Bills stadium worker Erich Nikischer just did a very stupid thing if you asked me, but I digress. Again, someone wants to dictate the proper way to protest an injustice, as if protesting was ever designed to have specific rules so people would be comfortable with the protest.
Via channel 2 WGRZ:
Stadium worker Erich Nikischer quit his job at New Era Field after almost 30 years.
“I waited until the National Anthem ended, I took off my shirt, threw my Bills hat on the ground, walked out,” Nikischer said in a sit-down interview with Channel 2 at his West Seneca home.
Nikischer says he has no problem with players protesting before the National Anthem. It’s when the kneeling continued into the song that strong feelings took over.
Throughout the whole sequence of events beginning with when Colin Kaepernick was first asked why he knelt during the anthem, everyone has forgotten that he never once mentioned the flag, disrespect for American troops or anything disrespectful for that matter.
Kap knelt because he wanted to bring awareness to social injustices faced by minorities, a large part of the group being black people, and he has done so. White people keep bringing up the flag in an effort to distract everyone from the real issues.
Nikischer just quit his job of over 30 years because he was mad that black people are tired of being treated unfairly and wanted to bring attention to these issues. Too bad that people like Nikischer are part of the problem because they refuse to see the real issues. It would be a refreshing change if people like Nikischer had “strong feelings [take] over when black men and women are shot and killed by cops for no reason and given paid leave, only to be shortly reinstated to their positions when the smoke blows over.