NFL’s National Anthem Protests Stir Up Controversy
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NFL’s National Anthem Protests Stir Up Controversy

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NFL’s National Anthem Protests Stir Up Controversy
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Football.

To the English, it’s soccer. To Americans, it’s this:

DAMN! WHAT A HIT! This makes the NFL look like the UFC or WWE!

While the NFL may receive reasonable amounts of flack for concussion-inducing hits like that, it’s what has happened recently that has the NFL being viewed in a completely different light:

President Trump, the man who is the very embodiment of “The Annoying Orange,” began taking shots at NFL players like Colin Kaepernick, who started kneeling for the national anthem last NFL season in protest of police brutality. Since, kneeling for the national anthem has caught on to many other teams in the league, as well as MLB, where Byron Maxwell was spotted kneeling before one of his games. The show of unity towards our fellow men and women has generally been perceived in a positive light, except for some usual suspects:

Do those same military people also fight for both of your rights to sexually harass and demean women off camera?

Bill O’Reilly, the worst O’Reilly since O’Reilly Auto Parts, makes a completely dumbfounded statement that the Ravens and Jaguars players kneeled on foreign soil only during the American National Anthem was “disrespectful to all military members, past and present.”

You may realize that the military fights FOR THEIR RIGHT to express their viewpoint for this country HOWEVER THEY SEE FIT. It’s called “the First Amendment.” Or do your ilk think the next amendment is the first and only amendment to exist? And I highly doubt Bill O’Reilly hangs around with any “army,” save for possibly the “KISS Army.”

I do think he would be the Peter Criss of the KISS army, though.

We’ve all seen those people bloviate the same talking points of “disrespect for the troops,” “disrespect for the flag,” “be thankful that you can live in this country, lest you get killed.”

These talking points can easily be dismissed. Reprimanding somebody that they should be thankful for the country they live in, and that whatever grievances they need to air is ‘disrespectful’ is no different than your parents raising you for the first two years of your life to stand up and speak, then spending the last sixteen of those years to ‘sit down, and shut up,’ and to be thankful that I raised you because no other parent would deal with your crap.

While I do love my country, and am ever thankful for the opportunities this country has, and will have for me in the future, I can be aware enough that it is not perfect enough for others. I do defend the NFL owners, coaches, and players locking arms in unison against any injustices that have been leveled against their communities as a whole.

As for others using the military and flag as props, well, this hit will be delivered to you one day:

Moving on to…

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