To Kneel Or Stand During The National Anthem

This is something that I find very interesting in the United States. How an issue like this, which has absolutely nothing to do with the flag, or the Anthem or the veterans who served and for those who died in the military.

It actually has absolutely nothing to do with football or the anthem or the vets. Football just happen to be the platform that stance was taken in the first place. Yet, Trump called the players SOB's. This knelling stance has nothing to do with the players disgracing the Anthem, the flag, football or even our veterans.

The football players are taking a stance against police brutality, racial inequality, racial injustice, police murdering people, and basically anything that has to do with Trump and his callous behavior towards women, people of color and the way that he conducts himself in the Whitehouse.

Overall, that is what the NFL owners and players are taking a stance against, this no standing or kneeling is a stance against Trump, the police, racial inequality, racial indifference, the murdering of people, the harassment of people of color, whether their male or female.

This entire reason of why football players are standing or kneeling has absolutely nothing to do with them not having respect for the veterans of this country or disrespect for the anthem. Trump knows that, he is just using that as an deflection tactic, to steer people away from the real reason why the football players are not standing during the anthem.

Yet, some football organizations are silently forcing players to stand or be unemployed too. The owners of these football organizations basically are dangling a players job over their head, if they do kneel. What does that say about the freedom or the liberties we have in this country? Where a player silently demonstrates his beliefs and feelings by not standing, yet the football organizations sees that as blatant disrespect for the anthem, flag and veterans.

As I stated earlier, that is the farthest from the truths and it is so obvious too. The football players are not disgracing the anthem, or disrespecting the flag or the veterans, they are standing in solidarity against the things Trump has said, and is still doing to this day and to this country.

The stance that is being taken is very important, it says that, we as people, as Americans, are not going be idle and quiet as we see people being murdered, mistreated because of their gender and their ethnicity.

From my personal perspective no one is going to keep me from watching football, I absolutely love football, I love ALL sports, and not even Trump, regardless of what he said about the players, and all of his other antics where he is clearly stepping outside the boundaries of what he was voted in office to do in this country. I will never allow that to deter me from watching or going to actively enjoy the American passtime, which is football.

You choose, whatever stance you decide to take in this matter. We live in a free country of free speech and free action, yet just because you have those rights, it does not give you the right to mistreat others, disrespect them or even murder them.

Everybody has an opinion, such as, "NFL players are whining, are spoiled, they only see things in their own way." How is it, when something does not directly affect another person, he or she do not have the capacity, the inability or the compassion to put themselves in the other person shoes?"

I will leave you with an JFK quote.

As John F. Kennedy quoted almost 60 years ago, The President of the United States should be a moral leader in the crusade for human rights, and 'he or she must exert the great moral and educational force of his office to support the right of every American to stand up for his or her rights, even if on occasion he must sit down for them.'

I kneel with those players not because I do not love the Anthem, this country, and the veterans. I kneel because, it is the right thing to do.