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Lonnie Bunch And David Skorton's The Athlete As Agent Of Change
In the article, “The athlete as agent of change,” by Lonnie Bunch and David Skorton, many athletes are using the national anthem to influence people. Many people dislike this however, I am fine with it. I see it as them trying to get across a point about a problem in the world, such as racism. Maybe they just think of the American flag do to all the problems in the world. For example it states,“He, too, saw the flag in a different light due to the racism he faced every day. As he wrote in his 1972 autobiography, "I cannot stand and sing the anthem. I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world." As you can tell from the evidence provided the reason Jackie saw the flag in a different way was because of the color of

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