Little rant regarding the kneeling thing.

[Brian37]

Colin Kapernick is doing Nike ads, and people are burning shoes. Of course this is related to the whole kneeling thing, and I feel like venting.

I don't know what football has to do with soldiers, or what people think the soldiers are fighting and dying for, but apparently the first amendment freedoms don't make that list. If you think soldiers are fighting for freedom, why isn't free speech and protest included? If that's not what you think they're fighting for, as it relates to people kneeling, then what is it? Protests don't do much good if they're not public, and don't force people to stop and think. I know it's a private business, and they have a job to do, but if the restaurant I worked at suddenly started telling us to stand and salute the flag, or sing the national anthem before our shift, people would have a problem.

It annoys me that people who will scream about the second amendment skip the first. all those amendment that are put there to protect us from the powerful, and limit what our government can do, get real inconvenient when your guy is in power, but you forget that we don't always have a president that aligns with your personal beliefs, and we shouldn't turn our constitution on and off depending on whatever our side is in power or not.

I know the country is messed up. I know we're not really a representative democracy anymore. I just feel like venting every once in a while, even though I already know why things are the way they are.

This is just bullshit propaganda sold by the right and Trump selling otherism, and hyper nationalism. It is the same disgusting tactic despots and dictators use.

I had a couple friends last night over, and one of them mentioned a post they saw on line pointing out how fucking stupid the blind loyalty crap was coming from the right, they described the post as saying, "You are concerned about a player kneeling but where are the protests about child molesting priests?"

The right isn't concerned about freedom for everyone, they are concerned about keeping power at all costs.

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I fail to understand why football correlates with patriotism. I don't watch sports. I don't attend any activities that open with the National Anthem or  the Pledge of Allegience actually. Police brutality is a real.concern. So, I side with the kneelers.

If pro sports really was neutral, it would not involve an Anthem or have military fly overs. It isn't that we should not value our system or our military, but because a diverse population has so many different views, nationality becomes as divisive as sub sects of the same religion. 

There was a time in our history, they simply played the game without incorporating those things. If sports is to be neutral it should skip ceremonies like that.