The National Football League owners agreed last week on their "compromise" regarding player's kneeling in protest to continued police brutality against blacks: Players who don't want to stand for the flag ceremony should wait in the locker room until the game begins.
But what if the NFL agreed with the national cry for justice and encouraged players to kneel if they desire. Take it a step further: spectators should also kneel if they protest treatment of blacks. Think how the national conscience would change when, appropriately because of dozens of daily news stories, the NFL joined in the call for an end to the seemingly unending racism against people of color.
This would certainly be a message that change needs to happen. Starting with dozens, then hundreds. and then thousands of spectators agreeing that equal rights and respect for blacks is our biggest concern. Such a turnaround from what has now occurred: the freedom of speech.
