>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/06/sports/obama-colin-kaepernick-national-anthem.html
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>In the interest of full disclosure, I think that CK is a shallow, phoney showboat.
>Basically, his carrer is washed up, so he has nothing to lose.
>If LebBron did this, with zillions in endorsements on the line, while I'd disagree with him, I'd have to respect his courage.
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>That said, disprespecting the national anthem, and the country it stands for, over this issue is stupid and insulting.
>It's stupid because police forces are local, not national. The FBI has been out front on this issue, but the hiring, training and discipline of police is a local issue.
>My neighbors and I elect the mayor of Hamilton, NJ, who appoints the police commissioner.
>If I object to what the police do, I have many remedies.
>If CK objects to what is done in Cleveland, let him go to Cleveland and do something about it. the way MLK went to Birmingham and Selma.
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>It's insulting because a lot of people have done a lot of things to make this country a lot better and safer place than it was when the national anthem was written.
>We are not perfect, but if I were grading the world on a curve, while I'm admittedly biased, I'd give us an A++.
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>Regarding that soccer woman- well, I'd better shut up.

What it means is when someone is exercising constitutional rights and someone else doesn't like it they try to say it's being disrespectful to the United States. - which in itself disrespecting the United States by claiming freedom of speech only applies to speech you agree with. The whole thing is dumb.
And incidentally “The Star-Spangled Banner” is as much a patriotic song as it is a diss track to black people who had the audacity to fight for their freedom. Perhaps that’s why it took almost 100 years for the song to become the national anthem. Just read the words to the third verse of the song.