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Pastor Mark Burns, an African-American minister who supports Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, has apologized for tweeting a cartoon showing Hillary Clinton in blackface. On Tuesday, Pastor Mark Burns spoke to Alisyn Camerota on “New Day” and apologized for posting the cartoon of Clinton in blackface. Nevertheless, he said he is standing by the message of the photo about the Democrats, CNN details. “I prayed that those who I offended really receive ... a sincere apology, because it…

Is it right for professional athletes to protest the National Anthem? Athletes shouldn’t be able to protest the National Anthem. It is not right for professional athletes to protest world problems. Athletes should stop protesting the National Anthem and world problems. For example, America didn’t cause these tragedies, people did. According to Article #2 “It is true that America at times failed to live up to its ideals, but it has also made progress.” America didn’t cause all of these shooting…

50 years from now if I could only use 5 songs during a 50 minute lecture to describe the 2010s, I would have to have Rihanna’s “We Found Love”, Beyonce’s “Formation”, Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off”, Bruno Mars’s “Uptown Funk” and Lady GaGa’s “Edge of Glory.” These artists have contributed to society in enormous ways with their music and advocacy. Beyonce is widely referred to by her enormous fan base as Queen Bey, sometimes just Queen. Despite being very popular in the 2000s, her staying…

Across the nation, women and men are marching to protest what the believe is right. People are protesting against recent events that took place throughout the year. For example thousands of people protested against Donald Trump who defeated Hillary Clinton in the presidential election. Many African Americans are protesting against the brutal shooting by police officers towards African Americans. Lastly, thousands of men joined in the women's march to support women's equality. The women's march…

Dereck Boyd Professor Dave Copeland COMM 229 October 2, 2016 Throughout the country racism seems to be a reoccurring debate within communities. Recently some NFL players have decided not to stand for the National Anthem due to this unfortunate issue. Wherever you seem to go, shirts and signs that state black lives matter are being displayed. Several communities are protesting and rioting in different cities due to the police shootings that are happening among the black community.…

Column writing Colin Kaepernick of the 49ers first started kneeling during the national anthem Colin believed that there were some wrongdoings to Africans and other wrongdoings to minorities. He was right and everybody knew that he was right but didn't like the way he disrespected the flag and their country. This year the kneeling during the national anthem has really gotten a lot of attention from the media. A lot of people are starting to agree with the player's decisions and…

Colin Kaepernick Protests National Anthem for the Oppressed In the year 2016 there have been a reported 839 civilian deaths from police and it’s only November. Most people in America protest that the majority of these killings are not justified and most cases are backed up with video evidence. As a result protests have broken out across America and organizations such as Black Lives Matter have been formed. The latest rebellion to break out led by Colin Kapernick is protesting the US flag and…

Brisco An American Tradition: The Pledge of Allegiance In the year 1892 the Pledge of Allegiance was published. The Pledge was written to honor the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America. In 1924 the Pledge was recognized by the U.S. Government. Seventy-four years later in 1998, Dr. Michael Newdow filed a suit against the school board of Broward County in order to get the phrase "under God" removed from the pledge. In the United States of America the pledge is an important…

The Pledge of Allegiance is a poem we respect. It is very important because it holds much history, schools recite it every day and the purpose of it. Here lately there are many debates on keeping the Pledge of Allegiance. There’s just too much about it to give it up. The Pledge of Allegiance was written in August 1892 by Francis Bellamy. Francis Bellamy was a socialist minister who was born in 1855 and died in 1931. His poem was first published in The Youth’s Companion on September 8, 1892. The…

In Anthem, people are afraid to speak up, to falling in love, and to protest. The universal truth about fear is that it affects everyone of us, we never know what we are truly capable of achieving. Just like those people in the book, they don’t know what they are capable of. The more people protest together, more likely they would success, but too bad that they are afraid to break the law and face the consequences. We cannot speak up when somebody is about to die for to protest or to let their…