Sunday, July 26, 2020
Is Protesting the Flag Justified or Not?
As I am sure most of you know or have heard about quarterback Colin Kaepernick deciding to kneel during the presentation of the flag and the national anthem during football games. He took this action to protest the flag and the oppression people of color have faced and are still facing here in America. After this action was taken, other athletes from other sports started to take action as well. It is not right how people are still being profiled because of the color of their skin. I read the Room for Debate, "Americans and Their Flag," which expressed how Colin Kaepernick started a conversation that needed to be discussed here in America, and whether his actions were justified or not. In this Room for Debate article one of the authors, Rashad Robinson, states, "As long as there is persistent injustice, there will be people who become symbols of standing up to it." Kaepernick became one of these symbols, and he did what he did to fight for what he believed in. He was also using his constitutional right to express how he felt by protesting the flag, and he risked his job to do so. Since he was using his constitutional right of freedom of expression, was his action of protesting the flag justified? If so, why did he lose his job for fighting in what he believed in? Do you believe the flag and national anthem should be protested against? If so, why or why not?
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His action of protesting the flag was justified because it is his constitutional right. I feel that he lost his job because many fans didn't like what he did at first and this pressured the general manger to get rid of Colin Kaepernick. To protest the flag and national anthem depends on your perspective of it. The blue represents justice on the flag and since people of color are being oppressed that is injustice. Colin Kaepernick knelled for the oppression of colored people. The flag and national anthem should be protested against if there is injustice happening in the world.
ReplyDeleteIt is perfectly fine to protest in what you believe in but you must understand what happens when you protest morally good or bad. In my opinion, what Kaepernick was his right to do so but people fail to understand a few things about what his actions would do and represent: Firstly, he has the complete right to protest how he likes but depending on where he is it will come with negative side effects, when he protested during the game he brought attention upon himself but also brought it upon his team which maybe they didn't want but the worst thing to come out of it was doing it during his job time because him doing it during his job is not his privilege. He can protest while on the clock but it is on his boss's time and his boss has the complete right to fire him because he is not doing his job, basically kaepernick has the right to do it whenever but he don't get the privilege of immunity from being fired for doing it during his job hours. The second problem is what kneeling to the flag represents, when the Founding Fathers created this great nation they made it on the principal of "We kneel for no man but only to our god". This was because they had just finished fighting off a tyrannical government in which they were forced to knee to the crown and its holder so kaepernick doing that id going backwards in execution because the Founding Fathers never wanted anyone to knee to the flag because it is not their ruler so him doing that is having the reverse effect on his protest. As for protesting against the flag and national anthem, you have the right to do that but I would never do it myself because that flag and anthem represent liberty and rights that are not found anywhere else and they also represent the blood of all the people who gave all for the flag because they believed that the flag is morally good and is worth fighting for.
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