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Professor Waterhouse Comments on Society's Unspoken Rules
10/20/2017
IU McKinney Professor Carlton Waterhouse urges readers to "Break the Unspoken Rules to See Reality" in a column published in The Indianapolis Recorder.
In the piece published October 19, 2017, Professor Waterhouse writes about national anthem protests at sports events, such as when then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began kneeling in 2016 in a show of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. He notes that while American society’s “spoken rule” is that it allows and values non-disruptive protests, "There is also a clearly unspoken rule in America: Oppressed and subordinated groups should not complain or protest about their experiences."
Read Professor Waterhouse’s commentary at http://www.indianapolisrecorder.com/opinion/article_811855e2-b4d6-11e7-a23b-ab9d16c813a2.html Professor Waterhouse is a Dean’s Fellow and serves as the Director of the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law Environmental, Energy and Natural Resources Law Program. He is an international expert on environmental law and environmental justice as well as reparations and redress for historic injustices.
