"Should you stand for the American flag or should you kneel in protest?" A question Americans have began asking after the recent NFL national anthem kneel protest. I say, you should stand for the flag not only for pride but also what the flag stands for. As well as respect for fellow soldiers and veterans who have for fought for the flag to keep waving; but ironically, the American ideas give the right to do as you please to the flag from kneeling or even burning. Now should you really kneel for the flag in protest? The country of the United States, has strong western values that states that every human being has the right to life, liberty and happiness that no one is allowed to infringe upon. The flag as well as the national anthem highlight these ideals. It is also undeniably true that all did not keep those ideas in the past as inequality and discrimination has occurred through history. Desperate this, the ideas still stand strong that everyone has rights no matter time, skin, ethnicity or gender. It is for those ideas that we stand for the flag and it's accompanied anthem.
Not only should you stand for respect for your
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The 1st Amendment states that, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” The right to petition the Government or even Free Speech could fall into kneeling against the Anthem similar to Flag desecration. In the case Texas v. Johnson the Supreme Court ruled that burning the flag is an act of Free Speech even though a majority of states and the population is opposed to it. If they are kneeling in a civil manner then, according to the Supreme Court and 1st Amendment they have to right to kneel in the act of