For those of you asking "How does the national anthem have anything to do with racial profiling and oppression. "
The Star Spangled Banner was actually wrote as a poem by Author Francis Scott Key. In it he openly celebrates the murder of slaves.
The song itself was rooted in the celebration of slavery and the murder of Africans in America, who were being hired by the British military to give them strength not only in the War of 1812, but in the Battle of Fort McHenry of 1814. These black men were called the Corps of Colonial Marines and they served valiantly for the British military. Key despised them. He was glad to see them experience terror and death in war — to the point that he wrote a poem about it. A shortened version of that poem is now our national anthem.....
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
We have cops out killing black people for no reason. We have white supremacists marching the streets and plowing through crowds and Trump calls them "good people".
I understand why they are taking a knee. I'm happy the NFL are supporting them. Something needs to change!