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>>So taking a knee in peaceful protest of racial violence and discrimination is disgusting and cowardly? I don't get it.
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>Take a look at Bill's reply. I agree with his viewpoint more than I'd disagree with it.
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>Consider this - you're a fairly young singer, and you get the chance to sing the National Anthem in front of a stadium of 50 to 75 thousand people.
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>And you've got players taking a knee in front of that singer.

So what? You also happen to have at least one singer that took a knee while singing the anthem.

>And now consider this - you have high school teens doing it. I will tell you right know, I'd be goddamn furious if my kid ever did that.

Why be upset if your kid were to have enough insight to protest racial bias? I would e proud not pissed.

>Also consider this - in the Baltimore/Jacksonville game last week in London, the players took a knee for the U.S. anthem, but stood for the British version (God Save the Queen).

Yeah so what? They're protesting racial bias in the USA not Britain.

>If someone doesn't get the huge moral inconsistency of showing respect for a foreign country’s anthem while protesting your own on foreign soil, I doubt anyone can help them understand.

And there you have it. That is your problem here -- you are under the false belief that they're protesting the anthem. They are not - it's a false thing Trump is spewing.

>Finally, consider this: one of the Cleveland Brown players who took a knee during a MNF pre-season game had previously posted a pic on Instagram of an artist rendition of an ISIS-like beheading of a police officer.

One has nothing to do with the other - but obviously images of beheading police officers or anyone else is in bad taste.

>So I don't want hear any of this existentialist whining from NFL players - they benefit from an enormous system.

First of all they make more money for the team and stadium owners than they make themselves -- it's the owners who are benefiting from the players, not the other way around. If there were no players there would be no NFL. And the players also benefit from brain damage too.

And the Pittsburgh Steelers clearly got in the ear of Alejandro Villaneuva (the lone Steeler who came out and saluted the flag) and told him to "get with the program", as evidenced by his apology a few days later.
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>I detest Trump and I've said that a million times. I also love what this country stands for. Yes, we have many issues and they need to be resolved. But that's no excuse for what we've seen.

Yes Trump managed to make it about himself and create more racial tensions. This is what you get when you elect a racist for president - someone who says nothing about Nazi protesters and says "a lot of them are good people" yet has a problem when a black person peacefully protests.

>Go read what Drew Brees said about all this - he clearly is one of only a handful of players who has his head on straight.

I will hunt down this and read up on it tonight.