USA! USA! USA! (unless you happen to be “brown” or “black” or “yellow” or “red”…)

So, let’s see….

Jim Crow Laws

Slavery

Indian Removal Act

Wounded Knee

Sand Creek

Forced Boarding School

The Iraq War

The Theft of Hawaii

The Theft of California, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas

The Creation of Panama

The Philippine Insurrection

Military “interventions” in Cuba, Panama, Honduras, Nicaragua, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic

My Lai Massacre

No Gun Ri Massacre

Gnadenhutten Massacre

Japanese-American Internment Camps

And on and on….

There are plenty of reasons to stand for the national anthem, there are also plenty of reasons to not do so. Either is perfectly proper.