Protesting the Confederacy by disrespecting the American flag:
A lot of men died to free the slaves and these kneelers say to heck with them.
If they could see the fruits of their efforts today I wonder what they would think?
They did not die to free the slaves. That is a lie we have all been led to believe. They died to make sure that powerful people in New York and Washington DC would continue to control the Southern export trade with Europe.
We have proof of this, because 1 month before Lincoln launched the war, he urged support for a Constitutional amendment (The Corwin Amendment) that would have made slavery "express and irrevocable", in Lincoln's own words.
How does a man go from promoting an amendment protecting slavery to pretending he started a war to stop slavery?
By lying, and by arresting anyone that disagrees with his political claims.