Well, if it makes anyone feel any better, I don't think anyone is worth being paid several million dollars a year to play a friggen game. (sorry Emmit Smith, you were the man, but just sayin')...I mean it's not like they find cures for cancer...but I digress...Who do you think the rest of the world despises more; the protesters or the perpetrators of injustice?
Some people want to focus attention on a symbol, on a piece of cloth. Protesters want to focus on and bring attention to injustice. In this case, racial injustice and cops shooting innocent, unarmed people. I do not believe the recent protests had anything to do with flags, the military, the anthem, veterans, god, mother, or apple pie. It's like that commercial, "if you don't get it, you don't get it". Flags were created to be symbols. Symbols to rally around. They were created for people to readily recognize and take notice. We hang our flag upside down as the official, international symbol of distress. We use our flag to rally patriots to elections and soldiers to their deaths. We can surely use it to rally protests against injustices suffered by Americans. I'm positive our flag has been used for worse, i.e, parading it down main street next to swastikas in "peaceful" neo-nazi rallies.
The president is an imbecile. He takes pride in tweeting his perfunctory brand of fascism. America can not and must not be so gullible. Ask any Veteran. The cost of freedom isn't the flag and wrapping oneself in it doesn't make one a patriot. There's a well known quote about that somewhere....and finally...We're all Americans. People have a constitutional right to protest and a constitutional right to disagree with how we do it.
Thank you for your service. Thank you for your courage.
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