and the rest of the country. 

Across America today a debate is raging over the removal of confederate statues. Some say they are shameful reminders of a past best forgotten while others worry about the wisdom of erasing history this way and wonder where it will all end. In this video I attempt to demonstrate the dangers in judging the past by today’s standards and the unforeseen consequences such actions can lead to. 

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Selected Sources

Hard Data - https://www.city-journal.org/html/hard-data-hollow-protests-15458.html

Black Lies Matter - http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/black-lies-matter/article/2600164

Larry Elder - https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/michael-w-chapman/larry-elder-fatherless-families-are-no-1-problem-america-not-racism

Ben Shapiro - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMSO0CXnYtE

Eric Reid - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/25/opinion/colin-kaepernick-football-protests.html?_r=0