Maybe kneeling isn't the best way to get people from A to B, but the people who are really genuinely viscerally offended by the kneeling aren't at A, and they aren't ever moving to B. They are at what one might call A', and the only thing to be done with them is to wait for them to die off.I would gladly trade the weekend's conversation for one CNN (Fox would be better) town hall discussion on discrimination in America today. We often choose to believe what makes us feel comfortable. I believe some of our conservative friends are in that bubble, things aren't perfect but they aren't very bad. I think they can be jarred from that bubble. That isn't happening, and sadly you, me, and our similarly minded friends are a decided minority on the issue. We have to move people from A to B, and kneeling does not seem likely to pierce the comfort bubble.
There is still a race problem in America. Unless Bull Connor helps out again, we need something else to jar reality. Bizarrely enough, Charlottesville did not do that. If Charlottesville did not, kneeling will not.
All that said, I want someone to hire Kap.that team will gain my support.
I guess what I'm saying is this: polls show America pretty well divided on the anthem thing, but I doubt most of them actually care all that much. So, to me, even if kneeling doesn't accomplish much more than keeping the conversation alive, I'm cool with that, because I think the actual cost is very small.