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Originally Posted by Maru

So because someone got elected that people feel is a true racist (which I'm not saying they don't have good reason to feel as such, they absolutely do), it now nullifies everything that America has stood for, all the blood that our ancestors spilled, all the people we liberated, all the amazing achievements we've made as a nation, including the strives we've made in civil rights... all the other rights we enjoy as individuals, the flag and constitution has nothing to do with these things?...

That's the epitome of privilege. Which is why so many folk are going to be turned off by those antics during the anthem. Donald Trump's vote count was lower than John McCain's iirc. Maybe the left needs to look at themselves and realizes if maybe if part of the reason they lost is because of their behavior... and it's not because the US is an evil entity out to ruin people's lives... there is far more evidence of the latter.

the U.S. national anthem protests started before Trump was elected if i'm not mistaken?

and even so while America does have such achievements racism is far from gone especially in this country and people need to acknowledge that