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Daniel Wallburg
On September 26th 2017 USA Today told a
story of how President Trump told the NFL that they should fire players who
kneel during the national anthem. Many coaches and players were against this
decision as it seems to interfere with their freedom of speech or to express
themselves. This got particularly bad after the Cowboys have taken a knee
earlier that Sunday. Trump then proceeded to call the players who do this, sons
of b*****s.
On
the one hand, it makes sense why Trump can be upset, the national anthem is an
old American tradition and to refuse to it means that the citizen might be
saying that they are not proud to be an American and that it is doomed, with
how things are right now. Trump could easily settle the issue if he just talked
about why the anthem is important, it is a part of America’s history and that
is something that should not be taken away and respected.
There
is also the fact, that the kneeling was never used to disrespect America, in the
first place, the player who started the kneeling Colin Kabbernick, was doing it
for equal rights for blacks. People just used it as an excuse to protest the
President. That does not make them better than him. Colin might not have wanted
things to get of control like this, he just wanted equality.
There
are people though who think that they whole thing as gone too far and people
need to stop complaining about what is happening all together. My mother for
example told me that she watched a sports event called the presidents cup,
which is a golf event that had past presidents playing together. IN that event
nobody knelt or did anything that could be called disrespectful to America.
They just held their hats over their hearts as they listened to the anthem and
went on their game. This is behavior that everyone should follow; they just do
what they came to do.
The
backlash has only happened in football and not any other sport, and that is
because Trump is signaling them out. Not helping his case, is the fact that he
insults the players rather than asking them politely to stop, if he could be
mature about the situation maybe so many players will not bend their knees like
he wants. The players, however, should not put themselves on Trumps level. Both
of them could be mature about this whole matter.
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