No national anthem at Mavs game

[TXBamanut]

An interesting discussion, but it seems to be lost in an endless circle.  I am one of those who can never kneel when the National Anthem is played.  I simply can't.  To me it is a symbol of what the country "should" be.  This country is what gives each of us the freedom to do and say (for the most part) what we want to.  I guess we can use the "hokey" old term "liberty".  As far as kneeling goes...I certainly can and will kneel at any appropriate time and place (to me) for racial equality...and/or equality of almost any kind.

I am also one of those who believes Mark Cuban did this to avoid future problems associated with kneeling during the Anthem.  It seems that Cuban and Silver are going to go head to head on this.

I just want to watch the game guys...

I am with this opinion.  I had hoped that he would come out and say that he was trying to avoid the inevitable clash of either denying rights that he was uncomfortable denying and making someone mad every game.

For me personally, hearing this today was like another gut punch from 2020.  Why?  Because I literally would have been thinking about this the whole game, and would be stealing my joy from watching the Mavs.  It wouldn't make me love black people more or be more fair or equitable, I already try to do that, while balancing the truth that this country and its history isn't the deep pit of crap that people seem to making it out to be now.  Everyone that complains has benefitted and if it was such a terrible place to live, we wouldn't have an overcrowded immigration issue.  No one is swimming the ocean to go to the Netherlands, as much as people try to tell me there are so much better than us.  (Also, none of that means that I don't think we have much room to get better or want to stay harmful in any area.)