The Seahawks Michael Bennett must have had some sense knocked into him. He abandoned his protest during the team’s Thursday night game and stood up for the national anthem like a real patriot.
The NFL’s protest has dragged on for so long that fans are getting fed up. It’s not clear what they’re protesting about, nor can anyone figure out what they hope to accomplish. When will the protest end? When “police brutality” does? If that’s the case, expect to see players spend their entire careers kneeling for the anthem.
Don’t expect Bennett’s newfound reasonableness to last very long. He hinted that he was foregoing taking a knee during this week’s game out of respect for his father, a veteran. Veteran’s day is approaching.
You might think that if something is disrespectful to veterans on one day, it would be disrespectful on other days as well but that’s not how Bennett and his supporters see it.
“I joined the military so people like Michael and Martellus and whoever else out there can take a knee or make a stand, peacefully, and get their point across and not be ridiculed. I lose all respect for people if you really can’t see what’s going on in your own country that you live in every day. People don’t care about people. They care about animals and they care about people that look like they look,” Bennett’s father said in an interview last year.
Well, we have to take what we can get. At least Bennet was willing to stand for one game.
Michael Bennett and the rest of the Seahawks stood for the national anthem prior to #SEAvsARI https://t.co/PMEdtUH28v pic.twitter.com/LQfduI0hhX
— Seattle Times Sports (@SeaTimesSports) November 10, 2017
(Source: Daily Caller)