With the return of professional football’s regular season, we have a return to the turmoil and debate that has been injected into the game over protests staged by some players during the singing of our National Anthem.
To broaden the topic for a moment, perhaps we should not be surprised. We live in a time when divisive political ideology has infected most every area of our lives. We see it in religion, education, finances, entertainment, and even in our choice of the foods we consume. As a society it has come to the point where there is little left that a person can do that isn’t interpreted by some group as a political statement. This is a recipe for a society descending into turmoil with all the implications that involves.
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Time for a sports station without politics
Here’s how I look at it after observing and reading social media as well as my personal perspective. We have a choice and any choices we make we must live with our decisions and consequences as Kaepernick is. After thinking about it especially since I’m a vet at first it made me very angry. Angry because it’s not something I would ever consider doing. What it boils down to is this honor and respect. Now I have not seen anything disrespectful or anything dishonoring. Standing, sitting, hat off, hand over heart and taking a knee is not a sign of disrespect in the least bit at all. Before you get mad at what i just wrote think about it. Personally I think taking a knee is the absolute most honoring and respectful way to pay respect towards anything especially our national anthem our flag and our country. What would be disrespectful is spitting, flipping a finger at the flag, showing obscene body parts, stomping or burning the flag etc. Of which they consider freedom of speech. So for whatever the cause is in this case for the oppressed is his right to share with those that support the same cause as he does. In more ways than one since he is a NFL athlete he has an advantage over the majority. In conclusion of all of this. The racism, the racist, the oppressed and anyone that wants to jump on the support for cause bandwagon. This time for the love of God can we have a solution to the cause of problem so we can all move past this and enjoy life as a whole community. This hating each other$#%&!@*is getting real old real fast.
It should be 100% or be removed!
Need to get down on BOTH knees and thank God for a country where they had the opportunity to become millionaires!! Use your money to help your people instead of condemning a country that gave you such an opportunity!!
F espn
No its not Liberal Scum
ESPN is on my “do not watch” along with the NFL,, 49ers, Seahawks, Broncos, Dolphins, Chiefs, and the Rams.
ESPN you are done!
haven’t watched them bums for over a year
The Star-Spangled Banner,” perhaps not knowing the full lyrics is a good thing. It is one of the most racist, pro-slavery, anti-black songs in the American lexicon, and you would be wise to cut it from your Fourth of July playlist.Of particular note was Key’s opposition to the idea of the Colonial Marines. The Marines were a battalion of runaway slaves who joined with the British Royal Army in exchange for their freedom. The Marines were not only a terrifying example of what slaves would do if given the chance, but also a repudiation of the white superiority that men like Key were so invested in. – And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a Country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
In other words, Key was saying that the blood of all the former slaves and “hirelings” on the battlefield will wash away the pollution of the British invaders. With Key still bitter that some black soldiers got the best of him a few weeks earlier, “The Star-Spangled Banner” is as much a patriotic song as it is a diss track to black people who had the audacity to fight for their freedom. Perhaps that’s why it took almost 100 years for the song to become the national anthem.-Woodrow Willson is one man who wanted it the nation athem Wilson worked closely with Southern Democrats. In Wilson’s first month in office, Postmaster General Albert S. Burleson brought up the issue of segregating workplaces in a cabinet meeting[123] and urged the president to establish it across the government, in restrooms, cafeterias and work spaces. Treasury Secretary William G. McAdoo also permitted lower-level officials to racially segregate employees in the workplaces of those departments. By the end of 1913 many departments, including the Navy, had workspaces segregated by screens, and restrooms, cafeterias were segregated, although no executive order had been issued.[123] Segregation was urged by such conservative groups woodrow showed birth of a nation a kkk movie and said it was the truth at the white house .Some evidence suggests that while Ellen Wilson was never a racist in the contemporary understanding of that word, she did believe that the white and black races could never be equal. Her reasoning for this is unclear. She may have been influenced by her father’s view that the destruction of the Confederacy ruined a natural balance which placed the black race in servitude to the white and that the ensuing “sudden and absolute emancipation policy ruined one race and doomed another so there daughter sang the “The Star-Spangled Banne in 1915 and helped make it the national song https://youtu.be/kAI3hUoDd6c