As a parent of a SMC student, I am comforted by hearing that a SMC professor will stand up and express his fact based view of this "protest". I am not paying $50k per year for my child to be at a "Snowflake" college. Keep teaching facts, and allow their bright minds to decide, not teach personal views and opinion as fact. Allow debate to peacefully exist and not have SMC become a politically and socially controlled community. As the students had the right to kneel, so do others have the right to not agree, and voice it.
The national anthem is sung to strengthen the pride and unity of armed forces protecting of our entire country and ALL its citizens. It is sung, as other countries do, to strengthen a country's pride. Are we going to kneel at the olympics now? The act of "kneeling" for the majority, during the anthem is deeply disrespectful to the country and those who defend it. It is fine to want to bring change to oppression, but the anthem really is not the venue, this should be off limits.
Re: “Saint Michael's Basketball Players Take a Knee Before UVM Game”
As a parent of a SMC student, I am comforted by hearing that a SMC professor will stand up and express his fact based view of this "protest". I am not paying $50k per year for my child to be at a "Snowflake" college. Keep teaching facts, and allow their bright minds to decide, not teach personal views and opinion as fact. Allow debate to peacefully exist and not have SMC become a politically and socially controlled community. As the students had the right to kneel, so do others have the right to not agree, and voice it.
The national anthem is sung to strengthen the pride and unity of armed forces protecting of our entire country and ALL its citizens. It is sung, as other countries do, to strengthen a country's pride. Are we going to kneel at the olympics now? The act of "kneeling" for the majority, during the anthem is deeply disrespectful to the country and those who defend it. It is fine to want to bring change to oppression, but the anthem really is not the venue, this should be off limits.