I get it now. To a certain extent, I always did. But I felt very uncomfortable entertaining the thought of joining the protest myself. I still do, honestly. The thought of sitting during the National Anthem makes me feel sad. But that's what I'll be doing until further notice. I understand where Colin Kaepernick and many others are coming from. When Kaepernick began his protest in August of 2016, my immediate reaction was to think it was a bold move, yet one that would garner too much negative attention to be worth the while. My dissatisfaction with America's current political environment runs much deeper than outrage over police brutality and racial profiling. I can't believe that it's the year 2017 and this is even necessary, but I'm going to write several paragraphs to explain why the Confederacy and it's symbols are bad (and I'll interject a few other problems too). Robert E. Lee was a loser. The Confederacy committed treason by declaring