It isn't that it doesn't count, it is that Trump is wrong. And that in 1968, Smith and Carlos were right in the same way Kaepernick was in 2016. Just because more people ostracized them 49 years ago, doesn't make the reaction right back then or for the people doing it now. Don't like it? Get yer nachos ready during the AMERICAN anthem & don't watch.


I'm sorry, was the right-wing not whinging  about free speech as recently as 3 or 4 days ago? You know, how no one can say what they really mean anymore, without being attacked by the politically correct and silenced? Does free speech only apply some of the time, and in some contexts? Just wondering, because I used to say stupid stuff like that, but my right-wing friends showed me how I was all wrong. But now I'm all confused, see. I mean, it looks to me like Trump and those posting in support of him are being wholly hypocritical, but I guess I am just not getting it. 


By the way, 1968 is "not very long ago"? Who are you, Methuselah?