THE NATIONAL ANTHEM, AND SOME FOOTBALL FANS ARE NOT STANDING

FOR THAT KIND OF BEHAVIOR.

THE REASON WHY HE DID THIS WAS

POLITICALLY MOTIVATED THAT HE

WAS TRYING TO MAKE A POINT ABOUT THE CLASS MATTER, ABOUT SOME OF

THE POLICE BRUTALITY AGAINST THE BLACK COMMUNITY, AND HE RELEASED

A STATEMENT ABOUT IT THAT HE SAYS I AM NOT GOING TO STAND UP

TO SHOW PRIDE IN A FLAG FOR A COUNTRY THAT OPPRESSES BLACK

PEOPLE AND PEOPLE OF COLOR.

TO ME, THIS IS BIGGER THAN FOOTBALL

AND IT WOULD BE SELFISH ON MY PART TO LOOK THE OTHER WAY.

THEIR BODIES IN THE STREET AND PEOPLE GETTING PAID LEAVE AND

GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER.

OF

COURSE, SOME PEOPLE WERE IN FAVOR OF THIS TYPE OF POLITICAL

SPEECH, OTHERS NOT SO MUCH.

OKAY, OBVIOUSLY LATER HIS HOUSE BURNED DOWN.

AS I WAS WATCHING THAT AND LIKE, OH MY GOD, PLEASE BE CAREFUL.

IF THIS IS WHAT YOU FEEL LIKE YOU NEED TO DO, FIND.

JUST BE CAREFUL.

JUST IN CASE YOU THOUGHT I WASN'T KIDDING, HIS HOUSE DID

NOT EARN DOWN AS FOR AS WE NOTE THAT 12% OF THE GUYS ALIKE OH

YEAH, I'VE TO PUT IT OUT.

I DO KNOW WHAT TO DO NEXT.

HE HAS A

LOT OF CRITICISM AND IN IS GOING TO TELL YOU MORE ABOUT IT. 1ST

OFF, IT WAS THE RIGHT THING.

YES.

WHAT I HAVE DONE A?

NOTE THAT WHAT DO I MEAN BY THAT?

I LOVE THE AMERICAN FLAG.

I HAVE TALKED ABOUT IT A LOT

BEFORE.

THAT FLAG IS NOT THEIRS, IT IS ALL OF OURS.

I

BELIEVE IN IDEAS AND PENCILS OF AMERICA, SO I STAND FOR THE

ANTHEM AND I THINK THAT IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO.

YOU FIGHT

WITHIN THE SYSTEM TO SET UP A GOOD SYSTEM FOR A STABILITY

SUCCEED.

IT IS NOT WHAT I WOULD'VE DONE, BUT THE REASON I

LIKE IT IS BECAUSE IT IS AN ATHLETE WHO HAS SOME SORT OF

SPELL AS YOU CAN TELL BECAUSE OF

THE EXTREME REACTION AND HE CAN PUT THE SPOTLIGHT ON AN ISSUE

THAT MATTERS SO WE GET TO THE

RIGHT FIX.

I HAPPEN TO DISAGREE WITH THE MANNER IN WHICH HE DID

IT BUT I THINK THAT IS A LOT LESS IMPORTANT THAN THE FACT

THAT HE IS WILLING TO RISK THINGS AND THIS IS NOT A GUY WHO

IS NOT WELL-ESTABLISHED.

I HAD HIM ON MY FANTASY TEAM.

HE

PULVERIZED MY TEAM MISSING

HANDEDLY.

I HAVE NO LOVE FOR:.

HE IS AT LEAST TAKING A STANCE.

FOR EXAMPLE ASKED LEBRON JAMES TO TAKE MORE OF A STANCE WHEN

THEY SHOT TO MERE RICE, AND THEN THEY CHARGED HIS FAMILY $500 TO

TRANSPORT HIS BODY BACK TO THE

HOSPITAL.

LUCKILY, THAT WAS SO EGREGIOUS THAT THEY WALK THAT

BACK THE NEXT DAY, BUT LEBRON JAMES ONCE WERE A T-SHIRT AND

THEN LATER AT THE OLYMPICS, THE OTHER STARS DID SOMETHING AND

YADA YADA, HE COULD HAVE SET OUT

A GAME AND IT WOULD HAVE MADE GIGANTIC NEWS AND WHEN IT MAKES

NEWS, IT AT LEAST STARTS A

CONVERSATION ABOUT LOOK, PEOPLE ARE ANGRY.

WHAT ARE THEY ANGRY ABOUT?

OH, MAYBE WE GET SOME OTHER AMERICANS TO THINK, HEY,

PERHAPS IF IT WERE MY KID WHO WERE BEING SHOT WHEN HE WAS

12 YEARS OLD WITH A TOY GUN, I WOULD BE SUPER MAD AND I

WOULD WANT TO FIX THE SYSTEM.

UNFORTUNATELY, THAT IS NOT HOW MOST PEOPLE WHO ARE CRITICS

OF Her NECK HAVE RESPONDED IN THIS CASE.

RIGHT, I WILL GIVE YOU ANOTHER EXAMPLE.

ONE MAN BY THE

NAME OF MAN TELLING RIGHTS, GET THE HELL OUT OF OUR COUNTRY IF

YOU DON'T WANT TO STAND FOR OUR

NATIONAL ANTHEM,:.

THIS NATION HAS MEDIUM MILLIONS.

