https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm A Silent Debate en-us 2020-10-26 14:12:16 UTC 2025-11-17 19:26:39 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/869660400 I believe you should stand for the national anthem. You are standing for the people fighting for your freedom and out of respect it’s just something understood you should do. As an athlete, I stand and support standing for our country. I don’t see how kneeling because you hate someone or something in the country will make a difference. It got people talking at first, but then it stopped. Now it’s a normal thing to see people, especially athletes both kneeling and standing.]]> 2020-10-28 14:01:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/869660400 https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/869660872 I believe we have a right to do however we please during our national anthem. Some people in this nation don't believe we are as good as we say, and they are right. We are one of few countries that have our flags posted on every house, every car, and article of clothing. Yet we claim to be free minded. I am starting to believe that isn't true.]]> 2020-10-28 14:01:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/869660872 https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/869662622 Kneeling for the national anthem may be disrespectful to some but the idea of it respects our ideal rights. Kneeling during the national anthem is a freedom of expression which is a right of the American people. If someone kneels because of the injustice of the nation then they are allowed to. ]]> 2020-10-28 14:02:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/869662622 https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/869664186 I feel like kneeling during the national anthem is a bad thing because it shows disrespect to all of the people who have given their lives for the sake of our country. I understand they are showing that our country hasn’t always represented what it is all about, freedom, justice, and liberty. However there are other ways to protest things and events going on in the country in ways to not be disrespectful to others and people saving the country you are living in. ]]> 2020-10-28 14:02:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/869664186 https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/869664478 2020-10-28 14:02:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/869664478 https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/869665384 Kneeling for the national anthem can be considered disrespectful for most people in the country, but for others it is a symbol of standing up for our rights. The kneeling first person to kneel during the anthem was a NFL player named Collin Kaepernick. This was mainly to begin a protest for racial injustice and to protest police brutality. ]]> 2020-10-28 14:02:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/869665384 https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/869670406 2020-10-28 14:03:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/869670406 https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/869727147 “When a national figure such as an NFL player kneels during the national anthem, it shocks people into paying attention and generates conversation.” This quotes shows no matter what, people are going to talk but what are their intentions. This is why i'm in the middle. The backlash could really be what it was about. I believe more people got mad at the fact it was a disrespect to the soldiers and fallen people fighting for out safety and freedom.]]> 2020-10-28 14:15:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/869727147 https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/869732007 Haven't we given people of color a hard enough life in America? It seems that no matter what they do, even if people who are white joins in, people aim to target people of color. Racism has always been an issue in America, and no one can deny it with the facts. What the BLM movement fights for is just to not die whenever they come within 10 ft of an officer. Is that such a difficult plea?  And racism has gone under the radar for so long. I like the title of this article https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10560-020-00690-4 "Black Lives Matter, and Yes, You are Racist..." in which this article talks about that you have to do more than say you are with the movement. You are either with us or against us.

]]> 2020-10-28 14:16:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/869732007 https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/869733471 I feel that those who are against it don't look at the meaning of why they're doing it. Kneeling began not because they hate America but because of awareness to racism. Many painted Kaepernick as a villian because he only kneeled and not because he was practicing his first amendment rights. Kaepernick was seen as unpatriotic when you could also argue that he is patriotic as he is living to the original ideals of protesting the government in order to represent the people equally.]]> 2020-10-28 14:17:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/869733471 https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/869748693 “Standing during the national anthem sets an example for the next generation.” This quote shows the example this is leading the next generations that we can disrespect the flag and our country. I feel like it has become about the movement and the issues towards race but there are people that have kneeled because of another reason with different intentions other than the original intention to speak out against racism. ]]> 2020-10-28 14:20:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/869748693 https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/869769605 Although the protests started in 2016 with Kaepernick, it really started when Americans treated black people very poorly. One specialists said that this was “one of the most curious spectacles produced by the most profound domestic moral crisis of our time.”. Once the owner of the NFL got enough of what was going on the field, he started giving players fines so that they would stop disrespecting the flag and anthem. But they wanted to be heard.]]> 2020-10-28 14:24:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/869769605 https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/869779587 Really it is always about race because of the nations history with it having such a heavy impact on the future generations. This mainly can divide everyone and the way people are looking at it. Pe]]> 2020-10-28 14:26:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/869779587 https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/869788695 yes, Kaepernick had, like millions of other Americans, witnessed police violence take the lives of a number of unarmed black people, while the excuses for such violence piled up next to an absence of accountability. Kaepernick doesn't want to show pride in a country that oppresses black people and people of color.]]> 2020-10-28 14:28:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/869788695 https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/869825709 There is no winning. You can't win with both sides fighting for you. America has been so split on political parties, that some even choose to define people purely by their party. When has America went from "the land of the free" to "the land of the hatred and fear"? You'd have to kill off every generation after millennial just to get any decent progress. And although that sounds  morbid, its true. We can't make any progress when the people in office have the power and mindset to keep racism going.]]> 2020-10-28 14:36:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/869825709 https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/869826382 I believe there will never be a happy medium because this is why the US is the US. Everyone came here to have their own freedom. This goes along with having their opinions and to be able to disagree or agree with what's going on in the world. In some crazy world like in 1984 would be the only solution to control everyone's lives, but this is the US. The whole point of living here is to not be controlled. ]]> 2020-10-28 14:36:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/869826382 https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/869830480 There is no perfect solution. If someone tries to help either side the other would be angry and offended.  Kneeling has decreased a little but the problem for racism is still occurring.  Even during the BLM movement players gave a moment of silence for racism and were still booed even when they weren't showing any signs of disrespect. Neither sides would be happy. 

]]> 2020-10-28 14:37:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/869830480 https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/869836706 Not everyone will be happy. You can't always make a solution because there will always be that one person that disagrees. Unfortunately we have shown that in this country, people are too stubborn to make compromises and so we have had to be extremely separated. Why? Why can't people just agree to disagree and admit that we have to make compromises in this world? We shouldn't have to be so separated but sadly, this country likes to be extremely one sided.]]> 2020-10-28 14:38:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/869836706 https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/869842226 Unfortunately, i don't think both sides will be ever happy. I just think that there is too much going on in the world that can make someone unhappy. Everyone has there own opinion on a something, so there will always be two sides.]]> 2020-10-28 14:40:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/869842226 https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/869854989 I don't think both sides are gonna be happy. There will be one side that will want something but the other side may not want it . SO they will always argue about this topic.]]> 2020-10-28 14:42:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/869854989 https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/869857399 In reality both sides will never be happy. Others will always see kneeling as a problem and other will not and there will always be that conflict with both sides clashing. Both arguing with who is right and who is wrong so both sides will never come to a conclusion with each other and people most of the time end up angry and that causes a big divide with others. ]]> 2020-10-28 14:43:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/869857399 https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/971687790 2020-11-30 15:24:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/971687790 https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/971697203 2020-11-30 15:26:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/971697203 https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/971702733 2020-11-30 15:27:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jschweickert/iox2az90hejxpshm/wish/971702733