so wilkie, what you are saying we all have freedoms as long as you agree with them but if you don;t agree then no freedom? that's unamerican. and neither the pledge of allegiance nor the constitution say you have to stand for the national anthem. basically, the original protest was because white policeofficers are killing black men without any punishment. do you think any black person who has been oppressed, killed, denied a job, denied good housing, denied lower loan rates, been unjustly jailed, been beaten,m threatened, do think any of those people or their families are thanking our country and our soldiers for the freedom they are given? is there any black person on the board protesting the kneeling or only white people who have been part of the problem not the solution? freedom is allowing others who you hate, no matter what they do, if it's peaceful and not harming you, you have to live with that or you are not american. anyone trying to stop the kneeling is not an american and maybe you should find another country to love in because it seems you have no concept of what freedom is. freedom is the ability to kneel, stand, crap, or sing during the anthem and its not your right to tell me what to do. i am a free man, not someone you can tell me what to do. btw, how many of our soldiers in fighting for your freedom have killed innocent children raped women, left bastard children around the world, pillaged, and stole from other counties, forced our opinions on them, all so you could tell a black football player what he could and couldn't do