I have family members who are black. I have friends who are black. I have an 18 year old nephew who is black. A cousin who is Arab-American.

I love these people. They are important to me.

You sir, are white racist trash. Not important to me.

He won nothing as the NFL Commisoner has done nothing by was of new rules.

Cliffnotes: He has a "black friend" that keeps making babies he can't afford and beats his wife because if it landing him in jail. "Is it racist to say most black people I know act in similar ignorant ways? It definitely has something to do with parenting."
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Typical racist shit.

Right.. you just happen to always be pushing right wing non sense and falling for stupid ass conspiracy theories..

Oh I know you're just like Robbie & Vendillza.. a independent!

No, it would make the event appear slightly less American.

Which is what the kneelers and their advocates in the media want. To undermine your country and replace it with something more to their liking.

I say again, why do we need to have the national anthem at sporting events. It's not a government function.

So...
Let me put a different perspective on this. Forget football.

The Olympic committee is not supported in any way by the US government. We do not give our Olympic athletes money nor pay for any of their training.

They devote most of their life to being best at something.
Do they have the right to take a knee upon winning a medal ?

But I suggest you take a few and look-up the history of the anthem at sporting events. They did not always do this and probably should not continue to do so.

It's nothing less than forced worship. And one that nobody who is watching on TV participate in, and listening on radio also.

So if we are going to force a worship, it should be by everyone, not just a few.

I will not be forced to kiss the feet of your god while you just stand and watch !

There's a difference between being a racist and not feeling guilty because I'm white. You sir are a white guilter. Plain and simple.

Nothing will get accomplished if the core problem isn't addressed which is completely ignored in these discussions, and it has nothing to do with white people, that is unless they are the victim.

I am old school, primarily because I am old. I like mom, pop, apple pie, xmas, the pledge, the anthem and most if not all American traditions. I do not see the need for anyone to abuse, politicize or repeal any of our traditions.

I too am old. It is a new generations turn. Why will you force your way on them.
Let them decide for themselves as you were able to.

You are still free to celebrate in the way your tradition warrants. Nobody is stopping you from standing at attention and placing your hand over your hart and saluting a idol.
For if they were, I would have something to say about that also.

When I am in my grave then a younger generation can do as they choose. This is not now the nation that I grew up in and enough is enough in my opinion.

Yes, I agree, enough is enough.
You want to force your will on others to do as you want while the whole time I am sure in your home you do not do the same as you are expecting of others.

I will not worship a idol just because it is your tradition. If I did it it will be because I want to do it of my own accord.

The largest right given to you in the 'bill of rights' of the constitution is the right of dissent.
That means the right to disagree publicly with the actions of your government.
Take that away and we immediately live in a world similar to N.Korea or China or Russia.
As all of the other rights come in jeopardy.

I don't have the desire to burn a flag. But if you wish to make it unlawful, I will do it everyday. I worship no idols !

I do worship a document that says exactly what and how a civil society conducts itself.
That 'bill of rights' the founding fathers felt so strongly about that it was a built-in function to prevent the Congress from changing it. For they feared this exact same knee-jerk reactionary from altering these core values.

You must also be forgetting that the reason the kneeling was done in the first place was to remember those that were not being treated as the constitution tells us they should be treated... which is equally... under the law.

Instead of that recognition, you would make it illegal to protest the government if you could.
Which is less American ?

exactly - but what this people mean with freedom of speech ist freedom of THEIR speech.

only this minority can have a different meaning and call it out loud with anger and hate -
they do not understand that freedom ends where other people´s freedom is getting limited.

they are same my cat what brings me twice a week a mouse or a rat and i am sure the cat will never understand why i don´t eat it.
i am very happy that my cat does not have the power to force me to eat it.

I will remind you the Flag represents the document that you claim to "worship". In my case I do not "worship" anything but I do respect both the document and the Flag that it is representative of the document. In the case of the Flag it represents more than just a document. It represents every man/woman that has served their country in uniform, those that lived and those that have died.

If someone in my presence disrespects that "idol" as you call it I will exercise my "god" given right to knock your ass out.

The kneeling began because of some blacks thinking that local city/county/state cops were wrongfully shooting their criminal brothers. I am not aware that Federal cops were engaged in this but there were probably some occasional shootings of criminals by the Federal cops.

So they kneel to protest the Federal Governments National Anthem or to disrespect the Federal Flag. When the Federal Government was not the ones doing the shooting.

That makes zero sense to me but maybe it does to you. BTW even if the kneeler's were to use another way of protesting it is not ever going to stop cops from shooting criminals. Just my opinion of course.

The Constitution is everyone's Constitution.

The flag is a symbol. I do not worship symbols. Many of you want to create a parody of the flag means our troops or our documents or other things. Nonsense... If those words of that document are not honored, what exactly is it those troops were fighting for ? At that point that flag become a mere rag.

But we really are not talking about a flag, it was a anthem. How is a anthem a flag and a flag then our troops ? When the anthem is over, they rise and the flag is still flying just as it did before they took a knee.
You are like attacking the messenger... you don't want to deal with the root problem here nor admit one exists. I don't agree with all of the accusations made against the law enforcement community, but I don't see real progress working to a solution to the others.

