45 advocates forced ritual in NFL...

[FatAndFaithless]

Wait, you were criticizing the players for lacking concrete proposals, not goals. They certainly have a goal, just as they Tea Partiers did. They certainly lack concrete proposals, just as the TPers did.

America was born in protest. Why do you find it so offensive?

So does that mean that the Confederacy was just a protest?

Protest = ways to voice frustration over something in your current government/country that you wish to see changed.

Protest =/= literally rebelling in a treasonous act of war to form your own government/country.

So no, the Confederacy was not a protest.  But you knew that already.