Having UNE students take a knee during the national anthem before a sports event could cause quite an uproar on and off campus, as I’m sure you can imagine. People always talk about being able to speak our mind and say what we believe in but how would a student voicing their opinion affect the University. I believe the school should be somewhere that students feel they can voice their opinions and be heard, but at what point is the…
Autumn Flagg Professor Drown ENG 123 January 21, 2020 Some of the issues, ideas and experiences that athletes are talking about are politics, racism and transgender rights. I think that the reason athletes are talking about these topics is because they are currently relevant and they are major problems or topics in our society these days. Athletes also have the ability to use large social media platforms to get this information out to people who all have many different views….
These days there are many athletes that are beginning to step out of their “position” of just being an athlete and they are stepping more into politics as well. Some people say that athletes should just stick to what they do and keep playing sports and stay out of politics. One of the people that say this is President Donald Trump. Trump believes that the two should stay separate. People refer to athletes as dumb jocks and say they are…
