Flag desecration

Should Football Players have the Right to Kneel During The Anthem. Football players should not be able to kneel during the anthem. When people kneel during the anthem it is disrespectful to the flag, force, and anthem. The anthem is about honoring the people that have fallen in war and honoring America in all, and what we have accomplished.Others ways like raising your fist is protesting race not the anthem. As in the text it reads, ”Rashard Robinson (33) and Antoine Bethea (41) of the San…

The vivid, rainbow flags, waving in the brisk San Francisco air, scream, “We are proud”. Rainbows painting the window of every cafe, supermarket, and store alike are delicately scattered with tiny raindrops that fell from the open, murky sky above. The atmosphere is bombarded with the sense of unity, but not only is the air flooded with the symbol of pride, but the streets too. Crosswalks, jaded with the paint of red, orange, green, and blue as pedestrians walk along, chatting with their…

American flag and told me that this is how she remembered my father. Every night before bed she would read me a different story about the troops who fights for our freedom and how important they are to our country. Once I became familiar with the flag she then showed me pictures of my father dressed in similar clothes as the men in the books she read to me at bedtime. Soon after I found myself gaining an attachment too any item that was red, white, and blue and represented the American flag and…

Flags of Our Fathers, directed by Clint Eastwood, is a film that is successful in portraying both a Native American and white soldiers as humans. Not only was Ira Hayes, a Pima Native American, one of the main characters, he was also a character with as much depth and humanity as his white counterparts. Although there are several moments of racial dialogues towards Ira from his superiors, it seems as though director Clint Eastwood is pointing to these scenes as flawed instead of simply leaving…

Last season, Colin Kaepernick caused a lot of controversy around the world and especially in the National Football League. The controversy was not caused by his play or something off the field. It was caused by his decision to kneel during the National Anthem. Kaepernick knelt during the National Anthem because he felt that African Americans were oppressed by this country, while people without color were being treated less harshly. He did not want to show pride to a country that did not treat…

Benjamin Hoffman, Victor Mather, and Jacey Fortin’s article “After Trump Blasts N.F.L, Players Kneel and Lock Arms in Solidarity” features many debatable topics about the players kneeling during the National Anthem. The main cause brought up by the authors for the players kneeling includes tweets posted by Donald Trump on Twitter. One of these tweets exclaims that sports fans should “never condone” players that do not stand during the anthem and that the “NFL should change its policy” (Hoffman).…

the beginning of the exhibit, was by artist Jasper Johns called Flag. Flag is a piece associated with Johns’ theme of repetition in his artworks as well as influenced by personal and historical contexts. Flag was made between 1954-55 with encaustic, oil, and collage on fabric mounted on plywood in three panels. The formal aspects combined created a flag with red, white, and blue which are the symbolic colors of American culture. The flag contains forty-eight stars and thirteen stripes, as well…

ended and that was also the day the 13th amendment was ratified into the Constitution. African Americans don’t see the flag as a symbol for anything except for racism. The Kul Klux Klan actually used this flag as a symbol for racism, and not every white American uses the flag for that purpose. Also the flag was not the original flag for the Confederacy. Not all Africans see the flag as a bad symbol, but most do and that is all because of slavery. Slavery happened because of the fact that the…

Marine Corps War Memorial Patriotism is often associated with Americans in response to the emotional pride in their nations land, culture, present day achievements, and history. However one's devotion to what they love may come with the dismissal of cynical actions. The remembrance of major events in our lives through memorialization keeps us either sane or feel a sense of unity among our community. Memorials are important to the American people, which are constructed by artists to provide…

statement himself Friday night when he chose to sit out the National Anthem at Levi's Stadium. Kaepernick explained his intentions in an interview with NFL media after the preseason loss to Green Bay, "I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.” He took his opportunity to communicate a “Black Lives Matters” message in the largest way he saw possible, “To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to…