Austin Aries breaks it down rather flawlessly.
While speaking on the The Tomorrow Show podcast, he offered this analysis on why Donald Trump’s coded message was poorly conceived.
And Trump has to be a little more self-aware, especially when you look at the sports he’s attacking. He’s basically telling them, ‘Hey you owners, get your slaves back in place and you tell them when they stand and when they kneel and if they don’t, you fire them. If they want to make money off of us, then they do what we say. Except for those very fine people in NASCAR.’ And NASCAR only has one minority driver full-time, just one black driver.
The optics of NASCAR clearly include the confederate flag as part of the fabric of the sport. This seems rather counterintuitive with “respecting the flag”. Aries also feels there should be more unity nation wide behind the protests in the NFL.
It’d be nice if we did [protest]. It’d be nice across the board because I think people are missing the point of what this is about,” he said. “If you’re a patriot you should 100 percent, whether you agree or disagree, be for the right for these people to do whatever they want, even if you feel disrespected. When you say they’re disrespecting the soldiers, that’s off-base [because] these soldiers have gone and put their lives on the line so these guys have the right to do this. When I went over there and visit these soldiers you realize a lot of them don’t agree with why they’re over there doing this, they don’t agree with the reasoning, but they’re doing their job so we all have the right to have these choices.