Steve Cameron wrote “one player (football quarterback Colin Kaerpernick) who knelt during the anthem has been blackballed forever,” but other players who committed crimes have been back in the NFL within two years. Steve, that is because “The Star-Spangled Banner” is not just another song — it is our national anthem. A “song” representing our nation — it is symbolic of our loyalty and love of our great country, the United States of America.

Let Kaerpernick, a black, kneel in protest of the racial injustice toward the black people anytime, anyplace, but not where/while our national anthem is being played. NOT while “The Star-Spangled Banner” is being played in a hushed NFL stadium filled with loyal Americans, whatever color of skin.

Steve, that’s the “real truth.”

LILLIAN MOORE LIND

Coeur d’Alene