What is the controversy surrounding #takeaknee

[Brian37]

I love it that he lays the blame for black violence on single parent families, and yet totally fails to figure out that the reasons black people have so many single parent families is because of their oppression; do you know that, back in slavery days, when two slaves married, the vows changed the line "till death do you part" to " till death or distance do you part"? Because there remained the understanding that Massa could legally separate any slave family for any reason. And this was the standard state of affairs until 1865. So please tell us that it's somehow not a result of racism.

Only nowadays it's because the government has jailed them, often wrongly or under unduly harsh sentences applied in a racially discriminatory manner.

The sad fact is that this can become a vicious circle that interacts with issues like poverty and school funding and results in an endemic minority underclass in the absence of programs designed to break these cycles.

Oddly enough, most conservatives are staunchly against such programs. I wonder why?

It is not just schools. It is economics at it's core, for both poor urban blacks and poor rural whites. If the top 1% and the religious right can use politics to divide the races and classes that keeps everyone divided and desperate, corporations keep their cheap labor, the entire country keeps having to compensate for what the rich don't pay which ends up in another econmic bubble. Race and class are how the GOP divide.