re: Tired of the Anthem kneeling? It's pretty simple

All of what you wrote is meaningless. We already knew who and what most everyone is.

This is a fad.

The only thing productive; the only thing that moves the meter, imo, is using this topic to teach (original) American principles. See above what I wrote to BamaAtl.

They are (ostensibly) protesting institutional abuses of power. I agreed with him that abuses of power are wrong and that they should be protested. Now we have some common ground, even though I likely disagree with him on the particulars. What is the solution to abuse of power? Is it to give the government more power or less power? I will teach him history if that's what he needs. Why not try to unite on the priciples of smaller, less intrusive government and transparency instead of arguing dug in positions? Ironically, both sides actually already agree that is a policeman murders someone that they should be prosecuted to the fullest.

Anything else is self-serving garbage. The red team/blue team bullshite divides us and has taken us down a dark road for the last 120 years.