Fueled by Trump’s Tweets, Anthem Protests Grow to a Nationwide Rebuke

Fueled by Trump’s Tweets, Anthem Protests Grow to a Nationwide Rebuke

Members of the Detroit Lions knelt and held hands during the national anthem before their home game against the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday. CreditRey Del Rio/Getty Images


Belson, K. (2017, September 24). Fueled by Trump’s Tweets, Anthem Protests Grow to a Nationwide Rebuke. Retrieved September 25, 2017, from https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/24/sports/trump-national-anthem-nfl.html
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On three teams, nearly all the football players skipped the national anthem altogether. Dozens of others, from London to Los Angeles, knelt or locked arms on the sidelines, joined by several team owners in a league normally friendly to President Trump. Some of the sport’s biggest stars joined the kind of demonstration they have steadfastly avoided.
It was an unusual, sweeping wave of protest and defiance on the sidelines of the country’s most popular game, generated by Mr. Trump’s stream of calls to fire players who have declined to stand for the national anthem in order to raise awareness of police brutality and racial injustice.
What had been a modest round of anthem demonstrations this season led by a handful of African-American players mushroomed and morphed into a nationwide, diverse rebuke to Mr. Trump, with even some of his staunchest supporters in the N.F.L., including several owners, joining in or condemning Mr. Trump for divisiveness.
Julius Thomas, a Miami Dolphins tight end who had previously stood for the anthem, knelt for it on Sunday with several players.
“To have the president trying to intimidate people — I wanted to send a message that I don’t condone that,” Thomas said, echoing the opinion of most N.F.L. players. “I’m not O.K. with somebody trying to prevent someone from standing up for what they think is important.”
The audience:  The audience is mostly every American citizen who cares about what is happening with their president or whether they are a football fan. The audience is everyone in general since it is talking about a huge conflict in one of America’s favorite sports.
The publisher :The publisher always tries to show the facts of the events how it is but in this case it also inclines in favor of the players because of the location of the newspaper “New York” has a lot of diversity in people and supports de immigrants.
The author: The author shows an impartial opinion but it inclines to the ideology that is against trump, it shows at the end of the article with a quote that is against Trump and you can see how he slightly is in favor of the NFL players
This article is directed to: This article is directed mostly to Americans who are the most likely to read it since it's their president the one who is being racist. This was their way to protest against Donald Trump.
The objective: Inform the people of the USA that some of the black NFL players are bending their knees while hearing the USA national anthem to show disapproval of the police brutality that is happening in the country and it’s controversy because of President Trump disapproval of this gesture.

opinion:  In my opinion I think that when the national anthem is playing the players should respect the tradition of hearing it while standing as a sign of respect and don’t kneel as it’s not the right place to protest and may cause many controversy. They have the right to stand up for what they think it’s right but in other places.  On another hand I think that President Trump should respect their right to protest wherever they want. It seems like he wants to control everybody and make them think exactly as he wants. Politics and NFL should not mix.

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