I would like to state my opinion on the NFL controversy. My thought is that if you want to show unity the best way to do so would be to link arms. This expresses more unity than some kneeling and others not. I believe that the players have the right to protest but I personally think they are protesting the wrong way. I have the rights to jump of a deck to get to the patio, but the stairs are probably safer.
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Most people don't encounter the national anthem during their jobs.
I don't like it either, but it is certainly a unique circumstance for professional athletes.
That said, if someone protests in a way you don't like you can speak up. You won't get fired, why should they?
I also don't appreciate the President criticizing certain NBA & NFL players (mostly minorities), and then holding up NASCAR and the NHL as 'better' examples of 'real American' sports. Or for that matter telling people who make millions to keep quiet. If that's the criteria...well I suppose you can extrapolate.
I don't remember saying that protesting is disrespectful to anybody. Like I said I am okay with the players using the 1st amendment. I just think they went the wrong way about doing so.
You have not. The President most certainly has, but you aren't responsible for the narrative he and his associates have put forth. I have no issues with your statement at all.
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“But moooom, everyone else is doing it!”
That's not my argument. I'm not saying that racism is ok because everyone does it. I'm saying that the claims of bigotry in America are largely exaggerated, whereas the fact that racism exists everywhere in the world and always has is ignored. Racism is never acceptable, but to not acknowledge that we are one of the least racist nations, to instead pretend as if the opposite is true, to ignore the progress America has made with regard to race relations relative to the rest of the world... I think that is a perspective which only serves to drive a wedge between us.
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