dunno if what you ask is truth or not, but i believe that when you are being paid to do a job, you do the job required of you and take your personal affairs off the job.

Americans are supposed to have something called the first amendment. Among the laws, is that people of different races can not be treated differrently for the same actions.

In 2002 Tim Tibow took a knee in protest of the Flag because we had abortions and was against his Christian values. He was given 3 NFL and a MLB contract.

Kaepernick protested the murder of unarmed black children. He was not protesting the military or the flag. The team owners have illegally been discriminating against him.

As such, I will refused to support the NFL until this man is treated the same way Tebow is treated.

Here is the actual law in question, so I can prove I know my shit and am not just giving an opinion. Both Tebow and Kaepernick took a knee, same action, different treatment based on racism. Illegal.

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From that is

Discipline & Discharge
An employer may not take into account a person's race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information when making decisions about discipline or discharge. For example, if two employees commit a similar offense, an employer many not discipline them differently because of their race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information.

What if you don't subscribe to nationalism and the flag?

Kneeling is not disrespectful. Forced conformity is. The US is not North Korea, at least not yet.

I am a veteran. I served so that when our country falls short of the ideals it aspires to, like murdering unarmed black men because they are black, we can try to hold it accountable and drive change.

You want to hear my thoughts..?

The NFL should be abolished due to the detrimental effects on millions of youth attempting to participate in a brain damaging ‘sport’ in order to acquire money or fame. Corporate sponsorship of sports? As worthless as paying to watch them..

Originally Kapernick sat during the anthem then during a conversation with a team mate, who was a veteran, the protest was changed to taking a knee. Someone explain to me when kneeling before something became offensive!

From what I know and have read, the DoD pays the NFL to sponsor activities during the National Anthem (military members singing the anthem or flyovers, etc). I don't think anyone has the right to own the anthem. You would then have Burger King sponsoring "Home of the Free and land of the Whopper". My question, where is the anger directed at the NFL? They charge quite a bit of money to allow these activities to occur during the season. You would think that it would be an honor the NFL to have a flyover at their event....but they charge 5.4 million. Again, where's the anger?

@Davidthinks it seems some people didnt understand what you were asking because their personal emotions got in the way and they just skimmed what you wrote.

Tnorman1236= boils down to how you were raised.

Sophmag= we have someone caught up in the victim mentality and mental illness.

Racnismylife= did not read and try to understand what you were asking. He skimmed it and started formulating a response.

Interesting legal perspective. It would likely depend upon the wording of the sponsorship contract.

I think the whole outrage at this action is a farce. They have the right to kneel as a protest, not of the flag, or the military, or the country, but of the injustices in the black community. It's their first amendment right, and they are not disrespecting anything. And I don't care if the military pays to have the anthem played, they still have that right.

So what, it’s still paid propaganda paid for with American tax dollars. There’s no contract or law requiring anyone to stand to salute or say the pledge. It’s tradition but that doesn’t mean that the symbolism it creates is necessarily a warm and fuzzy feeling. I’m in support of the NFL players who take a knee. The words to the pledge say liberty and justice for all. We know POC and especially Black men never receive equal rights, attention or respect from LEA I’m a Gay man , in Trums America, just like Black Americans, I am reduced to being a second class citizen. So until there really is Liberty and Justice for all, I refuse to sing or say a pledge. I’m not dissing anyone. I’m saying something has to change.

I wasn't aware the Army pays the NFL for that, then again I don't follow most sports to have even cared enough. No opinion on this as of yet.

My simple thoughts: if we as a people do not have the right to protest government actions peacefully, then there is no hope for us as a country. this right has been part of the deal from the first. and we have lost lives defending and protecting that right.for someone to try and shift the argument away from the right of people to protest actions and turn it into something it was never about in the first place. it isn't disrespecting the flag or troops or policemen/women. and so on.
you can couch an argument anyway you want, but if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck then its a damn duck, no matter if you tell me its an elephant till you are blue in the face. look it up its in the constitution.