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I think it is very sad that Americans have now found something else to fight about. Confederate flags, statues and now rich sportsmen dissing the Stars and Stripes....it's easy to forget your history and the price paid in blood by your own people to allow you to live the lives you currently do. Remember, the fall of Rome didn't happen overnight........
 
I think it is very sad that Americans have now found something else to fight about. Confederate flags, statues and now rich sportsmen dissing the Stars and Stripes....it's easy to forget your history and the price paid in blood by your own people to allow you to live the lives you currently do. Remember, the fall of Rome didn't happen overnight........

People paid the price of blood to allow "rich sportsmen" to diss the Stars and Stripes.
 
I think it is very sad that Americans have now found something else to fight about. Confederate flags, statues and now rich sportsmen dissing the Stars and Stripes....it's easy to forget your history and the price paid in blood by your own people to allow you to live the lives you currently do. Remember, the fall of Rome didn't happen overnight........
Rich sportsmen are not dissing the Stars and Stripes. You don't see them burning it, pissing on it or tearing it to shreds.

Protest of grievances by the government is fundamental to what the flag represents.
 
Rich sportsmen are not dissing the Stars and Stripes. You don't see them burning it, pissing on it or tearing it to shreds.

Protest of grievances by the government is fundamental to what the flag represents.

Go on a march, get elected, use your money to help those who you believe need help. Self indulgent knee bending, which upsets many of your fellow Americans is a bit childish......
 
I wonder if those that died for your country believed the same, or is it just today's over compensated and comfortable few...

I assure you soldiers fought for the principle of freedom and knew they were doing so, even if some examples of freedom would be found by some individual soldiers to be distasteful. That's just how it works. And the fact that rich sports stars are making a stand is because--I assure you of this--they didn't come from wealthy backgrounds, and so they are now using their new-found status/popularity/wealth to get their cause noticed. The protest started as a means to bring attention not to them, but to non-sports stars. And the fact that you're complaining about it is proof-positive that it is working. That you find it self-indulgent doesn't matter one single bit; that's just your opinion.

Go read that NYTimes article I posted one page back, written by Eric Reid...one of the self-indulgent knee-benders.
 
I think it is very sad that Americans have now found something else to fight about. Confederate flags, statues and now rich sportsmen dissing the Stars and Stripes....it's easy to forget your history and the price paid in blood by your own people to allow you to live the lives you currently do. Remember, the fall of Rome didn't happen overnight........

Perhaps you could teach me, without cutting and pasting articles obv.......

#1 You utter ignorant.

#2 Police brutality against blacks.
 
I think it is very sad that Americans have now found something else to fight about. Confederate flags, statues and now rich sportsmen dissing the Stars and Stripes....it's easy to forget your history and the price paid in blood by your own people to allow you to live the lives you currently do. Remember, the fall of Rome didn't happen overnight........

This is pointless, but .... once more unto the breach

They are not dissing the flag or anthem (and even if they are, so what) Originally it was to call attention to the systemic inequality in the treatment of POC particularly by police. I think now there is a bit of that as well as reaction to being told to pipe down by POTUS.

I'll add to @verreauxi point that many blacks paid the price of blood and life within our own borders at the hands of other Americans to even be allowed to be a rich sportsman let alone diss the flag. I am pretty sure they haven't forgotten -- although apparently many Americans have.
 
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