The Loneliest Liberal: Standing up for the right to silently kneel

By James Knudsen

Look, I get it, Facebook is a part of our world now; it links people from around the globe and helps bring people closer together. That is, when it doesn’t resemble a bathroom wall filled with scrawled screeds from people who really haven’t considered all the sides of an issue – or, at a bare minimum, two.

It has never been about a song

Slave trading block in
Fredricksburg, Virginia (1926)

A reply to “Choose Respect”

By Ed Rogers

The voices in the halls of Congress that cried out against slavery were drowned out by the sound of the slave auction outside. No discussion was to be had, you were for slavery or against it. The debate would go on until, at last, it started a war. The debate and the war changed nothing. Black men and black women were no longer called slaves, but they were treated no better than they had been.

Choose Respect

By Victor L. Midyett

My wish would be for the National Football League and its players to be open to a serious discussion about the American flag and our national anthem’s being off limits to anything other than our nation’s traditional habits of somber respect.
    Is change needed? Yes, and I completely agree with the players’ issues. Their reason is righteous. Their “tool” to advocate change is not.