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OK, so in the above video it's all about how bad and unappreciative Collin is towards this country (America) that has done so much for him...according to the man bagging him. Now let's see what and why Collin won't stand and would still remain sitting whenever the national anthem of the United States is being played.
“If you don’t want to stand for the national anthem, you can line up over there by the fence and let our military personnel take a few shots AT you, since they’re taking shots FOR you.”
Those unsettling words were uttered by a public announcer at a high school football game in the United States this week. That’s right, a high school game. Apparently, the “entire crowd went crazy cheering”.
http://www.news.com.au/sport/americ...e/news-story/679b4ebb307b2a47d90e9983b82419d1
Do you agree with the remark made by that public announcer? Is he not presuming that Collin is in agreement with the way his country conducts its business, and if he wasn't in agreement, then perhaps he should simply take it in, keep it in, bottle it all up, then perhaps explode in a fit of rage as the former Gulf veteran Timothy McVeigh did back on April 19, 1995 with his accomplice Terry Nichols, when they blew the face off the federal building in downtown Oklahoma city killing 168 people in the process?
If I remember correctly, the last time black Americans did do something similar was in during the 1968 Olympics games. Olympics Black Power salute was a political demonstration conducted by African-American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos during their medal ceremony.
This brings me to the so called freedom of expression. I say "so called" because just like freedom of speech, there'll always be someone who's ready to disagree with what you say if and when your narrative does not gel with his. Buddhist monks set themselves alight and run in the street just to get some attention towards a particular grievance that their people are experiencing.
In the below photo, taken in June of 1963, a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk Thích Quang Duc burned himself to death at a busy intersection in Saigon.
Would you see the refusal to stand for the national anthem as a positive form of protest and perhaps a harmless expression of freedom of expression, or would you rather see a different kind of expression towards whatever it is that you passionately disagree with and won't stand for (pun intended)?
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