NFL Anthem Policy

[KI Skins Fan]

I love our flag, our national anthem, and our pledge of allegiance. To me, they represent the commitment of each and every one of us to stay united as we work toward the ideals expressed in our great founding documents. Again, it represents our ideals as a nation and not necessarily the realities of our daily lives.

It does not offend me that a man would quietly kneel with his head bowed during our anthem to bring our attention to something in our society that he believes is very wrong. I don't consider that to be disrespectful because he is not disrupting the pledge of those around him. I think of it as his calling our attention to his belief that we are falling far short of our ideals in a very serious way that needs our immediate attention as a nation.

More than that, he believes that it is an emergency. He believes that people are being killed because there are still racial barriers in our nation. As united Americans, we need to try to fix our racial problems now as we move closer to realizing our ideals.