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Bitterly Unsurprising

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25 September 2017

By Alex Khalil

Okay, this is a mood though.

NASCAR owners have said that anyone caught kneeling during the national anthem will be fired. Surprising literally no one. This is basically an open and shut story, but considering most NASCAR fans only recently just stopped bringing Confederate flags to rallies, we really aren’t surprised.

Twitter users were obviously up in arms about it, claiming that the whole point of kneeling throughout the USA’s national anthem isn’t about respect for the flag or the country, but about racial injustice and the fact it’s still a problem.

Possibly the funniest response:

https://twitter.com/Brynmorbeer/status/912074387246940160

This all started when NFL coaches, players and owners started to kneel during the national anthem during football games. The POTUS himself criticised LeSean McCoy who knelt and stretched during the anthem, leading to most of its participants following suit and kneeling too.

This isn’t about respect for a flag. Nor is it even close to respect for a man who called the original kneeler a ‘son of a b**p’.

This is about the continuing, seemingly unrelenting racism that is still so heavily entrenched in the US government in 2017.

#TakeaKnee.

 

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