They are burning shoes because they ran out of crosses

I heard someone say “they are burning shoes because they ran out of crosses”. I have a lot of veterans in my family and I have a sister who has had to fight with the VA just to get treatment in a timely manner after coming home from Afghanistan. But you all are still out here talking about how supportive you all are to the military when we all know that is bullshit. Meanwhile, veterans are trying to get medical help, find jobs and are living on the streets. It’s really time for you all to stop playing these games and finally be honest with yourselves. How you can sit and call a man a disgrace or say that he is disgusting because he is trying to make the world aware of the injustice that is going on in this country. It makes you all look idiotic. A man KNEELED, he did not cause a scene, he was silent, he was peaceful and somehow you all have found a way to make it seem as if HE is the problem. When Martin Luther King was marching and when Rosa Parks refused to get off of that bus, people said the EXACT same things about them. They said, “if you don’t like this country, why don’t you leave”. And here we are again in the same predicament fighting for rights and equality and you guys have not learned from history. Be ashamed, I am ashamed to say this country has not learned a thing. You sit and scream “Make America Great Again” as if it were ever great for Brown people. “If you don’t like it why don’t you leave” and my answer to that is the same to you if you don’t like us speaking our minds and asking for the same rights that everyone else has, why don’t you leave?! None of our ancestors were originally from this country so you sound ignorant when you say this to people. And yet here you are trying to remove our nation’s history out of textbooks because you believe somehow this will either change things, make people not be racist, OR you think that somehow hiding it keeps you from not having to face the ugliness that has been done to Black and Brown people in this country. I hear people say never forget 911, and I understand the sentiment. I understand people saying not to forget the Holocaust. But when you want to talk about slavery or the injustices done to Black and Brown people throughout the history of this country, we are told to shut up and get over it. But ask yourself why it is so important to remember those other tragedies but forget about slavery and inequality done to Black and Brown people. “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”. -George Santayana

#IStandWithKap and if all lives matter to you, that should mean that black lives matter as well.