This weekend the president disgracefully addressed not the crisis in Puerto Rico, North Korea or Iran but the NFL, instead. The debate over letting angry white guys burn the flag was never as fierce as the fight over angry black guys kneeling during the anthem.

The flag isn't — just like everything else — owed respect. Respect is earned. It is, as the symbol of the nation, however, owed loyalty and allegiance, but that isn't the same thing. Americans had best learn the difference lest we allow fascism to creep into our politics.

— Del Wasso, Freeport