I don't agree with everything America does and the flag stands for much of that.  However you have to take the bad with the good.  You live in a country that afforded you the opportunity to get a 115 million dollar contract to play a game.  Many men have fought over the years to protect the basic freedoms you have here.  Standing for the flag is standing for those Tuskegee Airmen, its standing for a united nation MLK jr dreamed about.  Its standing for a country that decided slavery was wrong and fought an entire war to end it.  Well you might not appreciate that cops kill people at times, you can appreciate that cops also take the domestic violence call, they go help flood victims, they stand security at games so some psycho doesn't come and shoot up the place.  When you refuse to stand up for a symbol because of some of its negatives you are also refusing to stand for its positives.  That black man that died serving his country because he wanted to get out of a negative environment and do something more with his life, you turned your back on him as well.

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