I’m sorry, but this has nothing to do with race, and you regressive leftists really need to stop trying to make everything about race. African-Americans weren’t the only ones doing the protesting, and most of the people protesting these past two weekends had only the vaguest idea of what they were even protesting, a fact that even one of the original protesters has attested to. Rather than being about race, this is about etiquette and respect. I’ve made that case in some detail here, but the upshot of it is that protesting during the National Anthem is sort of like protesting during a religious service. Even if the religion is not your own, and even if you have some problems with that religion, you don’t make a spectacle of yourself during the service. You stand respectfully. If you have some issue you’d like to bring up, you can do that later. Otherwise, you’re spitting on someone else’s sacred tradition. And most Americans understand that, which is why large majorities have repeatedly been found to oppose the protests. The NFL is going to be in big trouble if they don’t find a way to put the lid back on.