Disrespectful To Kneel During The National Anthem
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It is disrespectful to kneel during the National Anthem because of the people in the military and their families.
It is disrespectful to kneel during the National Anthem because of people in the NFL started kneeling and taking it out of context. To me it is disrespectful because I have family members that were in the military, army, and air force. My cousin Chris was in the military, my brother Martavious is in the Army, my cousin Andre, that’s in the Navy, and my church family Jarod that’s in the military. Michael Strahan say’s when Collin Kaepernick was kneeling it was a distraction for the team and a personal reasoning but his reasoning was legitimate. Strahan said he stood up for something for a lot of people not just for himself, and it’s right or wrong to some people. Spike Lee supports him because it was for a reason, but now it is not. The players now during it because they are protesting a tweet by Donald Trump saying they should be fired for not standing for the National Anthem. Spike Lee says “Anti-Gun violence, people running around screaming they don’t won’t their 2nd Amendment violated,” and what rights people can give us. In a quote in Jackie Robinson’s biography say’s “I cannot stand and sing the anthem. I cannot salute the flag. I know that I am a black man in a white world.” Spike Lee also said that Kaepernick did was using his platform to say there is a problem but …show more content…
It is a personal choice because they are exercising their first amendment rights of freedom of speech, and other things. Some stood for the National Anthem and others knelt or didn’t leave the locker room during the National Anthem. One player from the Pittsburgh Steelers stood out from the tunnel because he said he was a former Army Ranger and it was disrespectful to him and his family and he could not just sit there in the locker room with the National Anthem going
It is disrespectful to kneel during the National Anthem because of the people in the military and their families.
It is disrespectful to kneel during the National Anthem because of people in the NFL started kneeling and taking it out of context. To me it is disrespectful because I have family members that were in the military, army, and air force. My cousin Chris was in the military, my brother Martavious is in the Army, my cousin Andre, that’s in the Navy, and my church family Jarod that’s in the military. Michael Strahan say’s when Collin Kaepernick was kneeling it was a distraction for the team and a personal reasoning but his reasoning was legitimate. Strahan said he stood up for something for a lot of people not just for himself, and it’s right or wrong to some people. Spike Lee supports him because it was for a reason, but now it is not. The players now during it because they are protesting a tweet by Donald Trump saying they should be fired for not standing for the National Anthem. Spike Lee says “Anti-Gun violence, people running around screaming they don’t won’t their 2nd Amendment violated,” and what rights people can give us. In a quote in Jackie Robinson’s biography say’s “I cannot stand and sing the anthem. I cannot salute the flag. I know that I am a black man in a white world.” Spike Lee also said that Kaepernick did was using his platform to say there is a problem but …show more content…
It is a personal choice because they are exercising their first amendment rights of freedom of speech, and other things. Some stood for the National Anthem and others knelt or didn’t leave the locker room during the National Anthem. One player from the Pittsburgh Steelers stood out from the tunnel because he said he was a former Army Ranger and it was disrespectful to him and his family and he could not just sit there in the locker room with the National Anthem going