Where is vitriol for Confederate flag?
The professional players’ protest now joined by NFL owners is not about the flag. From the outset, banned quarterback Colin Kaepernick protested the general mistreatment of America’s non-white citizenry by police and America in general. But since our profane president and others are defending the flag that the protesters have not maligned in any manner, let’s talk about the flag. Nothing disrespects the flag and military service and lives lost and shattered by service men and women more than flying and honoring the flag of the KKK. Officially, this was the flag of the Army of Northern Virginia led by turncoat West Pointer Robert E. Lee. Sometime after President Rutherford B. Hayes pulled federal troops from the former Confederacy, the KKK and other Confederate sympathizers began to brandish the flag while parading in hoods and robes, at hangings and other demonstrations of racial violence. The brazen daylight attackers of the Freedom Riders at Anniston, Birmingham and Montgomery brandished the flag and the terrorist who tried to kill worshipers at Emanuel AME Church posed with it on his Facebook page.
Where has the outrage been for such disrespect? Why has there not been profanity-laced vitriol directed at those carrying the stars and bars and favoring its principles over the stars and stripes?
RICHARD ROSE, PRESIDENT OF ATLANTA BRANCH OF NAACP
Let’s leave politics out of football
NFL games are sports entertainment, or so I thought. I would refuse to attend or watch a game if there was a political overtone of “white supremacy.” Likewise, I refuse to attend or watch a game with a political overtone of “Black Lives Matter.” Let’s leave political theater out of professional sports.
DOUG MCDOUGAL, CUMMING
