re: Question regarding the black power fist at NFL games today

What I find hilarious is that the same people who argue we disrespect the National Anthem and the Flag, are the same people who didn't want to bring down the symbol of the confederate flag. THE DIRECT OPPOSITION TO EVERYTHING THAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE AMERICAN. The unity and pride shown was not to your fellow man of darker complexion under the current symbol, but unity and pride under the archaic symbol that helped to prolong, if only shortly, the oppression of my people.

Do you realize the national anthem is edited, we only sing the first verse. We don't include its outlook on slaves who wanted so badly to be free they fled. That mindset that we were wrong, traitorous for fleeing and joining the British if promised freedom, rather that to be owned, beaten, killed, made to work for profit never seen.

Yes, we were so disloyal and unappreciative for wanting freedom and to be treated as an equal rather than less than those who owned us. Wow, nothing in that says that the mindset that still exists among many white people, NOT ALL, is similar if not the same arse during or before the Civil Rights Movement or even Civil War and we are so wrong to speak against having more opportunities since then rather than, ALL of US having the exact same opportunities as ALL of YOU.