The constitution is meant to protect everyone... not 'some people'
The cops being agents of a state or city are still governed by the US constitution.
We are a nation of laws.
Those laws insure equal protection and equal judgement for all, not some.
The moment you ignore any part of that, you are ignoring all of it.

If you wanted to defecate on the flag, I might laugh at you and advise you not to do it, but I would stand-up for your right to do it if anyone tried to stop you.
It does not change the words of the document I cherish. It adds true meaning to them.

But our men and women in uniform have not lost their lives so that I might be forced to bow and worship before a flag. And I always have honored them and what they do.

You can say it is a matter of respect.
If you want to be respected, act respectful.
When our nation does not act respectful, it is not respected.
Nobody is asking for more than to live-up to the words in that document.

You take the racists side here constantly so guilt by association. If you're not racist then you're a wigger of the racist agenda.

You even do the racist thing if calling non racists "race traitors" & "white guilters". What you are has no impact on my life whatsoever it's just an observation of what you post on GFY.

Dissing the majority of humans on the planet Earth because their skin tone is darker than yours is such a foreign thought to me it's just bizarre.

I do not "worship" and the Flag is a symbol that I respect and have defended and I will again. If anyone disrespects my Flag or my country in my presence then I will use my "god" given right to knock them on their ass. That is my position in this matter. I do not like the traditions of my country being disrespected by someone protesting their criminal brothers being shot down by law enforcement. There are of course a few bad shootings here and there but by far most that I have personally witnessed or have seen on video are justified.

End of conversation with you. You have your position and I have mine.

Which GOD would that be.
The one that says 'thou will not worship any idol before me' ?

You are a hypocrite

And would take the nations law and Gods laws and issue your own punishment as judge, jury and executioner because others will not conform to your standard that, as I say, you do not do in the privacy of home when nobody is looking.
Why isn't everyone who watches this on TV in your thoughts. Go punish them.

i think you take this flag nonsense a bit too serious.
i am really happy that the did not teach you to walk with only one shoe and with a finger in your left ear to approve that you respect your country.

even when i would easily piss on the flag of my country and use it to whipe my ass it does not mean that i hate my country or my culture - but one part of this culture is to say what i think and a flag or any other symbol can´t be used to close my mouth.

and last to least regarding your statement: YOU ARE RIGHT - this will not stop cops from shooting them but WHO OR WHAT can stop them doing it if not the government what contents only people who are representing this flag and the constitution ?

Just for the record, you don't have a "God" given right to knock someone on their ass. You have the free will to decide if you want to knock someone on their ass and face any potential consequences for doing so.

You really are kind of amusing. I clearly told you that I do not worship and did you not see the word god in quotes. I do not believe in myths or the mythical. If you view me punching someone for disrespecting something that I respect as being a hypocrite then color me a hypocrite.

I am a simple person and react to what I like and in turn to what I do not like.

so let me ask you this: if the other site does the same and have another point of view what will you do?
who will have the last right ?

the smarter one or the stronger one ?

is a piece of colored material really worth it?

He probably did not try to deflect as he failed to understand how disrespecting a flag, anthem or whatever along those lines is related to freedom of speech (which is speech by the way, not disrespectful actions).

Freedom of speech is when ledumb james of the nba is saying nasty things about Trump, for example. Trump does not deny his freedom of speech. He also does not deny NFL players talking shit about him, which is also freedom of speech.

I do not much care for hypothetical questions so will pass.

As for that " piece of colored material".

I did not have to pay the ultimate sacrifice myself, but I knew many that did all serving under that "piece of colored material" and for what it represents. To my mind it is they, among other things, that "colored piece of material" represents.

Be more amused.

You say you do not worship a flag, but you wish to impose worship on others.
You also clearly told me you would not engage me with one more message but you did.
Yes, you are a hypocrite.

But thank someone, maybe god, that at least some of the white people still have some of the bill of rights honored to protect us from you.
I wonder what you will do when you find yourself a minority.
Will you ask the government to stand up for your rights as provided in the constitution ?
Or just take the law in your own hands in frustration as has been done by the present minority in question.
Seems to me you are ready to take the law in your own hands as the majority, so I guess that has been answered.

serving for WHAT ???

for lies?

have you even been attacked after perl harbour?

did you ever THINK about the reasons and decisions what lead people into wars?
do you think all what was done under this flag was right?

i tell you something about your flag and ANY flag-praising in the world.
it is good for just ONE thing:

to stop you from thinking !!!!!

and as everybody can see on your example - IT WORKS !!!

Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so galantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore dimly seen thro' the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream:
'Tis the star'spangled banner: O, long may it wave
O'ver the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confustion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash'd out there foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand,
Between their lov'd homes and the war's desolation;
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

All of the hoopla and it is not owned by the people...
Censoring the National Anthem for Copyright Violation
It is owned by corporations ! what a gaff ! NOW BOW TO THE CORPORATION !