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That's the preception of white privilege and it's wrong. Read this excellent Slate article.
No longer content to simply lie about things, this White House wants to tell you what other people actually mean when they speak. Nobody better captured this mentality than Trump’s press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders. During Monday’s White House press briefing, Sanders was asked why the president wouldn’t acknowledge that players who knelt during the national anthem were doing so to protest racism and police brutality. Questioned about Trump’s claim that “the issue of kneeling has nothing to do with race,” Sanders responded, “I think the focus has long since changed.” She amplified that unsupported claim by saying that the players were protesting incorrectly to begin with. “I think if the debate is really, for them, about police brutality, they should probably protest the officers on the field that are protecting them instead of the American flag,” she offered.
So, when Colin Kaepernick explicitly says time and time and time again that he is protesting police brutality, he is wrong. And when another player, Eric Reid, said on Monday that players are taking a knee expressly not to protest the flag or the military, but to protest the “incredible number of unarmed black people being killed by the police,” he is also wrong. What Sanders and Trump are saying here exemplifies one of the most grotesque aspects of unchecked privilege. It transcends even patronizing lectures about how black men should protest in such a way as to avoid offending white people. This is an attempt to dictate—with the threat of job loss—the very ability of some black men to have and maintain control over their own speech. What the president and Sanders are claiming is that they are better situated than the actual speakers to understand what those speakers are saying.
Navy SEAL widow Taya Kyle to NFL: ‘You have lost me’ Sep 27, 10:26
Pat Tillman's widow to Trump "Pat's service... should never be politicized in a way that divides us. " Sep 27, 10:28
"As a football player & soldier, Pat inspired countless Americans to unify," Crowd stands, players kneel. Unity? Sep 27, 11:13
Again, it's not a protest against the American flag, the national anthem or the military until Trump framed it that way. {nm} Sep 27, 11:29
That's the preception of white privilege and it's wrong. Read this excellent Slate article. Sep 27, 20:48
SLATE: The Arrogant Heart Of Privilege: Black Players Ought To Protest Exclusively In Ways White Fans Approve Of. Sep 28, 01:50
DAILY-CALLER: NBA Coach Gregg Popovich: 'White People Especially' Need To Be Made 'Uncomfortable'. Sep 28, 01:54