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<blockquote data-quote="ExpatPacker" data-source="post: 743995" data-attributes="member: 5535"><p>Standing for the national anthem has more significance to it than honoring military personnel. It has a much wider significance, one of which is to affirm your identity as a citizen of the USA and what it stands for, which from the beginning was supposed to be freedom, equality and justice. But when those ideals are not even close to being practiced, when African Americans in this country continue to suffer from serious racial discrimination and police violence, and when the tides of racism are swelling to levels we have not seen in decades, then Colin Kaepernick has every right to do what he did.</p><p></p><p>You can say that there are hundreds of ways to protest. And those "respectable" forms of protest will all be ignored. The NFL is theatre that is bigger than any theatre in this country, and if you want to get your message across to tens of millions of people it is very effective. </p><p></p><p>Any protest that has a lot of impact has always been met with a backlash. When the two black sprinters at the 1968 Olympic Games raised their fists in the black power salute to protest the same thing Kaepernick was, they were vilified. Sorry, but real protest is never right, never acceptable, because real protest doesn't accept the icons-as-usual that we're all supposed to identify with.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ExpatPacker, post: 743995, member: 5535"] Standing for the national anthem has more significance to it than honoring military personnel. It has a much wider significance, one of which is to affirm your identity as a citizen of the USA and what it stands for, which from the beginning was supposed to be freedom, equality and justice. But when those ideals are not even close to being practiced, when African Americans in this country continue to suffer from serious racial discrimination and police violence, and when the tides of racism are swelling to levels we have not seen in decades, then Colin Kaepernick has every right to do what he did. You can say that there are hundreds of ways to protest. And those "respectable" forms of protest will all be ignored. The NFL is theatre that is bigger than any theatre in this country, and if you want to get your message across to tens of millions of people it is very effective. Any protest that has a lot of impact has always been met with a backlash. When the two black sprinters at the 1968 Olympic Games raised their fists in the black power salute to protest the same thing Kaepernick was, they were vilified. Sorry, but real protest is never right, never acceptable, because real protest doesn't accept the icons-as-usual that we're all supposed to identify with. [/QUOTE]
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