When Americans decided to rise to their feet ‘for Britain’s national anthem’.... ... they understood that were they to remain kneeling they would be regarded by their London hosts as boorish graceless ignorant clods - which, in fact, they are, with respect to their own anthem.
A national anthem can be a national anthem or an opportunity for self-expression, but not both. And, if this is yet one more thing that Americans can no longer agree on, if a people lack the minimal social glue to rise reflexively when the band strikes up the first bars of “O-oh, say, can you...”, you have to wonder whether anything remains to bind us together at all.
(Mark Stein)
(P.S. Blacks are creating divisions because they don’t want to be united as a nation.)
When a small group like this tosses a temper tantrum, basically equivalent to falling on the floor kicking and screaming like a young child, I think it’s a mistake to ask the question if there’s anything to hold this nation together.
We’re 330 million strong. There are only hundreds of these players in the nation.
Most citizens think these people are ignorant fools.