Not doing the salute was considered unpatriotic, and as time progressed, it had more and more serious repercussions.
Today members of American NFS teams are using their spotlighted status in society to protest injustice perpetrated on American citizens based on the color of their skin. See the video below as an example, where a young black man is dragged out of his own car, in his own driveway, because he has a broken tail light. Good grief!
Now our American government, led by the American president, is verbally attacking the NFL and its players for “disrespecting the National Anthem.”
Seriously? We are concerned about a piece of music? A flag? A ceremony?
One group of society, in this case the leadership of the government, decides it attaches some meaning to a ceremony, and then harasses citizens when they use their right to protest an injustice, and claims they are disrespecting the country.
The logic just does not work.
This is the same logic that Christians usurped in medieval times against people who didn’t buy into their religion – heretics.
It is the same logic many contemporary religions still use today in many places of the world to cast out, or chastise and punish those that do not accept that religion. Examples are radical Islamic factions in a number of countries and fundamental Mormons in the United States, and there are many others.
The video below shows police injustice, and humiliation of private citizens, which is the very thing the NFL members are protesting, the very occurrences our leadership should be working on to eliminate.
Instead, our leadership bullies.
How do they expect us to treat them with any respect?