One Flag, Two Americas. [View all]
A friend from Facebook posted a photograph of a widow getting a folded flag from a soldier, and the caption read: "I bet those who refuse to stand for the flag never received one in this manner."
I thought to myself, what an incredibly racist, uninformed post. How is it possible that they don't get it? Then it came to me that we are seeing with this flag debate is evidence of the two Americas. The athletes who are kneeling during the anthem are doing it to protest police brutality. It's a real issue in their communities. And it seems to me that you either get it, or you don't because you don't have to because police excessive force is not a situation that applies to your community, or your demographic.
So, what we are seeing is the difference between the hardcore conservatives against people who understand that we are a diverse nation of people. And, within those larger parameters, we need government that works for all of us, and not just a privileged few. We need our government to stop targeting groups of people, which is the ultimate reason that Trump is an abysmal failure at representing a diverse nation of people.
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