LOL This is too funny..... Tough guy Repubs were so upset under Obama that they cried daily on the news shows. They formed the Tea Party, along with the recruiting and filling of hate groups numbers going up...simply because they hated Pres. O in charge. The Conservatives/Republicans didn't simply just say "we hate the president but will wait until we have our turn", they basically blasted the man on a daily basis along with the current POTUS talking about his birth status, which yielded another group of people....but yeah, we forgot all of those cry baby snowflakes lol Bones, I'm not saying you were one of them, I'm just pointing out that the whining and cry baby tactics did exist. Pres. O didn't create a monster, this has existed way before he came along and always will. The problem is that everyone wants to keep sweeping it under the rug saying "we don't have a problem". He simply acknowledged that "Yes, we have a problem and it has existed." It's like looking/asking someone do they know the history of the Moors...they look confused lol Yet, without them having knowledge they will debate the topic. Sometimes the truth is just that..the truth.
As for football, the numbers aren't dropping in any way related to individuals kneeling. We kneel to pray, so why are people upset? Do they not know the history of kneeling and how kneeling isn't a disrespect to the flag but it is out of respect to the flag? If you scan the stands of the people "standing" for the flag, they are talking, beers in hand, food in hand, cellphones in hand....but if you scan back to the field of those kneeling--they are quiet, either praying, or in a moment of silence. WHICH group is truly disrespectful of the flag?
Sometimes it's all how something is packaged and sold to us...as consumers of what comes out of DC we're sold a lot of things packaged to keep us in an inflammatory and reactive mode--if we're not paying attention. Sad, but true story.