Why would any person in power, primarily the President want to divide the country? Knowingly or unknowingly, he does it constantly. He has no problem throwing mud and seeing if it’ll stick.
There are so many instances but let’s look at the NFL player—Kaepernick. Did the President care why the player was taking a knee when the national anthem played before the start of the football game? He achieved his objective. He has everyone talking about it instead of people focusing on important things that matters—health care, jobs, economy, infrastructure, etc.
Kaepernick was protesting injustice and treatment of black Americans. The President stated that Kaepernick was disrespecting the flag and the men and women who serve in the military.
Immediately, people took sides. Many didn’t bother to do the research to learn what or why Kaepernick was taking a knee when the anthem was playing. More importantly, everyone needs to read the third verse of the national anthem.
Now that we’re having the discussion, maybe we should pick another song. First, the song was written in the 1814 by Francis Scott Key. He was a slave owner so it he probably thought the words were fitting to include. Below is the third verse and you decide.
“And where is that band who so vuntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
The blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution!
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.”
We don’t sing this verse, but what was Key’s intent? Did he mean to exclude slaves from freedom? If so, the anthem isn’t meant to include the freedom for people of color. More specifically, black Americans.