A Confederate flag.
Two
weeks ago, six football players knelt during the national anthem. Last
week it was 200. And just like Colin Kaepernick, they weren’t making a
statement about the flag. I swear this president is so stupid, he
couldn’t find his ass if both hands were in his back pockets.
Lord
help me, but I’ve taken a knee and I don’t want to get up. Maybe I can’t
get up. I’m not sure which.
Three
and a half million American citizens are in crisis in Puerto Rico, North Korea
is threatening Armageddon, Russia used Facebook to influence our elections,
Nazis are running over young women,
Congress
wants to take healthcare away from poor people… and our president has nothing
better to do except name calling to get a cheer at his Klan rally.
As
the widow of a veteran, I have no issue with any player taking a knee to
protest during the national anthem.
He
has every bit as much right to do that as Donald Trump had to say that McCain
wasn’t a war hero because he had been captured.
Protecting that right is what my husband and McCain fought for. And all those Trump supporters calling for a football boycott lost their moral high ground when they put that man in the Oval Office.
A
black football player peacefully protests well-documented inequalities that
exist within our legal system and a bunch of crackers in Alabama cheer when the
President calls him a son-of a-bitch. Are we really surprised?
After
all, those same hillbillies had no problem when the President called a bunch of
protesting Nazis fine people. If we should be outraged about anything, it’s
that we have a President who seems to be more comfortable in a white hood than
the White House.
The
“sons-of-bitches” in question were protesting social inequalities. The fact
that Trump and his supporters equate that to protesting America is telling if
you ask me. But what is even more telling is how Trump insults the players’
mothers rather than the player.
You
know what’s really disrespectful to the American Flag and the men and women who
fought to defend it? The Confederate flag. I mean it. Really.
