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Texas Artist Depicts Dak Prescott in ‘The Sunken Place’ for his comments on the national anthem protest

Dak Prescott has been in the news lately after his comments on the anthem protest.

Social media backlash began to attack the Cowboys quarterback. Then Arlington, Texas artist, Trey Wilder, painted a mural depicting Prescott, as Chris from the hit 2017 horror film, Get Out, according to the Dallas News.

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Wilder told NBC 5, “This is a place where you can just come and be free,” Wilder said, in reference to the alleyway full of street art and other forms of expression.

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has stated publicly that his players are prohibited from protesting, and Prescott echoed those sentiments.

“I respect what all those guys believe in,” Prescott said. “If they believe it’s going to make a change and it’s going to make a difference, then power to them. But for me, I believe in doing something, action. It’s not about taking a knee. It’s not necessarily about standing. We can find a different place to make our country better.”

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Prescott received donkey of the day by radio personality Charlamagne Tha God last week for his comments. However, the mural might take the place of the biggest backlash the quarterback has received so far.

“Honestly, I just think it’s the whole idea of everything going on: the NFL, police protests,” Wilder told Dallas News. “This is something that is seriously going on everywhere.”

For the past two seasons, NFL has been in a national discussion about race and social injustice all because Colin Kaepernick started to take a knee during the anthem in 2016.

“I respect what all those guys believe in,” Prescott said in late July during training camp. “If they believe it’s going to make a change and it’s going to make a difference, then power to them. But for me, I believe in doing something, action. It’s not about taking a knee. It’s not necessarily about standing. We can find a different place to make our country better.”

Wilder believes Prescott is a little lost in his thinking regarding this subject.

“I was just thinking about some of the scenes in the movie where the guy was hypnotized, and that’s what I believed [Prescott’s] remarks seemed like,” Wilder said.

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