Entire Seattle High School Team Takes Knee For National Anthem

Exactly what do high school kids that live in an area with a very small black population know about racism? Seattle 8%, Washington state 3.4% They only know what someone has told them, little to no real life experience. I've been to Seattle a few times and my question to the locals when they tell me what backwards racist they think we from the south are has been: Then why is our black population almost 10 times greater than yours?

That line in the anthem is all the rage for people who want attention for their *cough BS cough* "oppression" ... What is harmful, hurtful, or even racist about that line?

"Stunned at the revelation and frustrated by their own experiences in modern-day America" They are stunned by all of their free handouts and special privileges because they are black? Blacks receive more help than any other race and the ironic this is that blacks are the most racist group in all of America.

I love this country but the people,Meh!!!

Great team spirit. I love it.

Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin!!! Get a life losers! How about something a little more original. Yawnnnn.

Why did the white kid do it

Let's see now, less than 15% of the population now wants to change our national anthem that was written in 1812, during a war that preserved our freedom, that most folks take for granted, these days...and what rap song would you change it to?

Quit giving these morons pulicity!

The principal of that school should remind the coach that his job is to coach football, not to lead (or coerce) 16-18 year old kids into protest. Regardless of how you feel about the underlying issue, it isn't the place of a high school coach to do that.

People are still kneeling during the anthem?

This wasn't an individual citizen exercising his/her right to protest. This looks like it was organized by the coach based on his actions telling the players when to kneel. As a coach in the high school ranks, you have the ability to manipulate kids that don't fully understand the real world and the problems that go on. It's an empty gesture at best if each and every player in that line doesn't understand what exactly he is kneeling for. There is a time and place to protest. Having a high school coach on a Friday night instruct his team when and how to protest does nothing to help anyone.

It's great seeing the coach at the front of the line telling them all to kneel. If one of them didn't I wonder if he would have been benched for exercising his right to not kneel?

Do people in this great country even know what oppression is? The poorest of the poor in the USA are still in the top 5% of wealthiest humans on earth. The pure ignorance of what the USA offers to all in comparison to the rest of the world is mind boggling.

Since when has protest been unpatriotic? On everything some of you don't even understand the country you claim you love. We were founded on protest! We protested and fought against British taxation and rule. We threw tea into a harbor to protest for crying out loud. We fought wars for freedom because we protested their treatment of us and our rights for freedom. The irony is if he were kneeling for gun rights you halfbreeds would be championing him and using his cause to "patriotically protest" the current President and his administration. You're all hypocrites and don't even care to understand your fellow man. This is why things are continuing to get worse.

Triggering so many ppl.

So...they protested a line they apparently don't understand. I suspect this is a public high school.

Being unpatriotic is so cool now with the kids.