Thread: Toni Smith
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Old Sun Mar 02, 2003, 07:32am
Mike Burns Mike Burns is offline
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Red Neck Ref, it is the venue in which she chose to protest that makes this worthy of discussion here. If Toni chose any other place other than a basketball game to protest then we would not be discussing it.

BTW I guess that makes her pretty smart, because everybody is talking about it now...even here on this site. So what if she turns her back on the flag at a protest march with 100 other people, but when she does it during the National Anthem at her D3 basketball game everybody hears about it because it stands out. She got our attention.

I don't agree with her protest and would never do it myself, but I guess she has the freedom to put down the symbol of the government that grants her that freedom.... We have to recognize that the freedoms we enjoy also apply to those with which we dissagree.