Disrespect In Sports

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Say that you were at a birthday party for a close friend, and you didn’t participate in the singing and ignored your friend and the reason was that you didn’t like the house and not the friend. You may not mean it but that is disrespectful and that's what athletes have been doing to the are doing to the men and women in the armed forces. Recently in professional and nonprofessional athletes have been taking a knee during the national anthem and sometimes not even participating. They are doing this as a form of peaceful protest about the racial discrimination, but there is other things they can do than disrespecting the men and women in armed forces. The athletes that have participated in doing this claim to even though not have any disrespect

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