Joyce was an administrator in the central administration building of the Oklahoma City public schools, and one of the few in the district’s administration who supported the inclusion of GLBT students in district policies, especially those that are included in the Student/Parent Handbook when that was being “discussed”.

You might remember Joyce, without ever having actually met her, if you saw that famous picture and the video shown on the evening news taken during the Civil Rights movement with dogs attacking a group of high school students who were peacefully assembled to protest segregation. Joyce is the child in the picture and video who was first attacked by and then thrown and dragged around by a dog as big as she was.

That is Joyce, who has the scars from the bite marks on at least one forearm that I have seen.

She and those with her were standing peacefully when the dogs were released.

Their offense was to peacefully protest in the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr., who interestingly, had applied to be pastor at an OKC Baptist church when he first completed divinity school, but was rejected because the church committee didn’t think he was a dynamic enough speaker.

In 1968 when standing on the winners’ stand at the Olympics during the Civil Rights movement and after MLK had been assassinated, Tommie Smith and John Carlos stood silently and still, except for that moment when theyraised their fists each wearing a black glove lent to them by the White man on the stand with them, and whose career as an athlete was destroyed because of that loan.

They stood silently and still.

They remained silent and still.

All hell broke loose.

After Colin Kaepernick took his initially quiet and largely unnoticed action during the National Anthem before a football game, it was only when a U.S. veteran friend advised him that sitting quietly behind the team on the bench by the Gatorade might make him feel good inside, but it was a wasted statement and a lost opportunity because no one knew he had done it until someone posted a picture of him sitting on social media. Subsequently, he took a knee for the first time when, at the next game, he lined up with his team mates for the Anthem that has as much to do with a sporting event as it would being played before the curtains went up on Broadway.

Rather than deal with what he was protesting, Trump convinced his minions that he was protesting America and the troops, and Kaepernick was roundly condemned for protesting what he was not protesting as if racial inequality was part of the fabric of America which should not be opposed, and is so connected somehow to the troops that opposing racism was disrespectful to the troops of which it is an integral part, and serious discussion of the issue was conveniently avoided.

He was begging the question, “Isn’t lethal racism every American’s problem?”

As he explained,

“I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses Black people and people of color. To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder. …

“This is not something that I am going to run by anybody. I am not looking for approval. I have to stand up for people that are oppressed. … If they take football away, my endorsements from me, I know that I stood up for what is right.”

There is plenty evidence he did the right thing.

Trump’s response was,

“We’re proud of our country, we respect our flag. Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, ‘Get that son of a bitch off the field right now, out, he’s fired. He’s fired!”

And, so, the White man usurped the Black man’s reason for the protest and invented one that appealed to his base for politics, while the kneeling was about people’s lives, and in so doing became the poster boy for what people are protesting.

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Now we have had a summer of unrest as more Black people were killed during interactions with police since that initial silent, non-violent protest, a situation that might have been avoided had that discussion taken place.

Analysis of the protests this summer shows that 93% of these protests were peaceful while the Trump administration, whose refusal to have an honest conversation about this particular problem, exacerbated it, was willing to use a “heat ray” against protesters, had told police to use excessive force when putting someone in the back seat of the patrol car, riled up those who do not want racial equality by jingoistic slogans, and encouraged over the top treatment of protesters while the top man tells us that the neo-Nazis protesting racial equality are “fine people”.

During the moment of unity at a recent Kansas City Chiefs game when, AFTER the National Anthem during which all but one player stood, both teams interlocked arms in the center of the field and held a moment of silence for UNITY, the fans filled that silence with boos.

Obviously, outrage over anthem kneeling was never about the flag or patriotism, but about white people telling black athletes to keep their thoughts to themselves and play ball for us.

When Tim Tebow ostentatiously in full view of everyone, not back among the Gatorade coolers, took a knee during games after each successful play to be seen as a good Christian, in spite of He who he follows having said,

“Be careful about not living righteously merely to be seen by people. Otherwise you have no reward with your Father in heaven (Matthew 6:1).

“Whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray while standing in synagogues and on street corners so that people can see them. Truly I say to you, they have their reward. But whenever you pray, go into your room, close the door, and pray to your Father in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you” (Matthew 6:5-6),

he was praised for his action even as it was unrelated to the game being played and at times held it up.

However, the moment of silence taking place before, not during, the game, gets booed.

Sitting or kneeling in silence is misrepresented from the president’s bully pulpit as being anti-America and anti-troops.

Outside operatives, often from outside the city or state where a protest was in progress, brought guns and mayhem while getting support from Trump and his acolytes who demanded the protesters protest quietly and virtually invisibly, like Kaepernick did.

But they clearly didn’t like that either.

Each of the above are examples of peaceful actions taken for racial equality met with violence, both vocal and physical, condemnation, and often violent resistance. While marching orderly was seen as a crime against humanity, politicians and others praised the guy who ran over and killed a protester even though his car being parked away from the action required him to have to go get it proving the act was premeditated, and Trump’s acolytes are fine with it, posting memes that advocate running over protesters with motor vehicles and politicians proposing laws to make that legal.

Obviously, since people have protested loudly but peacefully, or silently in some case, claiming opposition to anti-racist protests because of the violence is a lie.

Clearly, judging by the response to passive protests where nothing is said or done by those in attendance other than being there, quiet protests that involve an action that freezes once taken, and peaceful marches with some involving chants and street performance, the objection is not really to violent or rowdy protest, but to any protest in any form while demanding Black people, and other minorities, just accept the conditions the White population assigns them and stop objecting to it.

The objections are not about any attack on or disrespect for the Flag, the troops, or the country. It is about maintaining the power structure with the White majority at the top.

While people may focus on the idea that a protest should not become violent and that possibility makes them all potentially wrong, they ignore the simple reason for the protest, that an arrest for something minor, should not become a murder.

People protesting oppression should not be expected to do it the way the oppressor finds comfortable and acceptable.