Sports anchor Dale Hansen has won over a lot of fans far beyond his Dallas broadcasting area for his ability to tackle any issue in the United States with logic and compassion.
Nothing showed that more than his response to President Donald Trump’s remarks regarding NFL players protesting the National Anthem.
Donald Trump has said he supports a peaceful protest because it’s an American’s right. But not this protest, and there’s the problem: Any protest you don’t agree with is a protest that should be stopped.
Martin Luther King should have marched across a different bridge. Young, black Americans should have gone to a different college and found a different lunch counter. And college kids in the 60s had no right to protest an immoral war.
Hansen mentioned he served in the Vietnam War and that his best friend in high school “did not die so that you can decide who is a patriot and who loves America more.”
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The young, black athletes are not disrespecting America or the military by taking a knee during the anthem. They are respecting the best thing about America. It’s a dog whistle to the racists among us to say otherwise.
They, and all of us, should protest how black Americans are treated in this country. And if you don’t think white privilege is a fact, you don’t understand America.
He concludes:
Maybe we all need to read our Constitution again. There has never been a better use of pen to paper. Our forefathers made freedom of speech the First Amendment. They listed 10, and not one of them says you have to stand during the anthem.
And I think those men respected the country they fought for and founded — a great deal more than the self-proclaimed patriots who are simply hypocrites, because they want to deny the basic freedom of this great country.
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