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Originally Posted by alwann
Lately I've been thinking a way to get past this kneeling stuff is to stop playing the National Anthem at NFL games. The games are multi-million dollar commercial enterprises, contested by multi-millionaires, where a great number of Americans-- surely including Black families --can't afford the price of a ticket to see a game live. The Anthem should be reserved for solemn and patriotic events, IMO.
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I would rather it not be played than reacted to inappropriately. I would rather see marching, personal ads bought by the players against the unfairness they feel. Books written, Gatherings of people who feel as they do. All of the ways that people react to things they think unfair in this country.
There are certain symbols and things many of us hold sacred. MOST of us hold sacred. I don't think for instance a wedding or a baptism or a bar mitzvah is a place to protest or speak out about something controversial...or a funeral.