HASHTAG PIECE OF SHIP.

1ST OF ALL, CONTENT OF HIS POLITICAL ACTIVISM ASIDE, I

FIND IT REALLY INTERESTING WHEN PEOPLE LOSE IT OVER SOMEONE

WHO DOES NOT STAND FOR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM.

DOES THAT MAKE YOU QUESTION YOUR LOVE FOR THIS COUNTRY?

OKAY, HE DOESN'T WANT TO STAND FOR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM.

WIRE HEADS EXPORTING OVER THIS?

EVEN IF IT WAS FOR SOMETHING YOU DON'T AGREE WITH, EVEN IF IT'S

FOR SOMETHING THAT IS STUPID.

LIKE FOR INSTANCE, LET'S SAY HE

DIDN'T WANT TO STAND FOR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM BECAUSE WE

ACTUALLY DID SOMETHING ABOUT POLICE BRUTALITY AND I WAS

AGAINST THAT.

I WOULDN'T BE OFFENDED THAT HE IS NOT STANDING

FOR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM.

THAT IS A FORM OF POLITICAL SPEECH.

I GET OFFENDED WHEN PEOPLE ATTACK ONE ANOTHER VICIOUSLY

WHEN THEY TRY TO TEAR ONE

ANOTHER DOWN VISUALLY VICIOUSLY, WHEN IT DOESN'T ACTUALLY LEAD

TO A DIALOGUE IRONICALLY ENOUGH, THE SAME PEOPLE WHO RUN

AROUND WHINING AND CRYING ABOUT SAFE SPACES ON COLLEGE

CAMPUSES APPARENTLY NEED TO SAVE SPACE FROM CALLING Her NECK

NOT STANDING UP FOR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM.

I CAN RELATE TO THIS BECAUSE HER MEMBER I USED TO BE A

REPUBLICAN AND THIS IS ONE OF THE ISSUES I WAS CONSERVATIVE

ON.

I REMEMBER BEING REALLY MAD

THAT MAHOOD A DO DIDN'T STAND UP FOR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM.

HE WAS

A BASKETBALL PLAYER WHO WAS PRETTY GOOD BACK THEN.

IDENTITY

HUGE DEBATES WITH MY LIBERAL

FRIENDS AND I THOUGHT LOOK YOU'RE SPITTING IN THE EYE OF

THIS COUNTRY THAT HAS PROVIDED FOR YOU AND FOR ALL OF US.

THAT

IS NOT THE PRODUCTIVE WAY TO DO IT.

I STILL BELIEVE THAT IT IS

NOT THE BEST WAY TO DO IT, BUT I'VE MATURED OVER THE YEARS AND

REALIZED, I DON'T AGREE WITH IT, THAT DOES NOT MEAN HE DOES NOT

HAVE THE RIGHT TO DO IT.

IT IS CLEARLY A FORM OF EXPRESSION.

HOW INSANE IT IS THAT THE

SUPREME COURT SAYS CORPORATIONS RHYMING POLITICIANS AS A FORM OF

EXPRESSION BUT THEIR PEOPLE THAT THINK NOTHING FOR THE NATIONAL

ANTHEM IS NOT A FORM OF

EXPRESSION.

OF COURSE IT IS.

I UNDERSTAND NOW THAT THAT IS HIS

OPINION, MAN.

WE GET TO HAVE THOSE IN THIS COUNTRY.

THAT IS

THE WHOLE POINT OF THE COUNTRY.

IF YOU ARE A PATRIOTIC AMERICAN, THEN YOU SHOULD REALIZE AND I

SHOULD'VE REALIZED BACK THEN THAT THIS IS NOT SUCH A BAD

THING TO DO.

IT IS AMERICAN THING TO DO TO DISAGREE AND DISAGREE IN

DIFFERENT WAYS TO SHOW THAT IN DIFFERENT WAYS.

I JUST FEEL LIKE SOMEONE'S PATRIOTISM OR LACK OF SAYS

NOTHING ABOUT ME OR MY LOVE FOR THE COUNTRY.

SOMEONE FEELS LIKE THEY'VE BEEN WRONGED BY THE COUNTRY WHICH

BY THE WAY, MANY AMERICANS DO, I AM NOT GOING TO BE UP IN ARMS

BECAUSE THEY DID NOT RESPECT THE NATIONAL ANTHEM.

I GET IT,

PEOPLE GET ALL UP IN ARMS ABOUT PATRIOTISM, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT

WOULD BE MUCH MORE PATRIOTIC?

DOING THINGS THAT WOULD ACTUALLY HELP FELLOW AMERICANS INSTEAD

OF BRUSHING A GIGANTIC PRIVATE PROBLEM UNDER THE RUG AND

PRETENDING LIKE IT DOES NOT EXIST.

IF YOU ARE REALLY PATRIOTIC, YOU WILL LOOK OUT FOR YOUR FELLOW

AMERICANS BUT THAT IS NOT WHAT WE ARE SEEING IN THE COUNTRY RIGHT

NOW THAT WE LACK EMPATHY, WE ARE ALL VERY INDIVIDUALISTIC.

THIS COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED ON BEING A COMMUNITY AND WORKING

TOGETHER.

WE DON'T DO THAT ANYMORE.

NOW IT'S ALL US VERSUS THEM, I AM OUT FOR MYSELF, EVERYONE

ELSE CAN GO F THEMSELVES.