Protest

from the 49ers- Colin Kaepernick- sat down during the national anthem. According to Sandriter, Kaepernick’s protest represents “support for people of color who are being oppressed in the United States, and to take a stand against police brutality” (Sandriter 1). When Kaepernick first started protesting, not many viewers noticed until more NFL players begun to join the bandwagon of protest. As interviews of Kaepernick begin to take place, Sandriter mentions how this quarterback

serve jail time, and South Carolina would become a racially integrated state. This compromise led to the dwindle of violent protests. Due to the conflict of civil rights in 1968 in South Carolina, the South Carolinian government compromised and integrated a majority of the white only establishments, as a result of numerous protests across the state. One of the major protests, the Orangeburg Massacre, was a huge stepping stone towards persuading the South Carolinian government to creating the racially

that there is no need to do so or that isn’t the right way, time, or place, to protest; however this protest being a peaceful way of protest and having a higher voice being an athlete, his reasoning and the way he does the protest makes it effective, especially since there are racial issues and police brutalities, with both sides making stating their reason as to why it’s right or why it’s wrong, Colin Kaepernick’s protest has been labeled as controversial. This past year, everybody was stunned when

communities, many people feel that protesting is a way to get there rights back and their voices heard. In today society, there are peaceful or violent protests. A peaceful protest makes the community aware of the issues whereas they will not fear a situation or panic in the matter, however, violent protest states the opposite. With violent protests, majority will not support the issue; they become afraid. To say that, you need both to even claim an issue. Without the peaceful side you will not get

Recently there have been lots of protests during the National Anthem and pledge of allegiance. People from all walks of life are joining in to protest the unjust treatment of various groups of Americans. In recent news football players for the National Football League have been kneeling, locking arms, or staying in the locker room during the National Anthem. In an article in the Chicago Tribune titled “More than 200 NFL players sit or kneel during national anthem” by Arnie Stapleton Talks about

Protesting the National Anthem Today there is controversy on whether or not NFL players should stand or kneel for the national anthem, why they should or should not, the consequences for doing it, and I personally think that if you are playing the game you love on a football field that you are not forced to play on, you should respect the song and flag that represents the people giving up their life for you to play that game. If you disagree with the way the United States is functioning, find a

Tiananmen Square Protest The Tiananmen Square protest occurred in 1989 in Beijing, China and was primarily student led. Protesters were anxious about the country’s future with political elites, and no longer wanted a communist regime. In 1980, government reforms left the economy in a disaster, which benefited only a certain few private citizens and government elites. Grievances included “inflation, limited preparedness of graduates for the new economy, and restrictions on political participation

Antiwar Protest: An Effective Use of Protest Politics The Antiwar Protest of the late 1950s and early 1960s was a successful protest movement that utilized effective protest politics as defined by Zoe Trodd in her book, American Protest Literature.(Trodd) The effectiveness of the protest was due to the movement causing the American public to challenge their belief in the nation’s leaders capacity to provide unquestionable truths and due to the protest placing a colossal amount of powerful pressure

Protests riots in the United States has proven to an issue for both the country’s financial strength and the unity of the nation. With the presence of social injustices, combined with the increased impact of social media propaganda, protests riots are beginning to reach an all time high. Protest riots destroy individual communities and businesses, jeopardizes the safety of others and taints the protest’s cause by resorting to civil disobedience. Action must be done in order to prevent these random

who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable”. In 2014 nearly 3 000 protest actions were held in 90 days – more than 30 a day. In 2013 the police reported that they made more than 14 000 arrests at protests in the last four years. Therefore you can see that the act of protest is embedded into South Africans. Although South Africa has been fortuned